skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My man needs to discover his tribe. If you can't be "surrounded by ideas" and "get a second rush of energy from mind-altering [conversation], and have to decide between following a rabbit hole until 3 am or going to sleep so I can be well-rested the next day" at a party when that's what floats your boat, you need to be going to different parties.

Source: Most of the parties I go to are full of my own weird passionate curious kind of people and that 3am rabbit hole is where most of those end up. Good at going to bed early, we are not.
Pre-omicron.
Sure, the compiler only processes the source of each file once, the IR of each function/method/class once[1] (modulo polymorphic specialization, similar to template expansion), and generates machine code just once. It resolves all addresses just once. Additionally, the Virgil compiler does a reachability analysis fairly early in the compilation pipeline, so code that is not reachable from "main()" or the other entrypoints of the program is pruned away. So huge libraries will only be parsed and verified, not translated or optimized, when building a binary for a given program. Parsing and verification clock in about 500K - 1MLOC/s on a single thread, so having a larger library might only add milliseconds to compilation time.

Linking in C/C++ is pretty efficient in that it is mostly about loading symbol tables and then byte-copying sections together, and then applying relocations. The non-linear part of C/C++ is mostly all in the front end when it must reparse the same header files dozens or hundreds of times over, each time building an AST, verifying the AST, rebuilding the IR, and even repeatedly generating code for the same functions/classes. The linker generally deduplicates functions, sometimes dangerously, like taking the first definition of a given symbol it sees.

[1] Of course, the entire compilation process does involve visiting and transforming the IR in multiple different ways in different passes. The IR is also indexed by different keys, e.g. by class or by method or by type or by signature, so not all passes visit the entire IR. And of course the optimizer might decide to run different passes on a given method based on its characteristics, like whether it has a loop or is very branchy, etc.
i've always wondered how anti-vaxxers would feel about sending their children to schools exclusively for anti-vaxxers. is this something they would feel no hesitation in doing, or do they actually appreciate that their unvaccinated kids are surrounded by others' vaccinated kids?

and also does there exist a sufficient amount of medical professionals to agree to service an all-anti-vaxxer school without complaint?
FYI: the author is named Isabella and AFAICT uses female pronouns. In light of that, the amount of "he" and "him" in the comments so far seems a bit excessive.

EDIT: it looks like a lot of those comments have been cleaned up or deleted since I first made this comment. Thank you.
Fish rained down on a Texas town this week
Vaxxed in the US here, can you direct me to the free healthcare? Thanks.
Yes, I am ok with society not supporting those who choose to actively work against its well being. This isn’t a slippery slope situation, let’s not get carried away with that. Either do your patriotic duty, or do the selfish thing and suffer the consequences.
Get over language fetishism.
I met Izzy a few times at cppcon and always came away impressed. I have basically the same thoughts about the c++ community -- it burns people out and it's filled with a ton of negativity and ego and it's very hard to get anything done. While I was at Google I spent some time trying to push for some sort of codes of conduct after a colleague of mine had a reasonable proposal ripped to shreds in email groups with all sorts of inappropriate sexist and personal attacks. I got absolutely nowhere.

Don't get me wrong, there are many good people there pushing for positive change but the amount of inertia in that scene is just staggering.

I'm glad you got out and decided to do something more meaningful with your talent, Izzy
> My job wouldn’t let me go if I didn’t wear one.

Yes it would, if your job is a driver. It happens all the time. Just search for “fired for not wearing seatbelt”, and you’ll find plenty of stories. The reason you can get fired for this is because it’s (1) illegal, (2) unsafe, and (3) a company liability if the company is found to be lax on training.
> It is an unfortunate misconception that any of the currently-approved intramuscular vaccines reduce transmission to a meaningful degree.

This is another misconception. Our best evidence is that they're extremely effective. The problem is they're not quite effective enough to just go back to life as before since newer variants are extremely virulent.
They didn't verify the phone number when he signed up (with a simple OTP)? Wow
I feel just the opposite. I enjoy driving. It puts me in a thoughtful state and the feeling of being free to take whatever turn, shortcut, or scenic route I want at a whim is great. I don’t look forward to the day a human driving is a weekend, closed course activity for the privileged.
Fair enough. I agree with that. The westerners like to idolize Japan compared to China. I do think sometimes it is unfair.

On the other hand. I think Japan is trying to have a good balance between western style democracy with harmony, hence Japan is not as totalitarian as China. Due to bushido culture, Japanese individuals have more shame built-in so it is easier to have a homogeneous society compared to China, to the point that this bushido culture is sometimes frowned by westerners.

