skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds about right. Approx 50 million deaths per year in that frame. 50 years....2.5 billion deaths. So 2.5+1.5 births and 1.5 deaths a second. If you round up deaths to whole numbers, 3 deaths per 2 seconds, maybe that's the error, adding the 3 deaths per 2 seconds to 2.5 deaths per 1 second. Or 8 births and 3 deaths every 2 seconds. Or 1 death every 700ms.
> The web was not open in those days

(Genuine) question: is the web open now?
Underrated comment. Reply anticipation: this is not reddit. Preemptive response, I know, doesn't change the fact that this comment is underrated :);p xx

Only thing I want to add: not yet, maybe with CRISPR and artificial wombs there could be some way.
Some thoughts:

* Inflation of people with college degrees. From 5% in 1940 to 35% in 2019. This dilutes the quality of both the student pool and of the professorial pool.

* Distance from the last major war, all the way back in 1945. Educate like your life depends on it has long faded from memory. In medicine, in engineering, in hard sciences.

* The mismatch between skills taught in academia and job market skills. By now everyone is jaded at the notion that the main point of education is the diploma, seen as a key to unlock the job market. Of second importance, networking, get into an Ivy to rub elbows with the right crowd. Knowledge and critical thinking come as a distant last.

* Or perhaps, even simpler, the dilution of the male spirit which sees competitiveness in excellence as an inherent moral good. Our forebears wore educational attainment as a peacock plumage. These days peacocks are outright vilified.
I prefer the phrasing "the more you learn, the less you know".
Terraria speedruns have a NMA category (no major abuses) that have a set of rules defined by the community, if more games start to make 100% possible with glitches I can imagine these games adopting something similar.
Interesting that the title use to contain this info, but was changed:

"A LinkedIn profile for Gelinas says he works as an information security analyst at Citigroup."
It is not just for the size argument. The array becomes an abstract data type whose bounds are consulted when the array is indexed. That's the key.

Yes, it's not a lot of effort to manually add a size_t argument. But it is far too tedious and error-prone to expect a programmer to add all the bounds checks. Being able to effortlessly tell the compiler "please check for me" is the huge win.

The second huge win is that the array is type-checked. So if you pass it to another function, the compiler enforces that it must again be passed with the size included. You don't get that by manually adding a size argument.
Good point and great way to think about it. It would be weird if the number of seconds grew quadratically. I guess considering "particle interactions" and "light cone" the number of interactions among particles (and interactions among interactions) grows quadratically over time. I wonder how the universe doesn't end up with a backlog of information it hasn't yet processed. Maybe that's gravity/dark matter. :p ;) xx hehe
I don't know what are data sources to look for real estate demand other than real estate transactions. Anyways, that's not the broader point I am making. The broader point I am making is that it was a thriving City with or without tech and continue to be one. The Golden Gate bridge, GG park, the ocean, the bay, the museums, the charming hills, and train cars is not going to vanish when all tech workers leave. I fell in love with SF even before I started working in SF.
Given the Saudi connection, this turn of phrase is... alarming.
Singapore Airlines plans 'no-destination' flights to satisfy flyers' itch
This approach is really common in academic libraries, but there candidates typically only get one topic so they can be more easily compared with each other.
> There used to be a script that would turn the telementary data off in Windows 10. I forgot the link to it and didn't save it.

O&O Shutup10
https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
Nope that's now how it works. It does show a prompt. Also, not sure how "going to settings" is "not declarative"...? :) ;p xx
You're just looking it different stages in the lifecycle of platform monopoly.
You can't expect a private sector media organization to "do the right thing." It's the old hoping for behavior B while rewarding behavior A. The only way to get a media organization that serves the public is to fund it with public money and make it an independent institution just like the judiciary and the central bank (and sometimes the statistics organization).
This is actually a good question as it addresses the common misconception that the purpose of the kite was just to hold the propeller blades high up in the sky. In fact, having the kite fly like an airplane is a crucial part of the principle of operation. The documenary film (https://makanifilm.com/) might help make this clear.

There are airborne wind turbine concepts that use an aerostat (blimp/balloon). However, these suffer from at least two effects: (1) the largest practical turbine aperture is quite limited, and (2) the drag of the turbine will push the whole balloon/turbine contraption downwind and downward.
Yeah there's a lot more fights NVidia has had.

They spent a lot of time and money first building motherboard chipsets[1] with on-board GPUs for AMD CPUs only to have CMD buy ATI.

Then they started a program to build their own x86 CPU[2] which Intel sued them over[3]. There was a counter suite, and the EU settlement around the same time and Intel ended up paying NVidia $1.5B3[3] which was often read a win for NVidia. Of course in retrospect it gave Intel another 10 years of CPU domination.

