skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With the first kid, I wouldn’t have chosen his mom, I should have shopped around more.

It’s cost me a ton of money, and my health dealing with her after the fact. Kid is 11 now, and doing pretty well all things considered, but it’s been a long road to get here. At least I have legal custody and get to make decisions vs letting conspiracy theories inform all decisions.

With the 2nd kid, I chose wisely, and no issues with my wife, and she’s a great step mom to my 2nd kid.
> This is the oldest and most well-known query execution model, and was first proposed in 1994.

Is the author younger than 25. Not picturing a world of databases before 1994? Did the world even exist?

I kid but regardless of when a paper describing some process was published the “oldest” query execution model is decidedly a lot older than 26 years.
I found doing the excercise on excercism.io very helpful. I read the manuals, some books, but actually writing code is the best. The nice thing about excercism.io is the examples have self checking code and you can get mentor feedback.

https://exercism.io/tracks/emacs-lisp
Off-topic, but does anyone know what Jekyll theme this is? Absolutely beautiful formatting and color scheme.
I wasn't being obtuse, I wanted to give you the opportunity to explain your claims in your own words, because I didn't want to risk misrepresenting you. I also wanted to withhold judgement about your level of knowledge concerning the subject matter.

> The question isn't "does it exist" it's "how is it being expressed today".

I'm glad that you've come out and said that, because it drives right to the heart of the issue. The problem with the proposal to recast racism into the the mould of an immutable characteristic (I would say redenominating is also a good metaphor) is that we have developed a real moral aversion to transferring individual guilt for events permanently onto groups, and for good reason. On a related note, the problem with claims that we can identify racism through the disparate impact of policies on marginalized groups is that it tends to falsely equate correlation with causation, and in practice it tends to be the result of politically-motivated reasoning.

Overall, I think you've perfectly illustrated the problem that the article was pointing to: "anyone who disagrees with my particular set of claims is bad, and anyone who then claims not to be bad is super-bad".
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Hitting the API every sixty seconds seems excessive, will probably put a lot of strain on the system.
> the code is already a perfect description of what it does.

No it isn't.

Code is a series of steps that in the right environment will lead to a particular behaviour. Code doesn't (automatically) tell you what that behaviour is - even less if that behaviour is also the intended behaviour.

You can have "self-documenting code" to some extent, but even this code is often low-level, spread out over dozens of files and has to handle various cross-cutting concerns which are usually not of interest to you.

This is why command line tools have manpages, even if the audience are programmers and the code is open source, so a user could theoretically learn everything by looking through the code.
> This is fairly ruthless towards the victims of this ideology - those that live in the communities left literally destroyed

It's only ruthless in the US which couldn't care about people and doesn't provide them with safety nets.

> You can use emotive and loaded terms all you want

Says the person talking about "ruthless destruction". I don't use emotive and loaded words.

> the real-world negative human consequences and rather racist outcomes of these ideals are on full display for everyone to see.

In the US? Of course. However, the moment you look at the world not through US-tinted glasses, it turns out that:

- you can provide minimum living wage to your citizens

- you can provide healthcare to your citizens

- you don't have to force a large portion of your citizens into barely surviving
Police Kill Too Many People–White and Black (2016)
> An American barely surviving on minimum wage is very unlikely to move to Europe.

And even if they did they would be far less likely to contribute meaningfully to the commons in Europe to support that social safety net. Therein lies the rub.

The only way to provide the productivity that funds the social safety net is when those providing the safety net far outnumber those consuming it. As this gets out of balance, those providing it start to resent those consuming it.

When it gets out of wack, you get situations like the DDR and North Korea, where the government needs to erect walls to prevent the productive people from escaping that shitty deal.

You can only achieve this balance in a high trust society where there is social pressure not to be on the consuming side for longer than is reasonable to get back on the producing side.

Guess what destroys that high trust condition? Bringing in outsiders faster than can be assimilated and/or eliminating the expectation of assimilation as the US is doing and Europe is now starting to do.

It's not that you can't bring in outsiders and maintain a high trust society. You can. But that takes work and it requires an acknowledgement that a high trust society is something that we should be trying to preserve while we do things that can hurt the current state of trust in a country.

From a trust perspective, the US is at a low probably not seen since either the Civil War or the Great Depression. We should solve the trust issue if we are to have any hope of building the social safety net features that rely on high social trust as a foundation.
> critically important pieces of institutional knowledge are missing

And the guys who have it are the "10x devs" in that joint.

>Or they find it "boring".

Or, it doesn't count much towards your annual performance review so then why bother if you have enough stuff on your plate that does count towards your performance review.

When was the last time someone got promoted because they write really, really good internal documentation?

