skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Suddenly, you have no braking power, and the steering is all weird.

One day in in the early 1990's sometime, I was driving a car that started to aquaplane on a patch of wet road. Suddenly the car felt like a boat, and shimmied a bit and spun around. It caught some traction coming out of the wet patch, and at that point I could have stopped it faster, had the power brakes not failed respond in the normal way because the engine cut.

So I ended up striking the concrete divider with the rear corner of the car. I was not moving fast at that point; I didn't hit it very hard, but enough to cause damage and that could have been avoided had the brakes worked.

The engine might have cut because of lock up due to braking without traction. This was an automatic transmission, so that's another piece of idiocy to blame. In a manual, you wouldn't brake with the intent to stop without also hitting the clutch to disengage the engine; there is a good chance the engine and power brakes would not have cut out if that had happened in a manual.

(Electric cars should also fix all this.)

It could have been a pile up; this was in fairly busy, fast moving traffic with cars all around. Everyone behind managed to avoid me, luckily, and, equally luckily, the cars in front who were likely oblivious to the situation did not come to an unrelated halt, which would have seen me careen into them.
My favorite insight lately comes from looking at the letter ell. Hebrew lamedh. Familiar to programmers, a 'lambda' function is a nameless function.

Looking at a translation of the lords prayer, wondering where the word 'hallowed' came in, since it wouldn't have been part of the original language, I delved into why hallow was the substitute for sacred, and what the origins of 'sacred' were.

Sacere, a set-aside area, so so something set aside is 'sacred'. To hallow something is to hold it in high regard, to respect it, to put it in another category other than the normal one.

The hebrews had seven holy names and EL was one of them. Imagine if you time traveled back to that time and asked random people in the fertile crescent, who or what do you worship? They technically couldn't answer that because their beliefs told them not to say that word, but they COULD say the ____

the ____

el (blank)

the the

EL EL? I worship the ____ (cant say it, leave a blank)

A blank? Like a hollow? A word with a separate category? A set-aside-area? Sacere. Sacred. So, our father hallowed be thy name is like saying you have a separate category for that name. What is the normal category for all the normal words? You can say them and you can write them. What is special about the 'sacred' words? You don't say them.
Perhaps. Oftentimes it’s driven by legacy batch processes on mainframes.

There’s a wide variety of reasons why it may make sense to carry on in that way.
What does this have to do with the parent comment?
Multicore OCaml: May 2021
This is a weirdly sexist take: to give yourself license to blame women, you’re erasing all of the men in those kids’ lives. For example, most of them have fathers and uncles, and while there’s a gender skew teaching in younger grades it’s not absolute and you’re leaving out the skew in the other direction for administrators and older grades - and if you’re talking authority figures you should be talking about principals and deans, not to mention cops.
I agree, but this stuff will be abstracted away. Everyone has a smartphone and the “average” user knows next to zero about how the device itself works.
david are you confusing Strike.org (denominates trades in tether) for Strike.me (bitcoin lightning network) ?

Please avail yourself of publicly available sources of information

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210605005045/en/Str...
But...we already have elite large undergrad programs, they’re called the UCs and the UT systems and the rest of the systems that support public ivies (both flagship and secondary campuses). UToronto, Waterloo, and UBC are all public. Our public ivies are big and produce equivalent talent while being accessible to nearly everyone through CC transfer agreements.

I don’t think there’s a bottleneck here. The real bottleneck is that people who don’t go to top schools are considered to be inherently inferior and objective failures like myself.
It's not a short story, but this is the first work of Egan's that I read and I loved it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(novel)
All tribes were being pushed westward by white settlers and it inevitably led to conflict among the tribes. But Lakota definitely did not "genocide" the Cheyenne as is obvious by the fact that they still exist in Montana and Oklahoma.

And regardless, this has nothing to do with the US government signing a treaty giving the Black Hills to Lakota "forever" and then just a few years later driving them off the land. The US government itself says what it did was illegal by its own laws.
>>It's possible, but the past ten years of bitcoin failing at the merchant use case suggests otherwise

Taxes might actually the only 'commerce' bitcoin is good for - fairly high value, low frequency. Bitcoin/Eth are both too expensive/slow to really use for everyday shopping/etc.
While I agree here, I want to clarify that I as far I know ENS still has back doors for the creators to control it until sufficient decentralization is possible and the core functionality has no major bugs.
Why does it matter if someone is Spanish to be able to cook Spanish food (or Columbian)? It is neither a sufficient, nor a necessary requirement.
And TCP/IP wasn't the only protocol floating around until it was

So another point for not worrying about a mother-in-law in her 70s as various solutions get tried and more stacks get added to the stack
This is the guy who was happy to contract with the Hell's Angels to kill people who threatened his business, right (https://www.wired.com/2015/02/read-transcript-silk-roads-bos...)?

