skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my limited experience, this is rarely so simple as to being able to push back on a technical decision when the reality will feel like pushing a square through a circle peg. I mean, as rightfully pointed out, if the reasons are more political than technical, pushing back can have nefarious consequences for the people involved.
Doing our jobs as engineers is about raising the alarms when needed, but, if all you get is resistance back... Assuming it's not your product, not your company and your ties to the thing are mostly technical... Then if advocate for the "not your problem" attitude and you can simply be content to let it crash and burn and show up the next day with a mop to fix it.

Dealing with incompetent management is never nice or easy, but I'd advocate that as software developers, we're quite privileged because we get paid pretty well, work is versioned in source control and most messes are physically unseen, and cleaning up is "usually" not a big deal.
No.

>China is culturally an ancient agrarian society focused more on defending farmland

is nonsense just like all the Chinese netizens who keep saying that "We Descendants of Yanhuang have 5000 years of history". Non-sense, PRC happened in 1949, and before that, it's a History of ethnicities from all over the land Conquer, Massacre, Annex and Integrate each other.

EDIT:

> China is not interested in controlling or imposing beliefs

There are 56 ethnic groups in China, they may have different culture even religion, what do you think how China managed to make sure all 55 other then Han stay under control?
Owning a car is a right, but driving it is a privilege.

This initiative is no worse than mandatory seatbelts.
An engineer is expected to speak up when told to construct X out of Y when Y is not good enough for it. He is personally responsible for the lives at stake. A software engineer is not expected to speak up when told to build X out of Y but to push through no matter what.
Also correlates positively with number of “fw: fw: fw: fw:” subject lines in your mailbox. It must be spreading through the forward button.
> unvaccinated people are more likely to cause the virus to mutate

Citation?
True, there's no selective pressure for it to become less lethal.

But I wonder: isn't a random mutation unlikely to improve on any of its profiles (transmissibility or lethality)? If so a more transmissible virus is unlikely to also be more lethal.

What if (not sure) a random mutation actually tends to do slightly worse? Then more transmissible viruses tend to be less lethal over time.

Sure we still get more lethal mutations from time to time, but the more transmissible ones are the ones which win out.
Where the hilarity really ensues is when X gets reflected in the hiring process. If you're working in a sufficiently small industry you can sometimes tell if the builder has paid a visit without checking their LinkedIn. How would you integrate NIH X into architecture Y? Sometimes you can even tell which iteration of X the company ended up with.

"Fucker's settin' up franchises!"
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This sounds like this could be declared unconstitutional by being considered an unreasonable search.

Still terrible anybody supported this bill. I don't even remember this making the news or being debated before it passed.
> UNIX was born as a typesetting system

Do you have a link about this by any chance?
Common Lisp will often have auxiliary return values that are often not needed (e.g. the mathematical floor function returns the remainder as a second value). Unused extra values are silently discarded.

So you can do, for example (+ (floor x y) z) without worrying about the second value to floor.

A lisp compiler for a register machine will usually return the first N values in registers (for some small value of N), so the common case of using only the primary return value generates exactly the same code regardless of how many values are actually returned.

I don't remember the details, but however wasm happens to implement multiple return values, you can't just pretend that a function that returns 2 values only returns one.
No I'm not splitting hairs at all. The local bottling companies have significant operational freedom. They could stop selling plastic bottles and only use glass or aluminum if they wanted to.
I have often reflected about this. To me, it feels like that the week is not as "artificial" as claimed in the article. Working 6 days feels like the maximum before a full day of rest is needed for the body and the mind. It's just a feeling though...
what might "aHVudGVyMgo" written on the post-it stand for?
Over 10mil Saito Wrapped on BSC
prevent or limit car operation

That is precisely what a killswitch is. The circumstances and/or requirements of the activation of the killswitch are irrelevant to whether or not it's a killswitch. Is it a good idea? Maybe. Will I, as a teetotaler, be ripping this out of my future car on sheer principle? Yes.
Easier said than done. About a week ago I was researching what it would take to import a Mexican or Brazilian Volkswagen Type-2 (Bus/Transporter) to California. Americans are generally restricted from importing cars that are younger than 25 years old, and in California imported cars must receive expensive emissions testing and certification that are much more involved than the normal smog check process (with some exceptions for classic cars).

Importing cars is not a viable option for most Americans.
I'd say the incorrect words in the title are "mandatory" and "backdoor".
> I will now point out that whether X makes it to production can become disconnected from the notion of whether X actually belongs in production.

... is the crux of her point.

So, um, who decides what belongs in production?

I generally like her essays but this has a weird senseless negative tone to it.

