skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chattel slavery and slave markets have existed in Mauritania since before the first Europeans even set foot in Africa, and to this day they refuse to end the practice and have told the UN directly that they refuse to end the practice every time another UN member raises a fuss about it.

So yes, this is a token action meant to appease those that are never truly appeased due to their rapid movement of goalposts.
Having been working in 80's and 90's I can definitely say you're romanticizing it. The people you're referring to were the exceptions, not the rule. All the problems we have today were present back then, too. We also bashed the waterfall methodology back in the 80's! The biggest difference between now and then is networking is cheaper, easier to configure, more reliable and waaay faster!
I've personally met a very few people who actually made such switch. The rest (a vast majority), in their 40s and 50s are still hands-on devs.
Another issue not mentioned is cross-compiling.

If the result of my `sort ` function is dependent on `sizeof(void )` being 8, when I compile from my x86 hardware for a 32-bit only architecture, assumptions go awry.

Note that this isn't likely with something like sort, but definitely is* likely with precomputing values/structs etc.
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Although I am not near retirement, I've found there is a sort of sweet-spot to be found doing "kinda" management stuff while still emphatically being a hands-on full-time coder.

I.e. you can proactively do just enough project management, meetings, and architectural discussions so that people leave you alone the rest of the time to code, but you get enough influence to get things largely how you want them to be (i.e. no surprises/stupid decisions forced on you by a PHB).

It requires some drive & gumption to decide to do these things yourself and then the requisite organisational & social skills to schedule the meetings with people, make connections between teams, start the shared design-doc/slides/whatever, generally get people together and "make things happen" etc, but I've found that "the management" value this sort of mini-manager thing hugely, with the bonus that you are not just a passive passenger on the decisions being made about the work you do, but you are actively shaping it because it is you who is out there driving the agenda by just enough.

I can easily see this sort of role being viable into retirement if I wanted - people seem to really value an engineer who can do this sort of thing.
How I made $3,000 on a short, freely-available Python tutorial ebook:

https://leanpub.com/learn-python

Spend two hours writing the tutorial, paste it into an ebook and wait ten years.
Maybe it depends on what software you're using?

I use both OSX (MBP) and Linux Mint as my desktop. Everything I use works on both. Both are stable and solid and work perfectly. I'm on a 4k60 monitor.

The only thing I had to do is have my graphics card do vsync on Linux. Software vsync on Linux is horrible. GPU vsync has Linux runs smooth as butter the same as smooth as OSX. I also had to manually increase my dpi and font sizes to match my monitor.
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Technology familiarity. We know C and we are totally satisfied, we don't know D at all. :)
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Most people expect to have sex. It's why we teach sex education - because we expect sex among teens! Sex is normal. It's even worth planning and teaching for.

Maybe the word you meant to say is "entitled" to sex. That is pretty ridiculous for sure. There's a distinction, IMO.
Sort of think there should be two systems, and OP selected answer, and a community selected answer. This is already what happens to some extent, it’s just a matter of UX I think to clearly mark the answers the community thinks are good with something akin to the green check you get (and I guess more importantly move these to the top)

I’m not sure this matters too much for experienced devs, it’s really just a noobie trap to only look at a low upvote but chosen answer right?
"confident in my ability to avoid phishing messages" is not a good way for security.
Unless you count Alaska: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase
> Other than generalized chemical castration I don't see how you could eliminate the "problem" of most of the male population unfulfilled sex drive.

Traditional solution of the past was to lure them in the army and let them die in some foreign country.
The author of the game calls it

"a book about scared men who were afraid of women."

He also says he himself at the time of writing suffered from mental illness.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/oct/10/neil-st...
Yup. It's one of the first counter-examples I learned about in undergrad analysis class. What's amazing about these things is that many extremely smart mathematicians at the time thought this was impossible, i.e. that continuous functions had to be at least differentiable somewhere.
People want to provide a stable home for their children.

Having to move can mean your kid has to find all new friends, and if buying a home is a complete impossibility for you, you might be further down Mazlowe's hierarchy than starting a family, and might have a life that's more financially brittle than you'd want it to be when you're taking care of kids.
I agree. I like to force myself to practice boredom. I leave my phone in my pocket while waiting in line at the grocery store or while riding public transportation. Sometimes, during lunch, I go outside and just sit and end up watching the squirrels or birds. I didn't know until recently that squirrels have nests in trees.

I feel practicing boredom strengthens my patience skill which can be used in many situations. And, sometimes, maybe a good idea comes out of it.
Good question: we are focusing on these:
aggregations/calculations, search query to find matching logs.
That "better" GPU support often relies on proprietary drivers, though. Which means you're stuck with a crappy downstream kernel until the graphics support gets reverse-engineered and pushed to the mainline kernel.
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Chances are that you benefit from open source code that I wrote. Where is my money?
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> Writing well does not mean writing a lot.

