skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Loading and storing multiple registers is by no means weird: the MC68000 family has the movem.(b|w|l) instructions which do exactly that, and it's one of the best things since sliced bread because performance can be gained when used cleverly.

Being able to manipulate the program counter in the ARM processors directly is just being honest, simple and straightforward, rather then having it always done implicitly. Seems very intuitive to me now that I think about it.
Boris Johnson arrived in India. Rabble-rousers know that the world's media attention will follow; and they use this opportunity to garner some of the spotlight. It's just a shameless ploy to get their names out.

Such is democracy, I guess.

And the Guardian doesn't help by adding flame bait such as this:

"In the capital, Delhi, bulldozers have demolished the homes of Muslims accused of rioting."

Illegal construction, encroachment on public land will sometimes get this response. Of course, due to vote bank politics, this may not always happen; but it does.
Wouldn't "employee lies to unknowing employer about where they live" be legally different from "company deliberately employs someone abroad and lies to the IRS about it"?
This is the first example of detoxifying your body might actually be real.
If you can't work with people who don't share your progressive politics, you may be the one who is hard to work with, not them.
You could look at Grammarly ($10+ billion dollar valuation) as evidence that there is a market for a tool/plugin that improves a user’s prose.
> This may seem unbelievable, but the word "motherboard" is literally banned within Google and you are required to use "mainboard" instead. You are not allowed to use this word in documentation or code, and you're also not allowed to say it privately in chats or emails.

Is this really true? I always thought I might eventually apply to work at Google someday, but I hadn't heard there was such aggressive internal thought policing.
Oh come on now.

Chinese have far bigger and far more strict word list bans.

In US, you need to say “people who menstruate” and “land owning person”; in China you will just just disappear if you say a wrong thing against the regime.
I agree, but it's not exactly the best look to complain only about instances of the majority getting discriminated against when minorities are getting discriminated against constantly
to be fair sql server's holdlock is pretty specific to sql server, there's this note on pg's merge project page (https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/SQL_MERGE)

> PostgreSQL doesn't have a good way to lock access to a key value that doesn't exist yet--what other databases call key range locking (SQL Server for example). Improvements to the index implementation are needed to allow this feature.

as of 2017 at least the plan was to implement merge using the underlying insert on conflict mechanism and I think everyone agrees that the only reasonable expected behavior from merge is atomic upserts (and the pk violations from concurrent merges on sql server and oracle really should be recognized as bugs!) so maybe postgres merge will be the first non-buggy implementation w/o hints. reading the related threads exposes a surprising amount of complexity though so who knows.
Don't get the flowery speak for a platform that is objectively the world's largest distributor of cp.
Either way, people here aren't discriminated based on their race. Never were. This particular problem seems to be uniquely American because of their history.

We do have a word for racism by the way. It's, unsurprisingly, "расизм".
Those probably smell of cigarette smoke. Better get faux ones, you don't wanna scare them with too much authenticity.
This was really just a joke about how an old white guy could go “undercover” and become hireable again, I definitely wouldn’t recommend anyone actually do something like this.
Netflix feels like a case of trying to “A/B testing as substitution for a strategy”

Being overly focused on engagement optimizes what’s easy to measure. It doesn’t always optimize what’s important. In the case of Netflix what’s important is brand strength and month over month subscriber retention. Engagement optimization leads to click-baity crappy reality TV instead of shows that actually drive retention

Meanwhile other services (notably Apple TV+) simply focuses on quality over quantity and starting to do rather well.
I just did a quick check and on average cleaners in the US are paid less than warehouse workers (and for that matter dishwashers).

I also used to buy into the theory of male blue collar jobs disappearing until I saw all the well paid blue collar jobs that men won't take. (After all, I supported Yang.) I think even Yang now disbelieves his own theory and is looking at other reasons why men are dropping out of the work force.
Related https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.28831488.0474/poster,840x830...
Nice try, vampires!
OpenRCT2, OpenMW, DaggerfallUnity

Granted, you have to buy the game to make use of these open source engines legally. But these open source engines free you from the limitations of DRM, Windows/Wine and run better than the original engines (support modern resolutions, innumerable bug fixes, etc.)
Yes.. "Venesection." People with hemachromatosis utilize it.
What I can see is that on Google own websites, the term motherboard is used aplenty so seems to me they fail their own standards, if what is described in the article is accurate. Wondering when humanity will become aware of the ridiculous path this whole thing is.

Examples:
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/systems/the-past-presen...
https://sustainability.google/progress/projects/circular-eco...
Funniest quote I read recently:

We wanted diversity and inclusion, all we got were white women
Did you edit your post? Maybe I overlooked a paragraph.

