skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From your Wikipedia article:

> Leading questions may often be answerable with a yes or no (though not all yes–no questions are leading).

And specifically referencing your example, still from your article:

> Leading questions are distinct from loaded questions, which are objectionable because they contain implicit assumptions[3] (such as "Have you stopped beating your wife?"

That is to say: the question posed is not a leading question, and the article you linked as a citation in fact directly refutes your specific example.

Your article helpfully informs us that your example is a “loaded question,” and we can ask Wikipedia what distinguishes such a question:

> A loaded question is a form of complex question that contains a controversial assumption (e.g., a presumption of guilt).

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

Yet the original question still fails this new test: there is no controversial assumption, and certainly no presumption of guilt.

Unless, of course, you think it preposterous that anyone would hold a belief such as “queer people should be beaten to death for their sexual orientation.” Or that it’s unlikely or even impossible that one’s coworkers would hold such a belief.

Unfortunately, neither of those are exceedingly controversial - it is trivial to find ample evidence of outright calls for the execution of LGBT individuals in the past month, and I leave that as an exercise to the reader.

The most controversial assumption here is that such a person might be a coworker. And frankly, that just doesn’t rise to the level of a “loaded question.”

You just didn’t want to answer.
> That doesn’t solve overly attached partial captures in any way though?

> Which has nothing to do with the question.

Update: now that I think about it, Rust's borrow checker (not C++) is a good warning system for undesired captures, since if you capture an object rather than a field, Rust will likely throw an error when you try mutating the captured object or returning the lambda past the lifetime of the object reference. And Rust 2021 moves to capturing struct fields by default to avoid undesired captures, but I prefer C++'s more flexible capture system (but not its absence of borrow checker) to allow concisely and ergonomically picking exactly which variables/fields/expressions to capture.

I still feel Rust's way of adding explicit lambda captures (polluting the outer scope or introducing two layers of nesting) is deeply unsatisfactory, and its approach to turning off disjoint captures (dummy `let _ = &x; x.field`, see https://doc.rust-lang.org/edition-guide/rust-2021/disjoint-c...) is also unsatisfactory. If you actually feel having to type extra and clutter the code is "good enough" for Rust and doesn't punish use, then analogously C++'s std::variant and std::get_if<>() and std::visit() (deeply flawed sad excuses) ought to be "good enough" to take the place of `match` and `if let`, and so is making `var` default and `const var` take extra typing and cluttering the code.
>it's still basically a blind date, so when you actually meet there's still only a small chance that you will actually match.

The chance is small only if you are very picky or don't know how to optimize for the outcomes.

Dating can be seen as anything else in life: a game or a competition. Some people are naturally better, some people can learn to really do it good.
If you're gonna do web stuff, a GC is usually worth it... With Nim you can have the same codebase on frontend (compiles to js) and backend, and have it be type checked, and have a potentially very well performing backend.
Since it’s not obvious from the README, this is by Ant Group (Alibaba affiliate).
#1 literally the first full sentence of text “In 2004, 17% of state prisoners and 18% of federal inmates said they committed their current offense to obtain money for drugs.”

#3…you might have to read past the first sentence…
iirc this "clean" version is also extremely actively maintained, much more so than the original
>just under 60 million lines of code in 2022.

I'm always surprised at the fact that almost every product has more lines of code than the entire Linux repo. The scale of these products is astounding.
The more nukes they build, the farther behind the rest of the world they will get.

The rest of the world will be building out renewables, and getting much more power for each euro than France will. France will have more expensive power than everyone else in exact proportion to their nuke construction.

Ultimately, the French will buy their power from outside, because the nukes will be unable to deliver at a matching price, and the plants will be mothballed. French taxpayers will be the poorer.
As it stands, both parties are pretty powerless.
Wow, that really makes those movies pointless! And how much more does it cost to watch the movies compared with buying the book?

You can have an all-time great book or spend more time and money on decent (ok, awful IMHO) movie.
You end up with a permanent fight for the impoverished or less well off to move to the city to maybe get some table scraps.
We are already serfs. You own no land and pay rent to Uncle Sam. Stop paying? Not your land.
From the rest of the article, it sounds like a big chunk of these lines are from generated files. What I don't understand is why they're checking in generated files into Git.
Yes and no:

- Sure, some long island hedge fund genius is probably smarter at finance than some bay area VC for reasoning about most public companies

- But the professional VCs who have been in a specific company for 4-10 years, watching the team+category outperform 90% of the rest of their portfolio & their many competitors, and fighting for them round after round & pivot after pivot, have a much better sense of hold/sell vs some quant who doesn't know all that. That's a lot of insider knowledge for a finance professional.
The vast, vast majority of startup options are worth less than toilet paper. To say nothing of the shenanigans like dilution and liquidation preferences that will screw you.

