skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the security assessment side of tech we face similar problems that these types of awesome dev tools could help us solve.

Our clients either:
1) Have no docs (48%)
2) Have outdated/incorrect docs (48%)
3) Have correct and updated docs (2%)

Tools to understand source code/app architecture and increase understanding would make application security easier since there would be less incorrect assumptions and those doing security assessments would be much more effective and efficient in their work.
The vast majority of "toxic waste" is chemically toxic not radioactive.
> I also think the amount of overshoot is proportional to the amount of sexism that was present in a society thirty years ago.

What is the mechanism for this? The majority of the "woke" twitter mob is 30 or younger.
> On a CPU intensive app [...] the emulated software is roughly 50% of the native speed. While this number can still be improved [...] this probably won’t change much in the future (it will probably top at maybe 60%)

This is a shame if true. What's the difference between this and something like rosetta 2 that allows the latter to achieve greater performance?
> There's no value created by crunching random SHA-256.

They're not random. There's randomness in their construction, yes, but they're encoding trust.
> Sexism, using the term as the the GP does, is how they behave towards or speak to her. That's what sexism is regardless of why it is.

This is incredibly flawed. It can never be behaviour observed in a vacuum. A behaviour's motivation in context is the only thing to observe and - potentially - classify as sexism.
I have been in this position a few times and I recommend using static analysis and linters e.g FindBugs for Java, CppCheck for C++.

Personally I only use a debugger when there are bugs, but I know some people who debug the code when they are developing to check that it is doing what they want.
> just like drinking a big gulp with 32768 calories per cup is low status now

The reason it backfired is ignorant statements like this. A 12 ounce mocha Frappuccino contains nearly double the calories of a 12 ounce Coke. The Starbucks drink is exempt from the tax because it has a bunch of milk.

The soda tax is a tax on the poor only moderately related to health.
Indian TikTok replacement Chingari caught faking views and likes
there's also an approximate 30% difference in caffeine between Arabica beans and robusta beans, the latter having more caffeine.

Starbucks use Arabica, typically Italian or French espresso based drinks ha e been made with robusta or an Arabica robusta blend.

Starbucks coffee is not higher in caffeine compared to other cafés, it can actually be lower. The only sig ificant difference is portion sizes, like you mentioned.
I found the ideas embedded in the examples to be quite good ideas, if we can get them instantiated.
Everything is driven by engagement metrics. When was the last time you set out to read something or have an experience that wasn't engaging in some way?

I can assure you that every good author of both fiction and non-fiction is constantly thinking "how can I make this story more engaging?" Clicks provide an empirical method to measure that, for better or worse.

Trying to improve metrics is the path of least resistance in most situations. Should all writing be more informative, thought provoking and rewarding? Yes, but that's hard af. By comparison it's pretty easy to see what got clicks and try to do that again.
A few points here: new languages is clearly the wrong joint to cut along. That would mean we would have to say that Rich Hickey was doing two different things between 2005-2009 and 2009-present, it's more natural to say he was doing one thing, writing Clojure, which has distinct phases.

I don't know how many developers do paid, full-time work on languages, but it has to be more than a thousand. Heavily weighted towards mature languages? Yes, of course. Harder than it should be to do what Andrew Kelley is doing with Zig, or Andreas Rumpf is doing with Nim? Also yes... probably! My bias is to say that this is systemically undervalued, but I don't know how to prove it.

Lastly, if we're really trying to find the closest analogy to toolmakers in the developer community, it's going to be developer tools, not just language work. At the risk of being silly, working on languages is like being a toolmaker at a tool factory, and working on new languages is like being on a team which is bringing a new CNC mill (for example) to market. No surprise there aren't many of us!

If you want to say that developer tooling is underrecognized as a profession, undersupported by the ecosystem, and so on, well I firmly agree with you. But there is no question that it's paying rent and mortgages for a lot of people, right now. It's likely that more developers want to do this than the market will bear, and I believe it is equally true that many a machinist wished that he could leave the factory floor and go work in the shop. Cranking out widgets will never be as fun as iterating on the best widget jig you can make, but without widgets to sell there isn't much of a market for widget jigging either.
I was called a conspiracy theorist on Reddit last year for saying that this likely came from the lab in Wuhan. Now it's a possibility? It's getting incredibly frustrating to go online and be constantly attacked for having common sense views.
Quite illustrative. People have referential groups, that’s human nature. One could work with the framework to achieve desired result and hopefully minimize externalities, or one can lament biases and lambast the biased people for extra whatever points.

