skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How a person could attain a masters degree without actually knowing that is beyond me, but her skillset clearly had nothing to do with software.

I've worked with a few PhD's whose software engineering experience was limited to Matlab scripting. One even refused technical training because that's "not what they're interested in". Another co-worker with a masters still had no idea what they were doing after 4 years working there, often asking the same basic questions at a few weeks interval. Stuff like which branches to merge in a PR or questions that are answered verbatim in a readme file.
Having to babysit educated people who refuse or are unable to learn is a great way to get demotivated. When those people start getting promoted to management positions and training junior employees is when things really start to derail.
So, it got even worse? For some reason I'm not surprised.
That's the worst take I've read all month. Congrats!

No, the feminist work about a facist patriarchy is not actually secretly a fetish novel about the submission fetish all women supposedly share.
> Incidentally, this problem set the scene for a wizard duel between two computer scientists several decades ago. In 1986, Jon Bentley asked Donald Knuth to show off “literate programming” with a solution to this problem, and he came up with an exquisite, ten-page Knuthian masterpiece. Then Doug McIlroy (the inventor of Unix pipelines) replied with a one-liner Unix shell version using tr, sort, and uniq.

Since this writing and other linked resources present only one side of the affair, I will mention: the presentation in Pearls was quite unfair to Knuth, and the conclusions commonly made of it somewhere between moderately and entirely unsound. (That is, as conclusions from the paper. I speak of unsoundness of logic only: these conclusions may be supportable from other sources.)

Knuth was challenged to demonstrate literate programming, and so that was what he demonstrated. He showed building something from the ground up assuming a very minimal environment, with problem analysis and all: of course that ended up more verbose than a Unix pipeline that glosses over problem analysis and starts with most of the tools you need to make a probably-acceptable solution!

McIlroy himself admitted a few years later that he had been “a little unfair” to criticise on engineering grounds what had only been an illustration of technique. Even in the paper, Bentley did admit a degree of culpability for this mismatch in his “criticism of programs” paragraph. (“He admires the execution of the solution, but faults the problem on engineering grounds. (That is, of course, my responsibility as problem assigner; Knuth solved the problem he was given on grounds that are important to most engineers-the paychecks provided by their problem assigners.)”)

But I do wish that Knuth had been given the opportunity to write a review of McIlroy’s review, for simultaneous publication.
> results that speak for themselves.

This is exactly how a midwife explained to me why she uses magic crystals. She told me that there's science, and there's results, and that she's seen the crystals work.
You're doing a lot of assuming that the engineer seeking greener pastures because they are, I don't know "selfish" or something, is easily detectible. I can confidently tell you that you're operating under self delusion.

Also assuming that someone who isn't going to tolerate fuck-fuck games with assholes when they don't have to is themselves an asshole. It's entirely possible to amicably end a relationship with someone (a business) you can't stand, with them none the wiser that it was ever about something other than compensation.

> Want to be free and clear to operate without too much bureaucracy? Play the cooperation game. This is as true with engineering as it is literally any other thing that requires more than one human.

This is pure hopium. Bureaucracy is installed in anticipation of growth/security/safety gains, and existing success of the team can be completely ignored by someone who thinks the good of bureaucracy will outweigh the harm.
> It's simple. Being bisexual or homosexual doesn't intrinsically cause any physical or mental anguish for people in that state.

I'm pretty sure this is 100% false. If in doubt, ask your local Catholic priest about it.
A decent high leverage cable cutter costs under $50 and cuts through fibre like butter. A few seconds at each point where fibre is accessible is all that's needed to do damage that costs hundreds to thousands of dollars to fix. Damage a cable in multiple locations and it's pretty easy to create a 24+ hour outage as repair crews won't know the extent of damage until multiple repairs are made. Physical telecom infrastructure is really easy for a determined attacker to take out of service, and if they're wearing an orange vest, nobody will think twice to question them.
I’m going to be a little crass for a moment: people don’t know how to use their tools! Why are we even talking about “stacked PRs” and “branchless” workflows?! It’s clear the author is documenting their git learning process and that’s great, really. But I’m just surprised how pedantic people get about forcing others to use a tool in a way that caters to their own limited understanding of it. Or, even worse, caters to limitations in the 3rd party UI being used to interface with it (ye ol’ git vs GitHub problem). Learn your tool and then you can worry about the higher order things that are supported by it.
May I ask how did you come to this conclusion?
Well if I played a game of rigged monopoly, I would say and act exactly the same way, doesn’t mean I am oblivious, it just means I am making fun of the researchers
CPS could well be the spawn of Satan. But with the exception of a minor (Breitbart-like rag) Tennessee Star article, 100% of the references I can find on the Google appear to be postings and promotions from Pacific Legal and its partner, the Goldwater Institute. There does not appear to be a single non-ultra-biased source reporting this story. Which means, as far as we know, it could be entirely nonsense.
>incrrasing neuroticism and mental health issues

