skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not disagreeing with your point, but I don't think this entire trend can be blamed on a lack of fathers. I'm fortunate now that I coach at a school in a pretty affluent community, the vast majority of the kids I coach have married parents with active fathers in the house. I still see many of these young men fairly checked out by high school. I think in many of these cases boys are over protected these days, they grow up without the freedom to explore and test themselves and their parents create an environment where it's OK not to try or put forth an honest effort or finish your commitments etc.

Years ago I coached at an inner city school, lots of single moms, I've seen the results first hand. I'd like to think for many of those kids I was a positive male role model, maybe one of the only ones in their life. Unfortunately I don't live in that area anymore.
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They're not blocked if you login on the mobile website.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocopter_X%C2%B3 this is more like it
Cool! I've also used these:

https://github.com/lkostrowski/job-interview-questions-to-as...
https://github.com/viraptor/reverse-interview
I definitely prefer iPhone but I don't think it's quite fair to say train : horse :: iphone : android
Seems we agree.
I think classical silicon also got exponential because getting better silicon meant better EDA tools.
Found an article about it http://portablesofdoom.org/?p=244
I did some interviewing recently and took a bit of a different approach. I remember reading somewhere about the idea of taking interviews as a casual conversation to establish wants/needs instead of taking turns to interrogate. I just spoke with the people interviewing me like colleagues, talked about technology frankly, asked questions when they popped into my head, and it turned out pretty well. It wasn't calculated but rather the opposite - I just behaved like my normal self and ended up with an offer.
Hmm I'm not so sure about that. To a textile worker, the difference between sateen and corduroy would be as sharp and incisive as the difference between azimuth and altitude is to an astronomer.
I just realized that so many people always repeat that there aren’t many women in “tech.” But it’s really more like not many women in programming. In my experience, the majority of PMs, designer/artists, and tech writers, and about half of QA, have been women. Therefore only the programming team felt like a boys club, never the larger org or the company. The only place this wasn’t true was one tiny startup I worked at long ago.
> Not really, unless you're the sort of person who believes that, say, the FBI's fake terror plots in the wake of 9/11 are proof that Bush did 9/11

But in this case we do have hard evidence the feds did plant bombs and tried to blame it on the FLQ.

> but there's ultimately no question that known Québécois separatist terrorists were responsible for the kidnapping and death

Typically for murder you want to rule out accidental death and have a murdered. At least, in a real court with due process. I don’t know how much of that they were given considering the people were living under martial law at the time.

> Quebec hasn't endorsed the Canada Act, but that very well may have nothing to do with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms that's a part of it

Isn't the point of a constitution to have everyone endorse it and sign it? That's how it was done in America.
It could be refactored and it could become less efficient afterwards.
The likes of Facebook would certainly like not having to submit to Apple's rules.
Another way of putting it would be "pretty simple and quick - if you can achieve a completely infeasible number of qubits".

That is to say, it's an algorithmic overhang, the knowledge how is available but held back by not knowing how to achieve the hardware needed.

The risk being that someone could discover "how to make qubits" tomorrow, and although (because it's hardware) it might take a short while to turn that into an industrial qubit pipeline, we don't yet actually know yet that it's mechanically impossible to do.
You are still being reductive in a way that I think misses the point grandparent was trying to make. It may be true that not everyone's career can have the same value, but it's hopeless to try and define that by paychecks alone - that's just not how society values things.

In other words your argument could works equally well for the father urging their kid to do something that on average won't pay better, but will bring them more respect and social standing.
And they could pay more if Apple never made breaking changes.
That's a lot of incredible journeys that have reached their end.
Give it a few years.
> just be aware that you're going to need to rethink some of your architectural foundation if/when you need to move to a higher-throughput queue implementation

I haven't seen many if any projects that didn't require some architectural rethinking over their lifetime. I have seen more, that where arguably over engineered in the beginning, but then never lived long enough to actually benefit from it.

Not saying everyone should use Postgres-as-queue for every project. But for a lot of projects it is going to be much harder to acquire the active user base generating the throughput Postgres can't handle, than doing continuous refactoring of the system to deal with the changing requirements.
First thing I thought reading this is "there is something missing here" cause you obviously can't wait until the memtable is full to reply OK to the requester. RocksDB Docs explain that they use a WAL+Manifest Log and I assume others do something similar: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki/RocksDB-Overview#3-...