I can be sympathetic to the libertarian view that you should be able to sell whatever you want to whoever consents to buy it, but once you talk about killing people who cause you problems, you're not the hero any more...
At least in my university, the failure rate for STEM programs is much higher than non-STEM, despite having a higher entrance average requirement. So that is some evidence for those programs being more difficult.
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I'm happy to report that my productivity has steadily decreased over the last four years. I credit this to becoming a parent, picking up more hobbies, and working from home. And yet, my compensation has doubled during that time. I really have very little to complain about these days. It's great!
These are the dream hoarder class, the upper middle class. The rest of us can’t compete and are instead destined for a life of poverty and mediocrity.

The rest of us that haven’t been intellectually or genetically blessed still have a place in society. I’m sick of being treated like a subhuman because I went to a state school and don’t make $300k a year at Facebook.
> Firstly, undergrad in America, especially at private schools like the Ivy Leagues, is more a daycare for rich kids, than it is a place of scholarship and learning. The education is certainly good, but there are plenty of other schools with rigorous academics. At these schools the children of the rich fraternize, drink and come of age with other children of the rich. The schools themselves are well connected as well but it's in large part through these bonds with their rich and powerful peers that the graduates of these schools go on to become "the elites". If you reduce the number of kids from rich and powerful families going to these places, you are going to drastically reduce the networking potential amongst classmates and start to erode school level affiliations.

I went to an Ivy and transferred out to a UC and I can definitively say that this is a highly romanticized take.
I read this article and could immediately relate. Too much anger by the media is directed at drug companies, such as opioids manufactures. They ignore the other scam that is the OTC pain medicine racket, which I think is worse. OTC drugs are not that effective and can be as dangerous as abused prescription drugs, such as kidney or liver toxicity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Council_on_Science_an...
Not to mention shared genes for educational attainment and interests.
Also California's Central Valley with salination of soil.
That's why science and statistics come in handy.

FEELings are irrelevant in the search for truth.
Creating money is wrong because it benefits those who have the power to create money vs. those who can't. It's only ethically acceptable because people don't understand it, or don't have any choice.

"One must continually put one's wealth to productive use". It's not something that should be forced on people. One should have the ability to save for a bad day and hedge against volatility in the economy. One should also have the ability to spend less in order to save the environment. You can buy gold etc. but then you miss out on the currency aspect, i.e you can't spend it easily.

And yes, obviously I'm talking about Bitcoin because it's the hardest asset ever created, and will replace fiat currencies whether you like it or not. I'm not talking about gold standard, because gold failed as money already. There aren't other options as far as I know.
I'm not an economist, but in my opinion a progressive taxation (for employees wages) can be a main limiting factor to this. Ambitions needs motivated employees. They need better wages to work harder. But it's really a steep curve after mid-wage, because taxes are _very_ progressive. So ambitions are just not worth trying.
Must be hard to keep up in a discussion!
Yeah. Sounds like a real winner.
> Heaven help you if you wanted to develop in C++ on OS X, since Apple's packaging of GCC was a total disaster.

If you were developing Mac programs in C++ back then, you were probably using Metrowerks CodeWarrior.
> A person who does nothing with their life when they could be doing something is really a narcissist.

This is not narcissism. This is sloth.

Narcissim is a active behavior/disorder that seeks out positive and negative attention through manipulation.
Not sure if this is just for fun or for research. Artificial Life is/was a field of ressearch for a while, papers were written, books were published, [1][2] etc. The field sought to study biology and the complexity of living things by experimenting with simulations of the real thing(s).

This reminds me of what IMHO is best use of artificial life in a game, Unnatural Selection. In the game you had to select and breed creatures to go against other enemy creatures. [3][4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_life

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Artificial-INSTITUTE-SCIENCES-COMPLEX...

[3] https://www.mobygames.com/game/unnatural-selection

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zteY_f9DrQA
How is that women's fault that your dad was obviously not around and you that's why you hold this asinine view? As a fellow man, grow a pair of fucking balls and ask what you can do for your country and stop blaming women. Real men used to protect women. Grow the fuck up.

I bet you want to be coddled because "it's so tough for man." Give me a break...

If this is really the mainstream thought process of men these days then we're screwed. Want to "be a man?" Solve hard problems. "Men being so manly and not fitting in because of it" is a perfect place to start. Prove your manliness by solving it.
Edited references into my comment but the edit timer expired while I was editing and I lost my work when I submitted. Let's see if I can reconstruct it here...

> In 2013, the world of international chess was shocked by an upset.

Carlsen was the favorite going into the match.[1][2][3]

> A young 22 year-old prodigy from Norway, Magnus Carlsen, defeated the reigning world champion, Viswanathan Anand of India, in a series of 10 spellbinding games.