The math SAT questions aren't a "bunch of sums." And I agree with you about cultural bias. As I stated, the school system is biased against boys. So the SAT math scores should understate the male/female ratio at that level.
Then again, I know companies that never got of the ground because of being pivoted of a failed code-base from hell, that only became a success when they bit the bullet and forced a blank slate rewrite.

Sometimes the repository is full of hard earned tacit knowledge, other times it is just a pile of stinking manure.
I have mentioned this on Hacker News before:

At this one job, we had only two remotely viable candidates for an open position. I was on the hiring committee, as I often was in those days.

Candidate A: Had worked in the industry, had all of the qualifications, already chock-full of some interesting ideas I wanted to hear more of from the interview alone. Excited at the prospect.

Candidate B: Had never worked in the industry, had only a handful of qualifications, barely responsive. Seemed indifferent to getting the job. Additionally, not too fluent in English, to the point where it was more than a little difficult to communicate.

Candidate A was a white man, Candidate B was a recent immigrant and a woman. The immediate supervisor for the position -- a woman -- wanted Candidate A, as did most others. However, the person running the show said, out loud I might add, that our group already had "too many pale males." I would like to repeat that: too many pale males. A significant glance was then cast at me and the guy in the wheelchair on the hiring committee, both being not-particularly-dark men. Presumably by "virtue" of our disabilities we would automatically be down for the Diversity Squad.

Candidate B was hired and turned out exactly as she was in the interview: disinterested in doing the job, lacking even some bare understanding of how to accomplish many things, always trying to find ways to do her grad school homework while on the job and pushing off her duties on someone else, rather than trying to learn her tasks. Her poor English was a significant barrier. She remained a leaden weight until she went off to be someone else's problem. She wasn't a drag due to her skin color or sex, but she was hired because of those things.

This was over ten years ago, in academia. A friend who worked for pharmacy chain was bluntly told that as a white male, he was not going to get a manager job, no matter how long he held on. Something something equity.
Pretty much yes.

Cost is more than just monetary. There are significant indirect costs as well.
It's certainly possible - Compile all the C projects on github with `gcc -O0`. Map statements, blocks, or functions to ASM output. Put everything in a giant SQL. Repeat for all of gcc's compiler flags.

Wait, did I say it was possible? I'm curious what a neural netted compiler would produce. Probably your average CRUD software.
We have publicly available stats for their competitors. (And actually we do "know" the reason for this quarter's loss for Netflix: shutting down and losing 700K subs in Russia.)

Is Netflix more "woke" or "less scifi" or "prone to pirating" or "annoying about UI and recommendations" than Disney+ or HBO Max? (Ok, HBO Max has had a lot of cinema-quality sci-fi and similar genre content land recently, so maybe on that one?)

Those services are gaining subscribers faster so any backlash seems less likely, compared to "there is a lot more serious competition than their used to be, Netflix costs the most, and has a far less proven content model."

Netflix is increasingly only worth it for their originals, and now those are head to head against Disney and HBO+Warner cinema originals.
> "We are going to go back in circles, but as I said in the very first comment: mypy is the tool you want [0]"

What makes you think I'm not using mypy, or that I didn't read the article you linked to or follow its guidelines (which are very sensible)?

In your mind, is it the only possibility when someone criticizes a tool that they are "using it wrong" (to paraphrase Steve Jobs)? No other possible reason?

> "But given that your response to the mypy recommendation was to complain (it's slow, it doesn't catch everything) then it makes it difficult to acknowledge the "valid criticism"... as in: people are working on it, what else do you want?"

Given that I didn't say or imply that I don't believe there are people working on improving mypy and Python type hints, "what I want" is merely to support the article's assertion that the current version of type hints Python provides is confusing and not very good.

Please, for the love of all that is holy, don't recommend to me again that I switch to a different language. That's not how this works.
Have you actually read the Iliad? Much of the plot revolves around Achilles being sullen because a woman given to him as a slave and spoil of war was taken away by Agamemnon. Projecting modern ideas of gender on to an ancient Greek epic and then calling it a wonderful love story is quite misguided.
Good info. I really thought it was done as a faster alt to the court system, and this history reveals that it's business all the way. Sigh.
The New Homophobia
Active Exploration for Neural Global Illumination of Variable Scenes
I am a programmer, after a long day of debugging crappy code, I don't want to spend my free time debugging someone else's crappy code. All my appliances are as dumb as possible. All my light switches are simple mechanical on/off switches. The 12:00 on my kitchen stove was blinking for 11 years and I don't plan to change it.
I had the same problem but it looks like the rules have changed: https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/how-to-donate/eli...
Of course not. Devoting yourself to watching sports is equally a waste of time.

But playing sport leads to all kinds of benefits like getting exercise, socializing and developing bonds with others, overcoming adversity, fresh air, a feeling of increasing mastery over time.

