skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having tried many techniques for program-to-program interfacing, I must say that text still is the lingua franca, and I think it's the best "non-standard" to set.
> Do you know any programmer that does not occasionally create bugs? Don't forget tight schedules, low budgets, ...

Do not run programming in C on tight schedules, and low budgets. It needs tact, and understanding.
This seems like a logical fallacy many Linux users seem to make.

I want the benefits without being a mechanic. And I'm willing to pay money for it. Lots of money.
The difference then is shifted towards whether it is a targeted attack or not. And that is a huge difference.

That difference would undoubtedly have saved every single company that was affected in the current story.
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Sorry, need to call BS for all the impressionable young readers.

The job of ‘programmer’ takes on many shapes and sizes. Businesses evolve and are different from one another.

You may be very successful in some clusters of business, but how representative is this, let alone your unique experience, to the rest of the industry?

If you’ve never worked with anyone with “real” software training, why would I hire you into a senior position when there are plenty of candidates who have?

I’ve worked at companies back in the day where experienced non traditional programmers have both kick started and ruined businesses within the same job. You may be successful enough to grow a business, but that’s different from scaling or pivoting one.

If you can’t grok a homework program from the first week of a data structures course, why should I trust you to self learn more advanced topics? Why would I spend a ton of time evaluating massive GitHub contributions vs. just watching you code a problem your team would work on for 1 hour?

I have to pay smug kids 100s of g’s because the labor market is so fucked, and there’s no way I’d either trust them to evaluate candidates via code review, nor would I spend their time on that vs. building and learning.

I’d love to not pay children small fortunes, but most very experienced journeymen I’ve interviewed over the years can’t string together dynamic api calls or tell me how things scale, and I get to hire for experience first every time.

If you were able to self teach, then the kid that just spent 4 years snorting adderall and interning and google sure as hell has a chance to, too, and he’s willing to solve my dumb riddles.

The other thing you won’t read: firing people for most managers is awful. A manager only takes so many risks before they learn how to mitigate having to experience this horrible experience. I’d rather reject you than fire you.

Edit: I was one of the impressionable young readers once upon a time, and I set myself back quite a bit taking advice from strangers on the internet. Genius programmers on GitHub don’t sign your paychecks.
USD is backed by the U.S. military force, via a slippery slope: you can only pay taxes in USD, and if the taxes you owe are large enough and you refuse to pay, the U.S. government will send increasingly larger forces to claim those taxes.
I can't tell if you're trying to make the above poster's point or argue against it.

A blog post from May 2014 isn't sufficient, no matter where it's linked from.
Postgres handles low memory situations well. It'll kill memory intensive queries before it crashes. I wonder if your application was getting a lot of errors back instead of successful queries :)
They were raised in a Christian household and I think kept a lot of the practical ethics of it but I don't think they were genuinely religious later in life or had any spiritual beliefs. I don't think I ever asked them directly but I suppose they were just agnostic about it and it didn't occupy them much.
There are too many causitive factors to attempt to make a point at genetics. Any attempt to do so is racially motivated, or will be co-opted to institute racist policies.

Studying genetics and how they affect one's life, future, cognitive ability, ect, is interesting and worthwhile. But genetics are not easily separated from other causal factors. However, there are certain other things that we know affects ones outcomes, mainly socioeconomic status and education level.
These issues have not been addressed, nor fixed.
Until then, I would like to keep research that can be very very easily twisted towards the goal of eugenics off the table.
I would love to, but I stopped bothering with C++ a long time ago, and just use C nowadays :-)
LG's Hom-Bot series do, it has a usb port onto which it can store the generated map of obstacles.
There might be others as well.
That is a truly bizarre question to ask of a sector of the economy. In fact, it's so bizarre as to be a category error.

You might as well ask, when will household debt be zero? Well, household debt refers to debt owed by a sector of the economy; it is not, you know, an actual person that will retire and move to Florida. Neither will our government retire and move to Florida. Our government is not saving up for the days when it collects no taxes. There is no clicking tock that says it's time for government liabilities to shrink to nothing.

Similarly the corporate sector is never going to "repay" all corporate debt. Corporates are not planning on retiring and earning no more revenue.

Like all other sectors, debt is rolled over and grows with the overall growth of the sector, generally in line with the growth of revenue. For the government, that means tax receipts.

The government is a sector of the economy that will maintain a positive debt level just as households and corporates.

That does not mean that things like interest rate burdens and debt ratios can be ignored. When looking at the health of the corporate sector or the household sector or the foreign sector, we do look at various ratios, and the government sector is no different. But all of these ratios like debt to income for non-financial business assumes that the debt level owed by non-financial business will never be zero.