Look... I get it. We've all come across bozos. A lot of these bozos aren't the derpy clowns we (hope? wish?) they would be. No - they're usually very confident, very aggressive, and very very goal oriented. Yes it's absolutely infuriating watching them somehow gain the confidence of the C-level folks, obtain a lot of resources, and burn everything to the ground all while claiming plausible deniability. Wishing that they'd get filtered out by the hiring process is <insert idiom of improbability>.

The real culprit is your director of engineering. That person is making terrible decisions but is so good at avoiding accountability that you place your blame on the bozo. Hot take: if your company keeps hiring bozos then your executives are doo-doo. Leave the company. Oh, you can't because you're making 300k base + 2 years away from 800k in RSUs? Congrats. You're part of the problem (it's not your fault).

The same reason why you won't leave your company is the same reason Mr. Bozo gets a crack at "innovating" at that same company.

People like Rachael (who obviously love this work at their very core) are doomed to end up a jaded curmudgeon unless they 1) start their own company 2) join a tiny company. Big tech is hell. Make your money and GTFO.
Honestly, I find this search engine pretty dang usable. I've thrown technical to frivolous at it, and i like the mix of results.
This is a simplification of Unix history, but is in accordance with the fact that the first eager knon programmer) users of Unix were the people typing patents applications at Bell Labs.

See e.g. "unix, a history and a memoir" by Brian kernigan
I agree. However, the type of growth you're addressing here is different from the growth in social media companies. The growth in ad-tech based companies are by nature very artificial when put in economic terms. One can easily argue that these companies provide value by enhancing the reach and personalization of your marketing activities which results in increased sales and brand exposure. But at the very end of the day, how is an ever increasing of consumer spending GDP going to solve real life and death issues? Growth becomes relevant because capitalism is very focused on generating profit, you can either increase revenue or reduce cost, which one is easier? Increase revenue which then leads to, "let's get more users".
> I don't want that in my car

You are free not to buy.

> I don't want my car thinking because it can't see the fucking lines on the road

If you drive outside of "safe drive envelope" it does not matter if you're drunk or road conditions are dangerous. Safety systems should prevent accident in both cases.
They had something like this when I worked at Atlassian, which was copied from Google (like most everything there)

You could pick a thing to work on outside your normal job and they’d “give” you time. However you had to basically justify it to your manager. This also hilariously ended up in having to plan OKR style achievements for your spare time project. So it was another, voluntary layer of micromanaging crap added over your real job.
Indeed, if anything is slow, it's GIMP.
Thousands of ICU nurses quit on the past few years. They are still trained and would just have to be convinced to return.
I'm no game developer, but I think if nothing else, Cryengine/lumberyard/open 3D would be far superior in terms of visuals than the alternatives. I'd assume the code as a whole is clunkier and more bloated, but also more "battle hardened" than most FOSS projects too.

Godot's 3D support seems promising, but at a very different level than the "big" engines. Not sure I'd want to pick it up for a serious project just yet. The other options like Ogre seem ... kind of bad, if their industry track record is to go by. Ogre in particular seems to have had a brief golden era, where a few commercial games used it, but in every case I know of, sequels to those games abandoned Ogre for unity or unreal. Even the open source games/frameworks I know of that used it like OpenMW abandoned it.

If I was really trying to make a commercial indie game with a FOSS engine, this seems like a good candidate, even considering the questionable Amazon ties... to me, it strikes me as more "open source Cryengine" in the first place anyway, in the same way OpenSolaris indirectly open sourced a lot of older UNIX utilities in addition to Sun's novel code.

(Of course if I was only making a hobby project I'd probably stick to Godot, but I'm imagining the perspective of a small team seriously trying to make a commercial game)
Maybe https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/hist.html might help.
I'm not surprised at all.

This site is a honeypot for anti authoritarian contrarians.
The Used Car Dealer Association, would be my guess. Because the value of their older inventory is going to go to the moon.
The Mi 3H is a decent model (fairly significant improvement on the earlier models). I have one in my bedroom, and it really only cranks up the volume if I fry something in the kitchen and forget to run the extractor.

VOC levels (as measured by a separate sensor) were up around 400 μg/m^3 when we moved in — somewhat high, probably because the apartment was new — and after a week, during which the Mi 3H was on auto mode and always silent, I tested again and they were down around 120 μg/m^3. It also deals with moderate spikes in PM — like someone smoking on the balcony outside, or opening a dusty moving box in the room — without increasing the noise levels noticeably.
Then there is civil asset forfeiture.
I guess I should drop Tcl's author view on concurrency and threading,

https://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2010/cs4210_fall/papers/...

And the HN discussion related to it, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17297325
I'm not so sure that's a bad thing. Depriving the public of free use should be compensated appropriately. The older it is the more it becomes part of our shared culture.

It makes sense that in some cases large players will be capable of realizing benefits from things at scales that small ones simply can't match. A small player could still presumably sell their copyright to a large one if it appeared lucrative to continue extending it.