They are lottery tickets at best. Yes, sure, someone sometimes wins big, but the odds are not in your favor.
Highlights from the paywalled Times article which is the basis of the OP:

> In 2019, former Kraken employees posted scathing comments about the company on Glassdoor, a website where workers write anonymous reviews of their employers. [...] In response, Kraken’s parent company sued the anonymous reviewers and tried to force Glassdoor to reveal their identities. A court ordered Glassdoor to turn over some names. On Glassdoor, Mr. Powell has a 96 percent approval rating. The site adds, “This employer has taken legal action against reviewers.”

--

> That same day, he invited employees to join him in a Slack channel called “debate-pronouns” where he suggested that people use pronouns based not on their gender identity but their sex at birth, according to conversations seen by The Times. He shut down replies to the thread after it became contentious. Mr. Powell reopened discussion on Slack the next day to ask why people couldn’t choose their race or ethnicity. He later said the conversation was about who could use the N-word, which he noted wasn’t a slur when used affectionately.

It is absolutely childish, unprofessional behavior for a CEO to derail a whole company by creating Slack channels for sophomoric 'debates' about questions such as 'is it actually rude and shitty for white people to use racial slurs' and then just shut them down when the conversation doesn't sufficiently favor his view for his liking.

The BI piece is a bit less explicit about the CEO's ridiculous behavior.
False. Cancer rates downwind are sharply elevated.
But I don't want to work in the office in a hcol or study algorithms for three months or get bogged down in performance reviews.

Tons of startups and mid sized companies give you an ok salary and some serious advantages.

Even ex fangs end up there because of those advantages.
What does a tank do better than a technical in that situation? AFAIK they don't generally carry better-than-MANPAD AA, they're not heavily armoured enough to resist precision munitions, and they're vastly more expensive.
Timescaledb vs. PostgreSQL
Yeah right, "Independent fact-checkers said the information is false".

The greens in Germany have consistently worked on destroying Germany's nuclear energy generation, and now it is completely dependent on gas import from Russia, funding Putin's war with Ukraine.
I'm fortunate to have grown up reading voraciously. I read literally everything I could get my hands on, and kept that trend going through high school. When I think, it comes out as paragraphs, sentences, and phrases. It's not hard to write for me: I think onto a page, and it usually works.

The difficult part for me is the discipline of writing itself. In order to produce something I'm proud of, I have to sit down, think about something for a period of time, and then begin producing words that need one or two rounds of editing before they're ready.

It's not so much a matter of having a natural talent for it as having the discipline to apply my ability properly. I'm not sure how to teach writing either, since I rely on my subconscious to do the work of organizing thoughts into coherent words for me.

Perhaps a first principles approach is ideal:

- Decide what you will write

- Choose a style, or let a style choose you

- Organize your thoughts, whether internally, with an outline, or some combination

- Start writing down words

- Edit until it matches your voice
As well as generated files the sibling mentioned I wonder how much is due to vendoring.
Painful intelligence: What AI can tell us about human suffering
Tolkien sold the movie rights to both the Hobbit and LOTR in 1969 for £100,000.

Source is an interesting interview with Christopher Tolkien in Le Monde:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180709130054/https://www.world...

... which is translated from the French original:
https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2012/07/05/tolkien-l-...
If you get ISOs (not NQSOs) and you early-exercise them such that the spread is $0 (or at least negligible/low) and you correctly file an 83b and the IPO or exit is more than two years from date-of-grant and one year from date-of-exercise, then you can get the more favorable long term capital gains tax treatment on the generated income from the exit event.

That’s a lot of conditions, so IMO they don’t make all that much sense and I much prefer RSUs (maybe I’d think differently as a founder). Plus there are sharp edges like AMT. I’ve been an early employee multiple times at companies that had successful exits and never successfully had all conditions satisfied, and have ended up paying regular income tax rates but had more complicated taxes to file.

If joining a company as a non-founder I’d just take straight RSUs.
All these comments...

Does anyone actually work at a company because they do interesting stuff, rather than option terms?
Modern historians are very cynical towards “big history” - grand narratives that explain everything.

Real history is weird and full of exceptions.

The sorts of books that are popular with both historians and the public focus on sepecific events in lots of detail: “Krakatoa: The Day the World Erupted” for example.
A couple of years ago now, Mozilla had a blog post where they demonstrated that they could stream the DOM to a WASM blob and they could parse the stream, perform the diffs and updates to the DOM and stream it back, faster than the same operations could be completed in the JS runtime.
The most reliable output of the nuke industry has always been dishonesty and corruption. Power is a distant second.
I really dislike anti-web3 sentiment from nontechnical people, but I love hearing it from technical people in the field. Why is that?
All progress so far has been related to scientific instruments in some way, shape, or form. We required the industrial revolution to get to where we are because our bodies can't do it.

