skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A domain expert is telling you that version control is a peripheral concern in their trade

1) I have no way of knowing if they're a domain expert.

2) With 35 years of software development under my belt, and a half dozen version control systems too, I'd consider myself likely to be as much of a domain expert as the OP, and I'm saying the opposite.

3) I am not as master woodworker. I have built cabinets and many other things. Philosophically I consider the disjunction between our culture's attitude towards physical tools (where there's an assumption that one will have to take time to learn how to use the tool before actually being able to make anything good with them) and digital tools (where there's an assumption that apprenticeship should be kept to a minimum, preferably zero) extremely interesting.

4) When I'm working on a task (I also build very specialized, highly complex software) the distinction between the cognitive load caused by the task and the cognitive task caused by the tools I have available to work with is not very big. It doesn't make much different whether the "101st" thing concerns a tool or a component, it's just another part of the big picture that I have to struggle to keep in my head as I move forward.
Yeah, hence see the criticisms of git from completely different sides from fossil devs on one hand and pijul dev(s?) on the other.

Git probably has its place, but only on very specific, large scale projects, with a crack core team and hundreds of drive-by contributors ?
It follows pretty much the same arc as mutually assured destruction (MAD).
Isn't FIX messaging part of the stone age problem?
Well, they're here. I think the general consensus on HN is not favorable to DeFi or other crypto projects. The bad smell from innumerable ponzi schemes and outright technical falsehoods is a real turn-off to the crowd that stalks these halls.
> Would that quadratic formula generally work if you picked any two random points from the graph instead?

You need 3 points for a fit a polynomial of degree 2.

I am not talking about the first linear segment at all. My concern is that the 2nd part is not linear. Drawing a line though eye balling is very error prone. That's point I am trying to make.
I think there was a justified increase in concern over disruption of the critical supply chain that allows modern life to function.

If there are widespread toilet paper shortages, people have alternatives. If there are widespread food shortages, I’d want to have the ability to protect my home and family.

I think March through May of 2020 got a lot of people to consider buying a gun who had never seriously considered it before.
>Looks kind of planned but it's not. It's just that some things fall out of fashion for whatever reasons...

"Not planned? Whatever reason?" There are huge billion dollar campaigns for what things "are in fashion" this season. For starters, the thousands of ads by fashion brands with the same "current fashion" messaging.

Without that, the majority of the population could not care less what some "small proportion" of idiots consider "experimental/cool/etc". Sub-culture fashion would stay with the subculture (like most of it does, unless it's picked up by the mass fashion industry and promoted to hell).

It's the endless branding, messaging, adverting, PR, articles, etc, that get Joe/Jane Average buying into this season's fasion.
>Think for a second how much many of our incomes depend on ad revenue.

I don't think advertising makes that much difference. Most people spend all their earnings. The only thing advertising does is direct where it is spent.

>Certainly if a large contingent of consumers massively cut their spending we have to work harder and longer for the same pay.

If we all did it then we wouldn't be working longer and harder for the same pay.
Number 3 doesn’t make sense; since one has a gun it’s safer to be violent?

I think the rationale is if the violence (real or perceived) comes into your own neighborhood/apartment/etc, that you’ll be able to defend yourself. Much better than helplessness.

If I have a family, and never owned a firearm, and now you see the state of affairs (again, in reality more at risk vs perceived more at risk is beside the point - user still takes action on their perception), I would feel compelled to defend my home and family. Regardless where one stands politically, we did have violence of some form break out in many cities in the US.

So buying a firearm and some ammo seems to me a reasonable step.

And yes, I agree in part on the self-fulfilling prophecy. People buy ammo, shortages occur despite supply chain getting better, prices go up, people buy more.
Hi, yes. i know Sennheiser have SePT.exe software. however, this software has been "death" for everyone. I have changed my SKM3072 from 638-670 MHz to 668-674 MHz successfully by myself with a small eeprom tool and ...Excel.
Nope.

While Carnot-cycle engines are reversible, the losses don't cancel out. You just lose the energy to entropy on both ends.
So long as they were transparent about the soul having been split I'm not sure I see the issue.
It’s not like turks have invaded western wurope, stolen all of their cultural treasures and put them in museums in ankara.

Cant say the same for brits, french or germans. Half of our heritage is in berlin, paris and london.

Europe has sent far, fsr more terrorists to turkiye and suria than turkiye has sent to europe.

Maybe y’all should deal with the afghani refugee this time. We’re tired of cleaning up colonial messes.
Gender is just one way to segment the population in groups. I agree it makes things more fair. Just like weight groups do. But with the challenges around classifying transsexuals and females born with naturally high testosterone, it's not always perfect.

At some point, if we want to continue classifying by gender, we should have 2 groups: "women" and "others". With a very opinionated and scoped definition of female. Because grouping by gender is, ultimately, designed to protect women.
That's not the way math works. G-d himself can't reverse a hash.

