skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Psychologically abuse them for months or years, place impossible to meet expectations in front of them and tell them that any attempt to meet them is wrong before they've even started to make an effort. Let them be open and vulnerable with you and punish them for it, then later demand they be open and vulnerable and only randomly punish them for doing so. Oh and the entire time you are putting them through this, trivialize their emotions and show them that they're wrong for having them.

That should be a good start.
At some point we could be lucky enough to spot some kind of alien ISS orbiting an otherwise non-interesting planet/moon.

Or some kind of giant vessel arriving to a close star.

Could be no luck at all too.
Students cheat because incentives aren't aligned - if I don't learn my intro physics material and I'm not taking any later classes that depend on it, the only difference between cheating on the exam and not is whether I end up with a degree. Employers, graduate schools, etc. want to see that degree, but they don't actually care whether I know intro physics.

As you say, this is less of a problem in higher-level classes: you ask them deep and meaningful questions that build on the intro material and you see if they can give a cogent answer. This process already has its natural conclusion when we ask Ph.D. students to write and defend a thesis - but almost until that point, we continue evaluating students based on homework assignments and tests with clear right or wrong answers.

It seems to me that the answer, then, is aligning the incentives. For any classes that have only textbook work, tell students that everyone passes them, and while homework and tests will be offered, they're mostly there so students know for themselves if they're ready to take higher-level classes. If you want to teach students to be students (which is a valuable skill on its own, although most of them should have figured it out in high school...), find some freshman-level classes that don't have textbook work - say composition or research - and grade those. As the years progress, move towards classes where students offer free-form responses and assign each student different work. If students seem like they didn't actually learn the intro material, go look at whether they took exams and how, and then send them back until they do. A few will party all freshman year, sure - but they'll learn that their sophomore classes do actually mean business now.

This does, incidentally, involve getting rid of the general requirements classes unless you can evaluate them in a non-textbook way. You probably can just work it into the major - biology or computer science or music composition students will genuinely benefit from understanding introductory physics, calculus, etc, so test that in those classes (and make it clear to them they need to achieve a "passing" grade in those classes). If you can't, and you also can't ask students meaningful independent questions, there's no point in having your degree require the ability to memorize "the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell." I passed my college biology class with a C, and I am unsure what exactly would have been different if I'd put in the work to get an A.
Electricity, the light bulb, the automobile, the washing machine, the air conditioner, the personal computer, etc etc. I really can't tell if this is a troll question or not. Clearly there was nothing stopping humanity from discovering these things 1000 years ago. What changed? A culture that balances capital and risk call achieve extraordinary things. There is no substitute for it.
BTW, there's also another angle to consider about coffee: how well you sleep afterwards. I recommend the book ‘Why We Sleep’ by Matthew Walker, it has plenty of info on why deep REM sleep is especially important. (Even though there's some criticism about the book, it still gives a lot of food for thought.)

I haven't seen definitive numbers on how long coffee works, but I'm pretty sure that it's more than the half-hour that Wikipedia claims, and Walker in particular says coffee in the afternoon does affect night's sleep. Personally for me, if I drink three cups in a day, or drink a cup or two for several days straight, then I can feel the effect on the following days—specifically in muscle tension and irritability.
I've been looking for one which can play SACD's and has the hardware emulation, they're actually a bit rare.
Part of what has to be done can be done in wrappers, it's true: the part that has to do with recording additional metadata. But the other part -using that metadata to resolve symbol conflicts- cannot be done in a wrapper -- it has to be done in the linker-editor. IMO this is a very strong argument for putting all of this in the linker-editor.
Some options:

- Read a book or tutorials about reimplementing git. That will make clear its data model and how it works.

- Use libgit2 to extract some data from a git repository. As a side effect, you will become a git expert.

- Think what would you like as your source control flow. Use libgit2 or its binding in your favorite language to implement it.

- Adapt git flow or a similar predefined control flow.

- Try Fossil SCM (by the author of SQLite). Not recommended - you will need git in your career.
It supports web as an export target, although there are some limitations:

"""

Unimplemented functionality

The following functionality is currently unavailable on the HTML5 platform:

- Threads

- GDNative

- C#

- Clipboard synchronization between engine and operating system

- Networking other than HTTPClient and WebSocketClient

"""

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/workf...
> The domain-name removals, the mastercard and visa bans, and the app bans are the actions of private companies in name only.

No, they're completely the actions of private companies.

It turns out, private companies exist in a mostly-shared culture and often have similar ideas about how to behave. Currently -- thank god -- deplatforming blatant bigots is generally agreed upon as A Good Thing. No conspiracy here, just good sense.

> Rather than being used to target and remove individuals who promote instability, it has been used to target and remove individuals who promote stability.