4 paragraphs is "writing a lot"? Seriously? Since this whole thread was about writing classes in university, I don't think anything I wrote there was less than 4 paragraphs, and my grade would have been poor if I had.

How many whitepapers or technical docs have you read that were less than 4 paragraphs? Manuals? Changes explaining a product pivot?

Honestly, some of the responses to my comments fit in the category of "I'm unquestionably right. So if it's not working for him, he must be doing something wrong! Let me try to guess at what that is."

Not the most fruitful way of having a conversation.
...but Unions and union-backed political parties are who won all of these benefits in social democracies?

You seem to have the entire thing backwards: the failure to build and grow unions in the US has resulted an absence of power and political representation for working people. Without this counterbalance, the rich and corporations have used the state to enshrine benefits for themselves and total power over workers.
Yes, power law distribution.

And from an evolutionary psych perspective, potentially there are greater forces at work: subconscious selection/self-selection and reduction of coupling/breeding/heterosexual* identity to limit famine/excess infant mortality.

* LGBT couples still form families through biological and adopted children.

Also, as in China and the US, millions of idle, unsexed men foment revolution/change/mass casualty incidents to a more socioeconomically-stable society.

If you want more sex in anarcho-capitalist society, make more money ( No Money, No Honey ).. or be a part of a socialist/communist state, i.e., East Germans had more sex and GDR women had better sex.

PS: Since this anonymous, I haven't been laid in 13 years... and I'm getting older. There are more barriers to get laid these days:

- people are more distracted by their smartphones, pointless/unfulfilling diversions from their miserableness, and overworking

- small-talk, interacting with people non-superficially, boundaries, and the Golden Rule are dead

- bars, clubbing and Burning Man/Coachella/etc. are all-but-dead

- apps like Tinder cater primarily to excessively young and beautiful people

If you want to meet quality people who care about more than themselves, I say go where there are volunteers:

- protests/marches

- volunteer opportunities

- far left bookstores

- medicine

And for yours truly, community poly/swap/open mutual MfFf works best for me. I need to get my superior out of my anterior, and pave-the-way to make that happen. Right now, I'm taking care of my elderly mom who had a stroke and stepfather divorced her without warning.
> it stutters doing something basic like 1080p video playback on VLC

That is interesting. What bitrate are the files?
That still is hypergamy. You are just stating that women have preferences. That is exactly what hypergamy means. That women have preferences that suit their own tastes. That is their prerogative.

What is not true though is that this is entirely an economic problem. If it were entirely economic, then why did sexual activity decrease for men but not women? Is that because men gave up? Are men disproportionately likely to self sabotage? Are men disproportionately likely to suffer from economic inequality than women? Do men not care about economic status in partners but women do?
Is there a Javascipt library that I can include in my website to allow readers to copy links to hightlighted text fragments? It would be awesome if the library can provide fallback for Text Fragments for browsers that don't support it.
Using looping gifs everywhere makes it really hard to focus on the text I'm trying to read.
OP here:
we are focusing on aggregations/calculations, search query to find matching logs.
Surprisingly enough I've found nearly any Windows 7 or 8's sticker license will work for 10--find any old laptop/desktop with one and you'll have a "free" license.
> However, at some point it seems that everyone at my stage is moving into management or higher level positions doing project management, meetings, architectural discussions

This impression is mostly generated by your head, to be more specific - by the social pressure to "make a career" and to regard technical skills as inferior to management skills. I don't think it's real, I saw many old people working as programmers, and there will be many more because there are more programmers among the current 20-30 year-olds, compared to the older generations. Also there's simply many more technical jobs available and there won't be enough management positions available to allow the switch for everyone. And the pandemic looks also like a quite big factor in reducing the number of management jobs (it looks like you often can work as usual without all the managers...).
the old hacker news switcheroo, hold my sliderule, I'm going in...
You know, I'd have to suggest "Intergalactic Pot Healer" as a soft introduction into the whole scene.

Thing about reality being slippery we have a tendency to acknowledge the fact when we're reading the books but then to comfortably return to our regularly scheduled mundane existence the minute the books are closed.

I still haven't been able to reconcile the sheer madness of the world with the workaday banality and obedience I've experienced in this cursed industry.
I am sorry, I don't really understand your question. Perhaps you could rephrase it.
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Tl;dr React Native communicates with native threads over json, which can be slow. Soon the JS will call native (UI) methods directly.
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Yes, but you have to find the right positions. Where I currently work there are manager and technical tracks for three or four employee levels (depending on division) between leading a team and executive levels.
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Since the Ribbon was added in Windows 8 opening a shell in your Windows default shell option (which defaults to PowerShell in recent Windows 10 now, but can be swapped back to CMD) has been directly on the File menu-tab. This also means there's a direct keyboard shortcut (Alt+F,R or Alt+F,S for more options in Windows 10, including Alt+F,S,A to open an Admin PowerShell).

