skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kind of reminds me of RIP bbs’

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Imaging_Protocol
Or Nim [1]. :-) It's hard to describe succinctly, but "Pascal meets Ada meets Python meets Lisp-like syntax macros" starts to convey it. Forget operator overloading trying to square peg-round hole whatever the operator set is - Nim has user-defined operators. And a dozen other nice things.

https://nim-lang.org
Thanks. I think that's the perspective I was misssing.
My work sent out a memo today regarding what pronouns I'm allowed to use. We're in the middle of a cultural revolution, and the current trend seems to be for rapid acceleration rather than moderation.
> Their parents can't afford a laptop?

Yes! There are millions of kids in the US whose parents can't afford a cheap $300 laptop. The federal government pays for school lunches because there are so many kids who otherwise wouldn't even be getting decent food otherwise.

> They can't afford an Internet connection?

See above. Also, there are many places in the US where getting broadband service is very difficult. Including places just an hour outside of Washington, DC. My parents were only able to get conventional broadband service a few years ago. Prior to that they paid exorbitant fees for satellite internet service with a 500mb per month cap.

> The kids don't have a good place to learn in their house?

Imagine being a kid with 3 siblings and your parent(s) living in a studio apartment. Or a kid that doesn't have a stable "home" at all.

> They don't have time?

That can be an issue too, depending on age. A teenager may be working outside of school hours to help take care of the family's financial needs.
It's a near verbatim quote from the Cell article in the post above mine.
This is the problem with all fads. They are usually great ideas pulled from smart and capable teams, but, then the soulless "how many flair do you have?" companies try to replicate it. They eventually take over the fad, and instead of becoming smart and capable themselves, they make the fad soulless and "how many flair do you have?" This is exactly what happened to Agile.
Okay, then we are no longer talking about paid time off and we are no longer addressing the trade-offs involved in taking time away from a lucrative career in SV.

Which is fine with me, I don’t think that’s a problem that needs solving but you and others in this thread had implied otherwise.
What data did your friend use to come to that conclusion? Would you be willing to share so we can come to our own conclusions based on the evidence presented?
As opposed to a consciousness existing in the brain that cannot even be explained? Not really.

Consciousness as a fundamental building block of all reality is a very simple solution.

So is consciousness in a symbiotic dual-universe configuration. Yin-yang configurations are quite natural.

Don't confuse a life with consciousness. Memories may only exist in your brain. Consciousness goes two ways. Not only does your consciousness observe your senses, you also make your brain aware that you are observing, that is, your consciousness also gives input to your brain.

If consciousness is a part of the brain, then this becomes merely a stray feedback loop, which is quite unnecessary, and should not be required for life to exist.

If the brain is a (temporary) peripheral to consciousness, and biological life and consciousness enhance each other in a symbiotic configuration, then the interaction of consciousness with the brain makes absolute sense.
It's compressed not reduced resolution for most practical cases.
No. Actually, technically yes but very indirectly. The fossil fuels would be taxed which are agricultural inputs for the food which we eat and then exhale.
With what pronouns you're allowed to use to describe yourself? Or what pronouns you're allowed to use to describe others?
Is there a historical precedent for when the side who advocates banning books turned out to be the side of good?
I think homebuying is a perfectly reasonable thing to do, and it’s never been cheaper and easier. I’m not sure if A predictable mortgage and building equity is part of the “bullshit economy” But I’ve owned two homes now, and it is certainly better than renting
There are also implications on what is "ethical" or "moral" these days, but more due diligence research will definitely help.
This is one of those articles written by someone who wants to make themselves look important but doesn't really understand the language/tool they are demonstrating. $_ shouldn't be used in scripts but is okay for an interactive session. Also he uses compound commands such as { cmd1 ; cmd2 } without the semicolon req: { cmd1 ; cmd2 ; }
It's the next step of corporate virtue signaling. Just repeating slogans on twitter or changing the bio and profile of a company account will not be enough anymore, instead pick a ridiculous hot topic from the news cycle and use this as an opportunity to implement an even more ridiculous policy change in your company to show that your company is down with the cause. I bet we will see even more of that.
This is misleading and approaching a lie. eBay only allows critically-annotated copies of Mein Kampf which are designed for scholars. I am sure that a copy of “If I Ran The Zoo” with a sociologist critically annotating the abhorrent racism would be permitted on eBay.

From one of the listed items:

> This item has been listed previously. eBay removed it with this reminder of the guidelines:

> "You listed the book Mein Kampf, but it is not a critically annotated edition. eBay only allows critically annotated versions of Mein Kampf to be listed on the site. While we appreciate that you chose to utilize our site, we must ask that you please not relist in this case."

> This is their policy and this edition is compliant with that policy.
James Damore went a bit further than the author did. He also didn't take care to avoid offense and misunderstanding when talking about certain topics.