I would argue that previous generations had such issues as well but they just didn't get talked about as much. It would help explain some of the damn the long term all that matters is the next year / six months type of thinking.
I guess the question would be are positive results missing for another reason, like they are harder to test for, therefor the data looks better than it should because in the aggregate they are better, but yeah this is probably unlikely.
> Constitutionaliam is a grift run by conservatives to smoke screen their agendas. Nobody argues it in good faith.

I argue it in good faith. I want government to shrink. The constitution should be used as a tool to constrain the size and scope of Government. And with the New Supreme Court it's chipping away at the concept the State can rule by edict. It's an exciting restoration of Democracy.

Today Government spending is 44% of GDP - which is colossal by most measures. In fact It's much larger than the CCP. Government size will shrink either through inflation or default because its debt burden is 130% of GDP. In research done by Hirschmann capital, 51 out of 52 times a country’s debt-to-GDP ratio reached 130%, the country eventually defaulted. The one exception is Japan - whose trajectory doesn't look great today.

Like it or not, you are either fighting constitutionalism or the mathematical force of Gravity. But there is no way Government will continue to expand.
If you had gotten out of the house more, you might have learned that we live in an incredibly diverse world, and not everyone needs to grow up exactly like you did.
Yep, plus nobody ends up having any accountability to boot.
I assume very few people who deal with actually abusive parents and their kids (as CPS often does) would come out the other end without severe mental trauma.
Ford was never going to take the bailout: GM and Chrysler were prohibited from paying dividends, while the Ford family receives income from FoMoCo stock.
I've been playing around with changing the default shell for some Makefiles to a shell inside a docker container (with dependencies baked in). It's a bit hacky, but kind of interesting!

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Choosing-...
No Free Lunch from Deep Learning in Neuroscience
What ifs could happen to anyone at any time.

What if I get HIV from a needle at a park bench? Do I need to inspect every park bench I sit on with UV light at night and leather gloves to be sure?

Where do you draw your line. Clearly your lines are different than others.

You should consider that their lines are based on rational investigation of the risk. Is yours?
The same reasons we don't outsource all of our management and executive positions.
Capitalism welcomes none.
This means you get 3 teams working on the same thing one after the others. This isn't factory work where that is actually possible, where you know that piece A will get done in exactly 8 hours by Team A, everyone on Team B knows how to make thing B from piece A and 8 hours later Team C makes finished product C from that.

You'll get bogged down in communications overhead, things not being done exactly at the time you'd need it, then you gotta do something else or do it yourself etc. Basically there's not a real benefit to 24h operations for software development.

Now for 24/7 production support that's great on the other hand, because nobody has to wake up in the middle of the night.

I think worldwide teams are actually harder to bootstrap because while sitting right next to each other is overrated in my book, being in similar timezones is hugely beneficial for normal teams. Many people can not work completely async properly and benefit from overlap where they can interact directly. Depending on who you're able to hire this won't be a problem but we're not all able to hire those awesome people or enough of them. So in that case, let's assume you're in the US, east or west coast doesn't matter that much but it would be much better to hire one more person in a similar timezone, say in Brazil that has overlap with you than to get one guy in Turkey where you're offset by an entire 'work day' and he's the only guy in that timezone.

That shifts, if you can bootstrap an entire team in that other location. But make them work on a separate product or service, not on the exact same thing the other team you already have does and expect them to throw stuff over the fence back and forth every day.

EDIT: And you should expect them to deliver the same quality as other teams. Quality they can stand by. I.e. the exact opposite of what Indian or Eastern European outsourcing usually is. And then, when you have a team that can actually deliver properly like that, you're actually not paying that much less but now all your business people are still over in the US and can't communicate properly with those teams.
There's a little-known theory (whose name eludes me) that states: any outcome in behaviour is highly dependent on the immediate and unpredictable interplay of various environment variables and their real and perceived effect on the person. this alone cancels the efficacy of any nudges (but some variables may be in the same direction as the nudge--hence the original but misguided nudge research: they were fooled by randomness). I have seen married women who were loyal to their husbands (and who had no idea they would fall for a guy who practiced "seduction" on them) become bewildered and surprised by their own behaviour even though the behavior went against their firmly-held opinions about themselves (that is: I love my husband and I am loyal to him.). The environmental variables used by the person (who is a marketer) were too strong for their opinions to hold out against. As an example, he would invite them to his studio, which he had decorated (and clean) and made it so homely and snug and comfy that the first lines of defense were broken before they had a chance to realize what trap they were in. The marketer also tried to brainwash me (but failed) because I knew the power of variables and this knowledge alone saved me--even though he seemed irresistibly charming in the capacity of a father figure I never had.
M2 MacBook Air vs. the Rest
This is just a bad feminists ant-porn rant. She can't mention porn without bringing in hurting women or sadism. I reject that this has anything useful related to my question. I reject this view that any but a small minority of men want to see such things.

