skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
take a look at VMS to behold how elegantly and seamlessly we wrote software in whichever language suited the task most appropriately, barely conscious of the concept of foreign functions being a horror story for future generations instead of being entirely standard and letting us switch from BLISS to Pascal to ADA and C and C++ and DEC BASIC and throw in a few DCL macros or optimize the compilers to which source was of course provided and so that's how we delivered really rather efficient programs, really, in LOC, since nobody was hammering square pegs into semantic round holes or chasing effects when you needed to manage types intrinsically to your critical path routines but didn't need to extend the type system throughout your code base because RDB quaintly would let you call it in FORTRAN and get down to typology from the elements of mathematical sets themselves if you must, nicely isolated and ACID wrapped with system wide cluster transaction management available for everything and everyone's needs and the filesystem designed orthogonal to the database letting you think of your data in a single unified concept with primordial os level guarantee of data integrity for corollary sanity checking
Maybe, but you can't actually say that. "Psychosomatic" reduces to "Big Pharma is telling you your very real disease is in your head" from an optics standpoint.

Public interest in the putatively psychosomatic Morgellons disease spiked after Joni Mitchell said she had it. There was an outpouring of support for Mitchell, and criticism of Big Pharma, the government, and the media for not treating Morgellons with more gravity.
Not everyone who likes going to the bar to have drinks is an alcoholic.

Not everyone who likes eating fatty, sugary foods is obese.

Not everyone who likes spending time on social media is addicted.
namely healthcare. it's an absolute disaster if you have to do anything beyond the simple "annual health examinations."

I literally hate going to the doctor because the various billing departments are often nightmares to deal with.
If you want to "allocate" (reserve) physical memory just call malloc and then mlock. No lie. You get physical pages or error.

Get over it. What you call "allocation" is two distinct operations on Linux, one of which is called malloc in standard c library, unfortunately, and that's where your confusion comes from.
There will always be alternative marketplaces hosted by alternative web hosts that are willing to continue doing business with companies that are deemed dangerous to society...

...until banks and merchant processors cut off financial access to these "dangerous" entities and their service providers.

Wikileaks was a victim of this year's ago, and served as a great example of why cryptocurrencies are important.
> We are therefore rapidly finding ourselves in a situation where the most easily offended person wields immense power

It all started with the gluten intolerant choosing the lunch location
I understand Hank as saying there that there ought to be south Asian voices in the writers room, not that they should have complete control over what Apu says.

I don't know what's special about this case. I mean I understand what's of special importance to you, but if writer <-> character matching is required here, I don't see what would prevent it from becoming a universalizable rule that would turn "write what you know" from a piece of hackneyed advice into a moral principle.
I have Plex lifetime sub and TIDAL sub, but never explored them in combination. Where would I start to learn more? Have you compared to Roon's or Audirvana's integration of TIDAL?
Only use social media when you are eating. This will force you to either eat slower, or use social media less.

Eating slower has shown benefits for weight loss. Alternatively using social media less, has also shown benefits.
We've been using this since late 2019, and generally been loving it. The concept of things being bets, plus fixed-time variable-scope are amazing, imho.
Yikes. It's a bold move to compare a colloquial casual term to literally the most foul term in American history.

It's absolutely a matter of principle, which I don't think is a surprise to you. I find that it's common to conflate refusal to oblige what amounts to policing my ability to communicate, with refusal to oblige someone's request to be addressed a certain way. One is just a matter of retaining my right to decide for myself how I communicate, but I've never had the right to say anything I want and have it not be capable of being interpreted as rude.

The thing is, you don't get to decide objectively what is wrong and right, or what I find difficult to fluently introduce into my vocabulary. A business kind of does, in so much as they can keep employees, but generally we've accepted a high bar for that, largely relying on subjectivity rather than them deciding to legislate bad words for adults.

You can't just decide that a term is objectively sexist or a personal attack, and "I really doubt" arguments aren't convincing, evidenced in part by you already implying it's anti-woman.

edit: I'd add that I'm not particularly attached to specific phrases like this, it all depends on circumstances and context, and a matter of what would make me start thinking about a change. Generally, I do think about how I'd address a group of people, because some opt not to use this or that, and it's best to find that comfortable common ground, and if you're speaking with customers I could probably more easily grasp a business wanting to pick the safest option, especially if it's likely to make it's way onto Twitter when my barista commits a faux-pas. If I worked at Reddit when they implemented their new policies for example, I'd probably start looking elsewhere. Pick your battles, and not every fight is worth your job. But if my company decides for me that this isn't an interpersonal issue, and I don't get to make these choices for myself, but that it's by definition hate speech, then maybe I'll go work on a farm or whatever you'd have me do. One that butches animals for mass human consumption; I hope that's ok ;)
Wow! That is some dedication to building a 2nd brain :)

I am doing some market research on folks that go above and beyond to take notes to document their learnings while podcasting. I would love to talk to you for 20 mins and ask you a few questions. As a thank you, i'd like to buy you a coffee (via paypal / venmo). Let me know if i can reach out to you.
By "CF" do you mean cystic fibrosis, or did you actually mean "CFS" or "ME/CFS" (aka chronic fatigue syndrome)?

