skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to get the most out of the books you read, even partially read, it might worth examining a specific strategy.

Specifically, How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler describes how one should approach reading a book. I find that even the Wikipedia entry is useful.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Read_a_Book
This might be illegal. After all, the dump should contain your ratings of movies, which is not satisfied if you can not identify the movie.
GIYF.

Or in other words, "teach a man to fish..."
To be fair, there are just as many books and “investment gurus” out there trying to convince you that you can beat the market if you follow their advice. Your “rule” might seem obvious for those who already implement it, but it’s actually difficult for many people to follow because it requires having a certain level of both self-awareness and knowledge of investing.

And, while most of the consequences of poor investment strategies do fall on individuals - at least superficially, both the hyper-social nature of our species and the political/economic structure of our societies ensure that those consequences frequently extend far beyond them.
> In a B2B setting, there is no GDPR obligation

I think this is not correct.

AFAIK it's not transitive, but you can request any company directly. I think there are even people trying this randomly.

As long as it's data about you, you are allowed to request it. When you sign an agreement that your data may be transferred to another controller (and there is no other way this data may be transferred), you are totally entitled to ask this controller for your data.
It seems a little unfair to just jump to the conclusion that the problem is C, with basically no evidence of that. The multitude of "do" states did look confusing to me too, but without reading the code I can't say for sure that it's actually bad, and I definitely can not say why it became bad.
I'm not saying we should all be artists and drop any work on improving science or technology. To the contrary, some people really thrive doing that, and who am I to outlaw it.

But this is about working 80+ hours a week to achieve that. Changing the world is possible in 40 hours a week. Or 30, or 20. It may happen more slowly, but it won't leave so many train wrecks of burnout in its path.

(Apart from overall total productivity not necessarily being lower with a 30 hour week than a 50 hour week as the increased energy and motivation can often times easily offset the fewer hours.)
No retirement was the standard 100 years ago I think.
Context: Walter Bright created the first native C++ compiler, Zortech C++. This pull request actually implements its own C compiler! For Walter, considering he's implemented C++98 alone, implementing C must be nothing :)

He implemented the ANSI C compiler here in just 5 days.

Semi-related project, using libclang to import C++ directly (with C++ templates and all the other features, regular D has C++ linking and exception support built-in): https://github.com/Syniurge/Calypso

Some quotes from the forum https://forum.dlang.org/post/s7a37h$2bbv$1@digitalmars.com :

- Writing a C preprocessor is a nightmare. Fortunately, I already did that https://github.com/facebookarchive/warp and we can use it if we choose.

- The D code will be able to inline C code, and even CTFE it.

- There are a lot of wacky C extensions out there. We only need to implement currently used ones (not the 16 bit stuff), and only the stuff that appears in C headers.

- Without a C compiler, we're stuck with, wedded to, and beholden to libclang. I wouldn't be surprised that the eventual cost of adapting ourselves to libclang will exceed the cost of doing our own C compiler.
But by the very nature of being a specialty item, there's unlikely to be a shop for that thing in any given area. Occasionally you luck out and it turns out you live near a major kitesurfing shop or whatever, but on average you're no better off than online - probably worse off if you actually make a day trip to a brick-and-mortar shop halfway across the country.
I'm arguing about non-compressed, eventually padded data types that make learning Unicode (or any other applicable data format) easier because of the equivalence : 1 atomic unit ("character", pixel) = 1 smallest addressable unit of memory (byte). This involves byte size being at least as large as atom size.

And it's particularly important to have this property for text, because not only data is overwhelmingly stored as text (in importance, not by "weight"), but because computer programs themselves are written using text.
The Black Deaths Nobody Wants to Discuss
Retirement was not even a thing 100 years ago, I think.
How to Get Other People to Sell Your Product for You
Pepe the frog is not right wing symbol you progressive lunatics.
Djaws: Deploy a Django Container on AWS
> Another one has been learning how software fits the bigger picture. In order for a company to succeed with software, things starting from vision, strategy, execution need to be in line

This was something that I experienced in my career trajectory. My first shift from pure programming was to requirements definition, which I enjoyed. I then got involved in specifying the need for systems in the first place - developing business cases and evaluating solution options. I'd by then realised that by the time someone starts writing requirements, someone else must already have done some work to secure funding, teams, etc. Luckily I was (mostly) able to stay tech-focussed rather than moving into pure management. Some of the most technically challenging work was at the end of my career - looking at how systems could be affected by / drive organisational transformation. And being able to confidently brief very senior decision makers on how their organisational structures (often stovepipes) were actually driving inefficiencies, duplication and nugatory work at the systems development and operations end.
Berkshire: Bitcoin is ‘contrary to the interest of civilization.’
From article 4. of the GDPR:

‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;

AFAIK a personal to-do list would be "relating to an identifiable natural person" as the database will have a relation from this data to the account, which will likely have a name, email address or other PII (directly or indirectly).

