skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tangential curiosity: S-expression languages with lexical binding seem like they still require context-sensitive codewalkers in order to reliably search for patterns that involve any literal symbol that isn't constrained out of that mechanism¹, don't they? What's your strategy for this, just ignore it and hope for the best, or punt to interactive handling for any cases that look slightly tricky? (Or is that still small enough to count as "few lines"?)

¹ For instance, I believe CL forbids lexically binding symbols from the CL package in ways that might conflict with the original definitions. But if you want to find uses of a particular library call from some other non-special package in a sound way, then you have to assume someone might flet that name, due to the way locals work. The underlying codewalker issue is roughly dual to the functioning of non-hygienic macros.
The running joke where I live is that junior developers work with coding, senior developers work with people.
We have reached a point where the pandemic is only a problem for customer facing jobs. It's exactly those jobs that cant find enough workers.
Maybe not the NSA:

One thing I learned recently, which made the effect of the 2011 flood on the HD market worst: Aramco purchased a big chunk of several months of the world supply of hard drive to recover from Shamoon in 2012, by replacing every HD in the company [1]

[1] https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/30/
The crazy thing is, I was recently looking for a simple financial tracking app, and MOST of them required you to log in with your bank ID and password. I thought it was insane to give a third party that kind of access, but it was hard to find an app that didn't almost require that as a core functionality for it to work.
They don't ask for your passcode to effect a repair, as they don't need it. Did she have no passcode on the device at all?
> I have a questionable habit of working into the evening, and sometimes on weekends.

I'm assuming you are an employee. If not, then my comment may not apply. If I were in the same team as you, the fact that you also work on the weekends will make me feel a bit uncomfortable. I would never tell you that because I believe one do with his life what one wants, but putting it on perspective:

- we are suppose to be "professionals". Among other things, being a profressional means: to work the "correct" amount of hours. Not more, not less. Since it's difficult to compute "the correct amount of hours", we usually take the 40h/week Monday-Friday as the "standard". So, it's obvious that upper management will love to have people working more hours because in 90% of the companies out there the work that needs to be carried on (e.g., plain CRUD apps) is directly dependant of the amount of hours the team puts in it. So, as an employee as well, I wouldn't like to be in the position of "the guys who just works 40h/week" and don't get any decent salary raise.

> I'm given both freedom and responsibility. I'm early in my career.

Young people can work all day, so that's why you haven't experimented anything bad yet. If you take advice from people on in the internet, then here it goes mine: I'm in my late 30s, and if there is one thing I could fix in my early years as a software engineer it would be to work less for my company and more for me.
> Scan your technical writing for words such as easy, painless, straightforward, trivial, simple and just. Chances are your writing will be clearer as a result of removing them.

I don't know, I really love when I see someone using painless, easy or trivial, my experience is usually that. I think they are nonnegotiable if you have a clue about what you are dealing with.
Because of Big Santa (ie. parents). And that promptly fails when the cost of maintaining the Santa system gets too big (ie. as the child's mental faculties develop, plus as the child interacts with the outside world not controlled by the parents).

So unless we all are living in a very well orchestrated NSA Truman show, it's unlikely that your argument applies.
Speculating here but I think "Swiss German" itself isn't one dialect and is made up of various dialects (as you mention) and I wonder if having it recognized would mean deciding on what a "standard" variant of that would look like - opening up a whole lot of other questions and complications.
Hard to make a sliding scale work when the scale is "the less you work, the less money you make, the more you pay for insurance."
> This particular drive model was reported to have unusually high failure rates, approximately 5.7 times higher fail rates in comparison to other 3 TB drives.

Some anecdata: I have exactly two of these drives in my home NAS. The other two were WDC_WD30EZRX, one of them already failed, while the ST's are still going. All purchased in 2016.
From 2015 to 2020Q1, 753 unarmed people were killed by US police for an average of about 145/year or approximately one every 60 hours / 2.5 days.

Key quote: "The victims were unarmed in 1 in 6 (753;16%) fatal shootings."

https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/fatal-police-shootings-...

For balance, this 2018 gives lower numbers - hovering around 60ish per year. Although that is still significantly higher than 9.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/fatal-police-s...
Which option do you think will generate the largest bribes?
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>And indeed, you can have a fruitful discussion about the relative merits of programming languages, so long as you exclude people who respond from identity.

the thing is, that those people speaking from identity have an actual experience with the topic - biased or not.

so you may not want to exclude them, so I guess the solution is - get mature participants?

examples: If I received 1 cent for every read that .NET is Windows only in last 2 years I'd have like 4 cents.