So then NVidia announced they were building a desktop ARM processor[5]. That went pretty much nowhere. So then there was their mobile play (the Tegra)[6]. That was supposed to let them dominate mobile phones, and went just about as well as their launch partner phone (the Microsoft Kin). It has found use in robotics (the NVidia Jetson series) and cars (the Telsa model 3) though.

So they've lost a bunch of fights, and outside GPUs it really has been cut throat.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/828

[2] https://www.tweaktown.com/news/11570/nvidia_announces_x86_cp...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-intel-nvidia/intel-pays-n...

[4] https://www.anandtech.com/show/4122/intel-settles-with-nvidi...

[5] https://www.engadget.com/2011-01-05-nvidia-announces-project...
arm-cpu-for-the-desktop.html

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegra
I mean if Apple buys Arm, Apple will shut down Arm. No A80, no N3, no X3, etc.
That's like saying that you make a copy of a book when you read it, because the words are in your memory. Or at least that memorizing passages of text is copyright infringement.
I investigated this in Florida. I checked Florida Tech, Embry-Riddle, and a half dozen state universities. One was Java, two or three were C++ (really C with cout and maybe vector), and all the rest were plain C.

That is a mighty good showing for C.
Apparently, owning a car is the easiest way to commit social suicide in Vauban — That is the spirit unfortunately.

Unfortunately, because once you allow to degrade strangers/neighbors in public for something malign like that, it doesn’t stop there.

Because of this Vauban is not always admired, rather sometimes regarded as tax payer funded dystopia for upper class people to live in.

E.g. your amount of thrash you can dispose per month is highly regulated, via communal key-card opened dumpsters. Once you’ve reached your threshold, the dumpsters stay closed. If you ever where to forget, say, your toddlers diapers you have two options:

Enjoy the smell for the remaining time period or brace for the walk of shame of asking your neighbors to forgive your sin, alleviate your family from the smell and selflessly take in your diapers. Rest assured that this selflessness will at least come with an inquiry of why you aren‘t using reusable diapers in the first place.

Alas, people who are annoyed by this leave, with the share of those who think such behavior is ok ever increases.
> Well that’s the theory; nobody has actually been able to reproduce Silicon Valley

Shenzhen and Israel have been pretty successful.
How did you twist my aside that it wasn't important all things considered into me castigating Europeans? I was pointing out how trivial cultural appropriation is as a problem while acknowledging its existence.
To make someone worse off, they need to perceive it as such (not absolutely, but mostly yeah). If I helped them get ahead, they don't think I made them worse off, it's an exchange - and I exchanged value that I created, I didn't need to make someone worse off.
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I met these guys a long time ago in Boston. It's literally a company based on a physical device that shocks you to make you more productive. It's a fucking joke
Can't speak for the GP but IME, absolutely. It's much easier to dig in deeper with (much) clearer signal about somebody when they are talking/working with their own code/project. Less distractions/confounding factors/proxies, more direct inquiry and you can go as deep and broad as you want to map the edges/gaps of not only what they know but what they care about/prioritize and why. The proof is in the code.
Maybe those were older people? Threads came about in 96 and became default in the linux kernel in 2.6 (released in 2003).

Sharing memory between processes was a mess before that. Java green threads (emulating threads in user space, which often blocked badly on IO) were horrifying.

Python threading implementations were even worse of a joke till fairly recently.
I'd love to see your list of problems with the language, if you can share sometime.
I made the move several years ago when the comparison wasn't close. I haven't had a sim card in years, which is also nice.
I was surprised it was that long, I can talk about a project for much longer than an hour but the average interviewer won't give a shit past 15-30 minutes.
A great example is AJAX was an ie6 only extension.
The Problem with Perfection
Sorry I misread your post, thanks for the clarification.
Yes. As I've long said, C does not have arrays. It has pointers and notations for initializing memory, but it does not have arrays.

There are actually two problems here. One is the absence of bounds checking. The other, which is related but technically orthogonal, is the hole in the type system: an array is not an object. It's been true since Unix v7 that you can pass or return a struct by value, but you can't pass an array by value unless you wrap it in a struct.

The type system also makes no distinction between a pointer to a single object and a pointer into an array of objects. I've worked on static analysis tools that try to find potential buffer overflows, and this turns out to be a surprisingly big problem. One has to do a global dataflow analysis just to discover which pointer variables could ever point at array elements.
It's impressive as a character study of 'PGP Fan', it's not much of a technical rebuttal of critiques of PGP.
Ahh yes because you think Eric Schmidt, you definitely think "now this is what the future should look like".
Seconded. The "new releases of authors I've read books from" is one of the things that would give me the most value -- if it actually worked properly, which for me it doesn't, since it only seems to show _some_ random new books from _some_ of "my" authors. Sigh.
Yes. And even for those few that are not, the representatives they voted for are, whether they won or lost, so it's all moot anyway (either the representative is correct, or the representative is playing their opponent's game, so it doesn't really matter who won).

