skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>How would you lose the the race with solid engineering? How would you win without it?

marketing, brand image, any of the other dozen things that mask bad engineering quality and sell the customer on some superficial thing.

Not just in cars but a ton of consumer products customers can easily neglect engineering quality in favour of some gimmick.

Hell even developers constantly choose convenient or shiny technologies over ones that are robust or error free.
I'm one of the mediocre players and what's helped tremendously for chess tactics is the book "predator at the chess board" (it's available online) and lichess's puzzles.
Just do it when you're old. More efficient that way.
This would be kind of hilarious if true.

It seems like they could have just said: malloc won't give you a pointer that overlaps with the storage of any live malloc'd object. Such a malloc is implementable without too much trouble. But instead, they gave a stronger guarantee--that all malloc'd pointers would be "unique". It would be unboundedly burdensome on the implementation to meet this property, so what do they do? Update the standard to offer the achievable guarantee? No! They add a new rule, ensuring that it's impossible to observe that the stronger guarantee is not met without doing something "illegal". Instead of getting their act together, they have elected to punish whistleblowers.
Yeah, but given the difference in ideology and stance on most notably systemd, I don't think it can be called "a new Ubuntu" :)
Igalia is an example of a successful co-op in the Free Software & Open Source services space:

https://www.igalia.com/
I'm sure there are multiple ways to look at the data and an argument can be made for both sides; but generally speaking I feel like a rising tide lifts most boats. Or to be said differently, rising GDP creates the greatest good for the greatest number of people. (ex. Amazon in Seattle, not everyone shares in the wealth city's new wealth explosion, but most would argue the net wealth creation is positive).

Even better, Western European countries that are relatively speaking highly productive and also socially supportive can boast better quality of life for their residents no matter where they fall on the income ladder. That is in opposition to countries with low productivity, or weak social safety nets. The US may be the latter, but that is a different debate. A slowing GDP won't fix that problem; though, I think it is likely that weak social systems impact those at the bottom of the income distribution more than a relatively lower GDP.
Could you explain the flow or how the vertical and horizontal microcode interact? If a bit pattern is read into the instruction register that pattern is used as an index into a translation ROM? Is that translation the horizontal microcode that drives everything including further lookup and translations to mico-ops i.e vertical microcode?
He's quite clearly talking about getting paying customers before building anything. I don't think this about design docs before prototypes where you're more an employee not an entrepreneur.
> stopped using all social media accounts

I keep wondering how I should describe this site to people, without using the term "anti-social media"...
It's likely you guys talked about it twice.

"He competed in the French Championship and won his second Classique Championship" (2018)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Richards_(Scrabble_playe...

There was even a brief HN comment thread about it 2 years ago.

"Fun fact: the current top player of French scrabble is from New Zealand and doesn’t speak a word of French. He just memorized all ~200k valid words in the OSD."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18689565
Note that being aware of one's failings doesn't necessarily mean a person has yet learned how to mitigate them.

And it is downright spirit-crushing to go into a situation thinking, "I do not know what I'm doing", ask for help only to be told to have more self-confidence, fail, and then have others be disappointed in you for your 'obvious' failures.
It's an acquired taste. Even then, sometimes it tastes sour.
Rare Parsec facts: http://xona.com/about/computers/ti994a/parsec.html
The playing field is nowhere close to being level.

https://thediplomat.com/2015/02/soft-repression-the-struggle...

For more info: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/dispute-pm-lee-hsien-loong-not-mer...

No privacy either: https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-singapore-crime-li/singapo...
If I see a motorcycle go behind a billboard and not come out, I can reason that there is a motorcycle behind a billboard. I assume that's what they mean.
By that argument there would also be beings that are incredibly powerful and have motives purely beneficial to others. No reason to think either hell or heaven would be the more likely outcome without more knowledge.
Maybe they are also going to write a piece about what it was like to give up Facebook?
If it is part of a survey that you are paid for then it's a pretty thin line to paying for actual votes, right?
the TI99/4A is a beautiful machine.

The first computer I ever used back in 1982 was Texas Instruments 990/10 minicomputer (384K) running an operating system called DX10, based on the same instruction set as the 99/4A.

That system was originally built for a US Motel operator reservation system. Back in the days when you would quote for developing not only the software but the hardware too!