Seriously? White supremacists are now "individuals who promote stability"?

> Much of the United States now believes property destruction is acceptable if it achieves honorable ends.

I mean, yeah, the US has always believed that. The country had basically two starting points, after all: stealing the natives' land, and then later on destroying property as part of a protest.
> Go back in history and read some of the Canterbury Tales from around 1400. Read a story half way through, then ask yourself how it will end. You'll be right. There are no plot twists. Back then, entertainment was so scarce that they weren't needed.

Well no, entertainment wasn't scarce. Different, but not scarce.

Audience desires could be different, too: http://arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/2199.htm
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This all makes sense to me as far as it goes, but any assessment of university finances, the future of remote versus in-person education, etc, should have a lot to say about the following:

Classes are only a fraction of the in-person university experience in the USA today. Schools are priced accordingly and they heavily invest in and compete on non-classroom factors. This includes facilities, support services, activities, athletics. Then there is just the socialization, dorm experience, meeting people, parties, on and on.

So it would be a totally reasonable and logical next step in history for schools to say, "Hey, we believe that a lot of the value we offer is the in-person experience. So we will offer remote classes for a lower cost, to many more online-education students." Like Ga Tech's masters program.

But, with COVID, the universities have backed themselves into a corner because they should probably make the next year remote, but they made all these expensive on-campus investments and to stay afloat they need the ridiculously high tuition money (including from out-of-state and international students as mentioned). So all of a sudden, they can't afford to admit that remote learning is a much less valuable product.

(One thing I am ignoring is the real difficulties and cost from professors to teach large remote classes in an actually effective way. I'm sure administrators will ignore it too.)
Just another POV being pretty good with Git, not bringing anything new compared to other answers but adding weight:

You're absolutely right that Git is terrible in terms of UX, and there's zero shame in messing stuff up like you did, it's standard. I think it's because Git contributors are such good Git users that they're blind to how bad it is for newcomers/intermediate users, and also they're not particularly interested in UX. But it's all free and open-source, let's be thankful it even exists.

> Is there anything you would suggest to someone like me?

No. I'm afraid that despite its bad UX it's the best out there (subjective, I don't even actually know other VCS very well). In addition, Git is so prevalent that not knowing it will be massive problem for you, career-wise or in your interaction with the open-source communities

Honestly, it hurts me to tell you that but I think your best option is to suck it up and learn it. Use GUIs (git tower, sourcetree, gitkraken...) if that helps
That assumes you're using a device that is powered on at midnight, or at any particular time of day really.
When you can't innovate anymore and your userbase is as large as it's ever going to be, what's left to do other than monetize? The problem with startups is not that they all seek to "cash grab" at some point, but that they often do so in highly non-transparent ways, sometimes even actively abusing a monopoly position. The reason you'll see them try to grow via marketing is that this is cheaper and safer than trying to innovate.
This aspect touches upon it, although I don't believe the point he is making specifically is meant to level criticism at tech startups themselves:

>A Harvard Business Review study of common traits among CEOs found that the leaders who rose to that position fastest were those who had a “catapult experience”—a bold and potentially risky career move. Perhaps the same traits that lead to this type of bold action might also lead to very poor outcomes on a college campus. Perhaps hyper-permissiveness actually ends up promoting a form of timidity. We’re left with Silicon Valley dorks who microdose LSD in order to create hookup apps where users exchange sex puns on the toilet.

That last dig pointing out the absurd mix of hyper-permissiveness (hookup culture) and timidity (texting) just highlights how contemporary innovation is the often twisted nexus of these two extremes, and it is the continuation of this pattern being described that makes up the neo-bureaucrat culture's cognitive dissonance.
This is also impacting Twitter, ex: Unilever is pausing ad placements on Twitter too. Honestly I think Twitter is worse since there are so many anonymous accounts that harass/doxx others.
Breaking the rules of video game design with a collection of free strategy games
Design principles for the eSports for engineers game collection are:

1. target audience is people who enjoy reading dense technical material

2. designed to accompany your daily exercise bike workout, for 30 min to one hour a day total. The collection includes a different game for each day, providing for a varied mind/body workout. Scoring formulas are provided to track your daily and weekly performance.

3. Sample different game domains, from deep learning chess and Go to realistic sims. Spar with a world-champion level AI first to train, then play online vs other humans if desired.

4. realistic physics, re-creation of historical events and strategy, not fantasy, are the themes that draw you in.

5. free on linux, no advertising.

6. you'll need to read a book and a game manual for each game to get the most out it

7. differentiate with breadth, depth, and richness of content, reflecting a wide range of volunteer contributors from all over the world, and over a long period of time.