So asking when government will "pay back" debt is silly. The government will pay back debt when the household, financial, and foreign sector no longer wish to hold liquid risk-free assets and decide to own gold, seashells, and bitcoin instead. That would be never.
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> --Intelligence is largely (~70-80% of variance) inherited

Citation needed, especially given that there are enormous differences in intelligence between people who acquired speech and those who didn't.
Memory safety is not an issue if you actually learn to take advantage of the C toolchain. I've caught memory leaks and buffer overflows to great effect just by using Valgrind and ASAN. And for most applications, you can limit the attack surface by only writing C for the performance-sensitive areas and using FFI to call into those routines. As a bonus, it becomes much easier to unit test for logical corner cases.
I would imagine that people are calling these governments illegitimate because they lack a democratic mandate to rule and independent opposition to that rule.

i.e. they weren't voted in; they ceased power by violence.

You can't vote them out.

No one has freedom of association to form an alternative political party that strongly opposes the status quo.

Without those things one party governments can't say they are legitimate, only vanguard dictatorships.
Protonmail increasingly seems like one of those Tim Ferris type scams. The one where you build a nice solution and write a bunch of blog posts...

And then you just let it run for 10 years without doing any more work and it just rots away.
> It doesn’t protect you from censorship that occurs naturally in society or the marketplace.

I prefer to associate with those that don't have to be compelled by law to hold up the principle of free speech. Because following the others would only ensure that such rights would have never been implemented.
my concern is something along the lines of this.

imagine that scientists find the genes that makes you predisposed to homosexuality. how long is it before a repressive regime starts testing its citizen and systematically killing anyone with it?

should the scientist have still released the study or is there some sort of ethical consideration?
This looks great and very easy to use thanks.
We hosted [0] a conversation between the two creators. It includes closed captioning and a chapters menu -- their back-and-forth is worth a listen.

P.S. We're having another conversation this November.

[0] https://media.handmade-seattle.com/the-race-to-replace-c-and...
Except that there are standard ways of doing arrays. Newline terminated is the most common, null-terminated is used for data that could have unusual characters in it, and most of the standard utilities support both.

The problem with not doing this is that the operating system is imposing some arbitrary standard on data that may not have even come from the same system.

If the data you get is JSON, there are utilities for parsing JSON. If it's XML, there are utilities for parsing XML. It could be a PDF and you want to convert each page to a TIFF and then tar them into an archive. The file came over the internet; it doesn't care about your system's encoding defaults.
Fair enough. I still believe that tiptoeing around these issues gives power to those who consciously perpetrate and benefit from institutionalized violence.

Like another commenter said, operating with a comfortably skewed mental model doesn't help resolve the actual socioeconomic issues.
Assuming the rest of the world doesn't exist, though. Can't honestly say I'm targeting having more retirement money than needed to get by in some combination of Ukraine, Thailand, and Colombia.

Major life regret? Thinking other countries didn't exist when I was at the age to enter college and taking on massive loans to pay exorbitant US tuition for a school that wasn't anything special when I could have found overseas options at a fraction of the cost.
Math notation is very consistent and it’s optimized for convenience. It’s been constantly refined over last centuries. People who complain about notation usually actually have problem with the substance, and the complaints about notation is just a coping mechanism, to deny hurtful reality that one can’t understand something hard, blaming external factors instead. Ask yourself: if notation was genuinely confusing, why would mathematicians make themselves suffer needlessly?

Now, to be sure, some people and some books are better at teaching than others, but it typically has nothing to do with notation used, and everything to do with the order of introduction of concepts, level of detail of explanation (which can be both too high and too low), amount and quality of examples, etc. However, the core issue here is that some things are actually genuinely hard, and people of average intelligence simply cannot grasp them without expending ludicrous amounts of effort.

If you have some concrete suggestions about mathematical notation, ways it could be improved in more than superficial manner, I (and the rest of mathematical community) is very much open to hear them. Improvements in notation do happen regularly, and when they are valuable, they reach wide acceptance. For example, in the second half of 20th century, the notation of commutative diagrams have been invented, and it spread like a wildfire, because it genuinely facilitates understanding.
One of the standard construction of the real numbers is the set of equivalence classes of rational Cauchy sequences. This definition is equivalent of the handwavey definition above (irrationals are the Cauchy sequences that don’t converge to a rational number and the reals are the rationals plus the irrationals.)

However almost any construction of the real numbers is challenging to give a simple explanation for. Even leading 19th century mathematicians didn’t truly understand the real numbers until Cantor.
My point is that "classical UNIX desktop" doesn't exist.