Today if you are interested you can download a 990 emulator and experiment with DX10/DNOS for yourself
Huh. When I learned about it in high school 30+ years ago, I didn't learn any background on the name and saw an (admittedly, always awkwardly strained, and I can't even clearly explain it to myself now) metaphor in which the interleaved lists were somehow the shells. I never thought it as clear of a metaphor as by bubblesort, but more descriptive than quicksort.
There are primarily two factors are driving it. People and especially farmers have changed how they use the land. There are much less animals grazing, thus not keeping forests in check. As mentioned temperatures have also increased, which allows trees to grow at an higher altitude than before.

Here's a relatively recent news article about this[1], including a couple of images of the same place 50 years apart showing the progress.

[1]: https://www.nrk.no/innlandet/norges-hoyestvoksende-tre-skape...
Expect! I learned Tcl just for Expect. It’s one of those tools that takes you from “I have no idea how to do this” to “this is trivial” in just an afternoon.
Most suburban areas will probably have been named to attract people buying property, rather than for any real reason otherwise.

Perhaps the biggest historical example of this is Greenland, whose name is said to have been chosen to attract more settlers to a place that is very cold in reality. (The corresponding bit that people like to tell, in which Iceland had its name sabotaged to make Greenland more attractive, is not based in reality.)
Interestingly enough, Facebook itself is listed as a partner.
Emotional health test obvi.
Create many accounts similar to your current ones or buy existing accounts with activity and change their information to be similar to yours. Muddy the water enough that anyone googling your real name can never guess you and misdirect people into clicking unsafe content.

You will leave traces of information no matter how hard you try if you spend enough time on any site.

Btw, did you know that even if you ask dang to rename your account - people can easily find you by searching on hn.algolia.com because they don't auto update indexes on renames?

Same for many other sites. There are many indexes and archives that never update old data and won't care about GDPR requests.
That's the internet and life in general. Most things tend to be personality driven unless the person is beyond exceptional over their peers in which case they have merely a larger percentage chance to break through just by virtue of skill alone, but even this is far from guaranteed.
that's nowhere near a novel observation. the baby boomers, for instance, mortgaged our futures in the form of real estate, education, finance, insurance, and healthcare (and more) for their own wealth indulgences. that's all paper growth, not real growth.
I'm less productive working from home. I'm confident some people are more productive working from home. There's no one-size-fits-all solution.
MewMew: Programming in Cats' Language
Even if hypothetically every human wore an N95 mask for a month (which is obviously impossible), afterwards some people would be infected by animals and in a few months we'd be back to where we are now. I'm not trying to discourage anyone from wearing a mask, they can certainly reduce your risk in some situations. But believing that masks can end the pandemic is magical thinking.
I don’t currently use Mongo. But some reasons I would:

1. Because Postgres support for complex JSON queries are sub par compared to MongoDB

2. When I did use MongoDB it was with C#. The Mongo Linq driver is excellent. You write standard Linq queries and it gets translated to MongoQuery. You use standard C# POCO objects and the compiler ensures a consistent “schema”.
Agreed about the idempotency concern. Safari for example will sometimes make past GET requests while making a current GET request, so you can get oopsied if you put a non-idempotent request in a GET.

On the other hand, if multi submitting causes bad behavior, a failsafe should probably be baked in to the endpoint logic itself rather than relying on POST not being abused.
One approach is to simply not care if you are doxxed. What would really happen if someone figured out who you are? If the answer is not much, maybe don’t worry about it. This approach makes less sense if you are saying things that will get you in hot water.
It's not uncommon to have several 15A outlets on a 20A breaker. So if you plug a 20A load into this thing, I would expect the outlet to overload and fail, but the current through the breaker might not be enough to trigger it.
As long as they tell you before you buy the house!
Easy, just dox yourself first.
It depends on what you mean by being 'doxxed'. It is trivially easy to find out what city I live in and a few other non-identifying details. It's harder to pinpoint my real name or address without the active cooperation of website owners (and maybe not even then).

Miniscule levels of risk are not worth worrying about, unless you are a figure in the public spotlight or likely to be a person of interest to police or intelligence orgs, in which case you should probably seek advice specific to your situation.
I somewhat disagree with the article only because as a co-founder and also as early engineer in previous startups I've worn the interviewer hat a lot and candidates with solid github portfolio projects demonstrated to be better suited for the role than those that didn't have projects to demonstrate their skills. I agree that there are a ton of 10x engineers that don't do any public open source stuff but at the same time you'd know they're good just by having a conversation with them or reading posts they've written. One of my previous employers has also expressed that they were impressed by my github projects and I feel like that gave me leverage over other candidates. It really depends on the employer and I think the larger the company the less they care about your open source projects or how good your portfolio since there's a lot of churn and they can afford it unlike early stage startups where they do a little more diligence on early hires.
I once worked with a very friendly can-do project manager who did something very similar.