I've always liked "holy wars" between Java and C# because those were often between people who were deeply into their stack and you could learn a lot.
If we talk about revolution we could take a look at the French one and see how things can turn up. I see a lot of parallels in terms of terms/narrative: privilege, virtue, reactionaries.
Awesome! Very useful. Thanks!
More generally, if one views probability as separate from the utility of the outcome it's attached to, one is bound to make bad decisions.

Real decision problems contain a lot of nonlinearities if decomposed the wrong way. The only way to decompose it is as a linear combination of probability and utility (because the utility swallows the nonlinearities). But for each component both probability and utility matters in determining the overall value of the decision.
It is definitely an idiotic and corrupt project, but how would it help Copenhagen to buy a part of Sweden? There's plenty of farmland in Denmark that could be used, including within bicycle distance of the center.
ghci also gives you a list of names if it can't find the variable you typed wrong. I'm not certain but i assume they use Levenshtein aswell. I definitivly use Demarau-Levenshtein for the same feature in pjass.
I think one of the things that hasn't aged well is this:

> There are certainly some political questions that have definite answers, like how much a new government policy will cost.

Well sure, how much a new government policy will cost does have an answer. It's not knowable before you implemenent the policy. I bet you there's someone in this thread that will argue, with facts, that a $15 minimum wage will boost the economy and increase tax revenue. I bet there's someone who can argue the reverse. I bet both sides will be able to cite both partisan and "non-partisan" organisations to back up their argument.

I'm not sure what PG was saying there was true in 2009 (post Obamacare) but certainly it doesn't hold up now.

I also don't think that intransigent discussion on the issue would be the result of threatening identities, but instead based on people's values and assumptions about human nature which largely cannot be definitively proven right or wing.

This translates into code too - there are people I'm not going to argue with about their code, because I value simplicity and velocity in development whilst they're far more interested in optimizing every single line to the nth degree. I think what they're doing is bad engineering, but I'm not going to change their value system.
Peer review definitely could and should have caught the fake data in this case - there were too many implausible things about this paper that one could verify with a google search and see cannot be right.

In fact, it took people about one day from publication to start pointing them out with proof - and these people were (supposedly) less qualified than the peer reviewers.

It is true that, with properly faked data, a reviewer cannot be expected to catch it. Nor can p-hacking generally be discovered from an incomplete description.

But quite a bit of faked and even p-hacked data is less-than-competently done in a way that a reviewer can and should be able to catch;

And observational data or meta-study are much easier to verify, since no experiment was done by the researcher either.
30 or 40 likes is not nothing. I think your motivation would be lower if no one at all cared about what you do despite you sharing it.
> This is why the software industry continues to decline

Nope, its bad communication. Imagine I quoted Feynman here, its a lot like clever code. If you can make it fast, but only if its unreadable, then you really don't understand the problem space.

All of this attitude sounds very much like alchemist talk, rather than engineering. Real engineering (that is stuff that's physical like bridges etc) needs to be clearly designed and documented so that other people can build it.

Software design feels a lot like a bunch of alchemists refusing to delegate, keeping the sacred knowledge close at hand, lest the apprentice steals it and starts up on their own.

> the world would look like if everyone was encouraged to do the same in other (natural) languages.

have you read james joyce? no, because its impenetrable "clever" English. Its an exercise in self absorbed intellectual masturbation. When ever people talk about it, they say how daring, how innovative it is, they never say its enjoyable, because its not.

You can broadly say the same of The picture of Dorian Grey, its got some cracking one liners, but the rest of it is a mess. Compared to Joyce, its a marvel of concise clear English. Its still not overly readable.

Clever code can be readable. However the vast majority of people that write clever code, don't intend it to be readable, they intend it to be a statement of their prowess.
And even if you do choose your identity, you seldom have the luxury of choosing whether it is controversial or not.

PG has spent the majority of his adult life promoting the "hacker" identity and forming communities for such people. A bit rich for him to tell others to put their identity back into their box because strongly believing in the merits of a particular religious belief, political cause or cultural identity turns out to create more conflict than strongly believing in solving problems with software
Evidently you know little or nothing about the EU. Taxation by member states of the EU is a sovereign national competence and the Irish have both a veto over change and a likely requirement to hold a national referendum over any change.

If you do some research you'll find that there is zero evidence of any EU countries shifting profits to Ireland. Almost all of the profit shifting which Ireland is blamed for facilitating is undertaken by a handful of US MNCs enriching their shareholders at the expense of US taxpayers via mechanisms enabled first and foremost by the US govt

https://economic-incentives.blogspot.com/2018/06/who-shifts-...