Wish it was just mentioned at least off hand that clearly this isn't the whole solution and a WAL or similar is used to make sure losing the memtable doesn't lose the data.
goto usage in systems programming is actually much more prevalent and less of an anti-pattern/smell than in other contexts. This is because you often need to ensure every resource acquired during the function is cleaned up along each branch that the function could exit through. Because in systems programming you'll often do an operation, check if it succeeded and exit if not. The goto resource cleanup pattern avoids you having to duplicate the clean-up-partially-acquired-resouces at every early-return statement.
This is how the world works. I don't like the suburbs, yet people keep building them and I don't really have a choice to not live in them. If I go to the BMW dealership they won't sell my an off-road version of a BMW equivalent to a Jeep. If I go to Wal-Mart and I don't like their prices I can't make them go down, but I can take my business elsewhere.

I see this highlighted all the time. When people agree with how something works then there's no comment. When it doesn't work how they want they believe they're being forced into a novel love-it-or-leave-it scenario, when the reality is they are in those scenarios all the time (daily/hourly even) and support them as well. Don't believe me? Ok I want less battery life on the iPhone and for it to be cheaper. Now what? You'll say "cost is important to you there are cheaper alternatives like X, Y, and Z". Same song.

tl;dr yea just buy an Android phone if sideloading apps is the killer feature for you. If I want the best battery life or the best camera I can base my purchase decision off of those product features. Sideloading apps is no different. That's a fact. Jack.
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what's your thought on this ?
It's a weird feeling where if you work on this code, it must be like living archaeology, digging up remains, but at the same time sculpting new remains for the next generation. The other profession that must be like this is Law. In some ways this file feels more permanent than the blockchain. Although someone might come refactor it to Rust one day! If you do keep the comments at least!
Then Apple could steal dev IP.
There are definitely some benefits to living on one's own for a while, but I do not think we should continue to view as the only viable option, or even the default for that matter.
They made the word prevalence table available, but I can't load it into my spreadsheet program.

The question I'm trying to answer is, are the words in Table 2 the words that differed the most by gender, or were they selected as representative examples?

In other words, if the title of that table is just "Words known better by males than by females..." should I interpret that as meaning "[some examples of] words known better by males than females and vice versa", or "words known [best] by males and females, and vice versa"?
Innovative Propulsion System
"The XF-84H was created by modifying a F-84F Thunderstreak airframe, installing a 5,850 hp (4,360 kW) XT40-A-1 turboprop engine in a centrally-located housing behind the cockpit with a long extension shaft to the nose-mounted propeller. The turbine engine also provided thrust through its exhaust; an afterburner which could further increase power to 7,230 hp (5,390 kW) was installed but never used."

Detailed video on the XF 84H Thunderscreech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIGlQBx4tys
Don't wait until the end to ask questions, ask them throughout the interview. When the interviewer asks, are you familiar with X, respond and then ask if that's something you'll be using on the job. If you're familiar with X, ask more about their implementation of X. By asking questions, it seems like you've got a lot of options and are looking for work that interests you, not just trying to qualify yourself to the interviewer.

It also makes them feel like they are already working with you because that's what a good employee does when a manager gives him work: he asks questions about it throughout the process. He doesn't wait until the end when the manager says, do you have any questions?
Is this really a suitable analogy? Horses seem pretty vastly inferior to trains in many objective metrics, at least as far as long-range transport for average people goes. I've always used iOS, and while I like it, I can't imagine that Android is so mind-blowingly behind, right? Maybe horses to bicycles would be a better comparison? Which seems like less of a problem.
> You seem very adamant about raising points that have nothing to do with the assertions I've made. However, since we're copying and pasting out of context quotes from Wikipedia instead of actually reading or even attempting to read Sociology for the South, Cannibals All!, speech transcripts, or anything contextually, here's some quotes, including from the same subsection you copied and pasted from, that illustrate his sometimes paradoxical views on socialism, and my primary point, that his stance was based on anything that humanized black people, and argumentation shared by many in this thread against capitalism:

No, I raised a point that countered your claim that Fitzhugh opposed capitalism because it was closely coupled with the abolition. He opposed socialism just as much. Neither of your quotes negate that, which I think illustrates the further point that he's an unreliable narrator.

> Profit motive is not capitalism. Mercantilism is not capitalism. Trade is not capitalism. Feudalism is not capitalism.

May I ask, what is capitalism, to you?

> I know anti capitalists like to label anything that has profit anywhere in it as capitalism but that's intellectually dishonest and completely outside accepted economic history and philosophy.

I'm not anti-capitalist, I'm anti-"one tool for all jobs" and equally simplistic views.

> Slavery isn't practiced in societies where it is morally and ethically opposed.

Sure.

> If profit was the prerequisite for slavery, and not dehumanization, then it would persist regardless of morality.

This absolutely does not follow any chain of logic. There can be more prerequisites than one, and morality can supersede something else.

> Profit seeking via slavery is entirely contingent on dehumanization.

Sure.

> Capitalist societies are the only ones in human history that have enduring humanization of everyone, and that's not a coincidence.