Before you go invoking the "miracle" loophole, consider that miracles are logically impossible. If an impossible thing happens, then it was not in fact impossible. We just didn't understand the rules.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled at the spike. The part that bugs me is that The more I look at Federal regulation as written, and the types of conclusions people are capable of apparently reaching from collected datasets, I'm not entirely convinced that there isn't actually some on the down-low malicious compliance tracking being enabled via outsourcing, even if you lose track of things after the first purchase.

I don't like messy ineffectual laws on the books.

Which is why I try not to dig too much. The more you know, the more it grates. A LexisNexus subscription is involved somewhere, I'm sure.
> Don't bullets also "expire" after a certain period of time?

Modern powder and primers (and thus an assembled ammunition cartridge) easily last decades, almost indefinitely if stored well.
What I meant was, do the same people who have that "moralistic and individualistic worldview" and reject lead as a possible cause of things believe (or rather disbelieve?) the same things about alcohol?
Hmm, interesting idea. I’ll try it out.
In Europe, a gap year has been a thing for couple decades now, if not more.
I think that the article is implying all of that without saying so directly (maybe trying not to be banned in China). They refer at several points to the government's fear of companies having more data on people than the government does, making clear that this is about maintaining control and power.
Citation needed for every claim in this post.

> Most things, people find it pleasurable because they are in a state where they take pleasure from buying shit.

Counterpoint: my largest purchase ever was my house. I enjoy owning it much more than I enjoyed buying it.
This begs the question of how the secret dots aren't a blanket violation of the 4th amendment.

Also IANAL but I feel like there must be some law about deception of this kind. Selling a product that does something you don't expect it to, were never told about, and would not reasonably even observe feels somehow like fraud.
Isn’t the ROI all that matters since the cost to build the thing is it’s own efficiency loss, paid out over the lifetime of the project?
> now you have a gun it seems safer to turn to violence

That's not how it works. I'm guessing you don't own any firearms and haven't had much exposure to them. Violence is never safe and the only people "turning to violence" after acquiring one are criminals or those soon to be one.
> Notice that this method is a lot simpler than the other two, but because you have to use average price, you are exposed to floating point imprecision which is a lack of accuracy that computers have when computing decimals.

Using average price and floating point imprecision are two separate, unrelated issues. You don't have to, and probably shouldn't use floating point to calculate the average price, and it's perfectly possible to use decimal arithmetic or fractions rather than floating point.

The real issue here is that 2/3 does not have a decimal representation, not floating point imprecision. No matter what you do, if you need to express it as a decimal of finite length it will need to be rounded, and that's where the imprecision is. In practice, you can generally get away with using floats because the floating point error ends up being less than the rounding imprecision.
> Turkish drones have won three wars:

There might be debate over whether Turkish drones “won” two of them, and the third (Turkey’s ongoing war with domestic Kurdish insurgents) hasn’t been won at all, much less by Turkish drones.
The way to solve this is to let any gymnast decide if they want music or not and eventually either music won't be used by most or most will want music.

I mean why not? Tradition? That's an illusion. In a generation people won't even remember if men had music or not.
<Although, I'd still like to know how "required FBI background check", which I bet all are tracked and cross-referencable with the requestor, thereby giving a synthetic key to "gun purchase" does not translate to database of potential gun owners.>

There are lots of legal ways to obtain a gun legally without a background check. Many states don't require a background check between private parties. More responsible folks will ask for a voter ID (to confirm residence) and or a concealed carry permit (to confirm that person may own a firearm/not a felon), but it's not a legal requirement. Same rules may apply at a gun show. Lots and lots of guns are sold this way.

My first firearm was advertised online by a private party on a local forum, I met them in a parking lot, and paid in cash. I'd like to think I'm a responsible person, but I can certainly see how that system could wildly be abused.

Each state has different laws, you can't do that everywhere. Also there are certain federally restricted items that require a background check (normally through a ffl). Things like short barreled rifles/pistols, silencers/suppressors, full automatic, etc. Different process for manufacture vs purchase, but in theory both are tracked with serial numbers and real ID's.
I ran this tool and found a trace that I was infected (malware detected in CrashReporter.plist). Any clue what I should be doing, if anything, to address this?
It's about tools. Git (and revision/version control more generally) is a tool available for you to use when developing software. The questions for me are: do you use the tool? do you understand the tool?

I think it's fine if someone says "I don't use that tool". I personally think that they are making their life harder and their software probably worse, but that seems like a valid choice. What I have a difficult time with is someone who says "I use that tool, but I limit my understanding of it to be as little as I can, because understanding my tools is not part of my job". That's what I felt the OP was doing.
WPaxos: Wide Area Network Flexible Consensus
Heavier than air by measurement of molecular weight.

