skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many prestigious computer science schools have these kinds of project-based courses where students are expected to work on a few projects throughout the semester. They still have to go through the exams but for us outsiders the projects are the meat.

Example:

https://cs61.seas.harvard.edu/site/2020/

https://cs61a.org/

https://cs61c.org/su21/

Check out the labs and projects.

Not sure which kind of learner you are. I have to have my ass pushed so I registered in a local university. It's out of the top 200 but I don't need to read the material, I just need someone to kick me to move forward.
One of my hobbies is tracking down the origin of concepts and phrases. One such phrase is "complexity is the enemy", which I'd first encountered through the Jargon File, though it appears elsewhere, e.g., http://www.neugierig.org/software/blog/2011/04/complexity.ht...

Tracing that trough Google's Ngram Viewer, I found the extended form, "complexity is the enemy of reliability" in a short item in a 1959 issue of The Economist (Jan 18, 1958, volume 186 https://books.google.com/books?id=aDsiAQAAMAAJ&q=%22complexi...).

That in turn was referencing the UK's Annual Report of the Chief Inspector of Factories for the Year 1956, which had been published in late 1958. Among the factors assessed was factory and equipment reliability, which scaled precisely inversely with the number of components in equipment.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/annual-report-of-hm-chief-ins...

Software isn't quite the same as mechanical equipment where individual components may wear, but each software component does exist and interact in relation to others. And eventually that complexity comes home to bite.

A full definition of "simplicity", as with "complexity", lies somewhat in the eye of the beholder. But extraneous components are a problem.

(I cannot find either reference online, presently, though I've copies of both documents. I'd tracked the Economist issue through Google Books, and received a copy of the report through a friend. I'm told that the UK generally has excellent availability of government publications, though none of https://www.gov.uk, the National Archives, nor the British Library seem to turn up the Factories report presently.)
There's so much to see, I'd have a hard time even recommending a place to start. I haven't been to a place I didn't like yet. I decided that at some future point, I'm simply going to come back and pick up where I left off.

What I did personally was fly into Istanbul, then I drove to Göreme, down to Antakya, and then started driving back up along the coast. There's so much to see, I'm kind of overwhelmed. It's a good problem to have :)
Roads are "crowned"; that is, the center is supposed to be higher than the edges, for water to run off.

Banking curves is a real thing and you notice when someone got it wrong.

Paving a road is a small step compared to building the roadbed; but its what people see. It's probably better to think of that like painting a house, building the road is a much bigger thing, but then it gets the surface refreshed often enough you see that.
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You don't know that there won't soon be a GAN-controlled animatronic face coming.
At this point I assume every young, college aged male I speak with is majoring in software. I'm right more often than wrong. That doesn't account for changing majors, etc, and I'm certainly biased.
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They're both trimodal if anything.

- People make the most in Big 4 law/tech firms, as well as a handful of boutique firms.

- Most people work elsewhere, making a respectable living but nothing extraordinary like the baove.

- Last but not least, there are folks working as IT/paralegal, who did not manage to break into developer/lawyer.

This last one is very brutal for law careers, if you did not manage to qualify or pass the bar the year you were supposed to, you've lost your chance for life, whereas in technology a formal engineering degree is not a hard requirement.
Suisse Dutsch might as well be its own language.
>Forced vaccinations.

Where? Please cite.
Going to high levels of normalization also makes the code harder to understand. It's very extensible, but every system that I have dealt with that had high levels of normalization was a huge pain to figure out.
The CDC needs to stop. Period.
How many major screw-ups will the public accept before they decide the CDC should have less political power rather than more.
> And he doesn't even mention that you could just be outside, and be unreachable and not able to reach other people too.

Because he's specifically talking about smartphones, not cell phones. He's talking about the information and attention economy, not the more simple highly available reachability.
Unlike most languages, Lisp defines how strings can be transformed to Lisp ASTs (s-expressions). In Scheme (which doesn't allow reader macros) this is a safe operation: you can read untrusted input without worry.

By contrast, most other languages only have eval() - which takes a string and parses and executes it as code. In Lisp, eval() takes a Lisp list object and executes that.
Mitsubishi Mirage, Chevy Spark, Kia Rio, etc.
>> It’s a demanding, detail oriented, analytical job, and many of those people become quite disillusioned with it.

