skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sat in a properly ventilated room free of distractions.

I could have worked uninterrupted for 25 minutes.

Prompt followed.
Agreed. If odd scoping rules are the problem, we can possibly disqualify most lisps that have ever existed. Including all of the ones that John McCarthy had a hand in building.

For my part, I had similar "this doesn't feel quite like lisp" moments with both Hy and Clojure. And I ultimately realized that it's the mere presence of the base platform that gets me. With Racket, I'm used to feeling like I'm sealed off in my own lispy bubble. With Hy and Clojure, there are always bits of Python or Java (read: Not Lisp) hiding in the background. Many differences from other well-known lisps that I know are attributable to that base platform.

And that's a catch-22 situation. Objectively, they might be (and, IMO, are) good design decisions. But they're also covered in non-lisp cooties. I don't know why I should expect otherwise. Brains are weird.
Thimbleweed Park was imvho a "meh" game. I hope the new monkey island can improve on that.

OTOH I am now playing "The Captain" which is a modern take on point&click with beautiful pixel art and a few new things, and I feel it filled my need for a good monkey island already.
I once stumbled across an online IQ test that had randomly generated questions, and never ended. The longer you kept taking it, the lower the IQ it gave you.
Reminds me somewhat of the Pale in Disco Elysium
"Who is willing to relocate to the bay area or Austin in the first place? Who are the ones getting priced out? Demographics/census, speaking."

I think that is the argument being made.
... How are those who are physically incapable of engaging in normal body language, due to any number of permanent physical conditions, going to simply pull themselves up by their bootstraps and do it? They're not.
Problem is, when you give workers a choice to come into the office, it becomes a game theory problem that ultimately results in no one coming in.

"Why come to the office if none of my team members are there?"
Getting a good hiking pack designed to sit off of your back a bit was a godsend to me. I'm with you that I won't carry one if it's hot out, but I'll gladly carry a smaller pack all the time otherwise.

Fanny packs are sweet, except the part where you're wearing a fanny pack.
There's a subreddit that campaigns on the issue. The research page has a link to lots of studies, most from respectable publications, which are really damning: https://old.reddit.com/r/BanPitBulls/wiki/research
Growing up in the 80s it seemed like there was a whole host of serious music and films made for my parents whether it was Phil Collins, Luther Vandross, Out of Africa or MASH. There was a market back then whether it was considered less than high brow however that is no longer the case. I would go so far as to say if Steve Jobs was alive things might be slightly different but not much.
Systemtap 4.7 Release
Better to say, "I don't fully understand your concerns, but I support you" than be a crab in a bucket pulling all the other crabs down.

Someday you'll have concerns about your job and you'll wish tech workers stood by you on the picket lines.

I don't pretend to understand all the grievances of nurses, concrete pourers, or railyard workers, but when they say "this is a problem for us" I'm there in support.
Page 62 to in the draft opinion: "And to ensure that our decision is not misunderstood or mischaracterised, we emphasize that our decision concerns the constitutional right to abortion and no other right. Nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion."
I stopped after 5 minutes (don't have so much time) and got 102. I guess thats what I am: average, not because of lacking potential, but due to lacking perseverance...
Wow, I’m dumber than I thought.
May be a drawstring shoe bag could work, but usually they have lesser carrying capacity than a full backpack.
I thought this paper
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304746653_Pushed_or....

On the differences of gender dropout in Italy was a very interesting point.
They suggest that it is simply easier for a boy to dropout from High School to get a job than it is for a girl.

So when we mention girls do better at school. Perhaps a factor such as incentive may play a role.

The paper suggests an uneducated boy will fare better on the job market than an uneducated girl and thus have less incentive to do well at school and drop out earlier.

I thought it was an interesting view that deviates from the usual ones

I saw one paper that showed gay boys excelled at school on average. But they were clear on that how the data was collected may have affected the outcome.
In US for example, a boy that admits to being gay is more likely to come from a liberal well educated home. And children of well educated parents tend fare better at school.
Knitting socio economics back to the reason for doing well.
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Don't hosted services defeat the point of federation in the first place? That's how we've ended up with email being as difficult as it is to self-host.