Let's face it, most web facing SW nowadays is like fast-food. Investing tons of time in writing quality documentation would by like a triple Michelin star chef writing a 20 page article about a doner kebab.
https://old.reddit.com/r/chia/comments/n2lren/thoughts_on_a_...

Fixed link.
This is harsh, but I largely agree. I think the issue is that you often weren't hired to write docs either... biz often only cares about new features.

It's not the writing docs is hard, but that it takes a lot of time. I can write great docs, but it easily takes 50% of my time relative to code. The quality falls off pretty hard too -- my half-effort docs are pretty bad, like maybe worthless?

Obviously, there's a baseline level of, like, just commenting code which some devs still complain about, and that's absurd. But I think we need to be better at getting other people to value docs if we want them to be written, because they take time and effort to produce, it's a tradeoff like anything else in building software.
Amateurs study tactics, armchair generals study strategy, but professionals study logistics.

How you feed an army matters more than how you lead an army.
Or join the youtube creators union https://fairtube.info/
The more you win, the more you are going to win. The more you lose, the more you are going to lose. If you win one time people will treat you differently than if you lose. Easier to get capital. Psychologically it will affect you and others around you. Win twice, and this will escalate, people will literally be in awe over you. People will literally do whatever you will tweet. There is also an extremely low chance that you are always going to win in your lifetime, many books will be written about you while a huge graveyard of entrepereneurs that were more capable than you have written on their tombstones: "But what have I done wrong?". But it wasn't their fault, they actually did whatever it was in their power. They were fooled and led to ruin by randomness.
It's bloody hard to write documentation at some small companies, because management want you to put out fires and maintain buggy legacy codebases most of the time. The rest of your time is spent in meetings and actual development. At these companies writing documentation is brushed aside and developers are supposed to "figure it out".
> Could we engineer humans to lay eggs one day?

Surely mammals such as humans have been engineered via evolution to not lay eggs? Which is one reason we are not welcoming our duck-billed platypus overlords.

Still, I think this and other similar questions could be better discussed on more biologically-oriented forums.
I don't understand what you mean, can you elaborate?
What lots of people seem to be missing here is that this wasn't that sort of political discussion at all. It wasn't about Trump/Biden, or even policy issues. It was purely about internal actions of employees and leadership. There's a world of difference between presidential campaign posters behind reception, and discussions about the handling of a list of customers' names. The problem with jumping to blanket "no politics" rules is that it prevents any nuance.
https://www.platformer.news/p/-what-really-happened-at-basec...
I use arch specifically because of the arch wiki
Oh, really?

https://jakearchibald.com/2021/io-site-perf/
Assume what you said is true, guess what will happen if they don't lobby? Same.
Of course, the vast majority of employees in the tech sector manage to get by without shuttle buses, free cafeterias, etc.
No you just have to put a noindex header on requests to your website
Is it worse than the existing system where there is no cost, and no way to fight back?

I'm not arguing that it's a perfect system, but with a few adjustments I feel it's a much better one than exists today.
Great idea. Is this really AI though? Are you not using the subtitles generated by Youtube and/or provided by the video creator?
The tor browser enforces this but that doesn't happen for the actual tor client (used for hosting onion services) if it comes from your system repositories. But even if you go back to the tor client released in 2013 there are no serious vulnerabilities. Just a mild DoS.
I think you vastly under estimate peoples will to advance. Would some take easy or no jobs sure, but not everyone wants to get by with a fixed income. They will always want to buy something UBI doesn't enable them to buy.

A nice vacation, nicer larger home, new car etc. UBI would just give people the cushion to take a risk and know if I fail I don't end up homeless. Or the piece of mind to relax and know they can eat a healthy meal and pay rent no need to work 2 or 3 jobs. Maybe the reinvest in their education.
You know what's worse that writing documentation? Keeping it up to date with software changes! Even worse if it has a GUI and all of the images have to be refreshed for every tweak. I've tried a number of auto-document tools, Doxygen, NaturalDocs, ReadtheDocs., and they just add another layer of pain. IMHO. In 30+ years I have not found a satisfactory solution, except to budget time & resources for constantly, incrementally reviewing & updating docs.
You're misinterpreting the post.

The point of the post is that an engine that has a turbocharger is worse than an engine with the same performance without a turbocharger. Yet turbochargers are marketed as features that make the engine better. Manufacturers should be downplaying the inclusion of a turbocharger to achieve 35mpg, instead of marketing it as a feature.
Fair enough, I can see why it would be beneficial for a noogler, but everyone struggles initially, no matter how much face to face interaction you have. It took me 6+ months before I felt comfortable enough with the internal tools and I'm still learning lots of new things today, despite being 6+ years at the company.

