skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ambivalent about online privacy. One one hand, I use ublock origin and privacy badger but on the other hand, last year facebook suggested I join a group for progressive asian christians. (I am not asian or religious) and although I've had an Amazon account for years, their recommendations to me are still terrible (I have turned off adblocking on facebook and amazon because I've ran into issues using them with it enables so I just gave in). So all the data they have on me doesn't seem to have done them much good.
Don't eat fish or things that eat fish is a likely candidate.
Yeah, I would argue that essential work is usually similar to law (you just encode the rules to meet some objective). There's lot's of added complexity though in practice (due to distributed nature of systems, limited resources or just compatibility)
Just change the hypothetical into: "Would you give me your home address and keys so I can drop off a newspaper on your coffee table each morning?" Yes, it's a bit long, but it takes into account your concern of giving data and not receiving anything in return. And Facebook/Insta/Social media in general is very similar to having a newspaper available at your coffee table each day.
A very nice collection! (...and growing...)
I wouldn't say he was wrong. It did mostly correct itself. Today there's very little of the wage gap that you could possibly attribute to sexism. That's not to say it's zero and sexism is no more - but it's the smaller part of the problem now.

The wage gap is mostly a motherhood gap. For those women who choose to become mothers, suddenly there are more important things in life than the company's priorities. They start falling behind women who didn't have children, and men who carry less of the work of the household. This is surprisingly not common knowledge by now even though it's well supported by data and well discussed by feminists, including Hillary Clinton. Speaking about populations in general and not individuals - women with children on average earn less because work isn't the highest priority in their lives. I think they're the smart ones.

The other major component of the wage gap is that women on average aren't as well represented in higher paying fields like STEM fields, or work that's physically dangerous and undesirable - but pays well. With that latter segment of jobs, again one could argue women are being smarter about it. This is true even in the most enlightened countries like the Scandinavian countries - in fact it's more true there. I think the only way to address that is to get it into the heads of young girls who're still in school that those STEM jobs can be women's jobs. How to accomplish that is still a mystery.
"You might have just convinced me to buy a bread machine..."

It also makes excellent pizza dough ...

"My wife is Asian and rice is a part of pretty much every meal."

Strangely, I am in a similar situation, and do not have a rice cooker. Time to go shopping.
> Does anybody know any private school following the same philosophy for kids education?

You can google any of Sudbury schools, democratic schools or Summerhill.
I didn't. The pictures show one meal, and then the plastic consumed over a week. They could have shown the amount of plastic likely to be in a single meal, but it wouldn't have been as dramatic.

And I know that they explain it in the captions. That's a dodge, they know people don't read the captions and they certainly aren't emotionally influenced by the captions.

So I immediately wrote it off as dishonest.
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...and insects.
> The overwhelming majority of people do not care about privacy. They ask why they should care if they have “nothing to hide”.

This is what I kept hearing from many people repeatedly. And I did a little experiment.

I bought an aged twitter account just to tweet a thread about privacy and see whether people care! )before iOS 14 was released) And I got 55,000 total engagements!

Some loggers are even selling (blogs with paywall) steps to turn off privacy settings!
Yes and no. I'd say it's more about speaking the same language as your audience.

Part of the issue is (for example): Do most people care about how many cores there are? That speaks to your point about benefits vs features.

But the other issue is: Do most people know what a core is?

This is often referred to as dumbing things down, but that's pretty condescending. The person you're "dumbing things down" for may be a chief surgeon at a major hospital, someone who is probably smarter and more accomplished than most of us. They just might not care to spend their mental energy on understanding computer technology, in much the same way that I don't much care to understand biology or medicine.

So when I say it's about "speaking the same language as your audience", I mean speaking in terms that relate to what's important to them. If you're selling to a mass audience, you have to speak in such a way that doesn't assume any expertise or interest in technology. You have to give them a reason to care.

Most people don't care about the thermal performance of their laptop. But they can probably relate to being annoyed by how loud the fan gets or how hot the machine gets on their lap. They can relate to having the battery die, waiting for apps to load, closing apps because the machine can't handle having so many things open, etc.

But you also have to provide justification for those benefits. It's not enough to say "it's quiet" or "never gets hot", because for a sizeable portion of your audience, they need to understand WHY it's quiet. Which means you still need to talk about the features.

All of which is to say that a better axiom than "sell the benefits, not the features", in my arrogant opinion, is "Meet people where they're at."

That's what makes good copywriting so hard. You have to write in such a way that meets your audience where they're at, without actually knowing where they're at, and without being so simplistic that you insult their intelligence.
Sorry if the post comes off as perfunctory, my last post on the topic had the opposite affect [1], so I tried to tone it down a little.