My wife has suffers from ME/CFS for years. She is pissed that the US government invests almost nothing in research for something that affects on the order of 1M [1] of its citizens. She certainly doesn't want people with long-covid to suffer, but she is cheering that perhaps this $1B investment will lead to research that also helps the understanding of ME/CFS.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/me-cfs/index.html
"Ceremony," back in the day, was used to imply a certain stodginess, as in a "high ceremony process."

Agile seems very ceremonious to me.
Uh, it's interesting that you see the design of your product as a counterexample, because to me it looks exactly like what mobile games have been doing as a mechanism for maximizing engagement.

You want to stop them from playing through too much of the game's content and burning themselves out on it. So you lock them out with a timer, forcing them to come back later. Then you reward them for coming back every day. This encourages them to turn the game into a habit and integrate it into their routine.

Looks to me like you've accidentally stumbled onto one of the very tactics games use to turn people into addicts.
> Yes, exactly. You want to understand how a codebase changed and evolved over time? Git is your friend. If you want the facts of the code today? The source code is your friend.

100% agree. Though I don't mind if comments also leave historical information about the code. Can't be too much -- there is a delicate balance.

Do note, however, that you said it yourself: If you want the facts of the code today, go to the source code. In my opinion, the "facts of the code of git" are that functions X,Y,Z are "banned", but the code does not tell me why, or what to use instead. It just bans them. I would expect to see something in the code, not (just) in a git commit. It's also not that I can't google these functions (a couple of minutes will answer these questions), or that I should be experienced enough to know why they're evil, it's that it's IMO a reasonable, developer-friendly and good thing to do.
TOTAL was around and already considered old-fashioned (because it was hierarchical rather than relational) in early 1981, when I persuaded my boss not to use it.
Couldn't agree more. Just quit my job of last six years the previous week. I really liked the team and the product. We had a very informal development process - we all agreed it was agile but not through following any formal process (Scrum or such).

We still had retros and dailies. Planning was done by managers explaining a feature they'd like us to do, and the team then doing the planning, design and implementation. More processes and e.g. recurring meetings were erected and torn down based on the team's actual needs alone. If someone wanted an estimate, we'd give it, but we were not doing continuos estimation just for the sake of estimation itself, like in Scrum. Felt like the process served us, rather than us serving a process. If you'd taken a look at the Agile manifesto, we were ticking pretty much all the boxes: https://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html

Then 1.5 years ago, company decided to roll out whole IT department wide SAFe, which is basically Scrum but on a whole organization level, and hence even more bureaucratic and with one additional level of mega-iterations added on top of Scrum's sprints.

Suddenly, our team is assigned a Scrum master and we no longer even get to speak directly with the managers who previously negotiated new features with us. Instead, everything has to go through multiple levels of prioritization and broken telephones of new SAFe intermediaries. We started attending 2-3 new mandatory processes / recurring meetings, meaning time spent in inefficient boring meetings went up significantly. We had to also start a much more stringent ticketing system regime, including having to estimate ALL work. Despite multiple requests from Scrum master and managers, nobody was ever able to explain why estimating absolutely everything - even when nobody had even asked for an estimate - helped with anything. It was seemingly taken as a religious thesis that it was just the right thing to do.

Soon, the team was paralyzed. Even simple features became harder and harder to develop. Despite the massive effort spent on estimating even the most trivial of tasks, the big picture was forgotten about because larger feature-level ballpark estimates were no longer acceptable, and hence unimportant. On a company level, the business managers that previously talked directly to us just basically quit working with the IT department because the SAFe process was such a beast to contend. It was easiest for them to just stop asking for new digital product features, and focus on non-IT projects instead.

I know Scrum / SAFe proponents will say we were doing it wrong. It's ALWAYS that way - Scrum consultants love to gloat when some metric improves, but if things go south the org has only itself to blame for failing to correctly convert to their favorite flavor of True Agile System™.