The Ribbon gets a lot of flak for seeming complex or ugly (including from this article), but it added a lot of sweet Power User tools in easy to find places, and everything keyboard shortcut-able, if you give it a chance.
That's correct. MarTech or marketing technology space is quite vast. Marketing, as a function, is dynamic and composed of various aspects. Marketers are not usually tech aware so they employ products that decrease their dependency on other functions, especially engineering.

If you study that graphic more you'll find a lot of solutions pitching the idea of 'no IT help required'. Trust me, that's huge relief for marketers.
Another indication of a crowded space is demand. Demand for convenience.

Differentiation becomes really challenging in such a crowded space, I agree. From a product perspective, consistency in expanding the capabilities of your product can help set a long term relationship with the market. From the marketing perspective, positioning of the product should evolve in a manner that agrees with what's trending in the market.
Do you disagree or are you just memeing?
A decision more guaranteed to nuke both brands is hard to think of. As the article says, the hate speech problem is extremely difficult to solve, but Twitter also has all sorts of NSFW, queer, and activist communities that are the exact opposite of Disneyfication.
I am curious, a side from keep learning, did you do anything, like, kind of promote your personal skills/archivements, to make sure you're "visible" to potential employers or something?
What minority category is this?
>The RPi4 is actually fully capable of 4k @ 60Hz

It depends. It doesn't like 4k even at 30hz if you are watching a movie. Not unless it is compressed to blockniess.
For 1) you would have to have a system that prosecutes misconduct in good faith. I know cops and they are afraid of being punished for doing right and legal things, and if their retirements were in jeopardy they would move to another profession.

For 2), can you even insure yourself against illegal activities? I don't think intentional acts are covered by medical malpractice insurance, for instance.
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Yes. I wrote my first code for hire at age 14, started professionally at age 22, and I'm 53 now.

Still innovating and contributing as a technical guy. I've made it clear I'm not interested in management.
> When you are an individual contributor, your value is directly a result of the work you do, you don’t get “multiplication” factors by making other folks more productive.

Software seems pretty good at multiplying the productivity of other people. It’s just less socially acceptable to take credit for that increase than it is in management.
If you have the personality and ambition to be a salesperson you can make a good career out of it. I sometimes thin what else I could do and still earn a living and my introverted personality style gets me back to engineering. It’s unfortunate because ther are a lot of skills to be learned outside of programming.
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I'd add Ubik to this as well, and would personally rate it higher than the Three Stigmata. For me, Ubik is PKD's greatest and most accessible book.

1st rank - Ubik, The Three Stigmata, A Martian Time Slip, Faith of Our Fathers

2nd rank - (The Divine Invasion or The Galactic Pot Healer ... don't remember which now... it's been a long time), A Maze of Death

3rd rank - VALIS, Eye in the Sky

Honorable mention: the middle of Lies, Inc -- it has a weak start and ending, but the middle is up there with the best PKD has ever written.

I found The Transmigration of Timothy Archer to be pretty boring, but I didn't make it all the way through, and some PKD books (like Lies, Inc) start dull and turn great, so I might give it another go sometime.. but the impression I got when first reading it was that this was a book written around the time PKD was starting to transition to writing more "serious literature" (aka not scifi), and to me PKD is just much stronger at writing scifi, particularly of the really mind-bending, bad acid trip kind, and he just wasn't cut out to write "serious literature"... so yeah, right now I'd pass on The Transmigration of Timothy Archer.

I'm also kind of sick of his obsession with his pink light mystical experience.. I wish he'd just gotten over it already and moved on to something else. Writing about it once was more than enough.
On your last point, with lots of companies expanding their IC tracks, it's likely with continued career growth that you can make the equivalent of a director/VP by end of career because of how companies are aligning compensation and job levels.
Do you need to display 10,000 data points?
Depends on how you define normal. :D I offended a lot of C++ fans, I guess.

I guess what I meant is "vast-majority of devs out there".

I did ~10 years of kernel/embedded myself. Generally people use C++ only when they really have to (like: they work in one of this niches, or want to get a job there). I've experienced myself many times when people would go with anything but C++ because of all it's faults, weaknesses and general infamy. And I also have seen some people that gave Rust a try and it went smoothly. They deliver a proper C++-level performance and resource control, without any of the problems and were happy about the experience.