IANAL
or status.statusstatus
> Even then you still need consent to store the cookie under most versions of the "Cookie law"

I don't think the cookie law is different from GDPR in that respect. IANAL, but from the EU directive itself [1]:

> Member States shall ensure that the use of electronic communications networks to store information or to gain access to information stored in the terminal equipment of a subscriber or user is only allowed on condition that the subscriber or user concerned is provided with clear and comprehensive information [...] and is offered the right to refuse such processing by the data controller. This shall not prevent any technical storage or access for the sole purpose of carrying out or facilitating the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network, or as strictly necessary in order to provide an information society service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user.

I read that as having the equivalent "no consent required for strictly necessary data" get-out clause to the GDPR. Yes, strictly necessary is a high bar, but for cookies that clear that bar I think both GDPR & the cookie law let you off the hook.

[1]: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...
Is it mission critical?

Sometimes a data loss can be quite liberating.
Pentesters when they get their first shell
You've been a compiler/language developer for many years now (many decades?). How did you get into this field of work? Do you have any regrets about this becoming your niche? :)
The cartoon's creator seems to disagree.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/13/pepe-the-frog-...
University Of Sydney Assignment Help
The tutors help clara smith is currently pursuing his PhD at the University of Sydney. she joined Allessay writer a couple of years ago as an expert who offers support to the students who don't know Do My Homework about. See more- <a href="https://www.thetutorshelp.com/university-of-sydney-assignmen... Of Sydney Assignment Help</a>
You may have bad luck then. Anecdotal evidence from myself and friends tells me that there are better outcomes too.
> Already, the C code allows for Compile Time Function Execution, which comes for free by passing the C code through the D front end.

Oh my good gosh. D and C could be seamless together. This is great.

> I decided to flirt with heresy and leave this in

I'd love to see more C language extensions in ImportC.
Epyc also has hyperthreading. Intel's security woes have more to do with a deep corporate philosophy than anything else. Meltdown happened because Intel works with the premise: you can cheat (not respect protection domains) if nobody sees it, AMD respected the protection domains in its implementation even if not visible.
I know that my assessment is a bit inflammatory but that is what it is.
> I’ve noticed in my industry people are just much more careful about user data now

My company and all the sites that I use didn't decrease data collection by a bit. They just added consent form in place of T and C. I would like to hear any counterexamples though, that some company actually stopped collecting data that they were collecting before GDPR.
UK: http://data.gov.uk

They also have a COVID-19 dataset with a full developers guide: http://coronavirus.data.gov.uk
Estonia’s e-residency programme makes global push
No, it really isn't. We are on the way to replacing fossils.
Any love for JSON logging when aiming for central aggregation? All kinds of benefits.
That's a slight distortion of the original phrase, 'eat your cake and have it', and I think it makes more sense if you go to that meaning (to act, free of consequence). Otherwise, you're just saying that having the option to eat cake is better than not having the option to eat it, which would strike most people as being quite obvious.

You can't really eat cake without first having a cake to eat. If you eat it, you don't have cake any more; if you don't, you still have cake.

Therefore, if you want to eat your cake and have it, you want to do something but don't want the consequence of it.
Android Automotive OS Review: Under the Hood with Google’s Car OS
Very true. But GDPR is pure annoyance. I wish they would 100X consequences of offenders and quit wasting development time on the worthless permission prompts.
HPy [New C API for Python] Status Update
I don’t judge, but I rarely met anyone who spends their extra 20h on anything good. It’s mostly:

- TV/video games/Facebook

- drinking/drugs/gluttony whether as thrill-seeking or sedatives

- a creative “hobby” (i.e. another job that they’re not good at)

- “traveling” (larping to farm for Instagram validation)

I just find it more interesting to pursue my actual trade.

Of course we all need some amount of rest to stay sharp, but excesses of leisure never seem to produce much, not even happiness. YMMV.
No, that's 'just' a bad outcome of his productivity.

His contribution to 'product' is providing the service of surgery; he has done that.

But yes, overworked and tired surgeons are more likely to kill patients; killing patients bad; overworking surgeons bad. (It's just not a 'productivity' issue.)
US Zoomers: don't fall for these "faux" banks.

If the bank is less than 100 years old and it's not national, it's a fake bank.
Given how decontexualised the meme is from the source idk why the creator's perspective would be particularly authoritative
It's not about that. It's about whether it's a 'stable' solution or not.

It's the same reason why most of the chocolate sold isn't fair trade and there's often modern slavery produced beans in mainstream products.