My experience was however seeing an Agile team (as expressed by the Agile manifesto) turn into a Monty Python parody of agile software development just by being forced to submit to these "fake agile" heavy processes and hierarchies.
> My understanding (and I believe studies back this up) is that primary goal of a progress bar is to

Studies cannot "back up" a goal. The goal is defined by the designer, developer, or in this case, the researcher.

Users also want to know if the app is lying to them. Sometimes an app crashes but keeps showing a progress bar. Sometimes the app says that something will take less time than it does. The more that developers make progress bars that lie to them, the less that users can depend on progress bars to tell them the truth and make informed decisions about what to do with their lives. These computers are tools for them. You don't know better than your users.
Did not know this, thanks for the info, makes me even happier with my TIDAL subscription!
I was referring to the possibility of man in the middle attacks on Bitcoin applications.
I don’t claim to have any insight whatsoever, but I can’t help but think about all those decades old (now hilarious) articles about how the internet is a buzz word and hasn’t really lived up to its hype.
wow - our internet is that bad we set a low fucking bar
It was considered:

> C designer Dennis Ritchie chose to follow the convention of null-termination, already established in BCPL, to avoid the limitation on the length of a string and because maintaining the count seemed, in his experience, less convenient than using a terminator.[1][2]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null-terminated_string#History

Richie et al had experience with the B language:

> In BCPL, the first packed byte contains the number of characters in the string; in B, there is no count and strings are terminated by a special character, which B spelled *e. This change was made partially to avoid the limitation on the length of a string caused by holding the count in an 8- or 9-bit slot, and partly because maintaining the count seemed, in our experience, less convenient than using a terminator.

* https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html
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My wife and I still call each other boyfriend/girlfriend, but we are old fashioned. We like it because we are an dating (each other), even though we are married.

One argument in favor of using partner is that boyfriend/girlfriend is ambiguous. My wife often refers to her close female friends as "my girlfriend", even though they are clearly not dating each other. It occasionally causes some confusion with people a generation older than us who aren't familiar with that usage.
That's fucking hilarious. I would be looking for a new job.
Wow, none of that makes sense. Let me go through it point by point.

> The step towards an NFT market begins with the creation of viable transfer mediums - assets not optimized towards particular games but with a reasonable degree of retargetability.

You seem to be completely ignoring the points in my post.

You can do this without blockchain. In fact, blockchain would be a hindrance. If I create a game that supports a common asset format (which is a dubious concept to begin with), then I have already centralized the "truth" of the asset's value. I, the developer, and not the blockchain, determine the ownership. I can completely ignore whatever the blockchain says at any time. There is no contract. The ownership is meaningless because it is instantly ignorable.

> At that point opting in to an NFT market and allowing trade across games becomes a viable way to offer new experiences at lower cost

This would increase the cost of the game, not decrease it. It would do this in two ways:

1. Supporting a third-party format is going to take extra dev time. Games are not standardized enough at this point for the behavior of an asset to be fungible between games.

2. Selling unique assets (not allowing people to reuse existing assets) is what gives devs the highest margins. Custom assets are a revenue center, not a cost center.
The rarity of that scenario is dictated by there rarely being a need for the security it offers. But that, in turn, is a function of our knowledge of cryptography, and may change over time. Who knows; perhaps someday we'll see something like what Vinge described in AFutD:

"Our main cargo is a one-time cryptographic pad. The source is Commercial Security at Sjandra Kei; the destination is the certificants' High colony. It was the usual arrangement: We're carrying a one-third xor of the pad. Independent shippers are carrying the others. At the destination, the three parts would be xor'd together. The result could supply a dozen worlds' crypto needs on the Net for ..."
It's unclear whether this will generally be used to investigate (and ultimately take seriously) the documented but poorly understood chronic suffering which rarely but really affects a sliver of people who've recovered from various viruses.

The other four endemic coronaviruses, while often called "common colds" (and make up perhaps 1/5 common cold cases) have all been documented having similar lingering cardiovascular effects in a similar miniscule segment of the population. Search your favorite repository of scientific literature for "{hku1|229e|oc43|nl63} cardiovascular" for example - you'll be amazed at how similar case reports are to what we're seeing from SARS-CoV-2.

However, to my knowledge (and to the best I can tell from searching Google Scholar), the phrase 'long Covid' has never been used to describe this phenomenon. In fact, it seems that sufferers are often ignored. So it is with other mysterious chronic after-effects from illness - 'chronic lyme disease' is something I imagine has touched someone in each of our networks.

It's obvious that this phenomenon is super rare. However, when you have viruses (and other pathogens) which ultimately infect nearly everyone on the planet, these cases add up. It's not right that sufferers have been ignored these decades, and if this is a genuine effort to right that wrong, I applaud it.