He had a deployment project that was behind because the cabinet's PDU needed an L6-30 and the row only had an L6-20. So he went over to Grainger, bought a L6-20 male connector, an L6-30 female connector, some appropriate cable, and made an adapter.

If I recall correctly he'd calculated the maximum draw from the cabinet as right about 20A, so he was really bothered when the facilities manager absolutely refused to deploy with that adapter. (<cough>inrush?<cough>)
Couldn’t help but think about Jesus words when reading your comment about the waste of potential: “they are ever hearing, but never understanding”

I think in his case he was criticizing the scribes who memorized the scriptures, yet had no mercy for others.

It’s certainly an amazing feat of perseverance to memorize anything, but without understanding and transformation for good, it might as well be a million digits of pi.
If you are just worried about someone trying to steal your identity to abuse your credit or so, you probably already practice good basic security (like 2-factor authentication, not recycling your passwords etc. etc.) and have no particular need to worry about. You are more likely to have your security compromised in a corporate data breach than someone taking the time to dox you.

If you get in fights online or are a member of some group that frequently experiences abuse (from inside or outside your community) then you should consider rebuilding your social media identities, giving up some of them, compartmentalizing your digital life so that your work or business don't overlap with your friendships or public persona etc.

If things have gone sideways and you think people are already motivated to go after you, a determined person can pull your details together very quickly with a mixture of software tools, access to commercial databases, and some detective work. It's not difficult for someone with experience. In such a situation you should probably work with a commercial service like https://privacyduck.com which will do the work of erasing your digital footprints.

It's not cheap, last time I looked they charged $600/year or so and depending on your circumstances and vulnerability that might need to be budgeted as an ongoing expense. I'm sure there are other competitors int he same field but am not sufficiently informed to make comparisons.
Your sentence was "France has one of the lowest CO2 emissions per capita" (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24371196 ), and in our context I understood that you presented it at a result mostly due to the use of nuclear power, however it absolutely isn't (nuclear power only offers a tiny fraction of this achievement, at the price of many new difficult problems).
Wasn't that debunked a while ago? https://www.pnas.org/content/108/42/E833.long
Failure to Launch premiered 6 months before Idiocracy.
These things were called forums before social media was a term. It is kind of a forum around aggregated articles.
> in which case you should probably seek advice specific to your situation

This is really the key takeaway I'm getting from your comment and others so far: what is meant by doxxing and what I can do about it are very context-specific.
The terrible thing is that this happened in a chemistry lab, where people should really know better. Liquid nitrogen is dangerous in a surprisingly large number of ways: Cold burns when touched, explosions when sealed in a container. And if you're in an enclosed space with it, you've got to be careful not to let it fill the room with nitrogen gas and asphyxiate you.
Depends on the shape and size of the pcb.
I think they already confirmed at WWDC that external device booting is supported. Lots of use cases become impossible without it: reinstalling older OSes, reinstalling without internet access, bootable backups, installing a beta on an external drive, etc etc.
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The reason for the design of the Apple mouse is to provide a broad surface for swipe gestures. That is why it is low profile. It does make for more of a finger-tip grip and that may not be what feels good to you, but it is not really about aesthetics over function. The function is just not the one that you value.

I do think that the charging port location is silly.
Smaller orgs. Leaner, meaner, faster.
The TI-99/4 was Uppercase only. I think the lower case font for /4A was a rush job but I don't know that for certain.
For the hobbyist playing with the machine today there are many 10s of different fonts that have been developed and it doesn't take much to load them in BASIC, Forth, C or Assembler.
Waymo's unit economics are terrible
Now the magic trackpad 2 is so precise and delightful to use,I feel like it's an extension of my body using that thing day in day out. Also, the MX Ergo series is sitting next to my MX Master and MX Keys.
On second thought, the choice they've made isn't as sadistic as it sounds. I was thinking of the standard as a contract between the language implementor and the programmer, but actually it is a contract between the language implementor, the programmer, and arbitrarily many other programmers. The stance they have chosen mandates a social convention, that the names of the dead will never be spoken. If everyone builds their APIs with this covenant in mind, it makes it possible to use pointers as unique ids (for whatever that's worth). C has never had much in the way of widely-followed social conventions, so practically speaking, the only way to ensure everyone knows they can depend on other programmers behaving this way is for the compiler to flagellate anyone who steps out of line.
We can, but the people on this forum tend to like trying to solve problems. There's no solution to "some people are greedy" besides mass-murder or reframing the problem in ways that assume people will be greedy.
From Carbon Copy Cloner 5.1.22-b1 release notes[0]:

"This build continues our beta testing cycle for macOS 'Big Sur' 11. In the current macOS beta, CCC will create Data Volume backups of any Big Sur startup volumes. Apple's APFS replication utility is not currently capable of replicating a Big Sur System volume (as of Big Sur Beta 6). We're working with Apple to develop the functionality within macOS that will allow third-party backup applications to continue making backups of macOS System volumes. In the meantime, we're making complete backups of your data, and those backups can be seamlessly used alongside the macOS Installer or Migration Assistant to produce a bootable backup or to facilitate a restore."