Calls for voluntary improvement are great, and may be heeded sometimes, but aren't uniformly reliable when there is no effective legal requirement and financial incentives point the other way.
You need to break down "the world" into Chinese/Russian and other.

There have been a lot of news reports about Sino* and Sputnik having questionable efficacy. In the case of Sino, vaccinated BRI overseas workers keep showing up in other countries with corona infections.

Also, the CCP has been reported to be importing small shipments of Western corona vaccines, likely for top party members. So much for faith in Sino.
As a someone who was born before the internet became popular, I used to love paging through paper encyclopedias.

That said... https://www.nature.com/articles/438900a
Knowing the origin of the word helps choosing and deciding. The hard part isn't figuring out which choice you like more, it's which you're more ready to kill, but most people focus on which they like more.

I wrote a series of posts on using this awareness to make choosing and deciding easier, with graphs: https://joshuaspodek.com/choose-easier-visualizing-choices and https://joshuaspodek.com/choose-easier-visualizing-choices-2.
This won't work with WhatsApp because since they do not store your messages in plaintext.

I had to use some unofficial software ( https://www.wazzapmigrator.com/ ) to extract and store the messages from an unencrypted iPhone backup. Then you have everything in an sqlite file.
> saurik's reply to your comment feels to me like the epitome of the seasoned C/C++ developer _who is able and willing_ to put up with the tooling setup pains that make C/C++ a non-starter to the "average" developer today.

For me the best example I currently have of such attitude is how an internal WinDev group managed to push for getting C++/CX replaced with C++/WinRT without it being production ready.

After 4 years, still no Visual Studio support for IDL files, one has to manually copy/merge generated files into the Visual Studio project, no two way editing with XAML files, we get continuously told that it only will be fixed when ISO C++ gets compile time reflection.

Apparently they feel that is a productive experience and never came close to try out either C++ Builder or QtDesigner.

I guess they were still using raw C to deal with COM to consider this kind of downgrade as something positive.
Praise for Alpine Linux
I mean this without any snark or anything - where ?
doesn't sound like this worked in your favor, or did i get that wrong?
> One anecdote I heard was that a company had a one hour meeting with the Big Boss, who told what he wanted people to do. After that they had a two-hour meeting where they figured out what the boss meant. It was not proper to ask questions directly from the big boss.

Totally believe that. I worked at a Japanese company for 27 years, and attended a lot of meetings. Japanese managers pretty much spend their entire career in conference rooms.

The Chinese, however, have the concept of "996," which means "9AM to 9PM, six days a week." The Japanese also do that, but it's not quite as explicit.
Bingo! The slow life in small European towns, like grandfather described, works because almost everyone there is a part of the boomer generation so they are financially secure by now, with their homes or small businesses inherited across family generations or fully paid off, have no loans or debt, so then they can afford to do only the work that they enjoy and fulfills them.

Younger generations that have no family business or real estate to inherit, have no option of such a cushy lifestyle so their option is moving to big cities/wealthier countries and grind on the hamster-wheel or risk being left out of the game due to ever increasing real-estate costs and stagnating wages.

Near the Austrian alps, a region of mostly farmers in the 1950's, most of the land there could be bough and houses build for pennies, with very little regulations. A father could get a factory job with no advanced formal education, receive training from the company and make enough money to support a family, take them on vacation and even buy a second home.

Fast forward to today, real estate prices have exploded there while wages have stagnated and competition fiercely increased along with the requirements for education. Homes in that region that were just poor farmers about 7 decades ago, are now worth millions and the small family business there are making bank thanks to the tourism boom, but a factory worker today can't even dream of building a house there anymore, hell, even a SW dev can't afford to do that due to the scarcity of land and increase in regulations plus wage stagnation.
Gates divorce talks started in 2019 partly due to Jeffrey Epstein, report says
Did you evaluate the possibility of building upon Newspeak (of Gilad Bracha) instead of Smalltalk ? It seems to me a better basis as a system language since it's really thought to build systems from parts (using object capabilities, late bound classes as first-class modules/namespaces).

https://newspeaklanguage.org/
Griffith University Assignment Help
The tutors help Are you studying at Griffith University and looking for assignment support? It is a leading university and offers students many assignments to help them to better understand and learn. See more-
<a href="https://www.thetutorshelp.com/griffith-university-assignment..."> Griffith University Assignment Help</a>
This could be considered more of a problem with scientific publishing (in those fields). This is changing though, so you might see wikipedia start to reflect that.
IEEE S&P’21 Program Committee Statement Regarding the “Hypocrite Commits” Paper [pdf]
Google Hash Code – When failure teaches you much more than winning does
I don't agree. I wrote a top-level comment about my (positive) experience pairing, but I'll state it again here because its relevant to your comment:

I was on a team with one other guy working on a complex distributed-systems project. We were both principle engineers at the company. We delivered the project in under a year and as far as I'm aware from talking with former colleagues, the code is still in production without issue years later. We paired every day for about 11 months.