Also, as the author, I whole-heartedly recommend reading the aformentioned papers.

[1] https://lobste.rs/s/mrlfwh/why_privacy_matters_even_if_you_h...
It is known that they package and sell the ISAs like other credit products. But regarding their alignment with student success, it’s to their benefit that these ISAs realizes i.e. students succeed as the ISA quality determine how much they can sell them for.
RAII is an idiom, not a language feature. Destructors might be the language feature, but they have their own issues and caveats.

So I don't see the comparison...
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I do the same thing, call waitpid with WNOHANG after getting the signal.
I work for an extremely famous hospital in the American midwest. We're divided into three sections, one for clinical work, one for research, and one for education. I always tell people that I'm pretty content being in research (which is less sexy than clinical), because if I screw something up, some PI's project takes ten months and one week instead of ten months. In clinical, if you screw something up, somebody dies! I just don't think I could handle that level of stress.
I used to pretty work long hours (worked 2 jobs - back when I had first kid and was still under mortgage). Now I spend more time with my kids and try to work as little as I can (optimize "productivity pulse", while minimize total time on computer)

This is my data of 2018 and 2019 respectively:

- https://www.dropbox.com/s/s8881zv58wzve33/2018.png?dl=0

- https://www.dropbox.com/s/55v7g4cn7ol0ix2/2019.png?dl=0

Some personal observations:

- On average, I achieve 75% productivity pulse

- There are some crazy days where I worked over 15 hrs, with maybe 10 ~ 11hrs being productive (read: code)

- Since I was moonlighting, I was most productive on the morning (9am - noon) and after 10pm (kids went to sleep)

- I don't meditate much, but working out really really help!
This topic just came up recently on a podcast I was on where someone said a large service was down for X amount of time and the service being down tanked his entire business while it was down for days. But he was compensated in hosting credits for the exact amount of down time for the 1 service that caused the issue. It took so long to resolve because it took support a while to figure out it was their service, not his site.

So then I jokingly responded with that being like going to a restaurant, getting massive food poisoning, almost dying, ending up with a $150,000 hospital bill and then the restaurant emails you with "Dear valued customer, we're sorry for the inconvenience and have decided to award you a $50 gift card for any of our restaurants, thanks!".

If your SLA agreement is only for precisely calculated credits, that's not really going to help in the grand scheme of things.
I hear this, but these are mostly static companies that don’t grow and don’t release new products. Microsoft has this problem where they really aren’t part of the future or new ventures.
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I was using PiHole and switched to NextDNS and it’s been fantastic. It’s way easier to maintain.
In my experience, all of the complexity comes from feature requests following the initial development of some code. I develop code for our internal automated data analysis systems. My boss doesn't care how it works, it just has to do exactly what he wants. Even if it destroys my abstractions. Suddenly, you have lots of if/elif/else cases and a creeping suspicion that your logic now has holes in it.
Out of curiosity how much interest is there in a JS injection utility (written in JS) that walks the DOM, executes events, reports pass/fail/error, has no dependencies, and does nothing else?
are you suggesting pg sometimes takes a strong public position on things he doesn't actually know too too much about? Some of which he has a financial interest in? Could be.
I’m probably older than you and heard this exact same argument used by the Indian government to censor television (we had exactly 1 channel of government run TV growing up).

Are you listening to yourself? You sound like a religious zealot hundreds of years ago arguing to ban the technology of books because they might say things you disagree with. ‘Ban Martin Luther, he is trying to destroy the Catholic Church’.

It remains a mystery why so many Americans are so incredibly ignorant of history. Is it because school systems became overrun by propaganda because of teachers unions?
Re: Should object values be captured?

The results from 387 responses (to a Twitter poll) show a 2:1 preference for the value being read at the time the
deferred statements are executed (66.9%) rather than when the defer statement encountered(33.1%).

Since both options - by value and by reference - may be viewed as reasonable or desirable, neither should be a default. Instead, they both should be using a special syntax. So if you write something likes this -

guard {
void * p = malloc(...);
defer free(p);
}

it simply won't compile. Instead you'd need to say something like this -

guard {
void * p = malloc(...);
defer free(^p); // evaluate now
}

guard {
void * p = malloc(...);
defer free(p^); // evaluate later
}

This may also be reused later for specifying lambda captures... should lambdas ever make their way into C.
Can't you keep a list of your children?
One of the most effective pieces of media I’ve seen in favor of privacy is Surveillance Camera Man [1]. While I don’t support what the guy behind the camera is doing, the videos he has evoke a stronger reaction than any logical argument I’ve heard against “having nothing to hide.”