Each society makes their own laws and values, with its pros and cons, and it is reflected differently.
apartheid was a racist policy that discriminated against people based on their skin color… you’re comparing this to mandating a vaccine that dramatically reduces the hospitalization rate during an international pandemic that has killed more than 5 million people in 2 years
Not wearing a seatbelt puts other passengers at risk. If you are t wearing a seatbelt you have a chance of being flung into someone, even if the other person is wearing a seatbelt. This can cause serious injury.
> Imagine needing to announce your "departure" from a community.

Nothing weird about this.
> How badly does MS run their engineering?

Bad enough to be a 2.53 Trillion Dollar company.
Fwiw I have luckily been able to do what the grandparent suggested. I entered big tech early in my career, worked hard and advanced, by luck or by skill who can say? My ship rose with the tide. Now I'm wealthy enough to provide anything my family could reasonably want for the rest of our lives, barring some kind of black swan event. And I am well pleased with this outcome.

This did not require a decade and a half of unhappiness! Did it require me to sometimes put aside my immediate wants for the sake of the future? Yes. Did it require some measure of frugality? Also yes. But I also had great times with friends. I got married and had kids. We took vacations, spent time with family, engaged in hobbies, etc.

There are some things I couldn't do while I was working hard. A gap year was out of the question. But those things are not necessary for happiness.
You can have a high case load in vaccinated countries and still have vaccines that reduce transmissions. Those two ideas don’t conflict.

It just means the vaccines we have don’t reduce transmission by 100% and you have a disease that is highly infectious. Just because a medical intervention doesn’t work 100% of the time doesn’t mean it’s 0% effective. Most interventions (vaccines, drugs, procedures, surgeries) don’t work at 100.0%.

From the data I’ve seen it appears the mRNA vaccines have some effect in reducing transmission while the other vaccines don’t. It is correct to say that the efficacy against transmission has dropped significantly, but that doesn’t mean it’s 0%.
May I recommend the audiobook version with Stephen Fry as Pooh, and an ensemble of other very talented actors? It's on Audible but your local library may have it on CD. I've heard it dozens of times by now and look forward to hearing it again sometime.
They were around. I remember that Izzy was a part of the conversation around modules for example.
The author of the article also sounds like the sort of individual or clique who derail Stack Overflow posts because they feel the premise of the question is wrong (leaving both the original asker and any later reader with their actual problem still unsolved).
This is a shameless plug, but a friend and I have been writing a blog where we discuss a lot of engineering topics since around the start of the covid era.

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Not necessarily.

2.2 is greater than 2.12 but v2.2 is actually an early predecessors to v2.12
It's a game for people with time, which is quite different.

Young people do have time, which is why you see them a lot on TikTok (or for Millennials, why you saw us waste our 20s on Instagram and FB).

You know who else has time?

Old people and retirees. Hence the FB political rage problem. Oh, and unemployed young NEETs, but Reddit is more their speed.
> You might answer "Just go to the RIR", sure, but ASNs aren't given willy-nilly

You get an PI address block and ask your ISP to advertise it on your behalf in their public ASN, e.g.:

> If multi-homing to more than one provider, the customer must obtain an Autonomous System (AS) number, available at http://www.arin.net. If multi-homing only to us, we will provide a private AS number.

* https://support.allstream.com/knowledge-base/bgp-request-inf...
Are they actually different, as in the nuts and bolts, or just different shells on top of the same infrastructure?
It’s pretty easy to get a PR in Canada. Once here, get a tech job. In 3 years you will have a citizenship and a easy way to get a big tech job in the US ( TN Visa).
I find both https://nullprogram.com/ and https://christine.website/ to be very pleasant to read.
Violating NAP requires taking some action, you can't just "aggress" by not doing anything.
Because they were fired for refusing to comply they didn’t quit. If you refused to do a task and were removed by the company for it were you fired or did you quit?
That is low quality evidence. It's folks doing some mathematical modeling. Mathematical modeling has had a very bad track record during this pandemic. Did you even read the paper you are linking?
Big American corporations have often made their money through subsidies.

Enforcing everyone to take the jabs increases those subsidies (this enforcement is persistent in all countries submissive to USA). That's what makes sense.

However, don't assert altruism because there isn't any.
The 'save lives' campaign is just a coating to make things easy for the general public to swallow.
1% of the population dying a preventable death is alot of bodies.
Since the author is open up front about their OCD issues, this talk immediately came to mind. It's a bit of an elaborate tongue-in-cheek joke, but I found it personally helpful for thinking about why a choose a language. Pervert in this context does not mean sexual deviancy. In the Lacanian sense, a pervert is a person who enjoys being a vessel of the rules.

