skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went into this software engineering productivity research rabbit hole a decade ago and came away similarly depressed with the lack of rigor in our field.

What I’ve come to believe:

- Software engineering is not an engineering discipline, it is a craft. It may or may not one day become an engineering discipline, I find this impossible to tell.

- The difference between a feature and a bug is largely one of semantics, not of substance. A defect is a mismatch between expected behavior and actual behavior. A bug is when the expectation was that of the programmer that wrote the code. A feature request is when the expectation was that of a user. There is no real difference for the user between a missing feature and a broken feature. Hence why we so often get side-tracked into fruitless “bug or feature” discussions and why users don’t care when we say it is by design.

- Errors will happen. People are flawed and produce errors at a more or less set average rate for each person (unless they’re tired or enjoying a ballmer peak). Errors in every step of the process, from design to deployment, are inevitable. We can however catch these inevitable errors, with automated error detection tools, or by having a fresh set of eyes look at the work. The consequence is that making high quality software necessitates taking a look at the whole process and introducing error detection steps in every part of it, whether they be automated like linters and unit tests, or human like design and code review or mentoring and pair programming.

- Errors in design are more costly because they cause entire features to need to be written or rewritten, which is the most costly kind of defect to resolve. We do not need research to know this to be true. We solve this by having short feedback loops with real users, which is the only real form of agile development.
I have my suspicion that medical devices aren't as rigidly programmed as the general public would like. Ie programmed by a biomedical/electrical engineer who isn't really a software specialist. But I'd be keen to hear from someone in the trenches.
> Ever since Discourse set the standard for "good self-hosted open source forum software,"

I know this is besides your point, but I wouldn't credit Discourse with any standards but horrible UX. It's the worse of (new) Reddit combined with the worst of forum software. Horrendous.
Are you kidding me? Talk about missing the forest for the trees.

The general agenda of the proposal is quite clear. It is to advance this social Marxist agenda through the teaching of Mathematics. Why is this a good thing? Maths can be purely neutral. Why do you have to infect everything with this shit?

To quote the referenced section in full:

> Ms. Ross teaches fifth grade at the Jackie Robinson Academy. She has been focusing on developing her students’ sociopolitical consciousness through language arts and wants to bring mathematics into their thinking (SMP.1, 2). To begin the process, the class is led in an analysis of word problems from their fifth-grade mathematics textbook (NF.1, 2, 4, 5, 6). Ms. Ross selects three word problems to connect with the class’s current read-aloud of George, a novel by Alex Gino that shares the story of a 10-year-old transgender fourth grader and her struggles with acceptance among friends and family. In doing so, the teacher is reflecting the recommendations of California’s Health Framework, which suggests that sensitive discussions of gender are important for students (https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/he/cf/).

Really? We are now teaching fifth graders about about 10 year old TRANSGENDER FOURTH GRADER. I don't want my kids to learn about gender from social constructionists whose views are divorced from reality.
How to compute Kaplan-Meier survival curves in SQL
Well, for that matter the original C on PDP-11 wouldn't have either, it also only had one integer size. We should all just blame ISO C ;-)
im not sure how souls and SD cards come into this.
Exactly. Which is why this story takes a different turn. It follows the process of cell-cultured meat technology.
Genuine question - what is the appeal of a text-based game? Is it that you can play async? Something else? Like why not just play a regular video game with regular controller and graphics?
The difference between theoretical physics and mathematics is 1) the subject and 2) the criterion of truth.
But now they are taking all the risk and it would make sense to just pay you a salary and keep the 100%
https://archive.is/EZoMP
I can't say the generated code is better than Playwright's. What I think it brings a better UX and fast recording flow
It also could easily be part of what ensures that nobody goes to space in the next 50+ years while kestler syndrome takes over
European Beach Handball Championships: Norway hit with 1,500 euros bikini fine
Having better guides is exactly what will solve the issue though. Unless you're making some kind of inherent argument, where all meditation is inherently nebulous and impervious to methodological approaches.

The guides may or may not be qualified. So the real problem is the lack systematization of it in meditation, more specifically a more reliable metric to judge "guides". As the extensive literature on meditation quite clearly outlines the limitations and dangers of various practices.

Tantra for example is quite clear about the dangers of practicing it.
Yes. It happened before, so it was not exactly hard to guess.

https://capsule8.com/blog/exploiting-systemd-journald-part-1...
Vipassana and Marijuana lead me to a full-blown psychosis for 2 weeks in a medical center which unraveled my mind and the perception of my world. But I also feel I have a deeper understanding of myself and how balances in my mind work, having now recovered. I was forced to reconstruct my mind manually.
Before this my control over my depression and anxiety was null, but now I may be getting off of medication soon.
So, what about discovery?

