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I miss some channels, but not necessarily IRC as a whole.

I still believe that #csharp on freenode is the main reason why I pursued .NET as a career choice. As far as channels go, they were by far the most helpful when starting out, and they never made me feel like an idiot for not knowing something. Most importantly, the channel was alive. There are so many channels out there with hundreds of users online and zero conversation.

The other day I tried to join a Rails IRC channel to ask about Action Mailbox, and when I saw the quiet channel I decided to ask a question and lurk. In 24 hours, the only messages sent were from people looking for help, and then leaving.

What I miss above anything else is helpful people. It's what drew me to IRC, it's what initially drew me to Stack Overflow, and I'd wager that it's what drew many people to HN. IMO, the medium itself isn't anywhere near as important as the people.
If you're paying on these platforms, you're not anonymous at all are you?
I agree with the people who answered before me. The smaller the startup the more important your side project could be. The bigger the company, the more streamlined the hiring process and the more likely that you would encounter puzzles etc.

I'd say if you're going for FAANG-type companies, definitely prepare for the puzzles and quizzes, but for a more smaller one (let's say sub-100 people) go for the side project approach.

Exceptions do apply obviously: I've had friends who got hired at FAANG because of a side project that grew and got the attention of the engineers at said company.
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Dating apps are primarily a filter. The value is supposed to be that you never waste time chatting with someone who's uninterested in you or not looking for a relationship.

Filters are also useful.

For women, there are also some safety issues that dating apps can mitigate. If you reject someone and they get angry, they can't insult, stalk, or otherwise harm you. You just unmatch.

Your experience is typical, though. Dating apps are in some ways uncomfortable and dystopian.

You may be interested in Aziz Ansari's book Modern Love for a quick, readable explanation of how we got to this point in dating culture.
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There are no advantages, but many people (myself included) just don't end up in situations where it feels appropriate to randomly approach strangers in a romantic or sexual pursuit. There's the fear of rejection, but mostly not wanting to behave inappropriately (this might just be a northern/central european thing). There's no way for me to know who around me at a party/concert/whatever are single and interested in meeting, I'm not the most self-confident (even when people have come to my place after a date I've been hesitant), I'm not very good at picking up social cues (I've missed several hints in the past), I'm not attractive enough to have women just randomly stare at me like you might see in the movies, so dating apps at least get you over that hump.

You're absolutely right that it feels off though, to some extent it's dehumanizing. Then again, think about how often you subconciously dismiss people based on looks or first impressions in real life. However, unless you use the app purely to have one night stands you also get the chance to meet great people - many of the nicest people I've met in life have been through apps.
Because e.g. pc and sp are exactly the abbreviations used in assembler for some decades?
It is not, but there is a strong correlation, and you should bear it in mind when evaluating how likely you think those accusations are to be true.

I am sure I have read other more direct accusations, but unfortunately I am not finding the sources at the moment.

I still think these articles are more than enough to cast some pretty strong doubts over the claims of his defences, and I think nobody who has read them should be quite so eager to run to his defence.
The funny thing is that they report results on some hand-crafted examples of reasoning over Birds flying or not, (by Marek Sergot from Imperial) and they have a little table where all the language models perform almost perfectly.

And yet, as you have found, they do not. Or perhaps- they do, but you have to run the same experiment a few thousand times (it's a tiny dataset of five clauses or so) until you get the good results, eh?

I'm just being a big old meanie now.
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I have a sinking feeling that the whole business of writing huge config files (semi-)manually (templating, #include, and YAML-references that reference things from god knows where) is... too low-level? Too imperative? It feels like if one was manually laying out the vtables and the unwinding info in assembly language: sure, the macros will go a long way helping you, but maybe the better way would be to have an actual high-level declarative description that would get translated down to metal. And "high-level" doesn't mean, let's use an analogy, M4, it means Gradle.
The only people who use decentralized and open-source social media are the people who care that it is decentralized and open-source. They are niche at best, no ones grandparents are on Mastodon.
Always interesting to see code from StackOverflow in a commercial product, as always this is most likely also a licensing issue.
It's just another avenue to meet people. IME, real life meetups is still better.
On iOS 13 mobile safari - is anyone else unable to use the Back button to leave TechCrunch?

