skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's just a disparaging term for people who think that good software comes only from a full IDE. To be fair though, MS Word is a lot more than a text editor, e.g. you don't save its documents as text documents but as bundles of style/layout/text/fonts.
This truly bothers me that people bring their religious/casteist/nationalist/etc. baggage with them when they immigrate. I thought immigrants hope to start anew in a promising developed country precisely because of these issues back in their home countries. Why not leave everything behind and try to adhere to the liberal values that attracted us here in the first place?
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Multiple open source C++ language server for VS Code already exist.
> Would you like to get operated on by a surgeon that lacks the skill necessary to perform his job but tries damn hard? [...] Would you want to ride the bus where the driver has been practicing all his life but can't quite drive well enough to meet a reasonable standard based on skill?

Breaking news, this is already happening. Actually, pure performance-based judgement drives incapable people to hide their inability to perform the task at hand leading to bad results (instead of facing the reality in a safe environment that would help them get better at what they do).

> Why should anyone respect a workplace that is effectively a daycare for try-hards? How can such a workplace result in a good product or service?

This sentence assumes the majority of workers are incapable try-hards which is plain false. A few less-skilled try-hards aren't going to ruin any service. Again, this is already the case in the world we live in.

> Frankly, the whole premise that old people need to be "allowed to compete fairly" by arbitrarily judging workers on some other merit than the quality of their work strikes me as incredibly patronizing.

I clearly stated two layers of judgement. A baseline for effort and a second layer for career progression based on lerformance, both age-agnostic. Never proposed a system discriminating against age. Get over it please.

> consider socialized efforts that can maintain a sense of security for people that for one reason or another can't perform the work available to them to a reasonable standard. Pensions, unemployment insurance, disability insurance...that kind of thing.

Ok so I proposed a system that would ensure someone has a job as long as they are not a lazy-a$$ (but probably wouldn't be able to climb up the career ladder if they don't have the skills), always age-agnostic, but that is somehow not a socialized effort to provide security? Ok.
This seems like a natural solution to me, since it's not all that different from merit-based scholarships. At my school for example, the full tuition price was ~$40k, but a portion of admitted students were offered a $10k merit scholarship.

So we already had two categories of students, with somewhat different prices and somewhat different admission standards. I don't see a problem with adding adding more categories along the same lines, as long as some minimum academic standard is enforced.

If I'm in the middle category, I'm happy with my peers who pay more than me because they subsidize the other categories, and I'm happy with my peers who pay less because they elevate the school's reputation.
I find this post along with the comments in "A Picture of Java in 2020" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24551390 to be incongruous with my experience as a professional developer.

My first couple of years writing software I used Vim, then VSCode, then worked in a Java shop and was forced to use IntelliJ. I didn't like it at first, but now after a couple of years I cannot see how I lived without it.

The idea that VSCode is the future doesn't seem right to me. JetBrains products allow you to do so much out of the box, without installing a million plugins that may or may not work. In IntelliJ I can write a half baked statement like `new Foo()`, and then Alt + Enter my way to it being `foo = new Foo();` as a private member variable of the class in no time. If you take time to set up configuration it becomes even more powerful. Even these basics are more difficult in VSCode.

To me the future is IntelliJ for Java and all other languages should seek to have such a nicely integrated experience with an IDE.

I am not even sure I could write Java from scratch in Vim - its really that I'm using IntelliJ, not writing Java. Is this bad? In some pure sense, sure, you are further from the language. But I don't care because I can write and edit code some multiple faster than if I was in VSCode.
Surely Africa… half joking, half serious.
> I use this setup primarily to have at least some sort of a barrier between my system and the gigabytes of NPM packages that get downloaded as dependencies.

You can do something similar with IntelliJ by running npm inside a Docker container with your working directory mounted into it. IntelliJ will happily index the resulting node_modules folder without executing any code on the host.
We've literally heard all of this before, in 2016. "It's not rigged, you're just losing", "Hillary has a 97% chance of winning", "blue wave". Rings a bell? Moreover, we will see the same thing happen after the election: the left will refuse to accept its results, and will spend the next 4 years spinning up a bullshit hoax after a bullshit hoax, and destroying the Republic.
It's not like you have to give up Vim anyway considering the good-enough VSVim plugin gives you most of the Vim basics. Personally I have found JetBrains' Vim plugin to be the best.
> I think something that's become clear with propaganda is that it scales extremely well.

If this is indeed a problem, it's not a problem that's fixable by controlling the supply of propaganda (which for this discussion I am assuming to mean something like "false information that nevertheless convinces a lot of people of its truth"). It's only fixable by controlling the demand for propaganda--in other words, by reducing the number of people who can be convinced by it.