[0] https://bombich.com/software/updates/ccc5_rn_beta.html
I’m getting to the age where that seems to happen often.

On the positive side, I think I have figured out a sequence of all my favorite tv series in a loop that should last me for the rest of my life.
I'm not likely to say things that will get me in hot water, and I'm not a public figure by any means. That said, I see doxxing as a tactic increasingly employed against those who participate in political activism, which, like many, I am increasingly involved in.
When I was in college I once wrote Java code while drunk late into the night. I reviewed it the next morning (afternoon, really). The good news was that the code worked exactly as expected and produced correct results. The bad news was that it was completely incomprehensible. As in my sober self could not construct a mental model of how the code worked.

Then again, I also sometimes write code in my sleep if I left a problem unsolved during the workday and then I implement that solution when I wake up. Does anyone else also do this?
I wonder what the study is. I'm currently a grad student at UChicago, and although I work in a computational psychology lab, I have a few friends at NORC, and they're masters of side loading survey questions like this. I can guess this though: the amount you're willing to get paid is most certainly not the response variable. Even though they say "this won't effect your payment" I'm guessing what they're going to do is offer you some random amount of money, and then compare your response to this data.

I'll have to keep an eye on NORC's website c. October.
If you read this thread, I am sure, you will find that you brought justice first. Neither I brought any straw men (is it some new trend on Tweeter because I have seen several people in the past couple months using "straw man" in some strange and unknown to me sense, all I know is a discussion technique of making a different argument for one's opponent and arguing it instead of the actual one. But nothing of this sort could be applicable here since I have not made any arguments, I am just asking a question).

So, to prevent any possibility of stramaning, are you now saying that anarchism is disagreement with some laws and not the rejection of the institute of government?
Are you clicking with the pointing finger? Every time I see someone do that (which is common), it looks incredibly awkward — especially a click and drag.

Fingers for pointing and gestures, thumb for clicking. Use arm or fingers rather than wrist. I usually point with my middle finger, occasionally index, scroll with my middle and ring fingers.
This is an interesting question. Given your admission that your identity is loosely linked to your online accounts, I don't think it's possible to prevent someone from doxxing you-- someone just needs to tie it all together.

I agree with sibling comments here that the only way to really prevent someone from identifying you from your online personas would be to start over. If you want to truly be anonymous, you need to build these new personas with OPSEC in mind. The process includes 5 general steps:

1. Identify information you feel is critical. In your case, this could be anything that ties your online activity to your real life identity.

2. Identify your threat. This can be simple or complex depending on your needs. Are you concerned about hiding from pissed off gamers, hacktivists, or a nation state? Knowing the enemy you face will help you better understand their potential capabilities to find out information about you and how they could use this information.

3. Assess your vulnerabilities. Look at yourself from the viewpoint of the attacker. What information would you use to dox yourself?

4. Assess your risk. This can also be pretty involved depending on your vulnerabilities and threats. What could someone do with this information? How bad could you be hurt?

5. Apply countermeasures. Figure out how you can mitigate the risk you found above. This may include closing old accounts, creating new accounts, creating alternate personas, disinformation, heading off potential impact from a dox, etc.

Hope my ramblings helped.
This problem is most apparent during a recession, when the central bank (rightly) strives to quickly increase the money supply by buying bonds (and apparently equities!).

If instead there could be a joint policy by The Fed and the Social Security Administration, then the flow of money (and thereby attention)_could be less lopsided.
What is your threat model? Whom you are hiding from and what will happen when the info leaks?

If you are the generally paranoid though, never publish photos from around your home, never make online purchases with home delivery, but choose midpoints like post stations to collect them.

Assume that if you type your info somewhere, it would be sold and will pop up somewhere. Currently my name, home address, and phone are published in a american data broker website. If I want them removed, I need to send them an id with even more personal data and even then they insist that it will be hidden from public view, not deleted. I need a lawyer if I want the situation delt with properly.