This is not a dig at you, btw, it seems clear that you’re making the best of the situation.
Exactly, couldn't explain it better. :)
You are technically correct, the best kind of correct :-) The Culture uses displacers for "teleportation" and sentient beings usually don't use them to travel.

I agree that the stories could have gone into a lot more depth about the consequences of backups. Surely there are Orbitals out there populated with 10 million copies of the same backup original. Those were never written about. (Other SF authors have written stories in that vein.)

The pervasive embrace of death-proofing is still a notable part of the Culture. Star Trek was very small-c conservative about showing radical changes to the human condition -- even changes that seemed to easily follow from their available technologies. That could be because radically changed conditions don't offer as much opportunity for commenting on the realities of the present. Or perhaps because the writers didn't want to lose the audience. Or because it's more difficult (though possible!) to write dramatically gripping stories when death itself is only a temporary inconvenience for the protagonists.

I feel like the Culture series is a joyful rebuke to the common SF theme that there are some things man was not meant to know or tamper with. They'll meddle with everything and only rarely does it backfire. There are a few spectacular failures along the way, as with the Chelgrians. Even employing post-scarcity everything and the best of intentions, the outcomes aren't always good. But on balance the Culture does far more good than a default policy of non-intervention.

Readers might inappropriately translate the ethos of the Culture into real life. The New Atlantis article touches on this. If the Culture uses secret agents and a judicious touch of firepower to improve lives across the galaxy, why can't citizens of prosperous democratic nations also liberate people living in dictatorships/theocracies/other bad circumstances? (Because we are only human, not Minds, would be my answer. So our forceful interventions are much less likely to avert more suffering than they cause.)
I'd point to the Coinbase kerfluffle as a clear example, where the CEO explicitly staked out a position as a "mission focused company" that wouldn't deal with "societal issues" or "political causes". Whether it's a trend or an outlier... yeah, I'm less sure as I think about it.
3 years of Crystal Lang programming: The good, the bad, the ugly (pre-1.0)
Structural Subtyping: For those missing Go interfaces in Python
Nothing, CUDA is used for graphics programming as well.
Do the fruits taste similar?
My knee-jerk reaction was misogyny.

Then, no, you're describing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gynophobia

> Gynophobia should not be confused with misogyny, the hatred, contempt for and prejudice against women

Ok. That's sad. Best wishes.

But then, finally, your admitted smugness bothers me, as it reveals a deep lack of empathy for woman and why the culture is necessarily going through these fits and throws.

To what degree is your “live and let live” actually “live and let live or die, it's not my problem”?
I believe this phenomenon is more like overshoot in an underdamped system than being the end result. Rapid changes always lead to overshoot.

"Underdamped system" is very apt here. There are some positive feedback factors which exacerbate the situation in the "underdamped system." If you give over power to a mob, then the very principles which act as damping can be completely abandoned. Things like "innocent until proven guilty," and the valuing of evidence.

The answer to unchecked, abused, one-sided power is not more unchecked, one-sided power with the vector rotated 180 degrees. That's just welcoming more dysfunction and abuse.

we are starting from a more equal place if you look at the status pre-2017

We are starting from a place where typical middle-school, high school, and college kids are likely to answer with expletives towards the principles mentioned above -- depending on the context in which you ask their opinion.

EDIT: Way back when, when I was watching that Vice report about the Evergreen State College activists, and one of them said, "...then f#ck your Free Speech!" I became very afraid that our society was in for a world of hurt. I'm pretty sure Gandhi and MLK were for Free Speech and the other principles mentioned above.
Same principle.

To be clear, I'm not saying that I do treat all people equally, regardless of their race, gender, sexuality, etc. I grew up in an environment filled with stereotypes, and they do seep through. I can only strive to avoid having that bias affect how I treat people. If it does leak through, I try to recognize it and do better in the future.
This was wonderful to read. I believe that I am guilty of the thing the author calls the martyr complex. The world right now is indeed the best that it ever was and here I was constantly outraged about things I have no power to change. Life is too short. For me personally, it is time for a change.
There's a rhetorical pattern I see in many articles, this one included, that perpetuates the issue this article is trying to address: men are the problem. Before, it was men saying bad things. Now, it's that men aren't saying things at all.

"I’m not going to suggest a solution to the problem of men clamming up." If not, then perhaps that's the wrong problem statement, and solutions will become more readily obvious and suggestible when not coached as the problem of men.

That's as candid as I can make it, and I feel that I have to use a throwaway account to do so.
Location data is being collected and sold by EU carriers. They just "anonymize" and/or aggregate the data before they sell it. And hey presto, it's suddenly "GDPR compliant". Of course we all know that no anonymized is ever really anonymous, and that aggregated data can be just as problematic.

