skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t agree with your analogy. The post-arrest reports that the police fill out is closer to the audit log. A better analogy for SWEs would be keyloggers imo.

Also, a “bad apple” SWE can be far and away worse than anything a cop could possibly do. “Bad apple” SWEs are people like Julian Assange, Kim DotCom, and Sammy Kamkar. Those people ruin entire classes of lives.

This “higher standard” argument is a slippery slope. Cops actually don’t have very large responsibilities. Worst case, they kill 10 or so people before they’re brought down. Consider Mark Begor, CEO of Equifax, who leaked the identities of millions. Should we force him to install a key logger on all of his PCs? Should we have him wear a body cam at work? He’s certainly someone from whom millions would benefit were he to be locked in a dungeon to work for the rest of his life.

Of course not. We’re supposed to believe in liberty and the innate good in man, despite whatever FUD BLM would have you believe.
Lol, advertising is the only reason the Olympics are even possible to exist
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It doesn't mean you have to get rid of them, but you should probably think about what the pitfalls are and how best to address them. I have written about those elsewhere in this thread, so I won't repeat them here.
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> Most security breaches these days are social-engineered.

I don't know why people even bother making statements like that here without backing them up, when it's pretty obvious the first response is going to be to request a source.

So, source please?
I'm not a regular follower so I don't have a lot of history to base it on, but based on the streams I've caught, it just seems well balanced— like the presentation is definitely not "sexy" in the way of, like, a hot tub streamer, but it's also not completely locked down and soulless— there's personality and shenanigans in the way of a radio host or commentator, and also a lot of great chess-playing.

Another good example is Xyla Foxlin, who walks a similar line with a YouTube engineering/maker channel and has been very explicit about her approach: "I refuse to “act more like a man” in order to achieve legitimate and respectable success in the professional world. I happen to be someone who embraces her femininity and feels powerful in cute shoes and sparkly makeup, and I don’t see how any of that makes me less of an engineer." [0]

[0]: https://medium.com/1517/beauty-and-the-invisible-beast-c2a8d...
Probably true, but the solution to that must not be to treat the user like a child unable to make decisions for themself.

If a person decides to give up control of their device to another person or organization (like the device manufacturer) fine, but that should be a voluntary decision on the part of the user, not something forced.
We recently converted our monolith codebase at work from windows-1252 encoding to UTF-8 and now the entire project looks like it was written by 1 guy
What an idiot. As an ignorant fool myself I was hoping for a coherent argument that would confirm my own gut instinct against bitcoin, only to be served with this!
It'd be an interesting experiment :-)
> Why should it be online?

Compare programming before and after Google or before and after StackOverflow.

There is https://mathoverflow.net/
>Japan at least has a pathway to citizenship for foreigners

pretty sure that is not true, unless you are of japanese descent. you can get permanent residency but not citizenship
>On the other hand, we also experienced straight up nasty behaviour, e.g., someone standing up and leaving the train wagon when we sat next to him (and then reentering through the next door and sitting far away from us), being forbidden from entering a bar because of being foreigners (despite the fact I can speak Japanese, not great admittedly, but more than sufficient to order, pay, etc.).

Sure, I observed some of these things and didn't always feel comfortable about it. But I wouldn't consider them hostile. The way I was told, some of the things about bars not allowing foreigners is more that they get booked for post-work drinking parties. Maybe that's not always the real explanation, but I realized it wasn't a big deal. If you're in a large city like Tokyo, Sapporo, or Kyoto, there are bars and restaurants everywhere, just move on to the next one.

As far as people coming and going out of trains or not sitting next to you, yeah, I had that happen. But I'd be lying if I said I've never observed or even done the same thing here in the US.
The battery can be checked before updating, after any downloading, so it's irrelevant.
It’s not really a problem with dynamism, it’s more about the fact that Julia’s compilation model is similar to C++ with templates but at runtime (and with first class parametric types instead of textual substitution, but the compilation and specialization story is similar). Just as separate compilation isn’t possible for C++ template code, it’s a challenge for Julia as well.
> people want to have their own private spaces for everything.

For good reason. Last spring, people in single-family homes in suburbs could let their kids play outside in their yard, but people in high-density housing in cities would get arrested for letting their kids play outside in public parks.
How do you define "merit"?
Sure, if you find the required work unfun, then so be it. I get it.

I was more talking about the attitude of the person I responded to. They saw someone world class perform and then "stopped trying for any of the harder tricks." I don't understand that attitude. It's basically "I don't think I'll ever be world class, so why try anything at all?"
It’s trolls all the way down. This is why forms of trolling that aren’t blatant flaming get under people’s skin: it’s taking normal good-faith but ignorant user behavior and sending it into the uncanny valley. One troll shutting down a whole community is more often the case of the community having a pre-existing affinity to develop a digital autoimmune disease: once the users start treating good-faith users as potential trolls, the community turns irredeemably toxic.
From a societal perspective if the threat of investigation and fines is enough to scare most people into following the law most of the time then it's a fairly cheap return on investment. It sucks that some people "get away with it" but over-zealous prosecution can have its own negative side-effects.