So, yeah, anything but an industrial, or post-industrial computer driven line, is setting your country up for long term failure. There is lots of societal enrichment that comes not just from the direct production of these things and their sale but also from how they facilitate the ad-hoc understanding of reality.
That is kind of similar to Tesla still though. At least with FSD Beta there is a camera actively monitoring you and making sure your eyes are on the road. I've also been on roads where autopilot either won't activate at all or will activate but at a reduced speed. I was hoping that once Tesla enabled that internal camera they would stop relying on weight on the steering wheel and just use eye tracking.
There is value in writing even if no-one reads the result. I would even argue that the main value of writing is in the process of writing. Writing helps you structure your thoughts. It provides you with a mental grip on the world.

This goes for non-fiction but also for fiction. As a fiction author I do relish being read and appreciated by the right people. However, the gratification I get from that is mainly an ego thing, whereas the gratification of producing something that I find complete and beautiful (that sense of rightness washing over you when you put in that final period) gives a deeper fulfillment.
Ask HN: Folks who made tradle and worldle, how do you pick the country
Today, worldle(https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/) and tradle(https://oec.world/en/tradle/) had the same country. Coincidence?
Yes, the article glosses over that a little bit, and it's an unusual decision.
While stability is very important, openness is still no less important.

A number of standards is still patent-encumbered. Back in the day the algorithm to encode a GIF was patented, do you remember that? Do you remember how long Oracle and Google spent in court debating whether it's acceptable to describe and implement public interfaces?

A world where you can but may not interoperate is very inhospitable, no matter how stable the closed standards are.
Primordial black holes are another possible way (besides star collapse) that BHs could form.

The theory is that during the immediate aftermath of the Big Bang, the distribution of mass-energy became chaotic, with local hotspots where mass-energy was more dense, and other spots where it was less dense.

GR says that if ANY amount of mass-energy comes to occupy a small enough area, then that is a black hole. Star collapse BHs have a lower mass limit because their own gravity is what forces their mass into a region small enough to become a BH.

So primordial BHs could have formed with arbitrarily small mass, because they didn't have to rely on their own gravity to attain BH density. The Big Bang did it, for them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primordial_black_hole#Theore...
Some of my writing is to help me think, some is for future me, and some of it is for others. All three are different modes of writing, and I approach them differently. Personal stuff, in particular, gets written on loose paper and shredded immediately afterward— It’s the act of writing that I find actually useful, and knowing that nobody will ever read it is incredibly liberating.
> many folks have been pointing this out to Miguel ever since he first hopped on the Open Source MS Platform train with Mono et al.

Absolutely. I remember when Novell acquired Ximian, but I had not paid much attention in many years. It doesn't seem likely that Miguel would really change his tune now, if he has stuck with it for going on two decades now.
A car might be a bad example... prices have really taken off since early last year, unfortunately.
To expand on my experience:

The QR code-menu thing is a pain in the butt. It's much easier to be handed, and to use, a physical menu. So there are some people who don't know how to read QR codes on their phone, there are some people who don't want to bother with it, some people's phones are dead, or have low battery, and there's (obviously) discussion about how QR codes mean the death of civilization.

Then once people kind of get situated with the online menu, there are people sharing their phones with others who either don't know how to look up the online menu or don't care to, there are people talking about what looks good and showing each other their phones to indicate where in the site that particular item is.

Then at some point, someone will ask, "Is everyone ready to order?" Usually that's the wait staff. Then everyone looks around the table, making eye contact, trying to discern if more time is needed. Either more time is needed or ordering proceeds.

That taken care of, everyone puts away their phones and goes back to enjoying the experience with each other.

In other words: almost exactly the same thing that happen with paper menus, but with more upfront hassle.

> Maybe it's just me, but people seem to spend a lot more time choosing what they want when the menu is online only, because they actually already decided ten minutes ago and are now just looking at facebook.

That's pretty rude behavior. I'm sorry you've experience that with the people you've eaten with.
Pretty interesting.... I don't know that much about git, but still fun to read. I guess the main takeaway is don't put all your eggs in one basket? Although it kinda seems like they are going to stick with the monorepo, ("Here’s how we solve them at Canva")

Also, I looked up .xlf files and I still don't understand. It's xml, that part makes sense, but it's basically a config file? To tell what process to read which files?