Might blacklist their site with a content blocker if they are indeed hijacking the back button.
Good point, I didn't necessarily mean simpler primitives but rather "higher-order" primitives. We need to move to a higher level of abstraction on top of a new layer of primitives (even if those primitives themselves are more complex than the ones we have today).
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I know a similar project. It has some years by now.

https://ethercalc.net
There will probably be an intermediary step: in the same way that one can try to find evidence that a picture was "photoshopped" or an audio recording was tampered with, there are probably hints (for experts) that a video was edited.
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Thanks for noting this. It's really sad how much the event was twisted. Can't trust the media, they're just out to bend your mind :/
Gigantic switch statements are pretty much the best way to do a parsing style thing in a straightforward basic manner, and it is after all, “an _exercise_ in minimalism”. There are short variable names but again there are not many variables used in the whole program. This was not code written to be approachable by any other random team member without further context, it was written for a different purpose entirely.

Perhaps people would be less reluctant to show their code in public if it were not so often criticised for falling short of some criteria that the author was never intending to meet?
> The article is not completely truthful about what happened

The article discusses the exact things you're saying it conceals.

> The interviewee claims to speak fluent Swedish, so there's no way he'd miss it accidentally.

Before accusing the interviewee of dishonesty, perhaps you can read the parts of the article where the interviewee discusses the very things you're saying he omitted. Did you just miss these parts of the article accidentally, or did you intentionally misrepresent the article?
This is cool for simple ideas but really doesn't scale with complexity, not mentioning the 100% reliance on 3rd party services that could shut down at any time and bleeding potentially sensitive data at every step of the way...
This was also my first thought. The impression I get is that the app is for older men to date younger women.

Even after reading the rest of the text I feel this thought pervading my mind for no sensible reason.
Climate-change concern became a thing in the 90s.

The peace-love-dope crowd were a reaction to our defense of South Vietnam. Once North Vietnam violated the Paris Peace and successfully invaded South Vietnam, there was no need anymore to react — we weren't defending anyone at that point. I imagine that there might also have been some embarrassed reactions to the boat people, the re-education camps and the mass murder which followed the invasion — after all those years of hailing Ho Chi Minh as the George Washington of Vietnam and pretending that the Viet Cong were freedom fighters, it was probably a bit embarrassing to see that they were just your normal run-of-the-mill dictator and his thugs.

Also, I think a lot of the peace-love-dope crowd just grew up and got jobs.
Well you should stop coming back then. You have identified a destructive behaviour, that's step 1. Step 1.1 is ACT right now: set up a very long noprocrast in your profile and keep on living your life. You really won't miss anything actually important by not coming here as often.
There are a lot of fallacies here. I'll take just one.

If you'll allow, I'll use a political example from 15+ years ago.

When young Bush was running for president, you'd see commentators on TV talking about which candidate had some demographic. Such-and-such had the 50+ white male vote, so-and-so had the hispanic vote, and so on.

These people did not know what they were talking about, but it made for good TV. The people who knew what they were talking about, the folks like Karl Rove, knew that today they were looking to talk about subject X in context Y to a certain type of voter described by several adjectives in precinct 7 of the south side of Columbia, SC.

Pick a word that describes a social problem, say homelessness. There's not one homelessness, there's a dozen or more, each with their own qualities. There's people who are the victim of a disaster, people who have medical bills, people with addiction problems, people living in poverty on purpose for religious reasons, etc. Not only do the reasons vary, the possible solutions vary by personality, demographic, geographic location and resources, and so on.

Your response to my point demonstrates the problem. We talk about social problems in grand and expansive terms because we have to. Otherwise we'd spend forever in analysis. Politicians get elected based on grand visions for social problems expressed in expansive terms. But the actual problems themselves are highly nuanced. So what you're suggesting is that we throw everybody worldwide into one bucket, stick a label on them, and attempt to help them. That's only going to be a workable solution in only the most simple cases. In fact it's not workable. I'm being kind.

Worse, for all of the cases where it doesn't help, you've just given over a monopoly of ideas, labels, and solutions to some company that's beholden to nobody, Facebook. So what will happen, what is happening now, is that people looking to exploit problems are working at the very detailed level. Right now there's probably some scammer looking to target 70+ white females in Sioux City Iowa who voted for Bernie last time. That guy is going to exploit the hell out of his target. There are thousands of targets like this. But when we identify the problem, all we get is how great it is to have some universal solution to addiction or something.