The other thing is, even if we went to the office, we won't necessarily be able to have the same face-to-face experience until the mask and social distancing mandates are done with imo.

I also felt people disinterested on collaborations, everyone has their own goals, I wouldn't attribute it to your country per say.
The answer here is to lean on the compiler. I _love_ rustdoc and think the fact that it can compile all your example code and links is awesome!
> Or, it doesn't count much towards your performance review

Oh I agree that most managers have no clue about this metric so doing it well will likely mark you as the slowpoke of the team.

The way I address this is that I budget the time for those "extra" activities beforehand. I just find it a professional courtesy to leave good docs for the next person after me -- or new hires while I am still there.

Not sure there's a way to actually incentivize programmers to write good docs.
In Wayland this is simple. In Xorg it is not because the X protocol contains no knowledge of what scaling factor your app is rendering at. The server doesn’t know about DPI scaling. You can’t just make things “appear” as if they’re a different scale factor; X apps get real pixel coordinates in their events, directly from the X server.

The Wayland compositor is aware of what DPI every surface is in a given frame exactly, and it has a unified protocol to advertise it.

What macOS does is not terrible, but downsampling from 2x to 1.5x will look a decent bit worse than say 3x to 1.5x or rendering at actual 1.5x. In theory with today’s Wayland protocol, as far as I know, a surface could set its own DPI to 2x or 3x and get the desired behavior today. However it definitely isn’t free...

Because of text rendering. Apple is a very... idealistic company. From the very beginning of their use of anti-aliased vector fonts, it’s clear that they did not want hacks like pixel grid fitting or subpixel anti-aliasing that compromises the integrity of the font or ties the rendering closely to the way it is blitted. The way they made up for this was ultimately by shipping HiDPI displays in most of their devices. That way, the blurry rendering became more palatable.

Now don’t get me wrong: I’m not saying it looks unusable at 1.5x or 2x scaled down to 1.5x. It just looks dramatically less crisp than actual 1.5x with subpixel anti-aliasing. But you can’t scale a surface with subpixel anti-aliasing without defeating it because the process of scaling will treat the different subpixels of rendered text as just RGB values. This looks terrible. Even worse is if you are using hinting on top of that - now you are grid fitting to a grid that has no correlation to the actual grid of the display, thus, hinting actually just makes things look worse while compromising the integrity of the outlines.

Granted, upscaling 1x has some of these issues and it is passable. Still ugly, but it doesn’t look unusably bad. But it is still quite wrong.

Turning off hinting and subpixel AA might seem like the right call, but I don’t think so. For some languages, like East Asian languages, subpixel AA can add visual clarity that makes it much easier to read complex glyphs. While for English it is merely a creature comfort, for some languages it might provide a much needed legibility improvement.

All of this is what I was trying to subtly allude to near the end, but oh well :)

tl;dr: The X server itself is not aware of window DPI, and cannot virtualize pixels in events and protocols. Wayland compositors are, but it is still maturing and software and hardware compatibility is gradually working its way up. And OSes other than macOS use tricks like hinting and subpixel AA to improve font legibility which do not play terribly well with framebuffer scaling.

Tl;still dr: doing this would be hard for historical reasons :)
Part of it's also just that the very fact they somehow managed to master physics to the point that they could visit us means they could potentially offer us like a 100k or 1 million year speed-up in technological advancement.

It's one thing if in a million years we manage to discover some non-intelligent or intelligent life somewhere.

If they come to us out of the blue in the next few years, that's a very different thing, since it implies not just intelligence but an intelligence far, far beyond our own.

It would likely imply they found a way to relatively cheaply attain faster-than-light travel, for example, perhaps by some kind of spacetime-manipulating mechanism like wormholes or Alcubierre/warp drives. (Which some scientists believe could maybe be theoretically plausible one day, given enough scarce resources.) And if they can do that, then they could probably teach and give us more than we could ever dream of, if they wanted to.
"we expect a supply shortage lasting years again" but NFT's are still a better investment opportunity than a new hard drive manufacturer.
But wouldn‘t your main doctor refer you to the specialist if you want to?
Sure: what you say makes sense, don't get me wrong, it's just highly morally conceited for employees to think they have any standing to have made certain jokes at a time when it was tolerated, and now they they have changed their own attitudes about what should or shouldn't be off limits in the workplace, that everyone else should find these jokes beyond the pale as well, and be talked down to about what is or is not offensive. A blanket "no politics" rule is fair because it doesn't privilege any particular person's sensibilities about what is or is not acceptable at work. Obviously there is a gray area, but employees who demand these issues be dealt at work and then don't want to face censure for their participation in it in the past are just hypocrites.
Has the title been changed?
Even if it is, it doesn't matter. The US Court of Appeals created precedent that allows for the scraping and aggregation of publicly published information with that LinkedIn case.
Again, they may be under a non-negotiable contract with a government to say that. The replies further down the issue seem to suggest that is the case. I don't defend the actions of the parties responsible -- But the fact is if there are no Chinese laws being broken, I don't believe you or I are in the position to make that judgement, or at least that case hasn't been made so far. If your concern is with an oppressive government, please don't attack people who are also being oppressed by that government, and please don't suggest people ignore potentially real threats that could get them arrested by that government. I agree with you, I don't want the author of this software to get in legal trouble.
I use a Eurorack and a small mixer from Behringer, and can confirm. They're cheap but surprisingly good.