For example, he mentioned that women, on average, have more neuroticism. He's technically correct in terms of the psychological definition of the word (women will, on average, experience higher levels of anxiety than men when exposed to the same level of negative stimulus), but he didn't consider the political ramifications of describing 3.5 billion people as neurotic.

If a woman had written what he did, she would have been ripped to shreds also.
A small price to pay for inconvenience hahaha
Yea, dont get me wrong I think that being a childless woman in your 40s is particularly rough but I don't think it is easy for men either. Loneliness really starts to set in by that age.
I am no longer allowed to refer to my group of cisgendered male companions as "you guys."
I have seen it in the wild. I first learned of it from Douglas Crockford’s JavaScript the good parts. He also had some things to say about the new keyword and prototype inheritance and how we should stop using them. Ironically while he was dismissed on that suggestion then, VueJS has pretty much implemented exactly what he has in mind in their V3.
> what are the pros and cons of sprints

From the company's POV, being able to change the development priorities every 2 weeks based on the new business priorities.

From the team/developer's POV, I personally feel like it gives me more freedom (I get to choose the tasks I want to work on, obviously in the limit of the sprint backlog) and a good ratio between work variety (I have the opportunity to work on something different every 2 weeks) and work stability/visibility (once the sprint planning is done, the sprint backlog normally won't change for 2 weeks).

> what are the pros and cons of daily standups

Ensure that everyone in the team is on the same boat. Encourage communication between developers<->developers and developers<->product manager.

I often read on HN that daily standups is micromanagement, but I've never felt it that way (in 10 years of doing agile/scrum in different companies, from the developer's POV as well as from the manager's POV). I guess it can vary from company to company and team to team tho.
Barely related, but I feel like OP or commenters will know.

What’s this, realtime live preview/hot reload of text to diagram called?
I think the surprising thing is that it's the same exact neuron that does the different modes, not that the network has the ability to detect a photo of spiderman and a picture with the text "spiderman". You might instead imagine that the network would have some neurons specialized to reading text, and others specialized to recognizing faces, and those would be like two separate paths through the network.
> When I program in C I feel like I know a lot better what the generated instructions will be.

If you don't know about the Compiler Explorer, definitely check it out: https://godbolt.org
and thus, the cancel cold war escalates another step
Unrelated to comp. I have seen several of your talks and I cannot wait to hear you speak at a rust conference of some kind.

On that note, how involved will Oxide be in the rust foundation?
While it is true that formal methods, despite being able to prevent Spectre/Meltdown, didn't because someone had to think of the issue before proving it doesn't happen, the goal of formal methods is not to prevent all bad things. It is to prevent some bad things. Would you say that you're skeptical of tests because they haven't prevented many bugs, including Spectre/Meltdown, and therefore we shouldn't test?

The only relevant question is, are formal methods effective -- cost/benefit-wise -- in finding problems. Now there's a wide range of formal methods to the point that speaking about all of them as a single category is often not helpful, but the answer to this question is absolutely yes, in the sense that many formal methods have been found to be a very effective quality-assurance measure in many circumstances.
> It is one thing for libraries and bookstores to decide not to offer for borrowing or sale things that they disagree with.

Private libraries can do whatever they like. Public ones should be required to carry even the most offensive book.
Like, you aren't allowed to use the neopronouns for yourself? Or is your work telling you that you should respect other people's pronouns?
Let's face it, the Moulinette was the hardest part.
I wonder is anyone even allowed to try to do something useful with the waste on a large scale, or is it so regulated ala Schedule 1 natural plants / fungi that research is only able to operate at a snail's pace?
So, the complete works of Shakespeare are banned because they contain "The merchant of Venice"?
__attribute__((format(printf, x, y))) for GCC:

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.2/gcc/Function-Attribut...

There's options other than printf too.
100 upload would be amazing. I'm in central London and can only get 15mbps upload despite 350mbps down.

Is this the same ratio in the US? My friends in mainland Europe seem to have much more symmetrical up/down streams
It just seems to be big tech. They really need to be leveled.
Insofar as stdlib for C is a library, I think it’s not the worst comparison.
I tend to think this is a result of classification's information density being too low. You can 'learn' a classification problem in the same way with a hash function: take a hash of each image, and memorize the hash and label. Then you only need to 'learn' a very tiny amount of data relative to the size of the dataset to get zero loss. A series of random projections can also function as a crude hash function, and this is likely how NN memorization works.

Generative models, on the other hand, don't allow this kind of data reduction trick. If you need to predict (say) every sample of an audio stream conditioned on the previous audio samples, you really do need to memorize the whole dataset (not just a hash of each item) to get to zero loss, because the information density of the output is still very high.