How do I find out who is currently on PinePage, and what kind of content they are hosting?

YouTube, Patreon, OnlyFans — they all have some method of discovery, at least for most content.

Where’s your discovery?
This is more expensive, slower internet access for most people, no?

Satellites aren't going to beat cables
Which leads to possibly an interesting legal question: If a third-party is vouching for the quality of a given copyright-infringing torrent, are they liable for the copyright-infringement of the people who download that torrent based on its positive rating?

Some jurisdictions have decided that running a search engine for torrents (especially if it doesn't remove results which rights holders claim are leading to copyright infringement) does make the site operator liable.

I suppose if we are being strict, what we are talking about is vouching for the quality of a .torrent metadata file, which can be downloaded by a torrent client without legal problems from the author of that metadata, and it's only when the metadata is used to download the torrent contents that copyright infringement occurs.

The thought experiment I've considered is what would happen if there were a site where people could vote on short hex sequences of a certain length, to decide which sequences are the best. It could be called the "I Rate Bay", because users give each (hash) sequence a rating from 1 to 10.

Of course all of this ignores the fact that by participating in these ratings, someone is probably incriminating themselves by saying they have not only downloaded the torrent contents but read/installed/watched/listened to it. Using that as the basis of a case against someone seems almost reasonable, but pursuing a "contributory infringement" angle strays a little too far into freedom-of-speech violating territory, in my opinion.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_(computing)

Microsoft lets any program use that UI: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/windowsribbon...

I've only seen a few programs take up the offer though. Probably because the style is almost synonymous with MS Office as you've noted
> Knowledge work does look different from physical work, but you can work hard at both; you need to work hard at either to be successful.

Classist wage disparity is a real problem in America today. Often knowledge workers who don't work hard earn more than physical workers who do work hard.
Every therapist I've gone to has suggested this meditation, along with cognitive behavior therapy and medication.
Would a Costco style membership work for food?

Attract better behaved customers, match fixed vs variable expenses better, attract more regular customers.

Though you run into restaurants being a terrible industry with too much competition.
I know that the open function on files is very slow. This makes opening many small files very slow.
It is good to keep in mind that the Rust language still has lots of trade-offs. Security is only one aspect addressed by Rust (another is speed), and hence it is not the most "secure" language.

For example, in garbage collected languages the programmer does not need to think about memory management all the time, and therefore they can think more about security issues. Rust's typesystem, on the other hand, can really get in the way and make code more opaque and more difficult to understand. And this can be problematic even if Rust solves every security bug in the class of (for instance) buffer overflows.

If you want secure, better use a suitable GC'ed language. If you want fast and reasonably secure, then you could use Rust.
That's until musk needs to bail out his family by buying one of their failing businesses like with solar city
I suppose the tech industry is trying to take cues from the entertainment industry insofar as turning all news into petty gossip. This is in a word: pathetic.
Colorado's legalisation of weed passed the popular vote 55:45. In these days of partisan bickering, 57% is a massive majority.
Any kind of guided meditation? Specifically focused on aspects of ADHD? And how did it change your life?
But my point is that they could have achieved most of it without those specific policies. For instance, we now have a situation where instead of working 40 hours per week without health insurance, people in many occupations can only get 29 hours scheduled. So not only did it utterly fail in its goal of getting more people signed up for insurance, but it actively made the lives of those people worse by stunting their earning power unless they try to piece two part jobs into one week with all the chaos that involves.

It's just awful incentive alignment and I see it time and time again in government policies that were developed with good intentions in mind.
It's taking longer than I would have thought for this meme to soak in for the general public. I knew this back in college, but that was a bit ago...

There isn't a lot of room at the top in film (at least until the creator economy table flips Hollywood). Likewise, there aren't many paid positions for historians, philosophy professors, etc.

Kids need to understand that their top priority should be to understand the shape of the economy and how to make themselves a valuable, indispensable part of it. Doing this early affords much greater freedom and leisure later in life.

Basically, kids need to understand supply and demand for careers. If they don't, it greatly impacts their future stability and happiness.
I'll say "yes" if it improves the odds of someone who has used both explaining what the difference between Node-Red and Octoblu is.
I've heard that the justification for this is that allowing testing would let illegal drug manufacturers to become more effective at making drugs.