I recommend spending some time reading https://irisheconomy.ie
It’s easy to pretend your physical characteristics don’t matter when people don’t discriminate against you based on them.
The article only mentions the employees posted it from her Facebook account. Protocols have likely changed significantly since this happened in 2016.
GP would be more accurate if it replaced the word "economists" with "employers."
As another Dutch person, I've never seen this disagreement here either.
I also associate that ambiguity solely with Americans.
There are three major reasons why those get deleted.

1: Intent matters and advocacy is not permitted on Wikipedia. A lot of people don't like this rule or think it can be ignored if they don't demand payment for it.

2: You can't editing Wikipedia to bring awareness of something while at the same time fulfill the notability requirements. The top 50 academics are important for their fields, and can also be completely unknown for the rest of the world. As an example, people in sport, music and cinema are much more common to have an Wikipedia article about them then academics. This does not mean academics are less important to society, but it does reflect notability.

3: As others has marked, writing a article about yourself or by a representative is heavily discouraged. This runs in the same vein as advocacy.
It seems to be in pretty heavy use

https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=2118801&itype=CMSI...

https://archive.thinkprogress.org/nsa-tries-to-keep-its-wate...
I may be missing something, but if you sell a CD with images that you advertise are ready to use, how can you sue someone for actually using them?

In this instance I have to side with Capcom. I can see where the artist might wish that they had a per-use royalty though.

Turned the other way this could have been an opportunity to show the value of purchasing this book and CD combo.
Even here, there is an implicit "after the current stop" in some cases. Hearing the announcer say "now stopping at Y, the next stop is X" is not incorrect but technically the next stop is Y.

This is the same when referring to dates. "Next Friday" often has an implicit "after this week".
next implies the future when talking about time. Also for the matching words in other Germanic languages in my experience.
You've hit on why people are easily seduced by the concept of post-scarcity.

Bits aren't free, but they are too cheap to meter. If I divide the time it takes to download an ebook by the amount I pay for Internet per month, it comes out to bupkis, even after I try and account for the percentage of my storage it uses up.

But a cup of sugar, and anything else made of atoms, is fundamentally different. There's no obvious route to sugar being too cheap to meter.

An old English idiom for getting something very cheap was "I got it for a song". So this kind of post-scarcity has been with us for a long time: anyone can sing a song, singing was never scarce.
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>The article only mentions the employees posted it from her Facebook account. Protocols have likely changed significantly since this happened in 2016.

Right — presumably directly from her phone, which is also where the photos and video were stored.

Hence, since they don't ask for the device passcode during service, I'm suggesting that the owner may well have not had a passcode on it at all, allowing the repair facility unfettered access to its content, including the ability to post as her from her Facebook account.
If 20 k is a substantial amount to you, that probably means you don't have a very high salary. The good thing about that is that this probably means that your spending is also very low, so you could probably stop working for 4 months or so and learn programming. Work hard and you'll be earning 100 k a year in less than 5 years.
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A Programmer Developed a Text Reader App for His 80-Year-Old Grandpa
> The term "well regulated" in the second amendment means something like "in good working order".

I'm sorry, but this is just laughable on the face of it. You see, I'm French (as hinted by the mis-autocorrect of "too"), and "regulated" (well, "régulé") means the same in contemporary French as in contemporary English. And the meaning comes straight from Latin (regula: rule, law), probably by way of 1066 like most legal terms.

The notion that "regulate" means anything but regulate IN A LEGAL DOCUMENT of all places is thus ridiculous. Or at the very least utterly implausible. But maybe you're right; I can't fail to notice you don't provide any proof for this improbable claim.

> Another thing you'll learn immediately by reading that discussion is that one of the primary purposes of the second amendment was to prevent the United States from having a standing army...

Another unsubstantiated claim, and just as improbable on the face of it. In any case nothing in that wording even hints at that.
My original thought was they were threatening violence to the tech that came out
This certainly is annoying. Many years ago when I first found Wikipedia, I would sometimes just type in my notes from some university classes. It was kind of a garbled mess, but every time it just took a couple days and someone had edited it, turning into a decent article.

These days even much higher quality content will be deleted. For something to be accepted now it needs to be like something written by a professional writer and follow all kinds of guidelines for style, citations and much more immediately. Nobody fixes issues anymore, if there's any issues or something is not very well written it will be deleted immediately.
It would be a huge risk not adding business use to your policy and paying the extra premium, especially in the US were people are so litigious
you can find out what week number it is on https://ugenr.dk/

I guess they are going to wonder why the non-danish visits today.

on edit: wrong address oops
> you can admit to yourself that you are attracted to a variety of genders without thinking of yourself as being queer.