The Pervert's Guide to Computer Programming Languages - SXSW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZyvIHYn2zk

The Pervert's Guide to Computer Programming Languages
Psychoanalysis and Software

What are the issues with selecting a programming language?
• Which programming language should we choose?
- Just saying: 'use the right tool for the job' begs the question
• Why are there over 1000 programming languages?
• How do we critique a programming language?

• Why do language designers create new programming languages?
• Rational reasons
• Maximize expression while modeling:
• a specific problem
• a broad range of problems
• Psychoanalysts: "Many decisions are not rational"
• Programming language choice can be rational, non-rational, or a mix
• Use Jacques Lacan and Slavoj Zizek's critical theory
• Critique non-rational decisions
• Discover ulterior motives (ours and others)
• Explain the diversity of language options

Jacques Lacan
• French psychoanalyst and philosopher
• Extremely cryptic
• Preoccupied with desire and enjoyment
• Popularized the mirror image, the Big Other, and the triad of the Imaginary. the Symbolic. and the Real
• Believes all humans fall into the three basic mental structures of psychosis, perversion, and neurosis

Why the 'Pervert's Guide'?
• Based on the Pervert's Guide to Ideology by Slavoj Zizek
• Pervert is a person who enjoys being a vessel of the rules.
• Zizek calls the analyst's method of discourse the pervert's discourse
• The analyst sits in the position of the object of desire for the subject.
• The analysand projects his or her ideals onto the analyst (transference)
• When we analyze programming languages we are operating in the analyst's (i.e. pervert's) discourse.
My dad spent his life working in public health, including vaccinations. “Doesn’t believe in science and progress” and “very often misogynistic and racist” is how Trudeau would describe your typical villager in Asia or Africa—the people my dad spent a lifetime serving. But Trudeau’s unrelated moral crusades are utterly irrelevant to the issue of public health, and he’s deeply damaging the public health effort by trying to tie them together. This is public health 101. You don’t use health as a vehicle for ideological issues because that destroys trust. E.g. if your Muslim villager won’t see a female doctor you find a male doctor. If pregnant women in Bangladeshi villages don’t trust western educated doctors, you build referral relationships with traditional midwives. (That one is a true story.) Health is the first and last consideration.
this is just from wikipedia for context:
"Obsessive–compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) is a cluster C personality disorder marked by an excessive need for orderliness, neatness, and perfectionism."

Comports with this in my opinion. Having known some people who were called "Type A personalities" who tend to be great at metrics and goals but not always so great emotional intelligence. Narcissism is common etc. This is the kind of person who will fixate on an uncleaned toilet or rattle in their car for weeks, losing sleep.

Recalling one person I've known with these traits, she sounds a lot like this person. After a couple of decades and seeing her raise a family has convinced me she is indeed Human, if she had gotten therapy things would be a lot different. She's much more pro-social, though she also didnt really maintain her friendships but she definitley never had a career with walls of compiler warnings to ignore. That might have killed her.

Closing her blog, Izzy expresses a deep frustration and lack of any derived meaning from what she had viewed as her purpose (c++ I suppose) as well as a general feeling of isolation. If you are feeling some shadenfreud about this for some reason, its clear she is very unhappy. It doesnt seem particularly rational to view languages this way. My impression is that this person is probably in distress and depressed. If this were my friend I would be making phone calls.

Izzy: Good luck, lady. C++ is hard, but so is life. Keep looking for that purpose. If you happen to read here, I suggest volunteering at an animal shelter. Just working on something less demanding and quite possibly more rewarding is a great therapy break, as you've found from your Ops position. You are well positioned to tackle this.

[] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive%E2%80%93compulsive_p...
> they don't stop spreading and catching it

Not true, they do reduce infection and spread.

> That said, if the government takes away benefits, then it should give back all the taxes withheld on one's salary before it does that.

That’s not how government, taxes or being part of civil society works at all.

> personally I don't see any other solution to the pandemic, other than everybody/most people gaining some kind of natural immunity

This is scientifically illiterate as Omicron bypasses all “natural” immunity whereas a vaccine gives stronger protection. What’s to stop future variants doing exactly the same?
Version numbers can of course be numbers, but the problem here is that they were constructing a number like a string from semantically meaningful constituent parts (and not testing thoroughly).
The author is having a human experience, but I do not find it relatable.

I do appreciate her high-level comments on non-C++ languages as amusing and accurate complaints.
Not the parent, but miniaudio.h is a single C header containing both interface and (ifdef'd) implementation, which is 89k lines long. It horrifies me.
No one really knows, actually, and the reduction (if it's there) could be marginal.

OTOH, the measures that are being implemented for vaccinated vs. unvaccinated are out of proportion based on the evidence we have.
> Vaccines reduce spread because of lower viral load. Also reduces severity.