[1]: https://youtu.be/mP5ZVPwP7bg
Surely you’re familiar with the exploding whale story, but if not:

https://youtu.be/V6CLumsir34
I'm also assuming most of the world doesn't grind to a halt when gmail is down. Crops keep growing and factories keep running.
Tell that to RSA.
When I meet the engineer who can design for the unknown unknowns, I will bow to them.
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I've been using very similar system for years. Your's takes it to the next level. Thanks!
I personally studied theoretical physics and abstract geometry, plus a few years of classical languages so I think our priorities are pretty different...

My original point was simply that teach yourself-programs are well and good, that’s how I learned to program and I now work for a FAANG, but then you shouldn’t have to pay 30 k.
I'm a beast from approximately 3pm to 5pm. I might get about an hour's worth of real work done during the rest of the day. They need a warm body during standard business hours, but honestly if I worked from 2pm to 7pm I'd probably be twice as productive as I currently am working 8am to 5pm, but alas saying "70% of of the time I'm not doing anything useful" isn't a great way to convince the higher ups that they should hire an additional person to do the busy work.
Very true, especially on side topics science is extremely vulnerable. You have no counter study and peer review is a lot of work, so some works might just stay uncontested for a very long time.

Meanwhile, a lot of proved studies are dismissed for political reasons. Sometimes that is good, sometimes not. But it is safe to say that it would indeed not be prudent to derive policy impetus from a lot of sciences without a public debate.

And I mean public, not just academic circles.
For one thing, Sanders was not proposing a fully government-run healthcare system. Realistic options would be "a good-quality public option available at the federal level", or "single payer" healthcare where the government becomes the single main insurer, at least for basic preventative care and emergencies, or some other policy that ensures there is a "social safety net" in place that includes access to modern healthcare.

Sanders misjudgment about Venezuela is a valid criticism, but let's stop with the Red Scare rhetoric about socializing things. If we were going to socialize something, we would be talking about directly worker-owned enterprises. Ironically, that might actually be much better than just having the government run everything.

Also, you have deluded yourself if somehow you don't already think the US government is an abusive beast that exists in large part to create and maintain power for itself. Is healthcare really the straw that broke the camel's back? Is the government really that much worse than a private corporation that has almost no exposure to market forces? I can't exactly vote for the CEO of Aetna.

I think many people would be open to something other than "medicare for all", but so far that is the only serious public proposal that achieves the goal of ensuring access to modern, humane healthcare for all Americans.
Wait.. so they were securitizing their ISAs? I had no idea they were doing that. It is a brilliant twist I didn't expect, and that also causes me to lose all respect for them. I liked the ISA idea before, but this... is perverse.
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They are making money with a technology that is neither self driving nor autonomous. It's driver-assist, which places it in the same category as navigation or cruise control.

If you compare Tesla to the other companies working on self driving, the only meaningful milestone where Tesla leads is the number of fatalities. The reason why Cruise and Waymo have not been as aggressive as Tesla in rolling out features to the general public is caution.

When it comes to gauging self-driving progress the most meaningful metric to look at is progress towards regulatory approval in more markets. It doesn't matter how _capable_ they are, if they can't demonstrate to regulators that they're able to safely operate then they won't be in the market. Tesla needs to step up and start making progress towards legally operating actual self-driving vehicles.
This seems like you are restating the same thing I said as if it is contradicting it.
I am beginning to believe that advertising (at all, on any medium) is an evil we need to do without.

The "free stuff" that we get in return is never without consequences, as we're finding out.

The "hey we built a thing you might want to buy" function can be done in different forms, better, I think. Probably by newspapers.

I think we could start by taxing all advertising revenue by, say, 50%.
That's still local at the scope level though, which is quite acceptable.

Plus, to handle the free or the leak if you had forgotten to free a resource at the exit point would also require to "know its lexical nesting up to top level".

Between goto and longjump and co, C has much worse non-local behavior than defer.
I don't have optimism about the diligence of politicians. I have optimism about (and direct experience with!) the diligence of the bureaucracy that advises those politicians, and that carries out the actual operation of policy, maintenance of infrastructure, etc.

The people you see on camera and in the news are a tiny, tiny slice of the operation of government. It is a grave misunderstanding of how society functions to equate "politicians" with "the government". This is true of any large system: a company is not its CEO, a non-profit is not its executive director, a program is not the interface it exposes to the outside world, and so on. In dealing with large systems, equating the part with the whole like this is effectively throwing away 99% of your power to understand and change those systems.
The pay is part of the reason why work is so terrific.
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> finally, my first day. and i was immediately disappointed to learn that the "team leads" in charge of grading our designs and reviewing our work.... were actually students two months ahead of us. two months!!!!

Wow. While not an exact analogy, something about that makes me want to say MLM/"pyramid scheme"

> i was so depressed. i started sleeping longer hours, i lost all enthusiasm. i was ashamed to tell my partner. i was genuinely struggling and still am.