8. unpack one tar file on linux to play all the games. No payment infrastructure or internet is needed to play.

more information here:

https://alternativeto.net/software/esports-for-engineers/
The problem is that have a college degree is the pre-requisite for getting a professional job, rather than having the knowledge that a college degree is supposed to represent.
I've always been against using true REST API to build the RPC layer of a web browser SPA on top of, for one simple reason:

The REST approach is essentially: "Everything is a noun, and you have 4 verbs"

Building a good API with everything as a noun and only 4 verbs is quite awkward in my opinion.

Lots of API calls might need to pull data from multiple different "things" (nouns) to generate the reply, and in REST you're urged to require multiple calls to accomplish that. Awkward and slow.
Soon, a locked down VR headset with eye tracking. It's step one for the matrix, maybe, but it does make it hard for the student to check their phone.

But employers will be tempted to use the same tech to measure employee time-on-task, and write employment contracts accordingly. Parents and teachers would want to use it to monitor study as well as exams.

The potential for social control is rather alarming.
I think your intent is great. But I do think it would be better to keep the outward response as neutral as possible, so you don't unintentially single someone out in your attempt to be inclusive.

For example, make a conscious decision to say "hold on, I think {so-and-so} had something to add" when you see that situation with anyone, even if they happen to be a white man (because just being a white male doesn't mean they aren't an introvert who can never get a word in a discussion with more assertive pears).
I didn't want to imply that incremental updates in general aren't useful. Just that many physicists' educated assessment (guess) is that new physics and new particles require energy levels that are out of reach right now, substantial higher than this new accelerator's. So now the expected outcome is to give a more detailed look for a slightly better understanding of what we already know, with a hefty price tag. This cost/benefit is where the current controversy comes from.
What do Mind-mapping, Zettelkasten, Bullet Journaling, Getting Things Done, etc. all have in common?

They impose a taxonomy on thought and rely heavily on "best practices".

Even the simplest organizational schemes require a great deal of _discipline_ to be successful with, and nothing is a "one size fits all" solution.

I'm looking forward to the day when I can dump interesting thoughts (or links to articles, videos, whatever) into a "knowledge base" and it finds connections and labels things for me while I sleep.

Who's building this?
Author here. It's an important question. I would argue that DARPA does not work as well as it did in the 1960's but that your experience with PMs isn't representative.

Even though it's less than other government orgs, DARPA still has more process than it used to. Additionally, the opportunity cost for people who would make excellent PMs has become steadily higher over time.
How about when we started a war with a country that hadn't attacked us so that some oil tycoons could line their pockets?

Did anyone vote on that? Just sending innocent civilians to die so some rich fuck could get richer?

How about "Corporations are people"? Was that for the good of the American public?

What about this current administration? Pretty much everyone in power doesn't belong there and does more to serve those who pay them (through lobbying) than the public.

Vote anyways because it's good for PR and slows down the spread of corruption.
To be entirely honest, most of his books are pretty awful, as they are mostly preaching something for the sake of preaching and selling the books. I bought his last one (Clean Architecture) as I wanted to improve myself as an architect, just to realize its riddled with fluff and rarely anything in there is actionable advice. For some reason the reviews from his followers are mostly glowing.

I also found myself agreeing with everything written in this blog post. For the record I have read his famous Clean Code, Clean Coder and Clean Architecture and I don't find them all that meaningful.
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> then you are already using dynamic linking by definition

"Well, technically..."

I proposed using the dlopen() mechanism (or a custom linker) from a program that is itself statically linked. Because that's what the argument is about: statically linking the stuff you always need. Now, technically, that's dynamic linking. And because I'm linking the plugins dynamically, I might as well link everything dynamically, right? No, absolutely not. Because the latter gives me DLL hell, and rpaths, and library maintainers who think that changing LD_LIBRARY_PATH is perfectly sensible. The former doesn't. Not equivalent. Not at all.

We're not talking about BGI or overlays or Go. We're talking about statically linked binaries calling the dynamic linker. You didn't actually know that was possible, did you?
Keyword is "former". She probably left because of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina_E._Dugan#Potential_conf...

I don't think a single person that no longer works there can represent the entire process of an agency.

If anything, Facebook's building 8, only reflects badly on her and Facebook.
The problem is that you must make sure you actually test the student, and not some other student, or a team. That's even harder for "take home" projects, because the time for exchange is so long.

I try to formulate most of my questions to not be just knowledge. With higher classes, I care less and less about how much they know, or just know how to find it, because the real problem is figuring out what they need to know, so to speak. For lower classes, this is a lot harder, because these classes often teach the basics required. You cannot be a good physicist if you have to google F=ma every time. The same way you can't be a good programmer if you SO-search for -loops.
Ha, I remember doing that, and the RISCOS 2 to 3 upgrade a few years later. Very exciting, for a nine-year-old.