To look at it another way: trying to control the supply of propaganda means some authority has to have the power to judge that certain statements are propaganda and suppress them. How does that authority decide what is propaganda and what isn't? All you've done is transfer the propaganda problem to that authority, and that might make it, if anything, even harder to solve. Propaganda spread by Facebook posts and tweets is one thing. Propaganda spread by a recognized authority, especially under the guise of controlling propaganda spread by someone else, is quite another.

The only way out of this trap is for people to stop being convinced by anything that they cannot convince themselves of using their intelligence, common sense, and critical thinking skills.
ALE also supports CLI linters and formatters, LSP support only came later and is entirely optional.
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>In the ST era, the control of that motor was directly under the control of the operating system.

No, it was under control of a stepper motor driver circuit located directly on a Floppy drive pcb. This driver in turn received instructions from a dedicated Floppy drive controller (WD1771 and compatibles).

> For an 80 track disk, the movement required to step between tracks was a certain known amount.

"certain known amount" being one step per track

>If you formatted the disk with the tracks spaced closer together, by altering the stepper movement during that process, you would 'magically' get more space.

Above is incorrect.

Its impossible to move HEAD stepper motor between tracks. Floppy drive has a STEP (/STEP) and DIRECTION (/DIR) pins. All you are able to do is pick direction and step one track at a time. Step distance is Fixed. The whole point of using a stepper motor is you dont have to worry about head tracking/alignment.

The only personal computer Floppy drives with flexible head positioning all used voice coil head actuator - Floptical, LS-120/240, Zip drives etc.

https://twtext.com/article/1263702402886057984
Cliff is a funny guy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Stoll
This seems like a debate over semantics to me. Silence doesn't mean violence, but silence can enable violence or be worse than violence if the consequence of staying silent are worse than those of violence:
http://www.openculture.com/2016/03/edmund-burkeon-in-action....
It seems like a different scenario with a religious school vs. a public, state-sponsored school. Even with other, secular private schools, I feel the issue is different.
But there are JetBrains IDEs for those too — CLion, Rider and AppCode respectively. No IDEA how well they work though.
Probably, yes. African emissions are about to rise massively then.
>who runs DOS on metal these days

freedos developers?

people updating HP bios from bootable media

people using intels ssd firmware update tool
I find the notion that discrimination based on profession is somehow acceptable extremely strange.
I often wondered why someone didn't do it with BerkleyDb too? I know Oracle owns it, but it is open source and someone like Mozilla could have implemented it in their browser just to get the W3C rolling on WebSQL.
So cool to see such a hardcore engineering presentation in a shareholder meeting.
> I'll never understand why a professional developer would give so much influence over their work to the likes of MS, JetBrains, etc.

To flip it, I'll never understand why a professional developer won't spend a measly hundred bucks on an IDE that has everything set up out of the box.

Also, VSCode and IDEA are both open source.
The vast majority of high schools where I'm from don't have public pools. Pools have also been less available historically to Blacks.

After segregation ended, many jurisdictions defunded public pools rather than fund desegregated pools. Instead, wealthier whites used private ones. For a brief history:

https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-expert-troubled-history-bla...
This is "the right mix".
Yep - the sentence "X subsystem for Y" reads to me like you're adding an X thing to your Y - i.e. you're adding some Windows thing to your Linux, but what Microsoft means by it is the other way around.
Maybe you should do these things before you realize that someone is trying to hack you?
There's a happy middle ground that far too projects choose: building a modularized system, but distributing core, currated plugins with the system.

Effectively, I don't care if I receive a batteries-included product where the batteries are pre-installed and on-demand loaded, vs one where they're permanently installed.
Argentina has had a few rough decades.

Maybe archeology in this very remote corner hasn't been a big priority for anyone.
You're affirming the consequent. If college were a merely academic pursuit, and if standardized testing were a perfect proxy for academic achievement, then yes, we could collapse testing into academic merit, and academic merit into merit, and voila! Meritocracy.

But college is not merely an academic pursuit. I would argue it isn't even centrally an academic pursuit. Instead, it is a gatekeeper to the higher echelons of society. The -cracy refers to ruling, let us keep in mind.

You propose rule by those who are best at standardized testing, and wish to pass that off as some sort of merit. Basta.

I reject any sort of one-size-fits-all criterion for admission. If a college wishes to be testocratic, as CalTech is, so be it. If they wish to strongly favor black people, as the historically black colleges do, fine. This sort of localism is more robust and flexible, and I think this leads to better outcomes.
There have been well more than 205 failed startups in the last 10 years and so many more since G started. Google kill count is high but startup failure is much much higher
While a retail price of Rs 40 (50 cents) is possible it is not the norm and is considered expensive even in a big city like bangalore.