FWIW I do wish we'd see more prosecutions of the big cases like the financial crash or the many instances of criminal fraud in the crypto space. Like Madoff you need to catch some big fish to remind everyone that your threats are not entirely empty.
> This article is about 90% old man yells at cloud, and this coming from an old man ;)

Indeed. Same here. I couldn't take the writer seriously. A lot of what he says is the result of the limitations of our computers, networks and software in the 80's and 90's. Of course I wrote Apple II code with manuals - we didn't have online docs back then - even in the mid-90's, I had MSDN installed on my computer for helping me write Windows software. I am not a better developer because I used books - I am an older developer because I started back when I had to use books (and manpages were optional and often not installed and it was nowhere near a given Unix would win the "OS wars").

The thing that turned the article from amusing to embarrassing was the tirade against writing tests and TDD overall. Writing tests makes me a better programmer. By starting to write tests as part of my design, my components get better - better usable and better testable and my software gets more reliable and better documented (because tests are documentation too).

I'll not say I'm an old man (53 is not that old) and while I can be bothered by some things I consider excessive framework churn (looking at you, JavaScript), I wouldn't say we are not a whole lot better off than we were then.
Everything about this article screams "amateur." The author appears to be unknowingly reinventing 1960s-era chat bot technology (i.e. Eliza, ) and there are strong indications in this article that his underlying design isn't even that good.

I'd suggest this author to sit down and read the source code of Eliza. Eliza is the best chat bot that can be made without using any sophisticated techniques. It is also completely general; you can program the keywords/responses by editing a DSL.
Hadn't really looked into SIV as I've only written stuff that always generates XChaCha nonces with getrandom but yeah I can totally see why the platform etc. could cause issues that lead to nonce-reuse. This was most informative post, thank you so much!
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depending on what you're trying to do a map[string]interface{} is not really want you want. Most likely you want map[string]json.RawMessage if the key can indicate what the next step is in umarshalling.

if the serialized structure doesn't indicate its "Type" somewhere/somehow then you would have to resort to map[string]interface{}
Pressurized explosive gases are dangerous. Your propane task isn't part of a multi-ton vehicle traveling at high speeds that may be subject to a high speed crash at any random point in time.

A hydrogen tank that is part of your car, however, may be subject to a high speed crash coming in at a random angle.

BBQ grill propane tanks can explode, but they are typically stored on porches, an environment where they are not often hit by SUVs.
The scale of data involved in this crazy.

1GB/update * 1B devices potentially?

We are in exabyte range.

I've also noticed somewhat slower downloads on new updates on my 1GB connection.

Ideally their caching network really is everywhere. I wish they'd do the Microsoft thing of letting you update based on others local downloads. For campus networks some of these updates can really load things up.

I'm also at 900MB+
> They could be responding to a non-criminal call, like a welfare check.

Armed law enforcement responding to calls without an evident need for armed law enforcement is itself a problem.
> I’ve always thought “cultural fit” was an odd thing to prioritize when we have research showing that (actual) diversity is more helpful for avoiding groupthink.

Astronaut 1: You mean... our work culture is conducive to groupthink?

Astronaut 2: * points gun * Always has been...
useful tool. I like it
Maybe "I recently quite a job/quality of life balance that necessitated a 2 hour+ commute".

Modifying one of those (ideally the job half) to eliminate that commute is a great choice if available.
On the OS level there is no difference between "sync" and "async". They become different in programming language runtimes.
read title. sounds stupid
I don't know if it's available outside the country. But the CBC is streaming everything online, no login required.

They have streams with commentary for the major events that they are televising but you can also watch the raw international streams with no commentary for everything else.

The streams are recorded and available at any time too.

If it's available in the US, or you have a VPN, I'd look into that.
Why would time not be highly relevant to job performance? Productivity is defined as an amount of work output (whatever that is for the job in question), divided by time. So time is in fact central, and a team member who can do more in a unit of time should be more desirable, no?
In many social democratic countries citizens will only pay a small fixed fee for necessary operations. For private bills, or if your travel-insurance doesn't cover medical bills in other countries, you could still get stuck with a hefty bill.

In most cases, you pay peanuts and people get their health back so they can go back to work and live life as before.
Hopefully this will help to create a more diverse and inclusive workforce. Neurodiversity is very underlooked in the tech industry.
It's well established that tone of voice conveys a lot of information when communicating.