Of course allowing testing could save a lot of lives too, but that's apparently never been the true motivation of the War on Drugs.
If you are only worried about analyzing a specific quantum system, then yes, for most part the interpretation does probably not matter. But I think in general the differences are very important, especially as we do not understand quantum mechanics and different interpretations will direct future research in different directions. If you believe in Copenhagen, you will try to figure out how to reconcile unitary evolution with wave function collapse. If you believe in Bohmian mechanics, you will think about the quantum equilibrium hypothesis. If you believe in many worlds, you might be thinking about energy conservation.
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I like to imagine that some developer commented out that line to allow for spying on Canadian persons and left a "TODO: find better way to identify US numbers" that was never fixed.
yet compare entry level for programming and waiter job

people with engineering degree struggle to find job as SE.

let alone that you need to put hundreds/thousands of hours into it in your free time

and then still learn a lot as dev in order to move up

i'm not saying that it makes SE harder, just different.
Sorry, really uh much higher than usual traffic is causing all kinds of issues. Looking into it...
U.S. Department of Energy unveils blueprint for the quantum internet: https://news.fnal.gov/2020/07/u-s-department-of-energy-unvei...

Fermilab and partners achieve sustained, high-fidelity quantum teleportation: https://news.fnal.gov/2020/12/fermilab-and-partners-achieve-...
Even accounting for that (ignoring that the data served over FTP and HTTP aren't always perfectly equivalent), it still leaves a lot of stuff that is only served over ftp.

Google found it a convincing enough argument to warrant re-enabling ftp support last year, in light of the pandemic: https://www.theregister.com/2020/04/15/ftp_chrome_deprecatio...

That doesn't mean I'm against deprecation completely. But you can't pretend it won't affect people
Is it just me, but ...

The sort of people of today search out and take mushrooms and psychedelics and don't violently run amok, but sit down quietly going whee are the sort of people who when offered crack or just when perfectly sober, will also go whee and not shoot anyone.

And the sort of people who when offered a pipe of crack today and then go on a shooting spree, are the sort of people who will rob a seven-11 on mushrooms or sober.

Its not just personal responsibility - 99% of the latter group are going to correspond with abusive childhoods, poverty, mental health issues and so on.

(So the difference between me and a Republican congressman is that I believe that if we solve all those issues, 99% of the latter group will also sit in a room and go whee.)

Personal Responsibility matters, but it matters about as much as willpower does in dieting - its a lot more likely to work if there are no fatty sugary foods around. The 1940s had healthier thinner people because we were all on a government enforced diet.
Over 30 years ago, I was doing some OS9 (Microware, not Apple) development on a 68k embedded target. I needed a PIO driver that could do bi-directional I/O. The OS came with a PIO driver, but it wouldn't let you switch directions. I approached the vendor with several options:

1) I will pay you to write another driver with this functionality.

2) License the driver source code to me and I will do it.

For reasons I do not remember, they would not do either.

I ended up reversing their PIO driver and implementing a version with the functionality I needed. I was uneasy about doing this, but we never sold or distributed the work so it was probably legal. (The development was for an in-house application with just one target.)
I was rejected by Codecademy 3 times. So I built my own
But assuming that the other bit in those 4 bytes is required and there isn't some other place available where you could sneak it in, those ~4 bytes would still be allocated (for that one other bit) and only take less memory under some compression scheme.

And chances are that even if you did get by without that bit (or found another place for it) you'd in many cases spend far more memory on workarounds for stuff where the creator was too stingy for implementing "IHashable" but you actually need it
> at what cost?

Amateur astrophotography?
I like what tptacek wrote in the sibling comment. IIUC Rust keeps getting mentioned as "the" memory-safe language because it's generally equally fast compared to C programs. And it's mainly C and C++ that are memory-unsafe. So Rust is good language to combat the argument of speed (that's often interchangeable with profits in business world, especially if security issues have a flat rate of cyber insurance).
I don't think there's much evidence of a sustained decrease in demand for dining.
You should do some research on the topic. Far more people are insured now than before the ACA.
We are at an impasse that can only be solved by data: how many unique users downloaded a document via an FTP URI in a web browser in a month? If I were a betting man, I'd wager it's less than the unique number of users who visited a webpage rendered using Hebrew, but we don't know.

Hopefully the browser makers will be transparent with this telemetry.
> I just try to keep this simple. Coding uses symbolic representation to describe a model - this is what language is. Compilers do / can do things that simply don't exist conceptually in Engineering.

> Coder manipulate symbols. It really is a language thing.

What is conceptually different here between software engineering and civil or mechanical engineering?