The price flucatates and does drop below Rs 10 and even Rs 5 . Here the coconut board link [1] for wholesale prices.

I have personally traded with farms at Rs 5-6 range 3 years back in 2016.

[1] https://coconutboard.in/priceweb/Reports.aspx

Today I can see vendors quoting 10 per on some mundis.
I'd like to hear more about how you use Emacs as a "super-shell". Do you avoid shell scripts entirely in favor of Emacs Lisp? You mentioned network connections - do you actually do scripting with Elisp's networking primitives?

I've long felt that this was an obvious and good use of Emacs - as a central coordination point for the entirety of one's computational life, with everything manipulated programmatically from a single programming environment with both rich UI capabilities and a full-fledged programming language. No other project seems to understand the value of such a central point... but still, there are many ways Elisp could improve to make this kind of usage easier.
Who said anything about charity? Why would you think I am charitable in this situation?
out of curiosity what language do you write primarily?
At least one reason: universities are overwhelmingly funded by public money. Perhaps (/perhaps/) private institutions should be allowed to explicitly advantage wealthy applicants, but forcing all of us fund institutions that advantage the wealthy is perverse.

Note, even "private" universities (eg not the UC school discussed here) receive tremendous amounts of public money, as well as tax-exempt status. See, for e.x. [1]: the Ivy league received >$40B in public money and benefits from 2010-2015.

IIRC, research at MIT is >66% funded by federal grants.

[1] https://www.openthebooks.com/ivy_league_inc/
Ride or die Jetbrains fan here, completely agree with these points.
they are human, not a robot you can reset to factory settings. it's only human that people have values that they uphold as the truth and that is hard to change. the place where you immigrate to is not necessarily superior. Immgrants could bring in values that improve their new home country.
I have to assume the answer to that question is marketing. They really want to hammer into you that you're running Linux on Windows.
College admissions isn't the finish line of "who is best". It's a starting point for developing potential, and thereafter college still isn't a competition to see who is best.
Yeah the decline of the republic is because of jews. YAWN.
So meta :P
The merit(score) of a student is dependent on factors other than the student's aptitude such as the financial status of the family, guidance received at young age etc.

The students from lower-caste communities usually are also from low-income families and lack proper guidance (partly because the parents are not educated) compared to students from upper-class communities.

The reservation in academia is relevant to uplift people who are from disadvantaged communities. The society as a whole whould benefit from it.

IMO, there are valid criticism of implementation details of reservation for lower-caste in India, such as:

* should a person who belongs to lower-caste get eligibility for reserved quota if that person's parents also benefited from reserved quota?

* should caste based reservation be allowed in instances that require highly specialized skills? As opposed to equal treatment based on only merit. (Example: admissions to MD, Govt. jobs that requires highly specialized skills)

You can criticise implementation details of the reservation-system used as a tool by the Government to correct historical imbalance in society but not the idea as a whole because the system in place is showing positive results. We have made a lot progress in last few decades but still a long way to go in good direction. This is my opinion as an Indian techie from an upper-caste family.

Edit: typos / grammar
That is actually not far from how the kernel of the Win9x series (and also Win3.x on a 386) is structured --- a "hypervisor"-like kernel runs DOS and Win32 applications in "virtual machines" using the V86 mode of the processor. In Win386/9x, that kernel is known as VMM32. In this case, it's the Linux kernel. It's very interesting to see these "chimeric" OSs appear.
> For professional accounting purposes, uncashed outgoing checks are liabilities

Even accounts payable that haven't had checks written against them yet are liabilities. Which makes your advice that you need to tell them if you want them to keep the money even more important.
Your link (0) doesn't rebut the seroprevalence studies at all. It is talking about T-cells, which is not what the CDC seroprevalence studies are measuring. The CDC is testing for SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies in blood. And look, if the CDC's seroprevalence studies can't convince you, then I'm not going to. They have data on the specificity and sensitivity of their antibody tests, which gives high confidence ranges for the data. They talk about their methods in detail [1]. And these tests are not about calculating herd immunity, not about calculating who might have prior immunity from a related disease, not about saying who can or cannot get COVID again. They are merely tests for very specific antibodies that are formed in a high percentage of people who had COVID. Thus they should be very accurate at determining how many people have had COVID if the proper statistical care is taken in interpreting the results (which it is!).

With ~7M confirmed cases in the US, and your estimate of 10M cases, that would be a multiplier of less than 1.5x from confirmed cases to estimated cases. That is well below any of the seroprevalence estimates, and remember many of these cases happened months ago when there was almost no testing. The positive test percentage in NY was at or above 20% until May! It was over 40% for the first half of April! Also the current positive test rate in the US is ~5%. There still is a lack of testing in many places.