And then you've got BERT, which is basically a generative model for language, used for downstream tasks. The information-dense task probably helps with the memorization 'problem' so good features are learned that adapt nicely to other tasks. (and as others have said, memorization may not be a problem in practice. Sometimes it's actually the right thing to do.)
This is absolutely indicative of government prowess in running social safety nets.
That money would be spent 100x better in a church charity or something similar.
Honestly I only got a few chapters in before life took over. But I have liked what I read. It’s my sisters copy from a grad school class and she and her classmates liked it but I don’t know how much of that was the class versus the book.
Clipper was the first programming language I learned as a kid outside of bat files. My dad worked with it at work, so we had a copy at home that I played with. Loved making those textual UIs using the double border boxes.
> eBay only allows critically-annotated copies of Mein Kampf which are designed for scholars

That's a good point. I didn't realize they were annotated by modern scholars.
The Spotify version sounds identical to the tidal "hifi" version (to me). I'm actually pretty curious now what this amazing CD version sounds like!

I'm currently on a Tidal free trial but I won't be moving from Spotify when it's up. I personally can't tell the difference. Maybe I'm half deaf but ignorence is bliss.
I think the GGP post is trying to suggest building a nuclear plant with high temperature coolant that runs a combined cycle generator. I don’t know whether this is actually cost effective.
How can browsers defend against sites giving away their own private cookies to trackers? They could just as well send the data from the server side.
> The goal is to treat the salary as a necessary (evil?) for "what you need to feed your family, buy a house, etc..." and not as the primary motive for work.

This seems shortsighted. Even after your immediate needs are covered, you can be a long way away from being comfortably able to feed your family next year, in ten years, in twenty years, even if things change.

An employee who demands as high a salary as they can get for the work they do may just be thinking more long-term.
As I pointed out elsewhere, this is misleading and approaching a lie. eBay only allows critically-annotated copies of Mein Kampf which are designed for scholars. I am sure that a copy of “If I Ran The Zoo” with a sociologist critically annotating the abhorrent racism would be permitted on eBay.

From one of the listed items:

> This item has been listed previously. eBay removed it with this reminder of the guidelines:

> "You listed the book Mein Kampf, but it is not a critically annotated edition. eBay only allows critically annotated versions of Mein Kampf to be listed on the site. While we appreciate that you chose to utilize our site, we must ask that you please not relist in this case."

> This is their policy and this edition is compliant with that policy.
Talent is neither cheap nor abundant.

OTOH, their volumes did not justify the complex environment they allegedly had and they should be very well within the skill set of the very average devops engineer. No large scale deployment expertise required.
I think the idea is, if you use this app, you will become rich enough to eat there.
Wave Power Could Be Energy's Next Big Leap [video]
Unfortunately, mayors haven't been seeing a lot of resources to work with this year. First priority will always be to stop the bleeding. And, of course, printing money isn't an option for them, so the opportunity will mostly be missed.
I'm not the person you're responding to, but just make a mental note and continue. Personally I'd even continue the interview process, I'm a Scrum hater, but an interesting project, a smart team, a big paycheck? You might have to put up with scrum, it's widespread.
Amazing to read your answer! When I lived in Chicago I Was lucky enough to eat there multiple times, and it felt a bit like something sacred was being trod on. Will never forget eating "birthday cake" directly off the table, scattered in a little cosmos. Thank you for everything you've done.
>Session tokens should be stored in an httpOnly cookie, so they're not accessible to a third party script.

You can't steal cookies, but you can perform actions as the user, eg.

$.post("/api/transfer_funds", {"recipient": "attacker", "amount": 999999})
Is there a non paywall version?
Time to embrace "y'all"!

But seriously, that's pretty heavy handed IMO to tell you that you can't use "you guys". Encourage? Sure! But not allowed seems a bit far to me.
You realize that libraries are not infinite in space or capacity, right? Every book in a library necessarily pushes out some other book that could have been in there but didn't make the cut.

Given that, libraries shouldn't be required to carry every book, they should optimize their collections for what their local users want to read. If it turns out that old out of print childrens' books aren't popular, then why should they carry them?
Zero-allocation Rust is quite idiomatic. I write some every day :)
I hope everyone agrees how insane this is. Language is not a rigid construct, it is inherently contextual.
It looks similar, but it isn’t. You can’t blow your stack in JavaScript while in C that’s practically a language feature and a design goal.
Foxconn now looking at building electric cars in WI plant
I don't understand the need for the "in power" qualification. It specifically is saying that discrimination based on race is not racist unless they are the majority.

In a time and place where a local hegemonic group has a history of bigotry towards and/or oppression of a local minority or disempowered group, it could be argued that the hegemonic group has a greater moral authority to be sensitive to the oppressed/disempowered group.