Yes, its mentally exhausting. You need to take regular breaks. You also need buy in from everyone involved, if one person is half-assing it, its going to fall apart.

The benefits I saw were many: better quality code (two sets of eyes on the code at all times, two people solving every problem or bug, always someone to ping ideas off), better understanding of the code/knowledge sharing (both of us fully understood every line of code written, why it was like that, what it was for), shipping on time (easier to make decisions to get it production ready quickly when two brains are working on it, easier to avoid bugs, boring tasks like documenting are easier too).

I don't think the project could have been completed in the time it was with only two people if we hadn't paired. There was also no disparity in experience or seniority, we were both quite equally matched.
Why does management experience make you unhirable?

I do program every now and then in my spare time, but not to the extent the original commenter does in his spare time.

Interview wise i am doing fine, albeit not for FAANG type roles.
Jobs and decriminalisation fixes most things, this included. Gang culture may take generations to fix.

Locking people up and removing their right to vote won't fix this.
Cheers mate - really appreciate it! More jobs (e.g ML) getting added soon, just need to convince more companies to consider applications for a 4 day week
Reminds of the great Thanos quote by seeing very opposing views in the comments below

“As long as there are those that remember what was, there will always be those that are unable to accept what can be.” (Avengers: Endgame, 2019)

Solution? Same need to reduce everything till last atom and start again..
> Only necessary ones don't need consent, but the bar for "necessary" is high: the software wouldn't be able to function without it and there's no way to implement the software without it. Think: "address" is necessary for "delivery".

Yup. That's literally the point. Phrased in an equivalent form: cookies that require consent are ones you don't actually need.

It's thus not GDPR's fault that a site opts to spam their users with a consent popup - it's their choice to include cookies that aren't required to provide the service.
I am 31 so maybe i have a chance to switch back for a few years, fingers crossed. Thanks for your replies.
You're right indeed.

I was just looking through my google drive and there's no trace of my whatsapp chat backups. Even after running another backup. And pages online confirm what you're saying.

I guess I'll have to use my GDPR rights.

Interestingly enough, there only is the possibility of exporting account information info, but the information page about that procedure explicitly says that messages are not included.

That's relevant because since there's no other procedure to export data, this means that Whatsapp is already not okay with GDPR procedures.

edit (2): I just sent an email to Whatsapp via their contact page (https://www.whatsapp.com/contact/?subject=messenger) asking for my data in accordance with GDPR. Let's see what happens.
9-9-6 (9am-9pm, 6 days a week) is common in China today.
Ah damn that sucks, what mobile / browser are you on? Mobile works ok for me, but then again I've only tested it on 1 phone / browser (!)
You have to remember that to some, as long as everyone is in abject misery, it's "fair".
Programmers are one of the best paid groups + they can switvh jobs very easy.

This probably means good job (and life?) satisfaction.

There are alsp those who crunch for months doing computer games, but supposedly they do what they love.
I think this is a legitimate question. Don't see why it's flagged. The same question can be asked for companies with HQ in China or some other countries in the middle east.

I personally have some clients of my "open source" work in some of these countries and they don't use my work for any of these reasons but I, personally, would feel iffy/wouldn't join a company with offices in some of these places. My line may be arbitrary and I could be called a hypocrite but that's my line.

One further thing I could do is to donate to these causes - for some, that would not make my working with some of these people OK, which I can understand.

On the other hand, there are a lot of people in these countries who do not agree with what is happening. Most times it's the silent minority though.
Those comments aren't entirely unreasonable. Money is important, but it can't be the be-all-and-end-all of a company.

There are companies like Sun Microsystems, and then there are companies like Oracle.

There are companies like Gandi, and then there are companies like GoDaddy.

There are companies like Fastmail, and then there are companies like Google.

I prefer to look up to the first group.
The creator's opinion is irrelevant. Pepe is just a shitposting symbol because that's what 99% of the population see it as. That's just the nature of what a meme is. It exists as an idea and is defined by how people think of it.

Most people don't call GIFs 'jiffs' just because the creator made-it-so?
What is this exactly? Is it a price discovery mechanism for datasets?
YouTube will not give out data after suspending an account, which is likely a violation.
> This is a little unwiki though.

Of course it is, but it's way less unwiki than the alternative (revert wars and wiki blocks)! Being 'BOLD' works very well when you expect your edit to stick; if you have reason to think someone will revert your edit, it's just way better to proactively show good faith by arguing for your edit on the talk page.