The games had their moments but none are considered classics, and a few were spoiled by the players' nerves.[4]

> The common wisdom has long said that older chess players win on experience over younger, more talented ones.

Not at all the common wisdom in a sport where 7 of the top 10 are under 35.[5]

> But when Carlsen emerged victorious, something different was on display. Carlsen was the first chess world champion to have trained primarily against sophisticated chess AIs available on personal computers as he grew up in the 2000s.

A common myth Carlsen has dispelled many times -- he seldom used chess computers growing up.[6]

[1] https://ratings.fide.com/toparc.phtml?cod=277

[2] https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/odds-for-world-cham...

[3] http://www.worldchesschampionship2013.com/2013/11/gm-ian-rog...

[4] https://en.chessbase.com/post/chennai-09-thrilling-fight-tar...

[5] https://2700chess.com/

[6] https://en.chessbase.com/post/magnus-carlsen-i-don-t-quite-f...
UIUC is a fairly huge assumption. Are you sure you want to do that?

I think you're imaging a person that has more advantages than you do (or I did -- UIUC wouldn't have me). That's very likely not the case, at least not nearly as much as you think. Don't sweat it.

You're not screwed, and it's not a competition anyway. I came from humble academic beginnings and failures and managed to get a job I love that pays the bills and helps me save for the future. It was the passionate people I met that got me through it, not the credentials of the university (by quite a long shot)
That's having a tightly knit society where people take care of each other instead of ignoring the poor people to die alone.
I appreciate being able to open the comments and read the essence of the article along with a clarification correcting the messaging in the clickbaity title.

Thank you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bartley

See also: Geppetto, Jonah
I was prescribed colace to address constipation, but I was curious about the mechanism and timing of its effect, so I took a glance at the research. It was worse than this Tylenol business. It seems to be pure placebo, but it's by far the dominant remedy.
But they don't really care about what the applicant's race is.

What they care about is how that person contributes to the metrics they're trying to maximize, or in the case of Asians, minimize.

To them, a 1/4 Black person 3/4 Asian person, and a full Black person, are exactly the same thing, as long as they're both incrementing the same number in their diversity report.
I know a kid that is a bit at risk of this. The issue i see isn’t lack of discipline as much as it is lack of passion or motivation for anything. If you explore their desire for the future it is a complete blank. Nothing is interesting to them, the future just seems dark and grim, they are resolute about not having children and it feels like, to them, the world is committing slow-motion suicide and there’s no sense in getting emotionally invested in any particular outcome.
Ask HN: Who are some of the best programmers alive today?
Ask HN: Who are some of the best programmers alive today?

This is not meant to become a flame / opinion war. I am legitimately curious, who do you think are some of the best programmers alive today, and why?

The reason for asking is so we can learn from each other, and these "top programmers", from what they do and how they got there, so we can become better ourselves.

I am new and still learning, would love your thoughts.
Just want to add, you can be addicted to any number of other things to suit your avoidance needs.

I have hope for people who are addicted to video games though, because I know they have obtained the knowledge/capability to figure out the underlying metagames and redeploy those skills to other areas of their life. And judging by the anecdotes on this thread it looks promising.

Now imagine if they're addicted to drugs; They'll be having another health problem to resolve. If you have a choice of being addicted to something at least let it be video games.
Guix is pretty cool, and I'll probably switch to it one day.

But as of now, it lacks some basic stuff like KDE suit. The nonguix channel AFAIK doesn't have binary builds so you'll be building quite a few packages yourself. Using nonguix also means you can't expect support in official support channels. Just something to know before you start.
I’ve had migraines my entire adult life. Over the years I tried a number of prescription drugs with limited success. Tylenol is the only thing I have tried that works. It is night and day. Before Tylenol I lived in fear of early migraine signs and now I don’t. It may not work for many but it works for me.
they have indeed gotten longer as I suspected

https://jeffbloem.com/2018/07/27/are-economics-papers-too-lo...

I duno why the original comment was down-voted so much. shorter papers are quicker to read and faster to compose. If shorter papers were good enough 30 years go, why not now?
I disagree because you’re succeeding at the expense of the rest of us. Have you considered 99.5% of people will never step one foot on an elite school campus? I’m sick of society being catered to your whims while the rest of us are dismissed as stupid and innately less qualified.

Objectively speaking, my life is absolutely terrible BECAUSE of elites like you hoarding opportunity and people like me getting nothing because I only got a 1500/1600 and didn’t know about research opportunities in high school. I’m barely 25 but my life is already irretrievably broken because the elites want to segregate themselves from “my kind” so bad.
By throwkeep, koolba, paulpauper in the past 24 hours: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Half%20of%20the%20pandemic%27s...
Possibly, but I've also seen white color workers with steady jobs and nice houses have a psychotic breaks because of heavy meth use. So perhaps it not all survival stress and the drugs have some affect as well.
'in the top 20' sounds like scraping the barrel.