If on the other hand it's just another attempt to justify bizarre restrictions instead of resources to help these same sufferers, then that's just cruel.

We saw a similar happening with hospital census last year: sensational media and pundit scientists (but vanishingly few actual experts) threw bombastic fits over hospitals being overcrowded, as they almost always are, especially in underserved communities, at the peak time of the year.

And was this a rallying cry to provide more resources for marginalized communities and the hospitals that serve them? Seemingly not; it was instead a pathetic attempt at justifying interventions which by then were already unambiguously ineffective, like stay-at-home orders. And now we're not even talking about it. These hospital systems and the communities they serve will not be helped; the conversation has moved on.

The best thing we can do is to take seriously the experts who have credibly drawn attention to this for the past couple of decades and continued to do so in covid times. People like Stefan Baral, Sunetra Gupta, John Ioannidis, Monica Gandhi, Vinay Prasad, etc.

Subsequent pandemics may leave less room for reflection, so this is the time to get these things straightened out.
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I often like to imagine that if I were in that situation I announce that I sexually identify as military attack helicopters and insist my pronouns are apache/apachim, but I know the irony would be lost on them and really would just result in me getting fired for thought crimes.
I mean more like having tools and equipment to handle the situation that previously simply didn't exist.

From hazmat suits to robots, what was avaliable was extremely basic.
People who want office hours should pay open source projects to do so
I guess Europe is out then.
What has Google done that they said
they wouldn't?
Very true, but if you're teaching CS then this also exposes students to the topic of ownership-versus-reference in a much gentler way than C.
This provided helpful context. https://adayinourshoes.com/was-dr-seuss-a-racist/ https://twitter.com/consciouskidlib/status/96965743301761433...
Covid is a blood clotting neurological disease. It strips blood of the ability to carry oxygen, debilitates the ability for your body to even get oxygen from air, and damages many organs (probably due to the worsened oxygen delivery). What do people think the loss of smell, taste, and ability to think clearly is?

Unless you can provide a source that proves loss of sense of smell is due to “blood clotting depriving oxygen and resulting in organ damage” your statement sounds like pure bunk.

Plus, severe influenza can result in similar organ damage so Covid is not unique in that aspect.
Literally, fled a communist country where my Dad could go to jail and be tortured for owning books banned by the communists.
Y'all can be singular or plural. All y'all is plural.
Wow, that introduction is really great.
FWIW, this twitter thread is a has a more explicit summary of the objectionable images and text https://twitter.com/consciouskidlib/status/96965743301761433...

It did provide a lot more insight for me than the superficial coverage I found in most places.
It sounds like your wife and those three females don't have crippling self-esteem problems, good for them.
>How does it cost more to rent a hotel room for a homeless person than it does for a home-ful person?

Homeless people are probably more likely to cause damage to the hotels, and hotels are less likely to recoup their costs from the person responsible. There's also been ~20 deaths (mostly overdoses) which I imagine puts extra strain and costs on the hotels.

I don't know if they're still doing it, but at least for a while SF had a program where they supplied Project Room Key participants with drugs and alcohol so that they'd be more likely to self-medicate in their hotel rooms and less likely to be out and about. I think that might also end up leading to more property damage + smoking fees
> master

Like three times I've had to figure out what is wrong with my git repo because Xcode switched the default branch from 'master' -> 'main'. Tutorials everywhere no longer work, etc.

We've managed to add even more pointless but required knowledge to programming. Ironically it's the newbies who suffer the most.

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A few days ago in the AsciiDoc mailing list – there was an effort to try to find a new word for "whitespace" (obviously the "white" comes from paper, how you even think of race in this context baffles me).
It's not in contradiction provided you don't encourage people to storm government buildings on the basis of private entities making their own choices. Which did happen.
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> We're trending toward 10-12% of the US population getting infected

How can you possibly believe this, given the seroprevelance data? Every indication is that more than twice this number (some surveys suggesting substantially more even than that) were already infected a few months ago.
I've been trying to stop saying "you guys" to refer to groups of people because while I don't mean any harm, it's really not a big deal to prevent some potential discomfort to someone.

I think it's really hard to understand gender dysphoria if you haven't been through it. I haven't, but if I can prevent reminding them that some people don't see them as the gender they see themselves, I should make the small effort.
Unfortunately those small minorities of nuts have a way of taking charge[1].

[1] https://nassimtaleb.org/2016/08/intolerant-wins-dictatorship...
As someone who grew up in the 90's. I do feel a bit "older" and more conservative even though I never considered myself that way. It makes me take a step back and realize that our belief systems tend to stagnate and I can only imagine how radical my college or high school beliefs may have seemed to older folk.