If a candidate says something during a phone call that makes the interviewer uncomfortable or have reservations, that's absolutely a legitimate reason not to hire someone.
How about 'classroom office'. You have desks you can move around in any formation and make cliques. Plus everyone is used to it from K12 + uni.
Sure, self-made on the back of an army of abused workers.
Because we're the modern equivalent of a slave. Slaves are always at their masters dwellings. They don't have 'home'. Obviously modern slaves do the same for the most part.

We should count our lucky stars were not required to sleep at work.
I think cars have an advantage over horses now that they are not in widespread use, because their true infrastructure cost will only appear once everyone wants to get gas at once, and this is certainly not the case right now.
You might want to pick up a course on using google, cause the first hit on "julia package manager" is the documentation: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/stdlib/Pkg/

"WTF does `activate .` even do?" If you then read it, it says "If you are ever stuck, you can ask Pkg for help:".

(@v1.6) pkg> ?activate
activate
activate [--shared|--temp] [path]

Activate the environment at the given path, or the home project environment
if no path is specified. The active environment is the environment that is
modified by executing package commands. [...]

Also the docs tell you in a highlighted blue bubble that if you don't want to use the "REPL-centric workflow" there is also the API:

> This guide relies on the Pkg REPL to execute Pkg commands. For non-interactive use, we recommend the Pkg API. The Pkg API is fully documented in the API Reference section of the Pkg documentation.
Thanks! I had no idea, this is going to simplify my backups a lot.
This is also that man who said the U.S. didn't fund gain-of-research.

So grain of salt.
It's true, but it's also true that it's important for people to say "no" and assert their rights. Granting permission to search or willingly waiting for the K9 (assuming it's not already on the scene) eliminates a lot of recourse that people would otherwise have access to in the courts.
I work on a major mobile application. We have rigorous interviews and pay well. We use a much trendier stack than PHP. Still, the number of my colleagues who can fathom that a request to our public API might come from elsewhere than our first-party client is… maybe one in a hundred.

Don’t think this is just a PHP problem. All across the industry, people think of the OWASP Top 10 as some hyper-nerd shit that they don’t have to care about, and are indignant that you’d even mention it in design review.
Top 50 players in the world can make rather decent ~$100k per year. But that's just top 50!
4. is likely not true - software positions at worst are decently middle class.

3. is an argument against empathy. they made their choice to prioritize where they are living over commute. That's exactly OP's point.

1. again, if they choose not to relocate then the commute is their responsibility not the job's fault.

2. is the main point i now have a lot of sympathy for now that I have kids. Kids benefit from continuity and uprooting your whole life for one of the partner's jobs is somewhat selfish.

But even in that situation, I feel like the onus is still on the person - they are choosing their kids over their commute. The commute isn't for the job. The commute is for the kids.
For sure - I've been impressed here on older device support. I've seen 7 year old devices getting updates - 5s etc?
Surely neuroplasticity is a factor as well.
Triangluation works in these cases if you apply some DSP tricks (marketed in this case as AI).

Multipath interference can be mitigated to a large extent with multiple listening devices calibrated against a known acoustic impulse - i.e. intentionally firing something like a gun at a precise time & location known to the system beforehand.
I suggested this to $bossman, and he shot me down. I rather liked that setup when I was in school, basically a U shape, with every desk facing towards the middle of the U.
In our case, the whims of the populace are mediated by judges, whose consideration for popular feeling is often limited to something like 'will there be uncontrollable riots if I rule a certain way', and balanced against their ideological views (about how to interpret law) and the content of the law.

But I think that element of consideration of popular feeling or shifting cultural norms is important. It's what lets judges do things like pass over laws banning women from wearing pants as a form of crossdressing instead of requiring, or to reinterpret language about equality as extending to wider groups of people than originally intended.
Germany has the highest electricity prices worldwide. I wouldn’t build any larger factory there these days:

> https://www.statista.com/statistics/263492/electricity-price...
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IIUC the folding and unfolding pathways of a protein are not time reversed wrt each other.

But you would still enjoy reading this:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC17732/ the work in this paper led to folding@home because vijay couldn't get enough computer time to run his simulations

if you really had a lot of computer time to waste, you could imagine doing simulations where you titired in or out some guanadinum chloride and inspected how disrupting h-bonds (versus hydrophobic collapse) contributes. Chaotropes are better than temperature for probing unfolding.
That would depend on where the financial motivation to produce renewable energy is coming from.

A logical argument could be made that bitcoin encourages the production and advancment of green energy technologies by rewarding such efforts with wealth generation.
This bs will be the jfk/moon landing of our time.
Except you are extremely well compensated and can quit at any time.
If you don't have a second driver why do you have two cars in the first place?
I guess that retroactively justifies my decision to keep my iOS devices on 14.5 at least...
I also Julia, but agree with all these points.