Yes, in grand terms wouldn't it be great to have some solution to X? I'd love it. But that's not how these kinds of solutions work. What we're doing is enabling the people with bad intent to have their way while justifying it all with promises of how huge categories of people might be helped. That's bullshit, and it's the kind of bullshit we've put up with for far too long from SV, making money with one hand while giving out platitudes with another, trusting on the complexity of the application to hide what's really happening from the average voter. It's only continuing. Now, however, we're going to take it to the next level, regulatory capture.
Reading through the actual proposed regulations, most of them are regulations I'd like to have enforced on any social media tech company above some small threshold in size, and are not onerous to implement. Many of these proposed regulations cover exactly the type of issues that are often complained about on HN.

Why does it matter so much that it's Facebook proposing it, and that they have already implemented it?
I read and attempt all sample problems before looking at their solutions. I do most of the problems/exercises, and compare my solutions to those in the back of the book. I might search YouTube for some additional help on some topics. The hard part is when I just don't grasp something. For that, I used to go to my neighbor who was a retired physics professor. Nowadays I'd look for a forum, probably Reddit, to get specific help.
Although oddly it seems that the most egregious violations were done by people with quite a bit of money. It's debatable whether it is a level playing field or a lack of it that's problematic.
> what advantages do you find over approaching women (or men) in real life ?

I've always clicked the most with people I met through friends. But if you move to a new city you might not get to do that.

An app sounds better to me than approaching someone I don't know just because I find them attractive. You get to see if you have common interests and have a little chat before actually meeting up. Plus you know the interest is mutual.

I have a hard time connecting with people I know nothing about, and I'd be worried about bothering someone who's just minding their own business.

So I'd say if you can't find your match through your social life dating apps are helpful.
I used to think Tinder and the like put too much weighting on looks, but Aziz Ansari in his book asks how that is any different to approaching someone in person? You wouldn't approach someone you didn't find attractive, and you can't get to know someone before you've approached them.

Additionally, I would argue that you can tell quite a lot about someone provided they've made an effort with their profile. You tend to know music taste, career, where they're from, and interests.
Still better than using models like the other apps.
The one regulation that could save us from Facebook would be to mandate an open API. That would solve the network effect problem for new social networks and enable real competition.
I think intransparent processes/businesses are to blame for a lot of reasonable doubt concerning all kinds of things, which is then used by actors with an agenda to influence what people can read from the noise.

I think the way to neutralize information warfare (an incredible flood of cherry picked 'takes') is to have businesses and politics become more transparent, to a degree that would seem extreme (and individuals more anonymous).
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Bold of you to assume I have even more money.
you forgot to to add death.
Why not reach out to someone like Brian Krebs? He has a pretty large reach and can potentially make people take notice.

Try @briankrebs on Twitter.
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Amount of fallout depends on more things, not just settings of the bomb. Mainly on where the bomb detonates. If close to ground/water, then it's bad, lots of fallout. If in stratosphere, very little fallout.
> JWT as a storage format is great indeed.

RSA or ECDSA with NIST curves for signing things doesn't strike me as "great".
I don't know if it's just me, the background image of the app just gave me a paedophile-ish vibe
> I lack the knowledge

And yet you have a strong opinion about how terrible it is.

It is very minimal and it is very readable. It is actually a joy
to read. You have no idea what a C-nightmare really is.
But what if the docs suck, as is the case with a lot of .io domain libraries?
>If you are found unfit to stand trial, you will be involuntarily committed until such a time as you are considered fit to stand trial.

So, indefinite incarceration without being able to see an attorney or even a judge? Any system will have cracks and people do fall through those.
> Creating shell companies is not illegal, using a name fir yourself that isn’t your legal name is not illegal, doing either of those things in order to trick people into giving you money is.

Have you seen a list of list of all telco companies that are together AT&T which exist solely to allow AT&T to limit liability, create a separation of entities for qualify under some rules for some other entities, etc?

When MCI Worldcom filed for bankruptcy the list of the entities that it covered took a couple of pages in major newspapers.
I have a lot of disqualifiers; most people I meet in the normal course of life aren’t really my type of people. Being able to search through a large number of eligible people to find the small fraction with whom I may be compatible is the only way that has worked well for me.