Kept the old Arthur ROM chips for years afterwards as a sort of prize.
Surgery is an option for those who are not obese, despite what you may have been told or read. Worth looking into, however, only few surgeons in the world are properly trained to specifically to diagnose and treat the very delicate upper airway.
Unfortunately the answer is no.
I would say you're already using git correctly. What you're doing is called "trunk-based development" (TBD). I recommend doing a little bit of research on it since it's what you seem to want to do anyway. Fully embracing TBD will be WAY easier than learning and using git-flow (https://georgestocker.com/2020/03/04/please-stop-recommendin...).
Then one day, Ms. VCP approached Mr. R&D and announced, "My sisters and I have had enough of your toxic masculinity. We demand that your sexist monopoly on research and development cease!" Mr. R&D pondered Ms. VCP's demand for a decade or two, then declared, "By George Eliot, I've got it! I'll simply undergo gender-reassignment surgery and adopt stereotypically feminine habits of body language and dress!" An overjoyed Ms. VCP applauded Mr. R&D's sudden embrace of his femininity, and left with a hopeful expectancy of more feminine things to come.

Mr. R&D changed his, ahem, HER name to Miss Renée Diana, then began adjusting the sexual hormone levels of every primate fetus until 100,000 years later, there were but 3 sterile but very not-so-clever and starving primates left shivering in an Iberian cave. The VNCPs formed a committee, and after 6 months of heated intersectional discussion, voted on a representative to approach Miss Renée Diana with their desperate plea.

"You rang?", replied Miss Renée Diana. "Um, no, I haven't a bell but have been screaming at the top of my lungs for a week, Miss RD. We three VNCPs, we're starving and cannot increase our population, nor compete against these damned hyper-evolved sea otters for food!" "How may I help you?", inquired Miss RD.
"Well, I used to have a working set of ovaries and lactating breasts until the starvation kicked in. We had to eat the baby. My two pals, one of them we can't tell what sex they are because they refuse to disclose. The other one has situational erectile dysfunction because, well, we can't stand his, um, I mean their, toxic display of potential male hegemony. Please, Miss Renée Diana, we implore of you, help us increase our food supply and population!"

With that, the not-so-very clever primate sat and waited for Miss RD's reply. It came 48 hours later -- astonishingly quick in historical terms, yet none too soon for the hunger-weakened VNCP. "Oh, toot-a-loo!", sang Miss Renée Diana. "Uh?", the VNCP faintly responded. "My, you look famished, poor dear. No matter. I've looked into your case and have decided that sea otters, however bipedal and adapted to your former haunts, are MUCH too adorable to allow you VNCPs to re-infest the place. Toot-a-loo!" And with that, Miss RD sashayed away with gay abandon, leaving the miserable but ideologically pure VNCPs to their fate.
I think the argument goes that if you want dairy products to be available to everyone, and that the gov’t has a public health interest in that goal, then there has some minimum level of guaranteed demand or else dairy producers would collapse because they can’t really scale their production lock step with demand so the gov’t steps in to buy the excess and maybe finds a use for it.

So this is either a necessary evil to correct a weird market or insane gov’t subsidy depending on your perspective.
Windows 1.0 had an icon bar at the bottom:

https://docs.microsoft.com/pt-br/archive/msdn-magazine/2009/...
I have stopped asking people I work with. Nobody seems to know who Roy Fielding is or have read the paper. It is no surprise nobody knows what REST is.

The consensus seems that REST is SOAP but with JSON instead of XML and uses HTTP methods to... I guess to keep everybody annoyed.
Seems about right for North America, 12th grade education (18 years old), 4 year college degree (22 years old), 6 year PhD (28 years old), ~5 (3-7) years postdoc (33 years old), 7 year tenure track (=40 yrs old). If I didn't run away to a biotech startup after my postdoc it probably would be roughly this timeline.

Pretty insane really.
Well apart from this being a good PR play in a time when advertising is naturally cut back due to the uncertaintly, it will be a big test (if not just acknowledgement) that social media traffic is just as crap traffic as e.g. forums. The old adage about 50% of ad spending being wasted is true , the it's just that the perception of where it is that's changing. My theory is that FB & Google are just better at dazzling advertisers with fancy dashboards that they can show their bosses.
This is, of course, the employers' problem to solve. And many they're slowly (re-)realizing that they can hire inquisitive folks with a good work ethic but no bachelor's and get just as good results, that the signal doesn't have as much value as they thought.

What would be worthwhile is if employers identified what skills or knowledge or experience they actually wanted and figured out how to both test for those (and not just trust the degree-granting system) and train for those (because the degree-granting system doesn't reliably supply it).