Maybe for you. For me, when I was practicing, law was a very human-oriented thing. My job was about convincing people and companies to do things that they didn't want to do (mostly security). I felt like Charlie Sheen's therapist: If they don't make any changes the client will wind up in jail. But push too hard and they will walk away.
I'm curious, can you recommend an open source example that implements these ideas? My first reaction when I read

> You just need to tack SQLite onto whatever preferred language you use today and model all your business logic as SQL queries over properly-normalized tables.

was to think "well that can't work for _all_ my business logic". But I'd like to see how this idea works in practice before I jump to that conclusion.
Look at a (glass) wine bottle - there are a few centimeters of ever-so-compressible air between the top of the wine and the cork. If the Roman wineries did not leave a similar bit of air in their amphorae, then their seals would need to be quite flexible - think of a thermometer bulb, and Rome's lack of controlled-temperature shipping technology.
LGBT has become a religion now honestly when the fact that celebrities come out it's marked on their wikipedia page as though it's somehow worth mentioning. The fact that "coming out" has blown up beyond what it was has absolutely turned it into cult status since people can be fired or threatened to be fired for "assuming gender" and that nonsense. The simple fact that you can't dislike some of these people, especially since many do have severe mental illness issues they have not worked out, states it's a religion. You can't publicly condemn Christianity in the US, likewise, you can't publicly condemn LGBT groups.
Those countries are extensions of the US Department of Defense. Their military and economic systems have to integrate with ours.

It's good to be the largest military in your alliance, and to control the world's reserve currency.
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I wrote a piece about that some time ago. The vast majority of the complexity in my professional career now is extra curricular complexity and that wasn't true a decade ago. It's build processes, it's CI, it's containers, it's a dozen arbitrarily different frameworks, microservices, dependency management, it's all of that stuff.

The trope I see all the time is enterprise tooling in small projects. Small teams basically moon-lighting as devops 50% of their time and reducing their capacity to solve the actual domain problems significantly.

The domain complexity is something you can't remove, but complexity you've chosen to introduce through tooling should be hard thought about, and the less time you spend thinking about stuff outside the problem you're actually trying to solve the better.
> As a user I do not want yet another company getting my details and assembling a profile on me under the excuse of fraud prevention

This is only done after an explicit opt-in when using just that payment method. It's actually done as part of a credit check and those have to be very explicit.
What's not mentioned is that if you had a 3D map and you held it in your hands to look at it, the light would come from the top in any normal room or outside.
The autocorrect dictionary contains the name of every app on your device. It’ll learn Linux organically eventually, maybe Windows depending on how much home improvement you do….
Doubtful. Even DNA in wooly mammoths entombed in arctic ice has degraded to the point where rewilding would have to involve a breeding program with a closely related animal like elephants.
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I disagree with your advice. I work for a small business for over 5 years. Yeah, it has different vibes, sometimes we are cutting corners, or I have to touch frontend, backend and devops in the same day, but people in this company are amazing (almost everyone was hired because they knew someone already working for the company), my boss can appreciate good work and it's never expected to work overtime (excluding when our servers are down, but we almost never have such crisis). And, the best part - I was never hired to be a programmer, but to do some mundane excel work. I wanted to help, they gave me a chance and 5 years later I'm responsible for entire backend of this company. So my advice - never say never, always try to evaluate individually.
Ask yourself this though: why aren't people going to trade schools more often? If it's such a high demand career, with such reasonable pay, then surely it should attract talent; especially when one considers the extreme affordability of trade school in comparison to university education.

But we don't see this, why? I posit that it is because people who work trades are looked down on socially. People point at the mechanic, or plumber, or HVAC technician and say to their kids "you have to go college so you don't end up like that guy".
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I will never trust vaccine manufacturers until they lose their legal immunity.
Not objecting. I don't need email addresses for the case of AppleID users. 100% true

I do need them for everyone else who comes from traditional signup

However, you seem to have missed the point. My problem is not AppleID, my problem is that Apple forced it on my app and threatened to shut me down if I didn't include it
It looks to me that masonry is a technique that has evolved to the human form for 1000's of years. Duplicating people is hard.

Matching the building technique and materials to what is automatable seems a better bet.
>How would you know at "compile time" whether a library failed to load?