Couple of sources, in Dutch:
https://tweakers.net/nieuws/118145/belgische-provider-proxim...
https://itdaily.be/nieuws/infrastructuur/proximus-orange-en-...
I am going to be honest and admit I have a problem with women also and would much prefer to work only with other men.

In addition, I lament that it is iillegal for men to have their own organizations of any kind. It is not legal for men to have their own clubs or organizations in the Western world. It is illegal for men, and particularly white men, to self select and self organize. This is a factual statement.

I do wonder how this will play out in the end.
As a gay man myself, I urge you to consider leaving such a toxic environment. I’ve experienced similar (even though I’m gay myself). A more extreme version of what you described actually exists within the LGBT community itself; being gay is sometimes not enough anymore.

A common theme I’ve noticed in these groups is their penchant for using the term “cis male”. Doesn’t matter if you’re straight or gay, the hate is still the same.

It’s better to just walk away from these situations and groups.
I would speculate law and medicine appeal to people differently than tech.

ON AVERAGE, men and women differ in biological traits and desires. We see this in massively egalitarian societies like in Norway who have huge sex based gaps in employments yet the most effort to be egalitarian. Interesting.
>probably not controlled enough

This is the most frustrating part of any exercise science related literature. There are just so many studies that have absolutely preposterous designs. There is no shortage of papers drawing sweeping generalizations while using a sample size of 10 untrained individuals, over the course of 3 weeks, and with no regulation of diet. Then there's the general meaninglessness of "volitional failure" as a measurement -- Gah! It's maddening!
For reference see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html for the question regarding paywalled content.
I never really saw the point of this term, to be honest. To me it just feels like a sly way to normalize being abnormal.

Imagine if we had specific terms for someone who doesn't shoplift, or who doesn't eat other people's pets.
This is actually good news. It means people are still capable of distinguishing between propaganda and real journalism even when the former disguises as the latter. Which means the market forces will soon do their job. The rapid rise of Substack only confirms that.
That's been the way forever, the players just change over time. It used to mean prison torture and death to criticize the church. So people didn't. Now they do.
> men will take any woman they see, kidnap her, and lock her in a dungeon.

> And, of course, women do not want the vote

Please keep this sort of flamebait out of your HN posts. It's guaranteed to make everything worse, and you can make your substantive points without it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Because it is easier to adapt software to hardware than the opposite.

You'd think there would be e-ink devices aimed at mangas nowadays. But the software was adapted to phone usage, that's how you get webtoons and artists playing with the possibilities given by scrolling.
"The negative inference comes from the fact that you can't push an affirmative defence at trial that you haven't hinted at during questioning."

absolute nonsense

the statute with the meaning that you are trying to whitewash your argument applies only to application for dismissal of the indictment based on a claim it's reasonable for you to have provided earlier thereby preventing the proceedings progressing to court
I live in Denmark so also Europe. Our social security number (which can be guessed with enough information and a few tries) has been incorrectly used as a password instead of a key just like you describe. You make a call, provide this number and the clerk on the phone believes that you are who you claim to be.

Nowadays things are better because computers are used everywhere We have a national ID system using 2FA which is pretty safe. Unfortunately, identify theft is still a thing.

Recently someone installed keyloggers on public computers. The second factor in the 2FA is a cardboard card with a list of one time password codes. You use a code on each sign in.

The criminals were able to determine when there were only a few codes left on the card. You then get a new cardboard card sent to your home address. They would stalk their victim's mail box and steal the new card as soon as it arrived.

With user name (your social security number) and password from the key logger together with the 2FA codes they were able to perform identity theft.

It's not easy to guard against attacks like this.
Cliques. I’m really sorry, I know that’s rude, but I see this all the time. I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen it spelled correctly here. I’ll go hide under a rock now.
I have focused on building my skills.

I don't present myself on HN as "a website builder" because I do little plug and play websites (blogspot, wordpress) and I'm not really a programmer. My knowledge of how to build a useful website is potentially of value to people in the small town I live in where local talent is sorely lacking. It's not anything people on HN are likely to want to hire me for.

I'm amazingly, desperately tired of discussing this. Thank you for acknowledging my point. I don't really want to dig into things like the value of HN rank further. It doesn't do a helluva lot of good.

I bring it up to make the point that "If I am doing it wrong, show me the woman that is supposedly doing it right so I can take pointers from her." and that seems to not be what anyone ever hears.

I appear to be the highest ranked woman here, ergo I appear to be the woman who has most closely "mastered" successfully talking to the guys here and I remain frustrated as all hell and dirt poor. So there doesn't appear to be a good answer here.
>With 5G capacity everywhere, the will look different (way higher).