I imagine writing and drawing comics would have similar mental health benefits (if not the exercise and fresh air).

The problem for many of us (myself included) is consuming vs. producing.
Presumably it's even odds as to who has more PFAS: the donor or the recipient. And if you need a blood transfusion (often in an emergency), the PFAS is probably a small negative on a hugely positive treatment. It's like pesticides on plants: it's probably slightly unhealthy to eat the small level of pesticides on most plant food, but it's worse to miss out on all the nutrition in plants.
I'm sure there is ageism from younger devs, but be sure not to confuse it with respect. In my experience, younger devs (like me at the time) were always excited to learn from older devs.
gave you an upvote to get you that much closer, HN is a product from a time before the term UX existed, not that it would matter
Perhaps these sorts of chemicals re not particularly water soluble? Otherwise you kidneys could just filter them out into your urine.
No I didn't edit it. You overlooked it.
> 5g is pretty much fucking useless.

And this one is just flat out false. The massive amount of additional spectrum afforded to 5G means carriers can service way more customers in the same cell without degrading performance.

I have to wonder who is benefiting from all this 5G FUD. Bizarre conspiracy theories do not spread like this without some financial or political interest pulling the strings.
I had interviews with people that were overqualified; I told them it is their choice if to take the position or not. I learned that overqualified people tend to leave after a few months to something more interesting.

Also "I want too much money" is a thing if all you need is a low level tech and the applicant is an expert in the field. It is not worth paying for expertise that you will not need. For example I hired a guy to do some very boring, routine cleanup in some databases; if I would hire a real DBA and pay double, what for? In this case I pay for the work and result, not for the expertise.

But to be fair I always tell the applicants what is the situation and give them the choice. I know it is a very rare case in the industry.
Probably because relationships (and opinions) nowadays are becoming more and more like fashion accessories - similar to shoes and sun glasses - stuff to put on instagram.

You need the right "optics and sonics" to be a viable and valuable friend. Otherwise you are just an awkward country cousin without any connections that need excuses to made whenever in civilised company.

It seems like people have taken the saying "you become like the five people closest to you" to heart, but so few people today are desirable role models for anyone.
Is it a PulseAudio replacement? A streaming framework like GStreamer? Or a hardware abstraction layer? The homepage is kind of fuzzy on the details which is expected since the project is so new. Would be interesting to know what its usp is though.
> Go to any college and you'll see the CompSci department is the one with the most amount of LGBT individuals.

Do you have any data on that? It does not coincide with my anecdotal experience. I'm in a Math/CompSci department and there's zero trans people here (that I know of), while there are some in other departments. Anyhow, trans people are a tiny percentage of the total population, so it would be hard to have somewhat solid statistics on them.
I see a fishbone activity as somewhat the reverse of the five whys. Instead of starting broad and narrowing focus down a singular path, the fishbone takes the problem and looks at all the contributing factors:

https://asq.org/quality-resources/fishbone

I’m not an expert by any means. Just offering a suggestion.
Sorry for being careless in my reading.
“Give blood. Play rugby.”
I get a lot of mileage out of one deeply-considered why.
Maybe, but this feels like making excuses for something that is part of a big and obvious pattern.
FWIW, ageism is the one form of outright and open discrimination that I have witnessed in tech companies. None of the unconscious bias, microagession, dog whistle, tone stuff. Just straight up insulting people in the open to their face for their age. And I’ve seen it done to justify crappier technical solutions. The problem is real and out in the open. No need for elaborate excuses.
It’s just a modern word. “Landlord”. People know what it means. Stop anybody on the street and ask them what a landlord is? They will tell you. It’s an established word. What’s the point in changing it because a few people actively want to be offended?
"I steal from you because I find your parent company morally reprehensible, yet I would still like to enjoy the services provided by that company."

Hell of a position.
I think this is much more than an optical breadboard. The trick with the periscope is IMHO neat and allows for clean separation of the user's experiment from the invariant photon generator/detector part. Turning on the guide beam with a touch of a button is magic to anyone who had to labor on an optical table.

This might allow for set-up, alignment and conduction of an experiment within the short time allotted in educational settings, which would be quite a challenge using less smart constituents.
In a dystopian future you'll have a score indicating how often the algo had caught your wrong-speak.
Intelligence is not purely genetic.
Also worth noting that editing recommendations are a part of the M365 office suite. I agree with those voicing concern as AI is very new still and can have huge implications at FAANG scale, but I’m not surprised to see Google at this.
While it's hilarious, it's understandable IMHO - just basic statistics, she is more often used in front of pretty/ugly. It's showing a glitch in our society more than a glitch in Google AI.