I ask about affection in sex and you post this?
No, it's a 2014 study. So he was 21.
> simple trick of "completely ignore a lot of files by

The author of rg wrote a blog post about this. According to what I recall, he did performance comparisons on same limitations and scope. So it's not like in that benchmark, the difference would be due to an obvious fact as this.
Let Grow keeps a good mythbusting page on crime stats:

https://letgrow.org/crime-statistics/

The tl;dr is that helicopter parenting is relatively new — only something that's come into play in the last few decades — and in all the time before that kids had far more freedom to roam compared to today. Even factoring in an uptick in the murder rate in the last couple years that came about during Covid policy, it's still half of what is was in the early 90s or prior to that.

It seems like the world is more dangerous now because of the outsized attention crime gets in media, but objectively speaking, it's not.

And keeping kids at home on their screens is having definite negative consequences on their maturation and later ability to succeed in the world. Here's a good article on the subject:

https://reason.com/2017/10/26/the-fragile-generation/
Representating social groups across 200 years of word embeddings in Google Books
That is… a rather unfortunate name.
I would argue to disagree with ascribing mental health issues after the Millennials due to whatever is also relatively new at the time like kids having more supervision. This essentially boxes your theory to apply to only one generation (gen Z), so what you're describing is only that Gen Z are more mentally ill than Millennials, which... are you sure you can neatly form causal relationships between one generation to one specific change? How are you doing that?
Oh, and luck is why I think it's more interesting to see the average of 5 record. Currently 5.08 seconds set by Max Park.
Oh don't get me wrong, the system we've settled on isn't great
The problem is train transportation is not making a profit here. Specially since we have the second best high speed network which doesn't see much use and cost us an incredible amount of money.

This is going to be a disaster, the only way they'll sustain this is with (even) higher taxes.
StemRoller: Musical stem creator based on Demucs
A self driving car that becomes a lawyer that enters into contracts with body shops where it randomly causes accident in return for a % of the business, free charging and maintenance.

I don’t know which is worse, an amoral corporation using AI to crush its workers or an independent AI working for its own interests
I ran into the same problem, gave up on it. There must be some trick to it.
Life has many risks. Some risks can be recovered from, and others are life long damage. It’s the latter, catastrophic risks that parents should be curating the environment from.

Kids learn from failure. It’s letting them fail and learn that grows strong adults.

Some risks can be mitigated. Learning to tumble and take a fall, for example, mitigates risks of falling well into the elderly years.

And as for 5 or 7 year old, yes. Or flip to the other side— traditional society, including indigenous societies, start training their toddlers on chores. Toddlers already want to help, and these are often behaviors they are already doing, like pulling clothes from laundry baskets.

Five year old and seven year olds are capable. In Japan, two year olds are sent on errands.

And, I have heard at least one story of an American family where the mother had her 7 and 8 year old kid take over meal planning and prep for dinner, and paying the bills. (She didn’t just throw them into the deep end either).
> But I can see how fleecing the casuals slowly is probably a better long-term strategy, that will ultimately extract more money from them, than doing it quickly, draining their bankroll, which may stop them from playing or get them to play less consistently.

This is exactly correct.

This is why it’s difficult to build and sustain a plo8/nlo8 ecology online or live. The good players just clean out the casuals so quickly and relatively risk free via freerolling. It largely only exists in a sustainable way in mixed rotations.

I was an online plo8 player who had to switch to plo to increase my game selection. It got to a point that I knew all of the other players at the table, and they were not giving up much in terms of ev (although most of them had exploitable gaps in their games).
This itself is dangerous thinking; what people miss way too much is the variance across localities. Some are great and some are terrible -- but the whole "All government is terrible" mindset frequently enables even worse private intervention.
ripgrep absolutely tears through some large monoorepos we have at work, far faster than GNU grep.

I imagine the performance difference is even more startling for anyone on a Mac who hasn't replaced BSD grep with GNU grep (install the gnu tools from homebrew and alias "grep" to "ggrep", the performance difference is huge).
> You can't really say that when they're only a couple decades into human history.