Imports and Webpack. I cannot imagine externally loading a payment SDK like that in this day and age.
The true irony is this type of behavior is what drives people to be even more conservative. Why be open or have fun (even if it's krass at the time, naively unaware it could be bad in the future). So now people who aren't bleeding hearts will more than likely only post content that is generic. Then all the bleeding hearts will complain nobody is willing to stand up for justice when these very people are the same ones that incite witch hunts for minor offenses.
Factory jobs, not construction. Running a pulp machine doesn't destroy your body.
You're probably right. It makes more sense to sell those mass-produced floorplans to architects, who will make slight tweaks for local conditions and perhaps pay via subscription, rather than directly to consumers who will probably just copy the floorplan .jpg and take that to the builder anyway.
In fact I use it daily in my 3310, buttons and all, as a replacement for my <model forgotten> FFOs phone from a few years back.
From that experience I can tell you it has nothing in common from the user point of view.
This is probably the best blog post I've seen on the topic:

https://vvvvalvalval.github.io/posts/what-makes-a-good-repl....

> If you're not familiar with Clojure, you may be surprised that I describe the REPL as Clojure's most differentiating feature: after all, most industrial programming languages come with REPLs or 'shells' these days (including Python, Ruby, Javascript, PHP, Scala, Haskell, ...). However, I've never managed to reproduced the productive REPL workflow I had in Clojure with those languages; the truth is that not all REPLs are created equal.

Basically, the "REPL" you usually call a REPL is in fact a shell, and not a REPL as normally used in lisp languages.
even when you do that, it's at least a markup language, I just don't understand how include fits into the semantics
I didn't say criminals being able to reintegrate was a bad thing. I'm simply pointing out the apparent double-think here.
You can look up any private relay email address you've had provisioned in iCloud settings. It shows what service it was used or and the email, also allowing you to disable the address. This is also available from the Apple ID manager:

https://media.welsh.cc/SIAAsg
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By the way: GDP measures of a country’s economy are measuring the total value of the finished goods produced in a given year, sold to the final user. The intermediate steps you listed don’t count. So the mv=qp formula doesn’t directly translate to gdp growth. It’s just an accounting identity over the intermediate sales of unfinished products.

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/basics/gdp.htm
> "We are going to minimize the anti-covid measures as much as possible, as long as there are still hospitals bed available to treat patients. If that means people get infected, so be it, as long as we can treat them. We know some are going to die, but we are prepared to accept those losses".

I'm sorry that's laughable compared with what has happened. Where is your herd immunity 'test' in there? How about the old people in hospitals being returned to care homes with covid? Oh, let's not forget the brilliant Christmas 'test'. Or the eating out 'test'. Or the dominic cummings castle test. Or.. I mean it's all pretty stupid stuff.

Do those fit in to this 'global strategy'? Cos it seems we can apply occams razor of a more simple explanation of failure and revisionism.

No the strategy bluster, excuses, and constant pivoting. Not just in covid. In practically everything.

It's not clever. It's not subtle. It's so obvious. It's actually painful to watch. And periodically deadly.

Even if you believe your own 'global strategy' explanation - the terrible results speak for themselves. So either it's not a good strategy, it isn't the strategy (I believe obviously), or it's being executed exceptionally poorly.

> I'm not sure you would prefer being in Japan...

No. They seem like pretty good options.

> You might not agree with the UK strategy - and that's perfectly OK - but it's a consistent one, and they executed it relatively well, considering the knowledge they had of the disease at every time, of course hindsight is 20/20.

Just no. No!

It's not a hindsight 20/20 issue. The government had plans for this drawn up years before. There was sars/mers/ebola/spanish flu after all. A pandemic was rated the biggest risk by the government since 2016. The government ignored those plans. And did something else well more unplanned and dumber.

If that was their plan "executed it relatively well", then that's a terrible plan because the terrible results.

But this is all too generous. This government and Boris aren't really into plans. Or deep thinking. They just wing it, generally fail (because they don't like thinking, plans or difficulty of execution) and lie and misdirect.

What is amazing, is that works so effectively.
A pattern I see with some companies -- usually, but not always, companies with little turnover, which leads to internal stagnation -- is the foundational belief that THEY ARE VERY SPECIAL and need things done a CERTAIN WEIRD WAY that is not supported by any commercial offering.

Often, this leads to homegrown solutions that are never at feature-parity with COTS options, but have the benefit of costing more.

If they buy something instead, they festoon it with a bunch of customization and external, parallel tools that must be kept in sync at the data and configuration level for everything to "work".