When hot it rises up into the atmosphere. When cool it comes down. That is why co2 concentrates on ground in cool forests but floats high in urban places.
Paying dictators ruins the lives of millions of Arabs. Many are imprisoned and tortured by the security state. The majority are condemned to lives where they can barely afford to live and have very little hope of educating their children to improve their outcomes.

But sure, keep pretending like the problems in the Middle East are just a few countries short of 3 billion.
That sounds depressing.
Yeah, and it says everything tracks now and dots are not the only way. That was my point.
Fractons, the weirdest matter, could yield quantum clues
People may signal one thing in social media or at an office watercooler but their private purchases signal what they're truly feeing. I suspect that people are buying guns because they feel that civil unrest is likely and they are observing the spike in violence in cities where police have been defunded or otherwise ordered or coerced to stop arresting criminals.

I don't think it's the traditional conservative gun owner stocking up on guns right now. These people already have lots of guns and guns are very expensive these days. Anecdotally, I've observed a lot of first-time gun owners buying them.
> And thanks to the American moral leadership with drones innocent people will not be bombed.

As if Turkey needed drones to deliberately kill innocents in its wars to suppress its domestic Kurdish population.
In the modern economy you are always a small, finite number of transactions from someone using slave labour, bombing civilians or using torture.

At some of the big tech corps this number is 1 though - murderous regimes do use these companies directly.
You've just invented a new kind of "futures trading" and the mother of all kinds of innovative financial scams. Awesome! Someone should definitely start a business trading in "souls" and NFTs seem to be of the same ilk, so you guys are onto something.
Yup, it was much worse leading up to the election.
Can confirm. Am young person considering this. Though I'll be taking it to study, mostly :)
Yeah I worked with some solutions that Gartner considers 'Magic'. And one that wasn't.

The one that wasn't is so much better and the magic one is still playing catch up. Most people that actually work in the field also consider the non-magical solution the best by far.

I really think this is just a 'who paid us the most' contest.

Ps I'm also an Enterprise IT architect and also leaving it. Not sure if my reasons are the same as I didn't get a chance to read the article yet :)

But in my case the reason was that we're becoming too much of a Microsoft shop. It went from 'Find the best solution and implement it' to 'Implement what Microsoft tells us to'. Usually those solutions are not the best and I end up having to find workarounds for workarounds. Sure all the integration is great but it's more of a walled garden thing than a real benefit.

Basically ruined the job for me.
Majority by definition implies significance, and I wanted to clarify they weren’t meaning majority. I think I am missing the point you’re trying to make.
Have a source on this? I researched this and found that the only benefit of paying them as a client is access to the analysts that make the determination.
Can we have two golds?
California needs to fall into the ocean
Ooooh, great point. Thank you, that makes perfect sense.

So that's an interesting point that I never actually realized (pun intended 1000%)... is that FIFO/LIFO doesn't actually change your profit amount when the position is fully closed, it only matters, as you said, when "showing" that profit, ie... if you are trading over multiple years and you need to do your taxes, the tax years up front might show more profit, but less in later years, or vice versa, but over all the years the profit would be the same. That's obvious in retrospect, and I can't believe I didn't get that before. Thanks!
>It's more akin to evolution operating on culture rather than genes.

Only there's no evolution. It's just "buy this" and "now buy that", because if you continued to buy the previous (or a perennial) model, they'd be out of sales. That's not some cultural evolution.

Before 19th-20th century marketing and mass advertising societies could do decades without changing fashions.
ring ring "Hello sir, do you own any firea-" click

I would hang up on that call and I don't even own a gun. Surely some people will answer, but wide swaths of the American public, gun owning or otherwise, would refuse to answer these sort of questions on basic principle and/or common sense. If you could get an estimate for what portion of gun owners relative to non-owners would refuse to answer those questions then you might have something for the statisticians to work with, but I don't see how you could estimate even that.

Surveys give you data, but sometimes that data is worth less than dirt.
In before the other comments to this effect:

- You are weak

- Your grandparents had it worse

- Think of the people working for minimum wage

- Some of us actually love programming so much we will happily sacrifice our health; this choice is morally superior because we say so

- I haven't had a vacation in 20 years and neither should you

/sarcasm off
There are physical differences in body structure between any two individuals. Michael Phelps has long arms. Is it not unfair that someone born with short arms has to compete against him?
This is true for most popular open source projects, fwiw
> To name it, I often find myself feeling defensive when people read my work and respond with a bunch of links to academic papers. Its probably totally unfair and a complete projection from my side, but I hear a voice in my head reword your comment to instead say something awful like: "Cool, but everything you did was done before. Even if they didn't make any of their work practical, usable or good they still published first and you obviously didn't do a good enough literature review if you didn't know that." And I feel an unfair defensiveness arise in me as a result that wants to find excuses to dismiss the work, even if the work might be otherwise interesting.