Same issue with Discord, it's a centralized service where you and your content are at the mercy of the owner of the service, which I think is one of the big things that federated alternatives (like Matrix) are meant to solve, so any single entity can't unilaterally revoke your participation in the entire network.
Social anxiety is as much of a mental illness as the fear leaving a bad impression on a date, fear of spiders or fear of doing poorly at an interview and enjoys the same kinds of legal protections. Which is none.
It definitely makes the situation feel a lot lower pressure to me. After all, the chief activity is taking a hike/walk, so if the conversation lulls it never feels awkward and there's always something new to see and remark on.
It is, but only for languages that a person has learned.

How well would you do on any test written in Japanese? Assuming you never learned Japanese. Probably poorly. But if you knew a little bit of Japanese, you might do fine on a math test. And that's the idea with shape-based tests: trying to minimize the influence that language comprehension has on the results because you want the results to be neutral.
Can you link to the sandals you’re talking about? Only thing that comes up for me are the misspelling of chanclas, the generic word for sandals in spanish.
Just like the entire IQ thing
The opposite also exists, plenty of anecdotes where individuals felt isolated at work and/or after they quit their job, losing any connection they had. The workplace isn't the magical cure-all to a society where people are increasingly busier and more focused on themselves and the online world.
Some people like work from home, some like being in the office.

Why force either?

But I understand it's far easier for companies to pick one and apply (especially Apple and other large companies who have invested heavily in expensive real estate that would otherwise sit empty).
To code or not to code: What's the right balance for Staff+ engineers?
Why is it ridiculous? It seems very, very obvious to me.

Younger = less likely to have a family so commutes are not as big of an issue + the many responsibilities of having a kid that are easier to manage wfh

Whiter = this is the one that I have the least contextual evidence for off the top of my head, but feel safe assuming it's at least partially true given the other factors

Male-Dominated = the kid issues raised above certainly affect women more than men

Neuro-normative = designing your own wfh space + not requiring travel to an office seems pretty clearly better for neuro-divergent people, especially when the office still exists for those that need to utilize it

Able-bodied = much easier to wfh when you're in a wheelchair, don't have to commute with eyesight impairments, etc
I think criminalizing useful technologies is an obscenely naive way to operate. You're incurring insane game theoretical cost for the consolation of revenge against the criminals.
> entitlement of free work from devs on a project

Someone posted the project to Hacker News. A commenter pointed out that they didn't put the supported platforms on their website. That has nothing to do with "entitlement of free work". If the devs don't want anyone else discussing their work, they have every right to keep it private. If it gets posted to HN, it will be discussed.
> As an competitor, how do you "out safety" Rust?

Rust is still not totally safe. There's quite bit of code out there that needs to be panic safe, run within a statically-sized arena, be guaranteed to always terminate/progress and so on and so forth. None of these things are ensured by Rust at present (and common language features like arbitrary function calls get in the way of them), while Ada/SPARK and the like at least make some effort to guarantee those.
Most days I walk home from work. I'm up on 98th st, Upper West Side, work is down in Soho. It's about 8 kilometers direct, or I can go up the east side, then wander across Central Park, and make it 9 kilometers, or even 10 kilometers.
>> The draft decision is based on the idea that we don’t have a right to privacy in the US

That's false, as reading the opinion would show.
Its pattern matching to the extreme with varying amounts of; sequential changes of pictograms and constraints across the rows or columns. What a joke.

A better version of this for our HN audience would be to measure the Lines of Code for our programs to reproduce such a test.
I didn’t see where you could see the answers. Was there a spot?

I made it to 29 (feel like I knew all of the ones before that, but who knows?). But #29 threw me. It is the one with the like down the center, and columns of either solid or stroked boxes on either side. No clue what the pattern was there.
Finished it, 102 though I got bored after 10 minutes
> Its only big drawback (preventing me from buying it) is that I occasionally play competitive games, and that monitor has FreeSync but not G-Sync, and I use an Nvidia GPU.

Some NVidia GPUs support Freesync. https://www.nvidia.com/content/Control-Panel-Help/vLatest/en...
Some of us have been teleworking/WFH to varying degrees for decades now. There are pro's and con's, but it's not all a bed of roses. The earlier on in your career - unless you don't care about advancing from where you are today - the more you should probably balance or lean more towards in office engagement. You simply aren't going to make the same impression on people virtually as you will in person. You're fighting millions of years of evolution/how our brains are wired. You can lie to yourself and tell you it doesn't really matter - and I can tell you from personal experience it's BS. In person interactions have far more impact and staying power - period. I've seen it happen and am convinced I have gotten jobs over others because of it.