In general, people don't trust elections because they don't trust their representatives to actually represent their interests, or they don't trust the rest of the political system to actually allow any meaningful change. These are very valid and correct criticisms, confirmed by many sociological studies (in the US at least, the opinions of the bottom 50% of the electorate by wealth have almost no influence on their representatives' agendas).

Voter suppression and vote buying/bullying are much more common, but those have little to do with the voting system (though India has an interesting and complex voting system designed to combat a history of systematic retaliation against entire groups of voters, such as de-funding entire regions that had voted the with the losing party).

But actual voter fraud is rare in most democracies. It's extremely common in authoritarian regimes that are mascarading as democracies, but an online system would make those cases especially trivial.
Was there a particular reason?
Paradigm shift can also happen incrementally. Not every revolution is sudden.
Cause Schmidt’s new venture is to ask the government for money, and his sales pitch is “US is falling behind China in R&D, you need to spend more money.”
Not every unemployed person could operate a buldozer. What would you have them do, lay bricks? Train them to use heavy machinery after working in hospitality services?

Germany does this with some amount of succes but I don't know how they do it. German socialism seems to work at the expense of a zero point growth figure. They still pay the solidarity tax for East Germany.
The US has a very capitalistic economy, maybe too much even.

In general, in the US, whenever you hear "there's not enough people to do X" it means "there's not enough people willing to do X for what I want to pay"

The truth is, in the US there's a ton of different well-paying careers. CS isn't like medical in US with artificial limits on the number of doctors that graduate every year. The only thing stopping more people from doing CS is money. If they offer enough money they will have a practically unlimited talent pool.

Tech CEO's are always whining about lack of tech workers so they can abuse H1B visas to get employees below market rates. Since they're basically indentured servants to their employers for years to decades until they can get a green card.

The lack of government money in CS research I think everyone in the tech field agrees with
Couldn't figure out how to do the right paren when trying to follow the first example. Selecting the left paren just adds another left. I only see a left paren on the keypad and not a right.
It requires zero malice and zero plans to dominate the market to add ActiveX to IE. I have 1000s of plugins (which MS and partners did via OLE/COM etc...) and a new tech becomes popular (browsers) then it would be obvious to pretty much any engineer that I'd want to find a way make it possible to use those plugins in a browser.

There's no need to make up some story about them doing it to force people to be Windows only.

The same stuff applies all over. Why did Apple use Objective C as the core way to interact with MacOS X? To the person that distrusts Apple they'll claim it is solely to lock in developers. Some developer makes an app in Objective C, it's too much work to port. I'm pretty sure though the charitable view is it was inherited from NextStep. The person that distrusts Apple will still claim it was a choice that Apple could have chose something more compatible but stuck with it because it had lock-in benefits.
Ask HN: How do you store your family pictures, what services do you use
Or, to paraphrase, you let a protest that occurred 45 years ago interfere with you learning about urban planning.
JPM can sell equity swaps and just hold all the shares themself.
It works in reverse too, but with failure.
> There as elsewhere foreigners are held to higher standards.

I've found the reverse in Korea: the tyranny of low expectations. Often Koreans simply refuse to speak to me in any way, saying even a single word beyond, "I don't speak English".
> But it does have some way to determine a list of legal moves from any given state

No it doesn't. That's the Zero part.
The only context Adam Smith brings up markets is free labor able to consider and move between opportunities, to avoid extreme division oof labor which would make men incredibly stupid. We didn’t cling to it.

We don’t need to rely on grandads view of a monopoly to decide where one exists today. Indeed, assuming we should or most is vanity to assume one moment in time captures the needs of all future moments.

These companies are distorting human agency for their gain, and really they have no economic or information advantage except the one their capital gives them, which is an entirely social behavior.

I get sick of the “it’s immoral” to take from the extremely rich whole ignoring the problems then foisted on the extremely poor.

It’s all just people, and no one person is every that important. There is no hidden mystery to daily social life they know the secret to anymore. So much of that is just ignorant monkeys limbic systems repeating their coding.

You can’t know living outside of this legal model is better while advocating to constant caution.

There is no perfect social vacuum. No perfect freedom. Romantic western attitudes about lack the extreme proof needed that they’re onto something so novel we must continue to heap such rewards on them.

Technologists aren’t gods or kings, and our era isn’t the ultimate result of humanity. Figurative death of companies and contemporary ideals isn’t the end of reality.

I don’t see this as personal score settling at all; I see it as an opportunity to remind a minority they don’t control the world and can’t take agency away from the masses without repercussions.