Sure, I can think of myself as bisexual instead, which I do. (tongue in cheek)

I can't speak for anyone else, but for me, bisexuality can't not be part of my identity. Like @eyelidlessness, it took a long time to come to the conclusion. It affects how others see me, how they treat me, if they'll date me, etc. It caused heartbreak, depression, and so on. These are all experiences that set me apart from most other people, whether I want them to or not. If that's not identity, I don't know what is. As one ages and settles down, these things can become less central to your identity, but they're still there and important. Stoicism is one thing, but dismissing the difficulties experienced when going against the grain in any area of life is wishful thinking.

I think Paul Graham could have gone one step further in his analysis. Identity is the combination of labels, community and emotion. Labels are very valuable tools as shortcuts in discussions. They can also lead to dissonance, when definitions don't align or context is missing.

The community aspect, especially in rainbow or mental health issues (not an exhaustive list), can be critical to well-being and survival. Could you find the same support network somewhere else? Yes, and plenty of people do, but that doesn't discount the value of the Pride movement or the Trevor project, for instance. The downside of community is it can evoke tribalistic tendencies.

What Graham seems to take issue with most is the emotional component of one's identity. What's relevant here is not whether you have emotions about your identity, but whether you can set them aside long enough to have a dispassionate discussion. It does require that participants have a healthy emotional baseline, are mature enough not to take everything personally and retain an open mind.

I feel it's also important to point out that there is a difference between having an identity and being an identitarian. You can be bisexual without being an activist. You can be an activist without going full woke and thinking of every interaction as power balances and oppression dynamics.

We can choose whether it becomes a central part of our lives, whether we need to surround ourselves with only like-minded people or whether we enter into discussions looking to be offended, be right or exchange ideas. In that sense, it's no different from having a political opinion, a profession, musical tastes, a hobby or anything else.
> The whole point is that if malware gets root access

Strictly true, in that if it does get root access, and is aware of zfs snapshots and deletes them, then yes. Nothing you can do.

More typically, the malware runs as the user id and has no awareness of zfs, so it just overwrites files the user owns. Which can be trivially undone with snapshots.

As with everything related to security there is no absolute, but every layer helps.
I'm not (yet) using a scoring rule for my work-in-progress uncertainty test[1] of calibration, but only Beta posteriors, which are also a neat way of presenting the result of many predictions.

I am slightly more fond of log scoring than the Brier score, though, for the reason mentioned in another comment: being somewhat wrong is often worse than being very right, and should be penalised harder numerically.

[1]: https://static.loop54.com/uncertainty-test.html

(By the way, I build this to practise myself -- but I ran into a problem: I know the answers to all propositions, having written them myself... if anyone wants to contribute propositions, please contact me and I'll ask for them in a specific format so I can blindly paste them without knowing the true ones.)
After thinking a bit more about it "next exit" is the most immediate if you don't see any exits. If you are getting close to an exit you see and ask "is this our exit?" the answer can be "no, not this but next exit", or when giving directions you can say "not this exit, but next".

Language is not easy and full of ambiguity, which is why language majors haven't taken over software development
To be honest I have no quarry against RDP. You download a sandboxed app from the store and just use it. Meanwhile Citrix offers an installer that puts 3 services on your computer and then you need to run another another installer to be able to use conferencing.

Why does shadow.tech and even self hosted Rainway can offer a seamless gaming desktop experience on a simple client or browser while billion dollars Citrix lots of services running on background?
Walking through shallow bodies of water?
The broad money supply has shot up by almost 33% in roughly one year: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL. Even though some prices have already gone up, we haven't felt the full effect of this yet because we're still emerging out of the pandemic and money velocity hasn't reverted to trend: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V. Roughly speaking, price level = money velocity * broad money supply.
Do you know which of these proposed changes is actually happening? I don't think all of them are, right?
This makes sense though doesn’t it? Rebuilding an array is a very heavy load op, and putting components that have been around for a while under heavy load seems like a good and fast way to expose failing parts.
The first six paragraphs of this were really well put.

Then you spun off into tired partisan flamewar.

dang devotes a lot of energy to encouraging people not to do that, so I'm going to do the same here.
D is like native Python (2015)
> You don’t need to move anything because once you need to read the data, you just read the index. Every 10 seconds a process or a thread reads the ordered data with a FLUSH bit set which tells this merge queue to empty everything out.

Elasticsearch, IIRC, does this.

See also: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/b6SI8VbcT4w