My statement is accurate.

> Remember saccharine? It was considered safe until it wasn't.

That's more true of sugar than saccharine.
This is called capitalism. Reduction and not increase of choice.
And you posted this why? Are you from a certain part of the world and mad? :)
I think Earthly is a better replacement for make; but containerized builds are definitely slower (often to a disappointing degree). Luckily Earthly has a ton of knobs you can turn re: caching to make things suck less.

https://earthly.dev
They are one of the few things added that require the target platform, rather than the compiler, to do something different. (And the other big things like that, like atomics, are similarly optional.)
Tech's obsession with real estate is oxymoronic and dumb.
Ask HN: Why not install a filter to prevent choking on food?
Has this been tried?
bloody 1984
Massive! Take an upvote.
> "guys like drawing dicks on things"

not only this is true across different cultures, but also throughout history.

1800 years old Roman penis carving near the Hadrian's wall

https://www.militarytimes.com/resizer/1V8zCb1tPjuWr0elUXTJhd...

1700 years old penis graffiti in ancient Rome

https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/up...

Priapus weighting his dick in Pompei

https://images-cdn.bridgemanimages.com/api/1.0/image/600wm.X...

Penis Parinirvana, Edo Japanese scroll

https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2...

Phallic Fertility in the Ancient Near East and Egypt

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRoS-c0...

winged penis in ancient India

https://www.michaellaird.com/pictures/3217_4.jpg?v=160027396...

and so on
I don’t see why it couldn’t - but the end result might be incoherent to humans. It could easily combine or extrapolate on random things to create “art”
Relying on IP addresses for anything is a recipe for disaster. Device fingerprinting is even worse, given that everyone who is the least bit privacy-conscious has gotten quite good at resisting all kinds of fingerprinting techniques. I have 4 PCs I use frequently. If I watch Netflix on one today, get a new IP address tomorrow, and watch it on another device, I'm suddenly not at home anymore?

Their PR and marketing team clearly suck. I hope they've got a really good legal team, because they're going to need it.
Luck is a pervasive factor in speedcubing. Much of the time it manifests in a way that allows the solver to skip one or more steps of the solve. This is why most events take the average of 5 to rank people (throw out the fastest and slowest solves from a round of 5, average the middle 3 solves), because it's much more representative of a person's skill. But if you're looking to break the world record single solve for 3x3, you need to be pretty lucky on top of being world-class. When taking into account the luckiest situations we've ever seen in cubing comps, only the top 50 or so fastest solvers in the world even have a statistically significant chance at breaking the world record single. I'd feel comfortable placing money on it being someone who's already in the top 15, because there's still a big gap in skill between them and the top 50.

However, the better a solver gets, the more they are able to manifest lucky situations. For example, I do most of my solves oriented around the white side. If there's something lucky in the initial state that would make using the blue side better, I still might opt to not take advantage of it, because the downside of reorienting myself to the blue side is greater than the advantage from that lucky situation. However, someone who has practiced their recognition on all sides and is color-neutral might be able to take advantage of that situation in a way I could not.
Sounds like kidnapping to me (I am not a lawyer).
The Netherlands! Amazing governance. Very nuanced thinking. It is the most futuristic place I’ve ever lived.
Absence of evidence is evidence of absence. It's just not proof of absence.

For example, if I search your entire house for drugs, using drug sniffing dogs and so on and I don't find any at all, that's pretty good evidence that you don't have any. It's not proof though - you might have just stashed them really well.

Similarly, if people have been looking for nudge effects for ages, doing loads of studies on it for years, and none of them have found any effect, then that's pretty good evidence that the effects don't exist. It's not proof though; they might just have not been very good experiments.
I've usually kept a rule that you should avoid stacking, and if you must only one level deep. The fact that you have to stack in the first place typically suggests that PRs aren't being merged fast enough. Stacking in my personal experience usually leads to merge conflict hell as changes and PR suggestions get merged underneath you.
The center of view coordinate was specifically chosen before the video was made. There is an infinite number of “interesting” coordinates.
I think Julia sets are perhaps what you are looking for.
I don't really think about it as linking notes. At least, "creating links" isn't the goal. Mostly, I'm trying to explore what I'm curious about.

I create links in two situations: (A) when I'm reading someone else's content, or (B) when I'm working on my own content.

When I'm reading someone else's content, I want to understand what they mean. I try to do that by building on other things I know. I also want to think further than the author. Apply it to my context.

When I'm creating my own content, I want to build on ideas. Refer to examples, compare to other ideas.