How long does humanity go on playing the same old biological loop of deference to power crazed elites who would end the species rather than figuratively die a bit?

You know, don’t bother. Your concern for destruction of vague tent pole ideas like a company, not things like destruction of individual humanity in deference to non-godly normies applying stats to other productivity and value says enough.

This society is grotesque.
At many large companies, you need to have permission to post about the company. When the number of employees gets into the tens of thousands, odds get very good someone will say something that reflects badly on the company.

Generally, it's not that you can't post, you just can't post an an employee.

The companies generally don't want something like:

"I am a Goodreads employee."

"we know it is bad today."
On the first point, Google learned from Microsoft that they should make the standards instead of extending them. Extensions just lead to court dates.

On the second point, a couple of decades ago, "open sores" were things you didn't talk about in polite company. Microsoft offered the dominant platforms on the insignificant web and also the incredibly important office apps and the only OS most people used. And this was before mobile was part of most people's lives. Today's FAANG was then's Microsoft.
Well, as long as the option of disabling panic handling exists, and if it is somewhat widely used in real applications, library writers can't rely on panics as an error-handling mechanism, so generally they have to treat it as if panics can abort the program.

I think the problem of deciding what to do on the unhappy path is often very difficult, a lot of the time much harder than the actual happy path. This is true regardless of the error reporting/bubbling mechanism.
Preface, I recognize this had it's place. Just sharing my view.

As someone who has spent years participating in online worlds and communities in the form of videogames, you would think I would be stoked by stuff like this. But it is pretty scary to me. It is one thing to participate in an online community for fun. To think my contributions to "real" life is to be represented digitally is terrifying.

The day we put on VR headsets to have a virtual meeting will be the day I move to an esoteric cabin in the woods and live off of spiders and disappointment that the world fell apart.

The trouble is that I know it is fun, and I know it can work well. I believe in the technology. But it is only satisfying because I have a real life to work on too. Working on software is already an ephemeral experience, this would be my life jumping the shark.
Lua does not use semver. Every minor version is a breaking change like changing the way function environments work, adding integers and integer division, or adding <const> and <close>
What on earth is that good for? Seems like an extreme niche.
It's not just the US but yes the lack of trust is a major component. Everyone seems to have a horror story of how someone made it through and sucked and caused problems. It's bizarre how traumatic that is allowed to become because people don't get rid of those bad apples quickly. And it's funny how people over-index on this in the engineering realm when it's a much larger problem in management.

But there's also a bunch of other dynamics going on. 'Geek machismo' is a very non-trivial one. Other's are akin to hazing. One friend of mine described one value of very high bar hiring is that people in the bubble can (go back to) assume that the colleague is smart, etc. rather than assuming people are stupid/incompetent until proven otherwise--and that can be a good thing from the culture/sociology standpoint.
As byzantine as it is, it's more comfortable and familiar than adopting a new unknown system.
I don't doubt that the Google people were very accomplished, but it still seems logical for them to find out something about where my skills and strengths lie. I didn't want to be grilled at lunch. Normal practice in my experience is to make lunch a pleasant experience for all involved at the same time providing an opportunity for both sides to check for cultural fit etc. etc. A win win basically.
By number of new projects using it (without counting legacy code)

Nobody would do a project in C today with Go/Rust/C++ etc unless it's for a very specific situation
This anti intellectual push is seen in India as well. The ruling party has worked over time to blame experts and mocking intellectuals on everything

The reason is very simple, ruling party gets vores by fooling people. They announce the same monetary package year after year without actually giving the package and their media i.e. entire right wing funded media starts praising the package and hailing our supreme leader.
Probably JPMorgan actually owns shares in a fund. You buy notes that have the appropriate fractional value of the fund. Presumably they will exchange notes for shares post IPO.
Thank you for saying this. It seems like not many PL enthusiasts get this.
First of all, thank you for the reference to Lysenkoism:

"as any deliberate distortion of scientific facts or theories for purposes that are deemed politically, religiously or socially desirable".

But I fail to see the connection with Dyson here.

Having an open discussion about taboo subjects is at the core of progress.

Conflating science with morality is adding another barrier to having those kinds of discussions.

I am aware of Brandolini's Law:

“The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.”

But if the criticism is done in good faith, with the tools of science, I think it's worth the debunking exercise.

Data is just data.
It can be collected with a lot of bias in place and can be interpreted with the same biases.
We are only humans after all.

When you say thinks like:

1. "it's just a dude not even bothering to learn research before dismissing it all as wrong"
2. "he stupidly used his social power to undermine the science"

I feel you are some priest that dismisses the sinner, by pointing out the vices of carelessness and stupidness, in the name of the sanctimony of science.
Thank you Sergio. Hope you enjoyed the recent roadtrip to the oceans. The trail looked beautiful <3