I believe that's a big part of the moral reasoning that is applied in these cases. There is a logic to it that goes further and has more integrity than than "people just want to take other people down".
A useful memory_order_consume is essentially unimplementable, to the point where the C++ standard itself says to not use it: https://eel.is/c++draft/atomics.order#1.3
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What rubbish! You do not need objects to make a library. Structs, typedefs, and functions do just fine. There are even techniques in C to define abstract data types if you want!

Take another look at https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Strings.html#g-... . That’s all C, baby, and could be replicated in a completely independent strings-only library built on the standard library if you wished. The reasons no such library exists are ecological, not technical.
Wow, I would be so fired. That’s been my go to for every group I’ve ever come across in my life.
I am happy to pay to acquire any of these banned books for the Internet Archive to scan, store, and serve them in perpetuity.

Libraries come and go, and should be treated as temporary collections (fair enough re space constraints). To attempt to erase history (“cancel it”?) is to ignore its teachings.
> Besides being a dream for micromanagers

I really don't get how people come to this conclusion about scrum. The alternative to scrum is the Project manager dictator regime, the literal micromanagers dream, where the pm can at any time jump by your desk and say "drop everything you are doing, and do this thing for me right now", and where the estimates are just whatever the PM decides to communicate, but when you fail to deliver a fully functional product in the 2 months the PM pulled out of thin air, it's somehow your fault.

In Scrum, the PO should be prevented from micromanaging, since he's not telling anyone what to do. There's a product backlog which the PO can prioritize sure, but that's the level of interaction. The team pulls work into the iteration backlog, so nothing should be picked up that the team doesn't agree to do. And each individual team member picks tasks from the iteration backlog, so nothing should be forced upon you. As for the daily stand-ups there should be no management in that meeting, it's a 15 minut maximum meeting between only those who have items in the spring back-log, which most often should not include the PO. If it's turning into a day-by-day status meeting you need your Scrum Master to step in. The board and iteration deliveries should be enough status to go by.
Don't worry about us! We are all ok.

People see big earthquake and kinda freak out, generally it is all good.
Even with the benefit of a society built in the image of the automobile (toll free roads, free parking everywhere, highways, sprawl) Uber is not profitable.
Then make them public domain. Right now it is illegal to produce them but the publisher has no intent on publishing them.
The spokesperson stated those item will be removed but it will take some time.
And here's a website describing how you're likely to see Agile implemented in The Real World (TM): https://www.halfarsedagilemanifesto.org/
Thank you for sharing. I’m curious if you include equity as a part of the compensation package?
"The average per-night cost — $190 — is $82 less than what the city pays to shelter someone in the city’s homeless hotel program. But unlike the hotel program, the tents are not eligible for federal reimbursement. According to city data, 314 people live in 247 tents. Fifteen spots are open."

These costs don't make much sense. You could rent the homeless apartments for this. You could just rent them a nice hotel room. How does it cost more to rent a hotel room for a homeless person than it does for a home-ful person? Shouldn't the city be getting some kind of discount and just pass out keys and rooms in bulk?

"The security guards personally knew many of the people who walked in. They screened everyone for COVID-19 symptoms with a temperature check and reminded to keep their masks on at the site."

What do you do if you're homeless and have covid? The security guards stop you from going to your tent?
Another reason to have children earlier is that they tend to make a person mature much faster! And this is going to only be good for your career because as you get close to your 50s, you are reasonably fit, wiser and more time on your hands as the kids have now grown up...
I don't know any culture that banned books independent of their content that people didn't regret in the future.

A few months ago I was reading about schools banning the book "To Kill a Mockingbird" because it contains basically the "n" word. I'm not american, and and havent read that book. I watched the movie, through, and it seemed to me to be a very anti racism message.

I think instead of banning, schools should work provide context to kids and teens that read this books, of how society was when they where written, so people don't forget the past, but are able to make better decisions to the future.
What you want works, you just used the wrong syntax:

#include <stdio.h>

void foo(int len, const char (*str)[len]){
printf("%zu\n", sizeof(*str));
printf("%.*s", len, *str);
}

int main(void){
// note: not nul-terminated
const char text[] = {'h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', ' ', 'w', 'o', 'r', 'l', 'd', '!', '\n'};
// prints 13, then 'hello world!'
foo(sizeof(text), &text);
return 0;
}
But why then even write an article on it, if your experiment is only valid for a very specific set of people, and the minute you start hiring more people or different skillsets or age groups or experience or pretty much anything else, it fails?

Like literally anyone can start a team of few people that are all paid the same. It's not really that hard, nor does it require that much attention. You only need to write about it, if it successfully stays that way for a long period of time or if it scales when parameters change.
Now I am getting really curious whether other companies with supposedly strong engineering knew about sscanf issues.
This book is mandatory reading.
{;} is command grouping. () is a subshell. That example is very naughty and should never be seen in a real script.