I've followed your work for a longtime (since chipmunk-js days), and that is a very honest self assessment
It's not like this crackdown is about the CCP's concern for protecting user data and preventing monopolies. It's just a turf war over the data and in a larger sense over control of the direction of the country.

Same reason Jack Ma went (extremely) conspicuously missing last fall.

CCP wants the economic growth and international prestige that a burgeoning tech sector provides, but does not want anything resembling the system we have where facebook can tell the White House to take a hike. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/17/technology/facebook-vacci...
I don't think you can make such a pretentious comment about how juvenile it is to follow fashion without posting a selfie of yourself in your fedora
Honestly I think the hardest thing to date that is nearly impossible to find information on is how a market maker actually works. I've googled for hours before only to get very vague definitions, nothing concrete with actual examples/formulas.
Anonymous nested structs are also quite useful for creating struct fields with explicit offsets:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>

#define YDUMMY(suffix, size) char dummy##suffix[size]
#define XDUMMY(suffix, size) YDUMMY(suffix, size)
#define PAD(size) XDUMMY(__COUNTER__, size)

struct ExplicitLayoutStruct {
union {
struct __attribute__((packed)) { PAD(3); uint32_t foo; };
struct __attribute__((packed)) { PAD(5); uint16_t bar; };
struct __attribute__((packed)) { PAD(13); uint64_t baz; };
};
};

int main(void) {
// offset foo = 3
// offset bar = 5
// offset baz = 13
printf("offset foo = %d\n", offsetof(struct ExplicitLayoutStruct, foo));
printf("offset bar = %d\n", offsetof(struct ExplicitLayoutStruct, bar));
printf("offset baz = %d\n", offsetof(struct ExplicitLayoutStruct, baz));
return 0;
}
I've read sooooooo much of this kind of shiitake, I am sick of it. It is bullshit. Or rather, it's written by people who don't even take into account the biological nature of the brain.

Let me check... of course he's a "coach"... If you can't do, teach, I guess.

All of this shit will act as a bandaid, a crutch at best. It's like the bullshit "imagine you're wealthy and you will become wealthy".

No, that doesn't work. Nor does praying to God, nor anything that doesn't entail actual action. You can imagine whatever the fork you want, it won't make it real.

Fortunately, people smarter than me and all of these self help coaches and theorycrafters have already started figuring out how to fix this problem for real, by applying real science to the very real bio computer in our skulls.

It's still a young science, with parts of the same core problem being labeled ADD, OCD, anxiety, depression. But there are real drugs that actually work.

The biggest roadblock is getting this accepted as a treatable condition by the mainstream medicine systems. They're still in the dark ages and treat it like they treat death - as inevitable, unfixable.

Some people are already benefitting from it while the majority is laughing at them and calling the unfortunate ones who don't have access to good doctors and good medicine lazy.

I hope one day humans look back at it and laugh at how ridiculously stupid their ancestors were.
I don't care too much. I am happy for people to reach out, connect or whatever. I have a simple rule. If I don't want people to find out something about me, I don't post it online ever, anywhere. But even if someone finds out, who cares. I am what I am. I don't give a shit on what others think about me. Granted I am no celebrity but I doubt I will change even if I became one.
He occasionally gloms on to a conspiracy theory, but he's more into shallow hot takes without any deeply consistent factual or ethical theory from one moment to the next.
I think you're worried that all of the stimulating part is over in launching it will be the boring part. I have ADHD too I hate the ending part of any project I've ever done and I've never finished anything. My favorite parts are setting up projects organizing projects and figuring out a workflow for projects. Making them and doing the actionable part is reasonable but actually finishing it and still having Steam and interest to finish is close to impossible and I haven't figured it out yet and I'm 32 years old.
You can do it Australia, destroy the myth of Google infallibility
> I'm not going to monitor interactions between my male and female colleagues for improper behavior.

That's cool. If I steal somebody's wallet at work, you've got my back?
Think of it just like bash. jq is the ultimate functional language and/or ETL tool. If I look back at larger jq transforms I've written a while ago (e.g. https://git.io/JBSfB) they still make perfect sense to me.
From my understanding, the main issue is impaired synthesis of glycine due to impaired/suppressed? genes. if you have that, you'd have to dramatically reduce oxalates to the point where it causes other problems. smarter to supplement glycine.
> The largest providers could register their login page look and feel with the biggest browsers and nobody would be allowed to mimic them.

Lol, amazon would in a heartbeat declare any page which has two input fields and a button as a 'login page' (regardless of the actual styling).
> If some googlers are reading this, please push the chrome team to be more interoperable. "Don't be evil!" :-)

Second this.

I want to like Google and did for the longest time.

You do so much great stuff but some stuff like this is so damaging for both the ecosystem and for you, because as long as this is going on my best hope is a giant fine.