It's a matter of balancing freedoms against monopolies in order to maximize innovation. Large players often enjoy intrinsic economic advantages and I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing as long as it doesn't hurt consumers.
4-leaf clover larger than a credit card?
> Is this abstract intentionally ironic or not? Bullshit in this include “social structural factors”,“part of a speech community”,”practice of bullshitting” “bullshitting backfires”.

They are all very real.

The first three are standard aspects of a linguistic/speech community.

The fourth, as described, is specific to BS communities. That said, the phenomenon of linguistic artifacts falling in and out of speech communities is a thing, and this is sort of what he is talking about (maybe if viewed at a higher level of abstraction).

I’ve done research on speech communities, and I’ve also seen ”professional BS speech communities in action. It’s a sight to see.
Does that also include access to new versions of ARM not yet released?
So no police report. Got it.
> If all the possible choices for the vote are supported by all the parties. If there are unacceptable choices, this is just a dictatorship of the majority

I noticed that some have an interpretation of democracy as "the majority shall dominate you". They seem to be forgetful of the principle of "costitutionalism": all powers shall be preliminary limited through a social contract.
Sure, but if wages for juniors were more like ~40k instead of 100k+, and there was a steep upward wage growth from junior to midlevel to senior, you don't think that would change the candidate pool?
The troll made a mistake, good catch. Edit: both accounts are created at the same time ( 2 minute interval)
> Emacs’ biggest drawback is that you are never using it to the fullest

I disagree, this is not a linear question. Emacs supports many different styles of working, and you aren't required to use anything to it's fullest. You might be using avy and other manipulation packages, or clicking around with the mouse (perhaps with your own commands bound to special kinds of mouse clicks) and it would be just as OK. You might always learn something tomorrow, but that shouldn't keep you from going on today.
I didn't know goats were so tiny (45 cm)
All big tech businesses at their core are monopolies. Once a significant field has been figured out, it is very difficult to compete with the market standard, unless they screw up so hard that that THE AVERAGE user starts searching for an alternative.
“Someone that avoids talking about what they did, and focuses too much on "we"”

This is very interesting. I naturally use “we” when discussing past products and achievements. I do this in recognition of the fact that things are very rarely designed and built in true isolation. Even principal engineers socialize their designs and thinking with colleagues, making small tweaks here and there or gaining additional confidence to move forward.

“We” is absolutely not a red flag for me.
I'd argue that they invested way too much into Google+ actually. They tried forcing it on everyone, almost killing the YouTube community in the process, and people started fighting back.

Facebook didn't gain its users overnight and without a good amount of manipulation and tricks on their part, but they were smart enough to not make it feel as aggressive or directed as Google did with Google+
So in America, the police just kinda stand by while "so much of the city was being destroyed" and two people are killed. Wow.
I believe they tried that, they didn't get their desired results, and now we are caught up to current events.
I've got my avy configured to jump around by never using the pinkies. I use avy to move to any char in any Emacs "windows" and I also use it very extensively for many "menus" / drop-down lists, to quickly jump to a selection. For example I use it with counsel (from the same author, as mentioned in TFA), say I open the list of recently opened-file, I'll then "avy" to the one I want to re-open. Or I counsel-rg (calling ripgrep from Emacs, with the candidates shown using counsel): then I visually pick the one I want and I "avy" to it.

This is magical.

I know I could configure/use it for more stuff so I'll study TFA.
I was also thinking about this, after seeing this reddit thread of a woman putting a device in front of a doorbell.

https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/r7kb03/my_...
Mandatory seatbelts are a simple mechanical device which can hardly compromise the functionality of the car.

Integrated electronic systems of the type in context are not.
A part of my problem is relying on "programming language" when I should really focus on "real-time collaborative database" with "multi-user workflow transactions"

http://www.adama-lang.org/
I hope you’re not calling ROCm a workable alternative…

it’s really not close. I love that they are trying, I just honestly feel they need to be trying with 10 times as much funding/resources behind them.

Or do you mean Apple’s Metal Compute? useful only with inconvenient (at scale) Apple hardware.

If workable CUDA alternatives were really here, I feel people would be talking about them more given how large the hate is for Nvidia on multi fronts from multiple different user groups.
> but it must make the process of actually getting things done in politics really hard

Yes and no. If what you want to get done is sneak something in under the radar, or force the other party to approve one piece of legislation they wouldn't normally approve, in order to pass some other legislation they want more, then it can make it easier to get things done. Unfortunately, those things are often driven by special interests and not what is best for the general population.
Yeah, but at least you know where to start searching afterwards.

This applies to other languages with unsafe code blocks, note that JOVIAL and ESPOL were the first ones offering such capability.
> few people read the CSP

I've read it after inventing similar concept and implementing it on top of Python+Redis. So embarrassing.
By "volunteering" I assume they mean the fact that you can choose what to do with that time, assuming you actually have it, within the context of the company. So it is an actual choice you have as to what to work on, which isn't usually the case with your normal job duties.