And yet, case counts have never been higher than now, a year into vaccines and infections.

Ah, but Omicron you may say. Well doesn’t that imply that the vaccine isn’t terribly effective against that strain? Yet the answer seem to be “just keep getting more injections of the same vaccine formulation.”

Perhaps one or more of our fundamental assumptions are wrong. Maybe the vaccines aren’t actually that effective (Israel is on dose number 4 within a calendar year…). Or maybe PCR tests cranked to an absurd number of cycles aren’t actually detecting what we think they are (an actual infection versus some dead cells in the nasal passage).
We have systems in place for people who want to refuse standard vaccinations: live in a religious enclave like the Amish. You don't want to participate in our society? Then don't participate in our society. Go be Amish and see how that works out for you.
Omicron, which is incredibly infectious, came along after the vaccines did, ergo the infection rate went up after the vaccines were introduced. The two factors have nothing to do with each other though.
It probably did, 25 years ago
There's no evidence that vaccination is hampering immune response.

Among those infected with Omicron, hospitalization and intensive care rates are much higher in unvaccinated...
Online RISC-V Interpreter
Meh, overly complicated solution to a problem that could have been solved with a few lines of iptable config.
Does this go for both the mother and father?
> email groups with all sorts of inappropriate sexist and personal attacks.

Do you have a link to the mails / mail archives? I guess I don't typically see that conduct from the C++ community - be interesting to see what I'm not noticing.
In USA at least vaccination rates strongly correlate with class and so races with more poverty have higher unvaccinated rates - blacks and Hispanics. But the advocates here seem to follow the meme that the unvaccinated are all trump supporting deplorables…
Agree. I think an additional corollary is the wider gap between say $50K/yr and the value possible to create (as roughly capped by the gross margin fraction of sales/employee), the more variability you’ll see.

For a Subway sandwich artist, not only is the production process standardized (making “exact [practical] replacement” possible), but the value is also capped by how many sandwiches are sold on a given shift. No sandwich artist will make 5x as many as another. Rarely will excellence in an individual employee result in a sharp uptick in sales.

For a company that sells online ads, cloud computing, streaming services, or software that cap is so much higher as to be practically irrelevant for many roles.
It depends on your goals I guess. I can very happily make a political discussion promoting my beliefs but keep respecting factual evidence and prevent myself from making a claim that isn't supported well enough by data/research even though it might be beneficial for my political argument.
All possible from the Radon Transform, first discovered in 1917. We're just beginning to see "deep" inverse methods which should eliminate secondary scattering and increase fidelity even further. Though these images were stunningly clear enough to image pelvic smoothing and determine age ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radon_transform
But "1000"<"999" in Python.
Doesn't work. Gives error failed fetch
Calendars, push, a bunch of other stuff that's useful

It's not perfect but it's by far the best mail server for internal Email.
And i believe you can't downvote direct replies to your messages, which i think is great. Either you provide an answer, or ignore the comment. The downvote flamewars are avoided either way.
> The reason the powers of states in the west were limited to a degree - it was because the person was held as sacred. Most of the old judges deeply understand this. The politicians don't.

This conception is more mythos than reality. You should look at some of the early laws passed in many of these countries if you think we had a tradition of "strong" natural rights that are only being abrogated in our modern era.

It used to be illegal to publish content critical of the government [0], not to mention the fact that the franchise was restricted to those holding property, and definitely not considering ongoing active slavery.

I don't understand your connection to demonization of the poor.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts
https://shopify.engineering/

https://developer.squareup.com/blog/

https://netflixtechblog.com/

https://githubengineering.com/
Stockholm's inner city is about as walkable as any other European city I've visited, and much nicer as you're much less likely to get into dilapidated areas (there's almost no graffiti or dirt on the streets, unlike places like Milan, Lisbon or Bruxels) except for a couple of places where, unfortunately, the beggers from south-east Europe congregate, making the place look like a gipsy camp. But the suburbs outside the central area are much more like American or, more closely, Australian cities, with a huge sprawling area where having a car becomes more important the farther you go, but still with decent public transport at least for peak hours... that's just due to the low population density in those areas... Stockholm attracts a lot of young people and families because that's where the jobs are, mostly, so this situation seems unavoidable to me... Adelaide is in the top 3 livable cities, and the situation there is very similar (actually it has a much smaller central area and a perhaps even bigger and less dense suburban sprawling), the differences in ranking between them seems to me mostly artificial unless you're taking into consideration Adelaide's beautiful beaches and mostly great weather compared to most of Europe.
Not likely. Modern software developers laugh this kind of difference away, and will almost always default to taking a memory/storage space hit over other possible trade-offs (performance, correctness, convenience...)