(Hell, even UNIX itself doesn't exist anymore. Linux and FreeBSD is its own thing now.)
How does your science control for differences between parenting, access to education and nutrition though? I would expect doing so to be unethical and therefore not allowed.
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Checkout this guide I published today. It walks through the code to do the secure tunneling part in ~20 lines of Rust, using Ockam a library to create end-to-end encrypted secure channels

https://github.com/ockam-network/ockam/tree/develop/document...
Thank you! Please, let me know what you think after you give it a try
You raise good points. Some open questions in this space: What is the influence and reach of media organizations? What responsiblity do they have to the public and to the truth? How about social media influencers? How about social media companies?

The story was propagated on Twitter and by a number of recognizable media outlets (Rolling Stones, Business Insider, MSNBC, The Hill, Newsweek, The Guardian / UK, Daily Mirror / UK), in spite of being obvious (and malicious) nonsense. Assuming a minimum responsibility to the truth, we'd expect some kind of postmortem would be in order.

Small aside: There are no magazines at the dentist because everyone is glued to their mobile phone.

Edit: There won't be any postmortem. I'm having a strange vision of the future. The pretense of truth gradually eroded to its naked conclusion. A media landscape where 'news' are written by GPTn optimizing for engagement.
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I've never heard a number as high as 70%. Where does that come from? Otherwise: any idea how intelligence was operationalized?

I also think we can only accept that we're born different, but human. If we should aspire to anything, it should be to make life good for every individual, taking their capacities into account, not to give everyone an academic degree.
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> Look closely enough and there is no essential difference between genetics and other causative factors.

How is this any different from saying "all is one, separateness is an illusion"?
HN crowd doesn't think twice about people who try to run DOOM on a stack of pennies, but are ready to give up before trying to get algebra to run on someone with less working memory. It's weird how different the attitude is.
Any viable large-scale retirement system is going to be a Ponzi scheme, because the "old investors" (retirees) are going to be dead soon and the only way to support them is to recruit "new investors" (working-age people). Tontines, life insurance, bank deposits, the stock market, 401(k)s, pensions, cryptocurrency, whatever - when you unravel them deep enough, they're a Ponzi scheme. This applies to even safe, conventional investments like a bank savings deposit: what's really happening there is that you amass a large credit over your lifetime, and then when you need extra care and support and can't work for it anymore, you transfer that credit over to a working-age nurse/etc so that they can build the same sort of credit for their old age. People who don't budget for this properly grow old destitute and unable to convince anyone to aid them.

In this regard, it mimics life itself. At some point the body gives up on repairing all the cellular damage that's accumulated and just hopes that it's made new humans along the way.

Civilization is built on all the side-effects of humans chasing Ponzi schemes. The reason governments ban actual Ponzi schemes (in the sense of "Everybody send me a dollar and pass this on, and I'll give you a $0.50 for everyone you recruit") is because it incentivizes the citizenry to do nothing other than create and participate in Ponzi schemes. Meanwhile activities like founding startups or trading stocks - which are every bit as Ponzi as that - are legal because the pursuit of them creates beneficial social effects (like innovation, price discovery, and capital allocation).
[Intro]
How not to die
By the weapon
Formerly known as food

[Verse 1]
Sugar, sugar, who you talkin' to?
Dirty water who be lovin' you?
Stroke, no joke, musta hit that salt
Don't look at me, 'cause it ain't my fault
I know you want it, say you need it
And you eat it, 'cause you want it
Sugar, sugar, you don't love me
Sugar, sugar, you don't need me
Now, it be eating me (Eat, eat it up)
Got us fightin' diabetes
Stress level, sleepless, emotional, mental
Drugs in the food I love screwin' up my physical
I'll never fall in love again
With this hate on my plate and
Food and drug administration
Is my my hallucination?

[Verse 2]
Sugar, sugar, I know you move me
I know you wanna drink me
You in everything, not just candy
Worse than a pow pow, shoot 'em up, kill 'em up movie
A riot goin' on in that corner
About a word on a bird in that corner
Toxic, yeah, they just box it
Hard to tell the paranoid "Avoid it like a opioid"
How sweet it is
They just line up these kids
How happy is a meal when dancin' with cancer?
With that God bless America FDA romancing
A new old kinda ganster get down
Pesticide chemical get around
Fast food industrial sit down
EPA's a gang, throw it up now
I think the number of people that haven't acquired overt communication is so low, it can hardly affect the average.
I don't know anyone who believes this. Words mean what they're intended to mean and interpreted to mean, and that's how it's used in practice. Claiming otherwise is just a bald-faced "nuh-uh" when people who use the term are confronted with the double standard.

If there wasn't at least a little bit of complicity in it being interpreted as a general diss on masculinity, the term would never have caught on, or a different term would have been chosen in the first place. In the face of repeated misunderstandings, people using the term would pick a new one. They haven't done that. Why? It seems to me that they are quite happy to be "misunderstood" 95% of the time.