Also using the death rate alone in trying to figure out the number of cases is highly prone to error, since the virus has death rates that can vary by over 10,000x based on age (85+ vs <18) [2]. And this is especially true if many of the people who don't die, also don't even get seriously ill and thus don't get tested. Combining seroprevalence studies, hospitalizations and deaths by age group is a much more accurate method, and there is no way you could reasonably look at the data points and come up with 10M total estimated cases.

1: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6932a4.htm

2: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investi...
I don't know, journalism seems to have had the same problems plaguing it 200 years ago that it has today, at least according to Jefferson:

https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendI_sp...
So all of what is happening in China with regards to Tibet and Uighers is part of a disinformation campaign, piecing together the totality of the sources you provided?
> Another reason to prefer other editors is they tend to stay out of your way.

What does this even mean?

> VS Code tries really hard to make you not even leave the window.

Isn't this exactly what vi and emacs proponents cite as a benefit?
Why not just let students sell their slots? Sell at any time, but any earned credits are forfeited and they can't be re-accepted to the institution for some number of years.
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Yeah and they turned down some fat salaries to go work at OpenAI instead. They were some of the biggest names in the game when they turned down those Google offers.
Hey mate. Sorry for the missunderstanding. When I said effort I meant just ensuring we're not dealing with a lazy person who slacks having the safety of a job. By no means do I want people competing by putting in more hours.

I have learned that putting in more hours does not result in the benefits one would hope for very early on.

Thanks for your comment though, it made me understand why everyone is super freaking pissed about my comment. Have I understood that earlier I would have edited it to avoid all this mess
there's a great but not well known editor for windows called EmEditor that has a strong emphasis on performance and large file support. afaik the author has a background in low level performance optimization from Intel. if you work with large csv and/or json files you want this editor - it's amazing!
There are certainly some rich slacker/less talented people at prestigious schools, though I agree with the main thrust of your argument.
Java pretty much requires an IDE because it's verbose, bloated, everything is inconvenient without IDE assistance and it's easy to create bugs.

Something as simple as opening a file of code requires IDE, because everything is hidden behind `./src/main/java/com/whatever` nonsense. The language was designed for IDE.

In Rust there is hardly any need for IDE (or a debugger), as long as your text editor has LSP support. Hell, even without LSP support it feels quite OK to write Rust code.

I use Intellij for Java, and Kakoune for Rust, and I really dislike working with Java. The fancy refactoring features don't make up for how verbose, clunky and inexpressive Java is.

The Rust way is to have great modular and reusable tooling for everything. Even stuff like complex refactoring can be achieved without an IDE with something like https://github.com/google/rerast
It's not that hard to learn a new editor and learning new software is something I enjoy. Even if Microsoft does ruin VSCode, who cares? Vim and Emacs will always be there waiting.

In the meantime, I'm loving PyCharm for Python, Visual Studio for C++, Sublime Text and Obsidian for Markdown, VSCode for Javascript, etc... Different tools for different jobs.
Huh? I said today there are better jobs abroad what has that do with poverty ? . It doesn't matter how rich or poor the farmer is. If coconuts sell at some price and he has to compete with middle eastern job market he won't pay if he cant get returns on his efforts.
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I think it's hard to judge with movie stars though because they are really not representative of the general population. There are particular selection pressures deciding who gets screen time, and the standards of today are not the standards of 40 years ago.
As a SDE (IC, not management) that has been involved in hiring "yes/no" questions, I've found that everything else (and how well they interview, and code samples) is still much more determinant.

- If they have the certs and they look decent on code samples or architectural questions, it's probably fine, but the certs have little to no impact on this

- If they only have the certs but no personal projects, no contributions to open source, absolutely no code samples, the certs are probably just for show and pointless

I've seen numerous cases where people have every single edX/Triplebyte/whatever cert in existence but are orders of magnitude worse than a first year CS student.

NB: HR usually forces basic screening of anything before I see it; including basic recruiter given online coding tests/basic algorithm stuff.

I personally hate whiteboarding, and I hate whiteboarding others. I usually do deep what-if questions, akin to asking for things like explanations of tree shaking or promises vs async/await for frontend devs, or figuring out if they know how to actually use devtools for anything like profiling, memory usage, service workers, etc. I've found that this usually results in better selection (and more tolerable teammates) compared to whiteboarding where you can kind of just rote-memorisation the test while having absolutely no idea how to do anything.

As a frontend example, someone that has done performance profiling and analysis, heap snapshotting/sampling and the ability to read them (yes, those tabs in devtools that for some reason almost no one uses) has a significantly higher chance of being knowledgeable, IMO.
IntelliJ Ultimate with the plugins does this but it's not quite as smooth as the individual IDEs.