London is second. There isn't an EU country until 10. There isn't really a lot of Europe on that list, is there? Europe is generally outperformed by regional US cities.
Well this needs to be suppressed fast.
At the companies I've worked for we were prohibited from ever giving out OTP codes. If you lost you ability to generate one it meant you need to submit a request through the ticket system and come into the office if you need to provision it. Certainly a request like this should never come from slack.
> and it seemed like WFH devs were spending 15-30% more time in non-development tasks

Why did it seem like this and how was it measured?
If you managed to evolve huge organisms eating lots of small ones while both species survive than that was a predator and prey stability.
What country is it, mind sharing the name?
Made a throwaway for obvious reasons. I'm in the middle of that year right now. I was doing well - transferred from community college to a top university studying engineering. Perfect grades, several prestigious summer internships. Then I had a depressive episode. Grades went down the toilet, had to leave school. Spent a year getting my life back together, but the depression never really went away. I went back to school part time and was slowly finishing my degree, though never achieving at the same level as before. Things were kind of working. Then covid happened and the lockdown was basically a perfect storm that destroyed all of the fragile systems I had created to get by. Got kicked out of school this time. Now I'm in my late 20's, with no degree and no relevant job experience, sitting in my old bedroom and trying to figure out what the hell to do with my life. From where I am now it really does feel like this is going to be the rest of my life. I can't speak for anyone else, but playing video games or watching youtube all day is the absolute last thing I want, but it feels like just about the only thing I can do right now, and at least it's a distraction from all of the opportunities that are now out of reach.
I do think it's important to think critically and not just do something for the sake of doing it. Testing well is not easy to get right. If your tests are constantly changing, then the tests are probably too coupled with the implementation. However, I think it's safe to say that the user wants some level of consistency in the product. If your tests captured what needs to stay consistent, you should theoretically see less churn in the test code.

There are other ways to get a stable system. It seems like the code that you're working on doesn't see much code churn and you have a good understanding of the system. This is definitely a situation where I see testing not being as valuable.

I think one of the big reasons testing is considered a good practice is we're relying more on dependencies that need to be updated somewhat frequently, and semver is not taken as seriously, especially in certain web ecosystems. There's a decent chance you don't work in such an ecosystem where it's not an issue, but that's the biggest reason for me to advocate for testing.

The other big reason is that it's easier to make changes in a codebase that you aren't familiar with when tests are available. This is especially true with software that may have non-obvious corner cases.
every company I've worked for that's gone public (3 of them now) has had blackout periods
(2017), and posted multiple times before, but only one such thread that I found had any comments on it -- just one here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16423434
adding "(for us)" would have taken the edge out of their title, I am thinking..
I looked at Slingshow and wish I could

- host multiple events under one registration - as in a conference with multiple tracks and let’s say 50 webinars in the same day

- show a single page listing said events - only to registered attendees

- have control over who registers, including api integration for our event registration site

- have control over the event interface - presentation side by side with speaker, speaker bios, other docs
You can downvote all you want. Some projects are sensitive enough to not allow third party authentication (military systems anyone).

Besides, if you're large enough it makes business sense to do it yourself anyway.
The only way that you can be surrounded by women for your entire upbringing is if you don't engage in sports. Sports are typically hours per day. Coaches are absolute authority figures, and there are very few female coaches.

I can't think of any men that never played sports but are somehow punished for being "so masculine"
I had a bit of math anxiety from high school. When I went to college my first choice of major required calculus, which was taught over two semesters. I made a D in the first semester and changed my major to one that didn't require calculus. But by my senior year I had spent enough time around engineering students and others and had gained a lot of confidence in my ability. For no other reason than sheer stubbornness, I retook that calculus class and made an A. I very nearly scored a 100% on the final exam. I haven't been anxious about math since, but I've never devoted the time to become proficient at anything that doesn't directly apply to my software development career. I do love some math and when I took a self-taught course in ML it dredged up some forgotten bits of vectors and matrices from high school pre-calculus.
> If shorter papers were good enough 30 years go, why not now?

Society can only support so many high-status cathedral positions, but the competition has increased significantly.
When etherium and bitcoin forked, the distributed consensus algorithms didn't resolve it. People decided which forks they wanted to use themselves.

That's not much different than git frankly for any given open source project.
Kids spends their whole days getting bossed around by teachers. Kids usually doesn't even know who the dean or administrators are, those aren't authority figures to kids. And I choose 15 years as the cut-off since that is roughly when you start seeing male teachers.
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