And I'll add one more:

It is difficult to chain a value through a series of function calls. Meaning you can't do something like `a.b().c().d().e()`. You either have to store intermediate results in variables, call it like `e(d(c(b(a))))` which IMO is less readable, or do something like this:

a |> x -> b(x) |> x-> c(x) |> x -> d(x) | x -> e(x)

there is some hope of this getting improving in the future, but in the present, it bugs me.
> You can buy and NFT on one market, use it within a game, display it in your virtual home

Where can I do that? I don't have a virtual home, how can I get one?
I think it's because no one standardized on protocols for addressing RGB lighting on RAM, GPUs, and motherboards. We at least have those ARGB headers fairly standardized now, but wiring up even things that are slotted into the motherboard would suck (having just a few fans with those is already a mess).

Also the manufacturers probably love it because it pushes people towards not mixing products from different companies.
There are used EVs on the market.
And if you want to do this for something before the code is written: https://github.com/jmathai/all-hands-on-deck
That song is an excellent example of Libertarian fiction that didn't happen, but it still regarded to be a cautionary tale. Which brings me to the joke about Lord of the Rings and The Fountainhead...
While watching the Olympics this past weekend and I recalled how the flip phone cellphone era of the late 90s/early 00s was always on some other level in Japan. No one in North America had anything like we would sometimes get a glimpse of what was being used in Japan. Yes, even EU had some of the more advanced stuff but it was always Japan at the bleeding edge. So many designs, features, video etc. Reminds of the Fast & Furious Tokyo Drift movie that showed all the kids relaying video during races etc. And movie audiences in NA thinking that's crazy/wow/unheard of.

But then things changed first tipping with Blackberry and then iPhone/smartphones and now Japan is nowhere in the conversation. (How Japanese use some of their tech/apps/interfaces in the city etc is a different thing, culture that's somewhat kept on, their relationship with technology has a fascinating evolution that's kept them in otherworldly territory in some regards, but that's a different discussion) It's all samsung and apple and google designs etc. Crazy how that changed.
Doesn't seem particularly different from regular journalism/news companies.

Sidebar of NYPost as I'm on this article has one truck crash with 5 dead and one bridge collapse, or is it just journalists who are allowed to profit of this?
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>Toyota was the largest corporate donor by far this year to Republicans in Congress who disputed the 2020 presidential election result.

I'm saddened as a long time fan of Toyota that part of the company seems to be moving to the dark side as it were.
I worked at a large American healthcare tech giant with a certain Wonka-esque private owner who famously said, when asked why she didn't support adding 'nap rooms' for employees, "That's what your desks are for."
"We will offer candidates in this program reasonable accommodations like extended interview time, providing questions in advance, or conducting the interview in writing in a Google Doc rather than verbally on a call."

These would great practices for any job interview, whether the interviewee is on the spectrum or not.

Providing questions in advance (behavioral at least) would make the interview process a lot better for everybody.

The possibility to answer the more involved questions in writing would also be a great plus overall.
> Your reference does not support your claim.

It does. You are just looking at one point of data. And there were many studies on this.

That being said, it's still more evidence than the OP provided.

> Here is a database of confirmed censorship:

Conservative censorship run by a conservative group focused on supporting conservative views.

It also uses Project Veritas in its "data" which is a major red flag. They are known, proven liars.

And finally, that doesn't support the allegation that conservatives suffer more censorship.

So, you've still failed to backup the original argument.

I'm done.
Aren't 'neurodiverse' people over-represented in IT/Computer Science, compared to their fraction of the population? Is trying to increase their share even further the correct way path to take?

If we're talking about the general workforce, instead of specifically tech fields, that would make sense.
This is 100% incorrect. Updates can be installed via a wired connection to iTunes running on a PC or Mac or over 5G cellular data.
followed by a neurolink in the brain to just type and see & maybe a reclining chair with probes plugging directly into spine for high b/w connection. eventually if you can work you way out of student loans then you start losing your physical body parts for virtual until you are finally left as a brain in a jar.

Then the real fun begins..
You forgot to tell about the cheques.
Very interesting analysis, thanks! I fully agree with your hypotheses about the future. I think that's the most likely outcome as well, barring some technological upset that changes the game somehow (unlikely, but possible).

The hydrogen on the roof-top to charge a battery or power a motor is a fascinating idea. As you say, it won't be cheap but it does seem feasible/possible in a world where gas is rare and expensive.

I do think many people will do what I did and move to a less rural area. There are a lot of native tribes up there who have been there as long as they've had history. It will no doubt be heart wrenching, but they'll have to move.

A hundred years later perhaps our ancestors will be looking back at our time and apologizing for the cruelty of forcing them away from their ancestral homes, but it won't change anything now.