Engineers use symbolic representations (math, diagrams, computer models, etc.) to describe a model of what will eventually be manufactured or built in the real world. They're typically not the people who actually build the thing, they're the ones who describe it in sufficient detail that someone else can build it. This is as much a language problem as it is in software. The designs need to be readable by the entire team of engineers as well as the people who will make the design real.

The primary difference I see is that in software engineering, the "someone else" who will build the thing is a computer program called a compiler rather than a factory worker or a construction crew.
The prevailing theory that explains quantum entanglement is precisely the theory of quantum mechanics, OP. If you're genuinely curious, I strongly encourage you to obtain an undergraduate degree in physics, which will equip you with the mathematical and theoretical background to see how the one explains the other.
This would have to be put in place at the government level, otherwise it won’t work. A restaurant by me tried it and struggled to keep waitstaff because they can make so much elsewhere..in untaxed cash. If they doubled their prices no one would come
92% of your water consumption is from what you eat
https://richardstartin.github.io/posts/reservoir-sampling#ba...
You opt-out or opt-in when you set up the account or anytime afterwards. I know only because I just setup checking for my teenage son and it was something the agent asked during the process. I pushed back and declined even though they gave me the end of the world spiel.
There are some very wrong-headed warning options in gcc, such that turning them on and avoiding getting them will make your code worse. So -Wall means 'all recommended warnings'.

Also there are some warnings that won't be produced if you compile without optimization, because the needed analysis isn't performed.
I think that's a really valuable approach - either dedicate the time and effort now to focus on it or just forget about it. This helps relieve the cognitive burden of your attention minimally scattered amongst N number of different things.
> For online crimes, jurisdictional issues are major hurdles for the punitive approach.

Yeah. If you can catch people in your jurisdiction (without the problems of spoofing and false flags), then people are just going to attack you from outside your jurisdiction. You'd have to firewall your jurisdiction against outside attacks. (You might even be able to do that, by controlling every cable into the country. But then there's satellites...)
People should be able to transact business among themselves without the government knowing. The ugly comes with the good. It's part of life, personal responsibility.
Okay. Thank you. I just am in constant search of a TUI framework I would consider good from my subjective point of view and specifically interested in TUI projects screenshots because of this.
Fear.

When people feel up against the wall, all social protocol and laws go out the window.

In the US, a faction of politicians are pushing apocalyptic thinking so hard, that everyone is getting the fear: not just the doomsayers and their followers.

But it actually is getting worse. We're in a new pandemic due to to ignorance, half of the US is on fire, cost of living there is through the roof, there are armed militia rising with a political bent, and their supporting politicians are encouraging violence.... Basically, the Karens of the US are being told it is their patriotic duty to be entitled. This all comes out as panic and "me first" behavior in everyone, not just Karens, but the people that have to deal with them, it accumulates.
Not a text-based gamer so maybe others can respond better, but this is probably similar to reading a book and watching a movie. Imagination has no limit.
Marijuana intensifies many aspects of the mind. It's dangerous, but it like jumping into deep water to learn to swim, or training to drive on a fast, manual car. If you can bring your mind back from psychosis, you can bring it back from the lesser anxiety you felt before.
The words spike, bubble and bump seem to be examples of this effect, not really explanations of it.
A workplace for building API together
QM alone fails to account for certain facts. QFT does this by using somewhat “weird” methods in order to bring Special Relativity and QM together. It has been working pretty well so far, and it is indeed the best we have. String Theory, on the other hand, while being a consistent theory of quantum gravity, uses a model (or models) that we may never be able to verify experimentally.
It seems like just about every major problem with the internet right now would be a lot easier if Step 1 were solved. If it could be solved in a way that also preserved privacy, then the net result could even be positive.

As you mention the "b" word, let me mention one proposed solution to Step 1 which does rely on that technology, and claims it "requires no personal information. It lets you prove your humanness without risking your privacy."

https://www.brightid.org/
Uncertain about what is being added here … a straw man seemed to be set up and hit … It is not surprising one cannot take any pop science description of science too seriously … like the so-called weird nature of a quantum thing “being at two places at the same time” is not accurate and misleading …
Except they're not doing nothing, are they? They're raising their kids, fixing their car, cooking healthy food, going to the doctor, visiting their mom, and any number of other things that a person working minimum wage can't make time for. The survival stipend gives them not only money, but time. When you see that, you start to realize how much those crappy jobs COST people.
I primarily work with python/golang but wanted to use Puppeteer to automate some tedious form-based stuff. My JS skills are pretty crap and Headless Recorder helped me get about 90 percent of what I needed in probably 10 percent of the time it would've taken me with trial and error.