As I would be too in that position, I really sympathize. They are taking advantage of people and that has consequences, it isn't just a "failed startup".
Still haven't heard of anyone being fired for buying IBM. Have you?
If the subject comes up, I ask the question: "how to you think Facebook makes money?" I try to educate them on the business side of their social media: what does it look like when you start a Facebook ad-campaign? Select users by criteria, sometimes very complex and precise criteria. How do you feel about an advertiser selecting $subgroup-closely-resembling-partner-in-conversation?

I don't think I'm changing many minds, but I do try to offer a view most will never encounter themselves.
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The discussion was about manufacturing and whether it was a good idea to bring it back and if so how.

I don’t think your comments have added anything of value to that discussion, just bringing politics in for the sake of mocking.
> 2000/180 = 12 students per staff member. This seems high and "student-facing" is padding the numbers.

It is very, very high.

I’d have to dig to find the exact numbers but about 90 are directly involved in instruction, project management, etc. Not including student support.

> Do not make changes to ongoing cohorts

We really try to avoid doing so, but in some instances it is impossible.

> Isn't this something a school would be able to educate on? Why not introduce group projects (maybe you already have them)?

We do have group projects and do try to educate here. Students will come back a year after being hired and say, “Wow, I thought x was a waste of time but it was extraordinarily useful” all the time.
Oh, literally around! As in circumnavigate.

(I once circumnavigated a country on foot but it was merely the Vatican.)

Years ago there was a beautiful book published called From Alice to Ocean about a woman who walked across the Western deserts of Australia:

https://www.amazon.com/Alice-Ocean-Alone-Across-Outback/dp/0...

It was notable at the time also because it was one of the early uses of CD-ROM to add a multimedia component.

http://besser.tsoa.nyu.edu/impact/s94/students/nataliez/nata...
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What's your position on cigarette ads targeting children?

re [1], which of the mutually exclusive definitions of "free market" do you subscribe to? Adam Smith's Georgism? Hayek's laissez faire? Other?
"That will be a big problem as EA tends to push all its companies to use the Frostbite engine."

It's actually changing since Patrick Söderlund left and Respawn has been succesful at releasing games not on Frostbite ( Apex Legend, SW Jedi Fallen Order ).
"It seems likely Tesla could roll out taxis to a ringfenced area in Phoenix (or similar ideal area) relatively easily"

Not legally.
You would just follow the C variable scope rules I think. But I see now how this creates an issue if you want to put the defer, but not the acquisition of the resource it releases, within a control statement.
Surprised that the 'The Honourable Schoolboy' hasn't received more mentions or discussion. Nominally a George Smiley book, it was the character of the 'honourable schoolboy' - Westerby - that dismantled the romanticism usually found in espionage thrillers. A very poignant end.
Yes, and despite this there is commonly resentment by academics of the time they spend mentoring graduate students who then leave for higher paid posts outside academia.
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This attack is a supply chain attack on enterprise software used by huge government organizations. Where can teenagers with wget pull that off?

When a leading security group (FireEye) says it's a state-level actor, I don't think they are doing PR.

It's fine to be skeptical, but why are you being skeptical? Perhaps it's lost on me but I don't think the claim that PR would look bad _if it were teenagers_ is a good reason to promote widespread distrust of ???.

I see the compromise of SolarWinds Orion software as far more likely to be carried out by state level actors than by script-kiddies. What would script-kiddies stand to gain?
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Bean to cup coffee machine: JuraE8

Would highly recommend, especially if you've also become parents this year!
Non-obvious need to call defer was what made me stop trying out Go. When I was making HTTP requests there was no Close() method on the response so it seemed like it wasn't needed. But later I found out that there is a Close() method on the response's Body member that needs to be called (only one code sample in the docs even showed that).

RAII is the best for ensuring that things get cleaned up even if it does lead to more boilerplate to add the pattern to things. But even .NET's IDisposable feels better than defer. It's established practice to implement it if your class contains something that must be disposed. And it's easy for tools to check if you haven't disposed of something that implements IDisposable.

All that said, I find defer to be better than nothing. In C, the best I can do for cleanup is having all the cleanup functions called at the end with labels at the various points I need to jump to.
Or you know, don't use lambda. If you need that kind of computer power spinning up a large instance, running the job, and then shutting it down is completely viable. They have per-second billing now on AWS, and you can save even more by using spot instances.

Lambda is not cost effective in the CPU/RAM that you get compared to regular instances. It only comes out ahead for very intermittent workloads.
Yep, this is really well said. Do you track your deep work hours? I'd love to get your feedback on something I'm working on (trywinston.com). Email is on the website if you want to chat.