The gender swapped equivalent seems to be "internalised misogyny". Do you think I could get away with calling it "toxic femininity" instead? Nobody would let that pass. Do you think I could get away with calling any obviously bad behaviour associated with femininity, "toxic femininity", at all? I don't think I could.

It's widely considered by men to be an insulting term, and if people who use it don't want to insult people, they should pick another one. They don't though, which is telling.
Even in the 70's it wasn't that great, Powershell "novelty" was a standard way of working across Interlisp-D, Smalltalk, XDE/Mesa and Mesa/Cedar at Xerox.
Yes of course it is stolen. And people claiming otherwise are the same people who come here and ask "What can I do, some Chinese company ripped of my website?!?!?!"
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> They should have debtor’s prison at some point. Obviously going bankrupt from medical debt should not send you to prison but running a $60 million fraud should.

Humans are creative; at that point money will be laundered through various overbilled (or even outright fabricated) medical procedures, paid for in cash.
Yet, as there is only the narrative of "toxic masculinity" and not also discussion of "toxic femininity", the term implies masculinity can turn toxic in a way femininity can't.

There is a Wikipedia page on toxic masculinity, but not one on toxic femininity (it redirects to "Internalised sexism"). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internalized_sexism#%22Toxic...
Twin studies is the oldest, best answer. People have fancy statistical trickery these days too.
You're not supposed to be able to refer to other.#value, though, isn't that the entire point of a private field?
its not so clear cut. they both tackle the "plans are useless" but the "planning is indispensable" is implicit as anything you do in response to a challenging situation is a plan
Spent years at Intel. Definitely saw what is described here. Must also add that it is a big company with no clear culture, so many people will have been in teams for years and not have encountered what skynetv2 is describing.

My two cents: Intel is full of people who are career oriented and not product oriented. Their main goal is to get a promotion, and often find means to do so without contributing anything meaningful to Intel's products. It's also full of senior leaders who believe strongly in credentialism[1], complexity[2], and style over substance (i.e. how the message is delivered vs the content).[3]

From a SW standpoint, I have not yet been in a team where all teammembers can handle branches.[4] This is quite acceptable.

In one team I was in, I was leading the efforts for a product that required features A and B by the customer. I was a junior member of the team with no domain knowledge, but I was somewhat of an expert for that customer's domain. Everyone was on board with the technical work. In every meeting we had for about a year, there would always be some person in the team who'd suggest things that would nullify feature B. I would have to remind them that we agreed to do features A and B." The response would always be "Oh, we're also doing feature B?"

The person who would say this varied from meeting to meeting. But I was very frustrated that they couldn't remember this basic fact, and often ended up writing code that had to be undone. And then deal with their frustration as if I had never mentioned feature B to them. I can understand if this happens once or twice, but I have to remind them in every meeting.

But this was normal behavior. I was the odd person who thought this was unacceptable.

Oh, and coming to meetings unprepared is the norm. No one will read your emails briefing them about the meeting ahead of time.

[1] "Let's hire the PhD with no experience and not the internal MS employee who's already doing the job they are hiring the PhD for"

[2] "I don't care if your code sped up our workflow by 5x. It's just what, 200 lines of code? Anyone can do that."

[3] Presentations break most rules of effective communications/presentations. A senior person once told me "You explained things too well, and your slides are fairly sparse. Fill it up with jargon and lots of plots, and don't explain it as well as you did. If senior management understands your work too easily, they will believe the work you did was trivial. If they have trouble understanding it, they'll be in awe."

[4] One former manager: "Every person will get his/her own private branch. Do all your experimental work there. There will be no more branches." A senior member in another team said "Why complicate things by adding new branches for our various experiments? Let's just keep it in the main branch and enable the different algorithms via command line flags."
My first impulse is to agree but thinking about it more what positives are there to take away from masculinity. Is any feature of being masculine that is really desirable? I guess I think the whole idea of trying to be masculine to be kind of lame...
Taxes are required to give the currency value, to counter inequality and produce a stable society, to take money out of unproductive or overheating parts of the economy, and to discourage harmful (to individuals or society) behaviour.
> they had to build demand for the product before they could afford to version-cycle it.

That mindset didn’t really exist back then. Instead of releasing a better C64, Commodore made the C16, the Plus 4 (both nice, twice as fast as the 64). The first backwards compatible was the C128, but it isn’t really an upgrade over the 64, but a different computer with a 64 built in - when running 64 software, it’s not even faster.

In that sense, it’s a bit funny they didn’t learn the IBM 360 lesson - that a family of compatible computers can outlast the individual models essentially forever.
It sure does exist, a large majority of Linux and FreeBSD users pretend they are still living in the 80's with vt100 and an improved twm.

As proven by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28437173 making to the first page today.