If that's not important to you - like you are towards the end of your career and pretty much happy with where you are - then that's a trade off that might not have as big an impact. But it IS a trade off and people need to be honest about it and stop hiding behind ridiculous gobbledygook like the crap that was at the start of that employee letter.
But that’s unfortunately a rather useless form of socialization, as most of his life interactions will be face to face. Job, romantic life, etc.
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I have a Virgin Media subscription for my phone and a while back I discovered that sometimes Reddit didn't load. It took me a while to figure out that it was on 4G and happened because I'd been using Virign's DNS servers. This is a similar "adult filter", that most UK ISPs implement.

AFAIK the filtering isn't legally mandated, but something the ISPs decide on together based on a some government memo. In any case it's dead simple to bypass and a very blunt tool. For example, why does Virigin block Reddit, but not Twitter? Both sites feature adult content, in fact so does Google image search.

The silver lining in all this stupidity is perhaps that it creates a more technically talented population. I don't expect most teenagers know or want to know about DNS, but if that's what stands between them and adult content I'm sure they'll learn.
All brains crave novelty and mental stimulation.
The conclusion I would draw is that dog owners are unable to objectively analyse their pets behaviour.
Ha, good call. IMO C, C++, and JavaScript are all kind of in that special case basket where there were significant domains in which you had to use them (JS for the browser, C for unistd.h, C++ for the Win32 API), so they didn't really have to compete with anything for long enough to become entrenched.

Zig, though, does very clearly lay out its pitch right on the homepage, and although it's maybe not a table of checkmarks, it's a series of pretty clear shots-across-the-bow at other languages, in particular C and C++.

Rust similarly has a "Why Rust" block above the fold on its homepage; it's not quite as terse as the Zig one, but it's clearly that same executive-level pitch.

Hare's homepage has: "Hare is a systems programming language designed to be simple, stable, and robust. Hare uses a static type system, manual memory management, and a minimal runtime. It is well-suited to writing operating systems, system tools, compilers, networking software, and other low-level, high performance tasks."

Maybe there's a case to be made here that these bald assertions are no different than what Zig and Rust claim about themselves. But I also think it's reasonable to have different expectations around this for a brand new project vs ones with years of track record and existing mindshare.
They have that option. Apple's offices are not going away. The letter specifically mentions that.
Not sure I'll do it, but I'm contented with not being a genius and still trying to hold informed opinions and trying to think critically. I've done well enough given my circumstances. It's probably not all attributable to hard work, and there's probably a bit of "nature" there (as well as often being endearing to people), but I know I'm not extremely intelligent, just somewhat (as not to be needlessly contrarian with people who insist I'm smart, gotta give at some point).

It's alright, Mensa can be for the people with the big brains.
I mean yes, the joy is still there when trying new things for the first time, I would be lying if I said otherwise. But it's just not the same. You know that feeling of total absorption/encompassment when you played your favorite game for the first time in your childhood? There's nothing like it. I went to dinner thinking about the game. I went to sleep thinking about the game. I went to school thinking about the game. The joy when my starter Pokemon evolved was indescribable. The game was the only thing that was on my mind. What's even more amazing is that I'm not a native English speaker, and I did not understand a single word in the game back then, yet somehow that did not impede me at all, in fact I think it even added to the joy of exploration.
> moral crusaders from languages like Rust

I think I speak for a majority of the Rust community when I say that we're embarrassed by this sort of behavior and we desperately wish that folks would stop it.
> Private-sector politicians and frat boys love open-plan offices

Not sure what a "Private-sector politician" is, nor what your intense hatred of open-plan offices has to do with collocated workplaces in general, but I can assure you that the reasons people split across the remote vs. office spectrum is far more diverse than your generic bucketing of "white male jerks == office love; everyone else hates them".