In the US I went from unlimited data 3G to 10gb during the 4G LTE days, down to eventually 5gb (Verizon).

There are many I know with the same personal experience.

I have no doubt that big data plans will one day be ubiquitous -- but I have much more doubt that mobile providers are actually trying to provide me with a better experience and more freedom to do what I want.

They care about profit, and that's about it.

They gave away big data plans when few people cared about actually using them, and now that the phones and the userbase has caught up to those numbers the providers pull the rug from under them in order to secure further profits -- god forbid the user demand forces upgrades, that'd ruin the profits even further.
This is not even limited to authoritarian governments.
They quietly got rid of the 7 days policy - https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/16/21520086/tesla-full-refu...
One of my main concerns is that almost all legitimate discussion is now happening in private invite only communities because people are too risk averse to continue to chat on public sites that will be indexed forever in a culture where they can be cancelled for even a slightly uncouth opinion. Almost all of my consumption and contribution on the Internet is now in private communities that are quite strict about invites and the trend among my colleagues is similar.

When I was younger I learned so much and established many valuable relationships by having discussions on public services/websites. Many legends in the field were quite accessible on public sites and mailing lists. My life would be much worse if I hadn't had those experiences and it feels like a lot of younger people that don't have connections to the SV bubble are now going to miss out on similar experiences.

This isn't to say that we should be tolerant of everything but it definitely feels like we've swung too far in the opposite direction.
I respectfully disagree.

Feedback is best received when you relate to the person who is giving it and you trust the giver has your best interest at heart.

While the "current environment" may make it so women are more weary of men (and thus less likely to receive feedback) - I think there is a stronger current.

White male investors see people outside of their social group and realize that their advice might not be well received- not because of a flame war, but simply because they don't look like them. I'm fully convinced this effect is visible with all mixes of social groups (race, gender, religion, national origin, job family).

This effect sucks, and we should be looking for ways to unite ourselves to other people so that we can receive hard advice and also give hard advice.
I wonder how many people can read that and remember the "literally shaking" crowd thrashing about to the revelation that someone had two scoops of ice cream. TWO.

The thing is, the people that this article is about are going to give themselves a pass. They love being outraged, they love the feeling of being outraged, and it eclipses any kind of self-reflection.
This suggests that a possible answer to TFA could be to find a trusted female peer to carry the message.
Knowledge of history has gone down, year over year. Students are more likely to get a propagandized and highly skewed caricature of history that leaves out certain "inconvenient truths." This is also an overcorrection.
At those energy densities, you'd need a Moore's law of matter too.

But look on the bright side, with scrith we could build a Ringworld as well.
The anger I feel now is much weaker than it was before. When I was addicted to weed and before I found my girlfriend which I currently have a child. The anger was my friend, thanks to it I never felt lonely, I never was alone (but I was, I was just alienated teen-ager that couldn't cope with life and my feelings). The anger I felt gave my strength. Strength to resolve problems and issues with relations and interactions. I felt so powerful I knew I could stand up to that person (father) that never told me good thing, never prised me, never agreed... The anger I felt to my parents I protected onto other people. The strong anger I felt sometimes was causing next day so blue that my mind was just wandering if suicide is the solution.
The risk of the unpredictable, catastrophic risks that children face when they roam lower than it has ever been.

The risk of an unpredictable, catastrophic event for a man is higher than it has ever been.

I don't think that's a good analogy.
His shows is investigative journalism with a comedic twist. What should a should journalism do then? His last show about plastic recycling was informative.
If you're like me, and you feel like you need to see some stuff for business reasons, but you hate all the shit the "engagers" put in our face (looking at you Twitter....), I can't recommend enough learning to add custom CSS. Actually, if you use the Stylebot chrome extension, it's so easy you don't even need to. I just hide everything i don't want to see. no recommendations, no trending bullshit, just the very select people who post only content I actually want to find out about.
Granted, if I had a nickle for every profiling tool that claimed to make code easier, more secure, faster, etc which didn't live up to its promises, I wouldn't need to work anymore.

It's great that you found one that worked in your particular situation, but my exerpience has been quite the opposite. And it's not from a lack of being forced to try.
When I see that I tell folk: "Talk about how awesome you are loudly and frequently! Every other idiot does it. Difference is you're awesome. Make sure the world know"
To add some nuance: Me being angry over systemic harm to vulnerable individuals - harm perpetuated by powerful interests - this anger is reasonable, often productive.

Me being part of a 1M strong mob dog-piling the single racist nitwit - I am the powerful interest in this scenario.