Also, I've heard of Canva, but had no idea they were this big/ubiquitous/whatever.... and learning about pseudo localization is interesting too. And the graph for lines of code looks pretty exponential, maybe it's common up to a point, but if it continues at that rate, it will be infinite by about 2026 (okay, I just made that number up, but you get the idea)
Fossil and bio fuel are not what nukes and nuke construction are competing with, so mentioning them at all is an attempt to distract.

We are not distracted.
Yeah I've always hated that statement. How do you even measure that? I've had my Tesla sound the alarms when I'm 4 car lengths away from the car in front of me and nothing bad is happening at all. Do they count that as having prevented an accident? Do they count all those phantom breaks as preventing a crash ;＾∀;＾）
It took me a minute to figure out the last step of the final example since the author doesn’t quite spell it out. So for anyone else who’s feeling a little slow:

Once you’ve partitioned the search space into “values where the ith bit is 0” and “values where the ith bit is 1” (for example, even and odd values if it happens to be the least significant bit), then you can simply iterate through all the input values and xor together all the values where the ith bit is 0, then xor those with all possible values where the ith bit is 0, and you’ve found one of the missing values. Repeat the process with 1 instead of 0 to find the other.
MA specifically addresses his education in this interview. He says that he learned most of what he knows via independent reading, that his high school was not high quality (his computer class teacher being a lucky accident that he almost missed), and that he identifies as part of the Midwestern farmer/tinker culture (e.g. Bob Noyce).
Same, very surprising. I was tracking the project for a while with great interest but they lost a lot of things that made Perl actually good at its niche. I'm amazed they made Perl look worse.
> an escape is a remote hole in Chrome isn't it

Maybe. Chrome has a lot of extra security hardening you don't get if you are just running the V8 engine alone.

The going rate for a V8 escape is probably around $100k at the moment. Totally worth it financially to snarf credit cards from all the sites on Cloudflare.
That sounds like either they didn't need you or you made a poor choice? Or you were paid in cash instead?
New York City. You should find what you are looking for.
> I'm pretty sure that wouldn't work.

May be a DAO would...?

> HN and YC is part of the DNA of both entities.

That it may be, but a lot of folks think HN is just plain stupid most of the time [0][1]

> if anyone wants more.

I know you reply because you assume good faith... well, I am just trolling, you can safely ignore me, for sure (:

[0] Ex A: https://twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1491072990053687296

[1] Ex B: like this time... ;)
This is very alpha at the moment:

https://github.com/CeresDB/ceresdb/blob/main/docs/dev/roadma...

But with ant group behind it, it will probably grow fast. Maybe in a few years it’s production ready.
> Stock options are "cheaper" for a startup to give out than RSUs, so you get more shares, ie your equity is higher-leverage. So if things go well, you end up with much much more money than had you gotten RSUs (and yes obviously if things go terribly, you get nothing).

Is this generally true? I’m not sure it applies for the typical engineer joining a larger company (a Databricks or Stripe, say) where you’re not really affecting the cap table all that much. Do companies really give out more options than RSUs?

My one personal piece of anecdata here is when considering an offer from a startup (that I didn’t take), they offered during negotiations to change the mix of RSU+options into just all RSUs (same total number).
You gotta love the animation for adding drama to the error
UCB and UM are top 5 schools for this, with maybe MIT sitting above them because of Lincoln Lab. UCB literally invented RISCV (among a million other fundamental CS and CE technologies). They are not representative of the typical state school or even well funded private schools.

I'm at NYU Tandon and they are a decade behind on most stuff, the single VLSI course is an elective even for ECEs. I work with students from state schools all across the country, and the most common reaction I get with rising seniors coming from EE and ECE programs is "I have never seen any of this stuff before".

What I'm trying to say is: I've yet to meet an ECE senior who couldn't write Hello World in C or perform linear DC analysis, but it's surprisingly rare to find one who can layout a ring oscillator.
I've got Shenzhen I/O recently and the game is amazing, though It's a bit tougher than real life assembly programming for the constraints it imposes on you in order to pass the level.
I do interesting stuff in my free time. I make money in my work time.

Not quite really—I do enjoy my work and my time at my job, and I would sacrifice some compensation to work at a more interesting/meaningful/fun company. I don't price the enjoyment of 50% of my waking hours at zero, of course. But my primary purpose in working a job is making money, and I don't think that's anything to be ashamed about. I want to buy a house one day.
Gitpod raises $22,600 at DevX Conf to give to Open-source maintainers
The usual outcome lately is to cancel construction after billions of euros are spent, as it is realized the result will be unable to be competitive.

Occasionally, ratepayers are forced to pay far above market rates in order to keep the plants in operation.

Coercing users does not make nukes look more viable.
Great move from BitWig to support this. Now if they could also hire a UI designer...