It's kind of ironic that someone has such polarized, uncompromising views on the topic, supported by the reasoning that "they don't reflect and support a diverse and non-binary workforce"
There are tradeoffs in both directions. Your point about spontaneous interactions is a good one, but consider the other tradeoffs at play:

- open layout offices are awful places to work where many people struggle to focus at all, to the point where their work is negatively impacted

- separating home location from work location opens up opportunities to work places certain people would never have considered before, unless they wanted to leave their friends/family/social groups/etc. behind

- cutting out a commute every day saves folks time, money, stress, and likely cuts down on a lot of wasteful greenhouse gas emissions

I'm relatively early in my career, but I also love WFH compared to in-office work. Why? I hated the commute, I don't like socializing with my coworkers outside of actual work, and I struggle to focus with folks on calls around me and without decent thermostat control. I acknowledge that some people can deal with all of those things, still be productive, and reap the benefits of in-person work. But there are also those of us whose careers have skyrocketed in the past couple of years specifically because we have a working arrangement that works better for us now.

It's hard to say how much this will impact my career trajectory in the long term. But I'm also more concerned about my private social life and hobbies than I am about my career, and remote work works far better for that, too.

TL;DR: Different strokes for different folks. Young people are not doomed by remote work.
A lot of tech savvy younger folks are perfectly capable of making relationships entirely online. I'm not even young, and I've done it myself. 25 years ago, I made several friends on Yahoo Chat! who I have never seen in real life but speak with regularly. Many more over the years via builtin boards. These days discord exists and it's a primary social source for a number of kids.

These kids could enter a fully WFH workforce without blinking an eye and continue to develop life long relationships with their new colleagues if they desired. I've done both. But to be honest, the only friends I've maintained from previous in person jobs are the ones who I also connected with via a chat program.
> Thanks to Pureboot, the Intel Management Engine (ME) on the processor is disabled: this controversial microcode component, supposed to optimize x86 machine code inside the CPU

The author has confused two things here, which are not related. The ME is not microcode, it is a special processor inside the PCH, and is supposed to provide remote management services. Whereas the Intel microcode is a totally different thing - it is an updatable part of the main CPU itself and is used for fixing performance issues, errata, or security issues like Spectre.
> not a group of people who are all about how smart they are.

You're going to be disappointed.

Seriously though, you can find incredibly intelligent people in the strangest of places. And you find less than you might think in the most obvious of places. Once you learn what to look for, I think it becomes easier to find people to have interesting conversations with. Personally, I find that curiosity about the world around you is a very good indicator of someone I would enjoy speaking with.
Oh wow, it behaves incorrectly...when I visit http://boost.org/ or https://boost.org it shows spam on my side, whereas when I visit https://www.boost.org/ it works as expected.
How about:

* Listening to each person’s specific concerns carefully and in detail, and then applying as much creativity and empathy as possible to help them come up with a resolution?

* Giving people increased responsibility and increased autonomy as a response to signs of burnout?

* Quickly transitioning coddlers (who stifle growth), complainers (who destroy motivation), victims (who destroy alignment), braggarts (who steal credit and poison achievement) out of teams?

* Managing the team competently so that forward progress is actually happening and the whole team can see it and sense it and take pride in it?

* Ensuring that the team’s mission, the company mission, and business value are all aligned, and making the team stakeholders to give them agency?

Personally, I find saying “the employees have burnout, they should work less and celebrate more” is pretty naive. It’s likely to make things worse.

Burnout isn’t overwork. It’s more like hopelessness. Effort is being made but the emotional reward for visible progress towards a valuable goal is not forthcoming. It can feel like overwork, but it’s more the work to reward ratio that’s a problem.
BART and bike worked great for me today! Plenty of time to read and relax, no bullshit with other drivers cutting you off.
This seems to me to be the perfect programming monitor.
https://www.lg.com/sg/consumer-monitors/lg-28mq780-b
No. There's one that made noise about it, but I personally know more than one other from working on their code. Not going to name anyone because I'm not sure they want their tech decisions publicized.

Also some performance-sensitive chunks of wall street itself (depending on how you define "wall street itself". And "performance sensitive" (what I worked on was more "high throughput" than "no pauses".).) run on java.

TBF, I write a lot of java, so my perspective is probably biased, but I can assure you, it's out there.
1. Accept kickbacks from <terrorist org>

2. Buy your product with kickbacks

3. Resell your product at a discount for clean money

Congrats, you now get to meet all the alphabet people in person and spend a lot of one on one time with them. Hope you didn't have any traveling planned cuz you aren't getting on any airplanes.