There are a lot of people that would instantly improve their online productions if they only went to a music store instead of a computer store to buy their audio gear.
“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general”
This is a great idea! I'm a visual learner, and better att speaking than writing, so this is probably something I should try to do more.

I've only done it once so far, but I created a short video with Loom to demonstrate how a bug could be caused in the PR that fixed it.

Searchability is probably what would suffer from this approach, and the fact that text is much easier to edit (both for succinctness and correctness).
"(the Declaration of Independence, which still doesn’t make this specific claim—it does reference rights being endowed by a Creator, but does not specifically attribute omnipotence to that Creator)".

I'm sure the reference was to Supreme Judge of the World, and no omnipotence. You need to write more carefully.
Like “hey guys, can anyone help me with x?”

That’s annoying.
Well, the primary difference is that cloud providers go through HDDs almost as consumables, while RAM and SSD are generally more long lasting.

Contracts are set up in similar ways, but HDDs in general have more constraints baked in those contracts.
One wonders about the higher level cognitive abilities of someone dedicating much of their waking, productive hours to the service of making the staff and contractors of a giant ad surveillance company more comfortable and efficient.

It seems so insanely thoughtless to me.

Like, is that really the world you want? Gmail surveillance already took over everyone's email, same for maps and apps and YouTube. Anyone with a clue is trying to roll this worldwide trend backward, not make the Google advertising machine more efficient and effective at ingesting every single last molecule your private data and personal activities.
What services do you know of that use MP3?
People I know are fine, it's people making demands on the internet that are the problem.
Chipotle is big; they can do this. Most of their costs are also in store labor and rent, not food. If you're a small farmer, the distributor will pay you $x regardless of how you produce it. There's no market for strawberries picked by well-paid workers, so they don't care.

What you're saying only works if you're Driscoll's and tell farmers to pay workers more or enough consumers demand it, but I just don't see much demand for this. The most we've seen is Fairtrade chocolate, coffee, etc., but there's only limited demand for it.
Yes, many people who attempt suicide are later happier and glad they didn’t die. That’s why it was more of an idea or concept, not meant literally / too seriously.

But for those people that really had enough there is no legal, clean way to end their life. Not even in The Netherlands, where euthanasia was first legalized.

Especially people with severe psychological issues will have a hard time proving that they suffer tremendously and that there is no hope of recovery.
IMO the only way to achieve that is to inform the business about it. If they are aware that knowledge is being lost and then has to be re-acquired by the next person then I think that a lot of business people immediately grok the idea that not writing docs is a liability and a risk and that it makes swapping people hugely expensive (indirectly, due to you being paid just to catch up for a while).

Businessmen get this stuff quite well. But I feel very often nobody explains them the situation.
> Again, a side-effect of the flawed vaccine policy of the government.

Was very predictable. Center was acquiring vaccines and distributing it among states who were then vaccinating vulnerable sections of the population. Politicians started questioning the policy and demanded more control. Once the Center gave them that control, all hell broke loose.

I can guarantee that this abuse will continue and Ella will be next. The media is 100% responsible for targeting these companies over everything from patents to pricing. And while Modi managed to deflect criticism and dump the issue into the hands of clueless state governments, it is going to hurt India very badly.

> Luckily the Supreme Court has stepped in and is now questioning the government on its revised vaccine policy, especially on the pricing mechanism.

Nothing good will come out of it. The SC is not answerable to the people as it is not a democratically elected body. And it does not have executive experience either. I don't know why all these courts keep interfering in every single issue all the time.
And put your content where? What should this piano teacher do?

This is partially the fault of YouTube/Google, but also copyright law in general. It's broken.

This community, right here, could collaborate and force changes upon the powers that be. Boycotting Google and YouTube isn't going to do it though.
highly recommend using plantuml, which allows you to version diagrams as text. the diagrams are super ugly but it's totally worth it.
Do you really need to be an "industry insider" to make any of their observations? Nothing they said seems to require they be actual "industry insider".