Again, which capitalist societies? The US is a mixed economy, as is every other country in the western world. They are functioning because they have a better or worse enforced playing field and infrastructure, and yes, social programs.

> No, those freedoms and rights exist regardless of whether or not a society does. It's only the imposition of society or others that attempts to take those things away. You don't magically get rights because of society.

But you literally just said:

> We're literally discussing the causative relationship between a specific economic system, with specific foundations and philosophies, and moral and social progression, not the existence of amalgamous profit motive and how it was exercised in various social, political, and economic systems.

So either it existed before society or it didn't? Pick one, you can't have both.

Instead of asking me to read books you've picked out in a Gish Gallop, maybe you use the knowledge you learned from them and explain what capitalism is, when it came into existence, and which societies you believe embodies its principles.
On a scale of "Bob Saget on Full House" to "Bob Saget not on Full House" what level of jokes can I get away with?
That was the early in the pumping phase when they had to build a cult around it
ever since the neolithic society has had a habit of trying really hard to gaslight people about utter nonsense. and all we got for it was bread and penicillin.
Wouldn't people be seeking that content anyways without any subsidies or special rules? Assuming they do want to consume it.
It might be both. See charts on the numbered page 4: https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R45090.pdf

Women at 10th, 50th, and 90th percentiles saw real wage increases from 1979-2019; men saw a decrease at 10th and 50th.

(I'm morally opposed to the top 90th percentile's growth at the expense of the bottom. I'm not morally opposed to gender pay equality, which I _think_ is zero sum and results in lower wages for men as it improves.)
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As a sibling comment noted, the vast majority of "breakthroughs" are hot air and your discovery of a way to "fix" your colleague may not be received as warmly as you expect. I don't know anything about your colleague or your relationship with them, but I strongly advise careful consideration before broaching the subject. (In fact, I strongly advise against bringing it up at all. "I found a cure for you" is up there with "what's wrong with you" and "I'll just push your wheelchair without your consent" on the list of ways to really, really piss off someone with a disability.)
In my city, Covid infections are still higher than they were at the peak last winter, so there has not been much discussion about returning to the office, though our offices are open and anyone can go in and work there if they choose.

We were told early on that we would get a 30 day warning if we were expected to come back to the office, and management for my team has said they would never require us to come back, that it would always be optional. (Always is a long time. I'm under no illusion that this policy is immutable).

I would be very surprised if myself or any of my peers asked to come back to the office in the next year or so.
> designed by a committee of PhDs

We can only wish, alas!
I think the money helps.

But what doesn't get talked about with family (especially small kids) is that you're with them for 16 hours a day.

Emotions get messy. Someone is always upset about something. And the larger the family, the more probable that someone is upset at any given moment.

The nice thing about a two parent household is that (hopefully) one parent keeps a cool head while the other me be annoyed, etc.

It's so much of a help to have a partner that says "why don't you take five minutes" or "I think you were too hard on ..." And I can reciprocate the same support.

I don't know how single parents do it.
Because it's extremely fast. Enter for a new item in same level, tab for one lower level. Also it allows visual organization and reorganization. When I start to mindmap, I can do a one man brainstorming to flesh out the subject I'm working on, software or not.

Moreover, you can add much more information under every bubble, esp. with FreeMind. Also there are other ways for showing different kind of relationships, like drawing an arrow between two nodes and labeling it "depends" or "may contradict" or whatever.

Maybe I work extremely fast with it, because my brain works exactly like a mind map. I explode an idea in my mind, and continue exploring by re-centering to a sub-idea. Mind mapping allows me to reflect that exploration process to an infinite canvas, so I don't stress about backtracking or remembering a web of ever growing connections.
Sadly, on the only machine that I would have wanted this on, where I didn't have root access, this has never worked for me.

I should try to recreate the logs and issue for the tailscale folks.
Or just click on the line number to change the URL to that line.
Its actually not that bad. A train is stuck on the tracks, only stops at stations. Owned by somebody else. A horse you can own yourself and go anywhere.
Big book. Any of the chapters/papers within that you'd particularly recommend?
Sure, but who has capacity to take on any serious number of launches? And who can do it at a competitive price to make Kuiper anything but a financial disaster?

The answer is: nobody.

What made Starlink financially possible was SpaceX's lower launch costs and high capacity.
One of the first codebases I ever worked on professionally allowed gotos as part of its style guide, but only under two conditions:

1. You're using the goto for error handling and cleanup in a function; and

2. You only jump in a forward direction.
The Safari team is asking for feedback, after "Safari is the new IE"[1] is getting steam again as an idea. This idea that they want to do better is good, but your arguments really cut into the heart of it.