This on the other hand looks like a hand-crafted blacklist of words that they want to remove from the language, I have no idea how would I train an AI which would classify "motherboard" as inappropriate.
Netflix is kind of stuck. They don't have expansion revenue and therefore growth prospects are limited to increasing subscriptions against now a very competitive, and almost commoditized market.

The writing was on the wall that Disney+, HBO Max, etc would be attacking them and taking away customers.

Those legacy businesses have other sources of revenue and streaming is their future. They have the means to keep their prices low for many years to fuel growth.

Not sure what Netflix can do to continue growing. Then again, they managed to switch from DVD to streaming years ago. It was rough, they made mistakes but overcame them. Looking forward to see what they do.
The idea that it would grow for infinity time was the real problem here. We should expect ups in downs in a business. Economics is supposed to work like that.
If video games could affect people's behavior, PacMan would've caused people to meander around dark rooms while munching on pills and listening to electronic music.
I'm not quite approaching 50 yet, but I am getting there. What I can tell you is that the reason for some older folk's views on new trends is not that they're generally behind times, it's that with more life experience you have seen trends come and go, and you're actually in a slightly better position to judge the baloney factor of novel things.

That is not to say that this is _always_ the way things are, of course, because everybody is not the same. But that goes both ways: like you say, there are tons of people who "get" newer concerns likes the ones you mentioned.
Saying that the killings in Bucha are fake puts you solidly in outright bullshitter territory.
> the infantilization of the newer generations of adults

I think when you reach the age of like 25, you realize that you don't have a clue, and the "adults" around you mostly don't have a clue either.

But it's always been like that. It is in fact a childish view to conceive of adulthood as some fundamentally different stage of life where everything changes and you've got it all figured out.

The real difference with past generations is that you were expected and able to slot into a rigid social order, to fill a certain role. That rigidity has partly been rejected, and is partly simply out of reach due to economic factors.
Which can be amusing if you don't know what's going on, it suddenly sounds like the autopilot is pissed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmbzKsqKQoI

And for those who would like to change this, any change to a pilot's routine has a chance of being the thing that pushes an incident over the edge into a crash. Would it be worth it?
There is no other public person that one can be so unabashedly disgusting about. Not even Hitler, Stalin or Mao, all three literal mass murderers, get this kind of reception in each and every thread about them. What is it about Thatcher that makes celebrating her death and wishing to desecrate her corps somehow okay?
Being too keen on the current trends might make someone a bad culture fit, too. For some projects, social upheavals are either irrelevant, or a distraction.
1) I'm not the sole user of these TVs.
2) If I wanted a "dumb monitor" I would have bought one.
3) When I sit down to watch something, I put my phone away and in a different room so I am not distracted by it, that goes against using the "remote apps".
The smart home concept can likely become viable once and if we get to have AGI, until then, all this is just scams, pyramid schemes disguised as smart $thing. Oh, look at the sign of that variable, speaks for itself, money it is!
If we start to get a lot of comments here, pay attention. You'll likely see confirmation of recent trends in India. I suspect we're already seeing that, even with the few comments that have been posted so far.
Off topic, but you might enjoy aovie called primer. Super short, low budget film about time travel. It's got a convoluted, but consistent timeline and the fun of the movie is going back and watching it over and over to fully understand what's happening. It's really good
I disagree. The wait and the suspense it builds and the talking between friends is amazing.

People surging ahead leads to a difficulty in conversation that week-to-week episodes do not.
my Roku Ultra is very fast. It's the TCL Roku TV that is very slow.
It surely is. After all, how could any modern cinema hope to be even half as profound and meaningful as the three stooges?
I wonder what your age is in comparison to your chosen ideal of 2005. As I am getting older it is easier to see the patterns in all this. Most people just want the entire world frozen from the time they were young. That includes everything from the cast of SNL to acceptable language. I have seen enough decades of people complaining about policing language to know that we survived multiple waves of this before 2005 and we will survive all the waves that came and will come after. I would bet that 20 years from now, Gen Z will be waxing nostalgic about the language of today while Gen Alpha and beyond will be pushing for more change. It is just the way language evolves.
The Acct was heavily provided by now Action Director Sam Hargrave, and you should look through his credits. He's most well known for Extraction on Netflix, but he's been doing it for a while. If you liked Acct, you'll probably like the other stuff he did before he was well known outside of our circle.
My practical recommendations:

* understand brainfuck or so called RAM machine as simplest computer
* read 50 pages of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code:_The_Hidden_Language_of_Computer_Hardware_and_Software
* read https://www.bottomupcs.com/ to understand low level stuff
* Learn some C

To understand computation I think scheme or lambda calculus is the best. Don’t know good intro.

Bear in mind that what we have is just certain implementation/abstraction for computation that’s likely still suboptimal. That’s why people come with new languages/VMs. I wonder if some alternative to RAM machine exists. I’ve heard about lisp machines…