AAA-game/kernel/embedded are all lucrative (except games, lol), important and not tiny but they are still niche.
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It was probably removed from the front page because the number of comments is bigger than the number of votes, to avoid flamewars. I've seen this pattern happening over and over.
I said rare, did not said never. And typical animal sex does not involve fight for death among males. I don't mean typical as in slightly over 50%, but as in overwhelming majority.

Animals are way more likely to fight over food and such. Sex, not all that much and they have not that much reason to fight over that.
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According to PKD, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, one of his most psychedelic books, was written before he tried LSD.

But yes, it's hard to trust what he said about his drug use.
Have you seen the actions of the government lately - not in the distant pass.
A lot commenters here are blaming the sexual revolution for this trend, and I don't think that's the case (and its obviously a good thing women have more autonomy).

I look at the men I'm surrounded by in my life, generally intelligent people who are financially comfortable in their mid or late 20s and think to myself, "I wouldn't fuck any of these losers, either." The men of my generation are absolutely consumed by the drugs of the modern world; video games, porn, binge-watching low quality media, childish crap, unhealthy diets, etc. The great companies of the world benefit from this becoming the majority, a consumer who will never question the world around him.

Reject this nonsense, humans weren't designed to live in boxes, eating garbage and consuming media for 80 years. You don't need to fight in a war for your life to have purpose, there are battles to be fought and WON every day of your life. You, sitting there, are the product of millennia of genetic success, you have the tools to be great and I, personally, really want you to be.

Never get discourage! Always believe in yourself! And don't be afraid to ask for help!
You cannot fit too much of the Overton window in any one place. And a lot of politics these days relies on entire parallel media structures so that what even happened is under dispute, let alone the moral response to them.

Wonkery can be debated; humanity can't.
The problem with restaurants (globally!) is they have zero responsibility or incentive to serve food that fits the nutritional needs of their customers.

• Restaurants don't sell food, they sell satiation, taste, brand, ambiance, customer experience.

• You rarely can ask for an ingredient list, you often can't see who made your food, it is a black box in a black box.

• All we really care about are omissions: the list of chemicals, macronutrients, hormones, and ingredients that are excluded from our menu items.

Not only does this disconnect us from the ingredients in our food... I think this is a huge problem that compounds toward multiple health crises such as obesity and diabetes. Chefs are seen as food experts, yet the nutrition aspect of restaurant food is entirely ignored. We expect individuals themselves to be their own nutrition experts (curating meals and ingredients for their own health).

I don't know what the solution is. But at the very least I think every restaurant owes its customers the macros and ingredients for every product they serve, in accessible formats. It should be easier to get that information onto your phone than a tweet. Food receipts should list macro and calorie breakdowns. Tools for nutrition analysis should be free, standard, integrated, and widespread. etc
It's amazing what even ONE hour a week of watching a tutorial that interests you anyway can do. I went through all the RxJs tutorials for genuine curiousity. Even though we don't use RxJs at work, I got really really good at knowing when to use `map`, `reduce`, etc. in code without being too clever.

Those two Sunday afternoons did wonders!
Someone replied to you, already; I meant “physical therapist”, not “personal trainer”. I don’t have any experience with personal trainers. Sorry for the confusion.
Fortunately, apples are not candy bar. The metabolic effects of eating 1kg of apples is completely different from eating glucose and fructose extracted from those 1kg of apples.

Natural sugar is magnitudes times better than processed/added sugar.

Fructose consumed through fruits has never had a similar metabolic effect as high-fructose corn syrup.
The argument was about the developer experience, not how things work behind the scenes. It's super simple for a developer to write this, for example:

const a = an async operation
const b = another async operation
// Resolve a and b concurrently
const [x, y] = await Promise.all([a, b])
// Do something with x and y

You can naturally achieve that with callbacks but there's more boilerplate involved. I'm not familiar with Python so I don't know how it would look like without async.

Edit: I just re-read your comment and the one you were responding to, and do agree that async/await don't "move" things from blocking to non-blocking. It just helps using already non-blocking resources more easily. It will not help you if you're trying to make a large numerical computation asynchronous, for example. In this regard it's very different from Golang's `go`, which will run the computation in a separate goroutine, which itself will run concurrently (with Go's scheduler deciding when to yield), and in parallel if the environment allows it.
The Right-Click Drag context menu is also an Explorer Shell Extension Point (going way back) and some apps can add additional behaviors to it beyond Cut/Copy. 7-Zip for instance includes a lot of options in a sub-menu. For instance, Right-Click Drag a set of .zip files in a Downloads folder to a more permanent home folder and you can select 7-Zip > Extract to *\ and 7-Zip will expand all of the .zip files into folders based on the names of the .zip files.