Additionally, as someone else wrote down-thread, I meet approximately zero new people most typical weeks for me. I’m a shut-in.
Stranger Danger is strong these days. Might as well stick with a subset of the public you know is receptive to starting a conversation in a context meant to lead to a romantic relationship. Doing so in "real life" comes with many social and possibly even legal consequences that were much less likely in decades past.
I think evolution can escape a local minima - however - I would imagine that most organizations aren't able to support the individuals who can lead an evolution toward a more long range goal that would require transiting the natural boundaries of a minima that an undirected evolution would naturally transit.

With regard to your own project, I find it somewhat hard to believe that you can rewrite a 20 year old code base in just one year's time. Assuming an output of 50 LOC a day - and 250 work days a year - which means the system you are replacing is under 15k LOC.
I did not understand how mov could be used for comparison. Is a register set to a certain value if the contents are already the same value when it's trying to write?
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I am being half sarcastic half serious here, but what if they are actually able to properly recommend things to you, but they want you to buy more of the other in addition to what you are currently consuming?

If you look at google search results it seems more obvious that at least this is what G is interested in doing.
Yeah, when I was playing as a teen (with a lot of free time) I on occasion would plan up to say 12 moves ahead (with pruning on less promising paths), and I was definitely far away from being a grandmaster.
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> I don't see that here, the plan was explicitly to trick the RIR into giving them resources they were otherwise not entitled to. Those resources were for everybody to share, they're stealing from you and it's appropriate to prosecute for fraud.

The last time I looked which was a couple of years ago there was nothing in the ARIN TOS that said "you can only control one entity that applies for resources".

Joe Schmoe Enterprises, Inc, Joe Schmoe, LLC, Joe Shmoe Fishing Services, Inc are different legal entities even if Joe Schmoe, Jr owns all of them.
it certainly sets a tone for the intended audience.
> The company in the end changed course. They built out the product to focus on a single vertical that was getting traction in finance.

Building a startup in the "AI" space myself since more than 2yrs now, I'm more convinced than ever that this one major elemnent of a successful strategy for such companies: focus on 1 vertical.
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After reading the OKCupid founder’s data book, I am of the belief that any dating app that is designed effectively to make a decent profit (IAPs and the like) is mostly just a platform for older men to date younger women.
Does it actually work though? What I've found is that the positioning of the forearms and where the weight of the arm rests tends to be the most important thing about avoiding wrist pain.
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From the title I assumed it was satire.
Of course there will be more tricked unaccredited investors because there will be more of them and government can't guide the hand. My point is that the accreditation rule is moot, regardless of income level.
Gamification is not a selling point.

Users do not care about gamifying the experience. Users care about the experience. Does this solve interesting and new problems in the dating space? That's the selling point.

The goal of gamification is to act in parallel to an already existing and positive feedback loop in your app. It rewards what users do. It doesn't drive what they do.
We could also use a higher-bandwidth format than plain text? There is a lot of technical content which could be improved greatly by easy graphical tools for diagrams, equations, and so on, which is going a bit by the wayside because of the all-in-on-plaintext attitude. I think there is a lot of opportunity for clearer communication being totally passed over because of our collective inertia with respect to making better tools which would allow this kind of thing.
They're horrid because you can't easily type them on a keyboard.
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Oh and obviously TeX will always be considered classic 20th century code literature.

And probably git too, especially as it's very useful and almost forces the casual user to appreciate the poetry of its data structures.
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I don't think AI is a business.

There are lots of business workflows that AI can improve or enable in the first place, and you might be able to make a business out of that, but you should be aware of the difference.

If you want to be in the business of enabling / improving business workflows, you should be very explicit about that, and AI could be one of many techniques in your tool belt -- but hopefully not the only one.

Starting an "AI business" sounds like "I've got a shiny new hammer, what nails can I hit with it?", which is kinda backwards from my understanding of how businesses should be run. It might work, but it's also easy to fall into the trap thinking AI should be your only tool.
Apparently they're "responsible for the popular JPEG, JPEG 2000, JPEG XR, JPSearch, JPEG XT and more recently, the JPEG XS, JPEG Systems, JPEG Pleno and JPEG XL families of imaging standards".

Some of those may be more popular than others:

https://xkcd.com/2254/
...and virtual-machine.