Even if Safari turns the ship around & decides to support fun & interesting new platform capabilities that make the web interesting, like WebMIDI, WebUSB, the mere fact that Safari is the gauntlet for innovation, that Apple & Apple alone gets to say what parts of the web will work, is highly poisonous to the web. iOS users having no choice, having a centralized actor now & forever gating progress is untennable, is wrong, prevents healthy emergence & discovery. However good they are today, they may drift tomorrow, and having no fallback, no options is a technocratic fascism that society should recognize as structurally sick.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30277179
I've gone from not giving a shit about crypto to being repulsed by it because of comments like this. Using smilies to convey the benefits of using shitcoins to skirt around child labour laws? Employment laws? And proper accounting/taxation? Thanks but not interested.
FWIW, the Google Search pronunciation guide[0] says Guassian like "gouse-ian", which is the only way I've heard it pronounced (US east coast). It's also what I see as the phonetically-written pronunciation when checking a couple dictionaries[1], and this English blog post[2].

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=pronounce+gaussian&rlz=1C5GC...

[1] https://www.dictionary.com/browse/gaussian

[2] https://painfulenglish.com/2014/01/26/how-to-pronounce-gauss...
> The point of promoting and prioritizing Canadian content is not financially motivated. It is politically motivated.

Of course. Even more so when you consider a big portion of that it through a government owned and controlled broadcaster.
Lots of article with lots of figures and charts, but not one picture of a block of urine. They claim to have made them and used them for growing (barley?) but apparently never took a picture of one.
This is a very good point that I hadn't considered for some reason. Thanks!
My next phone will be an iPhone. I say this as a long-term Android user of over a decade. The Android platform has finally become too toxic and too user-hostile even for the likes of me. And that's quite a challenge.

If I'm gonna be ruled by an authoritarian mobile OS that constantly tries to "engage" me, I might as well go for a nicer one that still cares about UX and being less buggy.
LSM trees have all kinds of tricks to make reads fast too, like Bloom filters to rule out levels that don't have the key. RocksDB, an LSM, powers what is probably the largest MySQL deployment in the world, for OLTP workloads [1]

The real killer feature is not write efficiency, but the sequential write pattern, as opposed to the small random writes used by B-trees. On flash, this makes a significant difference for endurance.

EDIT: And I forgot to mention that it is a lot easier to do compression on immutable data structures (SSTables) than on mutable ones, so LSMs are generally more space-efficient too.

[1] https://vldb.org/pvldb/vol13/p3217-matsunobu.pdf
Building a new competitor that can straight up out compete existing monopolies is one thing but beating existing companies by refusing to play by the same rules removes the power of law from society.

Look up the definition of "regulatory capture," and you'll see a photo of a taxicab, or at least you should. When the law does not respect the people, the people will not respect the law... nor should they.
There is one nit I would like to point out where they are talking about a bloom filter. They should replace "value is present" with "value may be present". The worst case scenario is a false positive that is generally tuned to be about 1% of the time. Whatever that false positive rate (R) is though your tail latency will definitely be affected at the p(100-R).
I'd like a firewall, that does not have to ask permission from apple.

Apple's weak privacy stance is a farce, especially when ios lets any app have unfettered network access.

Additionally its own software does a lot of not-good-for-me things I'd like to prevent.
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>I wonder what all these effects will have over the next 200 years?

Well with a birth rate below replacement level there will be less and less people with each generation if the birth rate stays at that level, so in 200 years there's virtually no one left or something like that.
I once wrote an article and the editor changed all "data are" to "data is." I asked her if I was being old fashioned and she said yes.
Haven't heard of this reasoning before, but it makes a lot of sense to me. Unless those roles still pay much better in big tech, but I think you're right - any gap in cash comp is probably small, which makes startups more attractive
It seems the online quiz/testing racket, that is only available with the ebook license, is just the response to the fact that there is a vibrant ebook/textbook piracy community.

I don't really get why this is even a hard thing, surely there is some wordpress/whatever "quiz" plugin that the teachers can use to copy/paste multiple choice question/answers in and the school can pay the minimal fees to host for all their classes.

Textbooks were a scam 25 years ago when I went to school, but many of them were sub $40 or so, and could be picked up for ~$20 used. A few of the science engineering texts were closer to $100 but it was rare to spend more than ~$200 a semester on books.

Frankly, students can organize for all kinds of social issues, I'm shocked they can't organize to force the school to assure that prof's aren't playing into the textbook scams that seem common now. A bit of student fee to host a couple year old quiz server, and download PDF copies of class notes/etc seems like it should be doable. Particularly considering all the schools which have been providing online courseware for 20+ years now, frequently complete with free textbooks/lecture notes/etc.
>For other people, they would barely recognize TikTok on the basis of this description.

Not following. Who are the "other people" and how would they describe it otherwise?