What they NEVER do is re-examine their assumptions about how they must work, or interrogate why they can't go the same route as the bulk of the market on these points and thus have a simpler, more maintainable, less frustrating system in place.

It's not quite this bad, but it's ALMOST like a company insisting that "well, here, for historical reasons, 2 and 2 are 5, not 4, so we have to do . . . . "

It's exhausting, but OTOH, well, to the extend that my employer is involved, we tell them our recommendations but ultimately bill by the hour.
At some point, the pie is large enough that the social significance of inequality in its distribution is larger than the actual value of pie.

Beyond that in some sectors capitalism can't make the pie bigger. For example, housing in desirable localities will stay a roughly equivalent part of your income.

It's also wrong that people in the Soviet Union find growth unintuitive. Until the late stages of decline, the Soviet system saw incredibly significant growth even for the average person.
Spokesperson quoted in the article as saying that this mostly relates to corporate IP and things like that. No confirmation that any of the cases were related to stalking users or other misuse of user data. Cases like the dismissal of Margaret Mitchell would probably be counted among this number. Other probable examples would be if someone gets dismissed for leaking data about upcoming products.
It should also be mentioned that email doesn't generally provide any information.

hobgoblin33@ussr.ru doesn't carry much info.
If anyone really believes that an "Order" struct causes more "mental load", compared to passing around a tuple with a bunch of dollar amounts and random-looking strings, then I don't know what to tell them. The exact opposite seems obvious.

I've never seen a Python codebase larger than 10,000 lines, that didn't require exhaustive archeology for newcomers to figure out the contracts. I'm sure that the original authors (who are always long gone) had fun, though.
I'm trying to read it ("Common Sense") and, it's making me feel pretty dumb. I'm only a couple of paragraphs in, and my eyes are already glazing over, and I can't follow what he's talking about.

The Wikipedia page says it's the highest selling book in American history, or something. And, people read this at taverns, apparently.
Does no one care about how their house looks?

I think people care more than ever how their house looks, and that is exactly why they buy "ugly McMansions".

I mean why else would you buy a McMansion, other than for the look. From a construction point, most aren't built to last. From an architecture point they aren't great "machines for living in". From an economic point they're neither frugal or a great investment.

Bottom line is the main reason people by a McMansion is because they care more than anything how their house look, and whether you or I like it they really want a house that looks like a McMansion.
This was a Chinese-sponsored scholarship in China. But I suppose it’s fine to be a racist jerk if only you can blame CCP, right?
can a newer version be used to introduce malicious code for those downloading or the dependents?
Yes, but it shouldn't matter whether I make pictures of others on my PC or by hand if the other didn't consent to me making those pictures. Regardless of the type of picture.
So what happens to a persons social credit when they prepped for this situation, and then when their score tanked then go and perform a mass shooting at the building of the people who score them?

This creates a system of people who numerically can identify they have absolutely nothing left to lose.
“Insider abuse is a problem across the tech industry”

Rarely do I think we need more laws and regulations, but that these are not disclosed to the public and impacted users as data breaches strikes me as terrifyingly unjust. When cops misuse power to do this they are criminally prosecuted. Seems appropriate.
Same goes for Swiss from different regions. You know it's bad when they add German subtitles to a Swiss person talking Swiss German so other Swiss Germans understand it.
They're both social consequences. Criminals who have served their time and are released often have a lot of trouble finding work or renting because of their criminal history. Liberal people often decry this as unjust.

So now we're looking at doing the same thing, but to people who have never been given any sort of due process. And somehow _that_ is okay?
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FYI, Org-mode supports multiple dependencies via org-depend (blocking entries do not have to be nearby and can even be located in a different file).

Thanks for the recommendation for Taskheat BTW; that looks pretty amazing. I'm curious, have you actually tried using Flying Logic for task planning?
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Seeing all record temperatures getting broken, villages and forests in Turkey and Europe burning. Thinking of scenarios like stay at home in summer guidelines because of the burning sun and food getting expensive because of burnt fields. How can one prepare for the climate change events like those?

Is learning to garden certain plants or practicing certain skills could be useful for this grim future?
> So remember, C.D.C.: Be first, be right and be credible. The conditions may not be ideal, but that’s the job.

Those are ideals, and they aren't always compatible, available, or attainable.
arnold's proof is the most intuitive and what made it click after years of being responsible for understanding it (several years of algebra at the undergrad and grad level):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeRXVL6qPk4