Whether those hours end up being unpaid overtime ("120% time") or not varies wildly from time to time and team to team, in my experience there. I had a real 20% project while I was there ~8 years ago (porting modern Linux to a vendor device Google used internally), but I also stayed late quite often too; I can't say I know for sure how it added up in the end.
Keep in mind that there are maybe 100 or more users with electron apps for each cryptocurrency miner.
> ppl b4

Please do not abbreviate words like this. It makes the text harder to read.
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How can I get in on this? :-)
0. The vaccines are incredibly effective, as evidenced by the almost zero rate of bad progressions. You can look up the studies for exact number, but I think mRNA was something like 80-90% effective against the original COVID-19, that's amazing
1. The risks you describe exist, but they also exist orders of magnitude higher when you catch COVID-19. So the choice isn't vaccine risk or no risk, the choice is vaccine risk or COVID risk. There is no if anymore, we will all get COVID. You can just get it without or with vaccine
2. The unvaccinated have much higher rates of bad progressions and might die before even reaching the hospital (for mistrust as well as medical reasons) and right now we have much more vaccinated than unvaccinated so we have more vaccinated people in the hospital than unvaccinated but look at who dies/gets damaged and which of the unvaccinated cases would have been preventable.
3. This argument is just empirically wrong https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/04/opinion/covid-vaccine-kid...
4. This argument is also wrong even if recovery immunity was for life (which is unsure), since as I said, we'll all get COVID, just that the vaccinated cases will be much milder and much less likely to wind up in the hospital.

These arguments are, fundamentally, not sound. And there are big difference between vaccine mandates, no mandates and bans. For mandates and bans to stand up in courts and democratic review, even as the ruling party you need to show evidence for your position since you'll force it onto other people. For the effectiveness of vaccines, we have that evidence, as well as a collapsing medical system. For a ban, we don't. So unless people with anti-vax beliefs completely abandon democratic principles (which I hope they wouldn't in those numbers) they could not institute a ban. In any case, my comment was aimed at highlighting this distinction: a vaccine mandate, like a lockdown, is/was justified by the conditions, not just dictatorial abuse, no matter how much those that don't like it scream about it. A ban would not. So it's a completely different thing to institute a ban at 60 % anti vax sentiment vs. a mandate at 60% evidence based decision making
I heard the US has a base in Ramstein where they play video games. I don't see why these people would not qualify.
Can you explain why it's bad UX if it's intended to be an advent calendar?
I honestly never thought I'd see someone citing the ICANN DNS system as an example of a good thing but in this case I agree, it fits.

It's an interesting point. Yearly is terrible for individuals but if you think about it for a tax such as this large blocks are just paying for the smaller pieces all at once. It probably doesn't make sense to offer discounts since the express purpose is to discourage holding the copyright in the first place.
Go and sleep it off citizen! Your emergency can wait!
> Your freedom ends where your fist ends and my nose begins.

I know where your nose is. I don't know where this pandemic ends. Can you give a clear and fair number? Obviously people will never fully stop getting sick, but how low exactly before we're content?
It is absolutely scientifically ok to reject GMO, since they decrease variety and after x years of abundance in a year a superbug can destroy it all.

In case of GMO it is a play with the unknown (health, stability), it is a risk against a somewhat cheaper food.
In case of vaccine it is still a play with unknown, but there the risk is against another risk not just money. If the virus would be less deadly much less people would have taken it. And the other way around as well, would be more deadly people would queue up instantly.

It is not as black and white as you describe. stupid vs smart people as you say it.

And by the way, this is called common smartness. Everybody is susceptible for different thing everybody is resistant to different things so the whole word is hard to take on.
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There are a lotvof mentally ill people in the military.
> Are they expecting to live 100 years from the point of writing? Till death of the author seems most sensible.

Not really; a fixed term is more sensible than life of author; why should we want to take active steps to remove the incentive to/reward for creation for creators without a long current life expectancy?

I remain convinced that a reasonable fixed “free” term that can be extended with slowly escalating annual ad valorem taxation on a declared value that also serves as an offer price for purchase into the public domain is the ideal solution here.
"The estimated 1.4 billion Han Chinese people are mostly concentrated in the People's Republic of China (Mainland China), where they make up about 92% of the total population.[2] In the Republic of China (Taiwan), they make up about 97% of the population."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Chinese

Is that incorrect?
Considering they've even gotten away with breaking the rules (custom ISA extensions), I imagine nothing ARM does could realistically cause Apple to be unable to continue manufacturing ARM-compatible chips.
And they also both design CPUs. ARM just doesn't manufacture theirs themselves.
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