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Ask HN: What do you wish you did as a juvenile to generate more success today?
I am currently in my early twenties, and am looking for a job in the programming industry. I am currently doing a degree in computer science and I found that the people who did programming related activities as a kid were having a much easier time than the ones that did not.
unfortunately `act` is pretty bad :(

My go to workflow for workflows (ha) is forking a repo as a private fork and toying on it until I'm happy with the results
> Nobody hates Facebook users more than Facebook

And nobody hates Facebook more than Facebook users. I don't use Facebook and because of that I don't have many problems with it. Same goes for the people that don't use Facebook that I know. The only people I see complaining about Facebook are Facebook users.
> Can we acknowledge yet that the concept of classes as tiny programs with tiny APIs and private implementations has failed?

I lived the past 10 years in a ruby codebase where since effectively everything was public, we didn't mark enough stuff private and you can always YOLO monkeypatch or call things with `send(:method)` there was zero effective encapsulation.

And that pretty much crippled the product because now everything could be a public API so you can't change some shitty little helper to clean the code up somewhere because someone might have written code against that, in their private codebase that you have no visibility at all into. Every change becomes a potentially breaking change, because you have no idea how someone else's codebase might or might have fucked you by digging into your codebase.

Rejecting encapsulation is literally the dumbest post-OO take, and I have the scars to prove it.

Good fences make good neighbors and all that.
www.ProVolt.org

Looks like moved to Arkansas.

I would also be fascinated to hear about this story.

I just moved to Lakeland, FL and they have an incredible maker space that it a non profit. It's mind blowing how good it is. And sad that my hometown of Portland would never be able to build something like that now.
Interesting... I've heard that life is just DNA's way of making more DNA, but this takes it to a whole new level. This feels like as big a step as some of the other major steps life has taken.
Facebook will die with what is currently the older generation. They're addicted, and while they're still around, Facebook will survive. Nobody else seems to care so much about Facebook anymore.
That site is awesome.

> Ceramic to Leather

> We won't ask why you would want to glue ceramic and leather together - we just give gluing info.

> If the leather is thick (eg. boot leather), we recommend:

> Household Goop
I think you’re reading journalists, not the actual archeologists.

They saw evidence and suggested a hypothesis, not a conclusion.

I personally have never read an archeologist state a conclusion they didn’t directly observe. Sometimes they’ll note loose threads for further study.

Scientific literature has gotten terrible about drawing conclusions from too few points and over reliance on flawed statistical analysis.

But archeology doesn’t even pretend from what I’ve seen in the past few years.
I think you're quite right but I am curious, is there a reason communism is the only ideology you didn't capitalize in your list?
I've freelanced and contracted for about 10 years before the 2.5 years time of no work. When I had work, it didn't do so well for me. Barely made good income, and it's so much freedom, to a fault. No safety nets. You need to be especially proactive to make it work for you, more than a regular job.

I did the bare minimum. I was picking off contract gigs for small business, and for below body shop prices. The most I ever made in one year was $50k. In my worst years I made under $10k.

It also turned me into an "expert beginner" because I worked in isolation, I was still living in the now, and my clients have been small with little to no exposure to a strong technical culture.

You need a lot of hustling and "working your network" to rise above that. At this point, it's killed my drive and want to go back to the relative safety of FT work.
I feel like that was deliberate
Agreed.

Is there not a better or more general word we have for this these days in English?

Maybe we could borrow it from the Germans. I do like words like Schadenfreude.
Do you know many employed academic scientists?

Why don't you ask them if they would be willing to accept a cap on their salary, to be excluded from the most prestigious and well-paying institutions, and to do less research than they otherwise would, for a period of ten years, because they will be participating in an experiment which, if it was designed and executed well, might result in findings that might help improve research funding.

Perhaps very few actually practicing scientists are "true scientists".
Someone who is a very good speller benefits from a spell checker, because he or she isn't necessarily a perfect typist. Even if you make one typo in 20,000 words, and the spell checker finds it, there is value in that.

Grammer checking is just extended spell checking. You could have great style, but gaffe something; use some combination of words because you were tired or distracted, or you made some bad edit, half of which was scrolled off the screen or whatever.

You could ignore most of the tips, but once in a while it could be that the suggestion you get from the software is exactly the words you wanted to write, but somehow fumbled. That's clearly valuable, and in a way that isn't dictating style to you.

Sometimes spelling errors cause grammar errors. So unless you're a perfect speller and typist, a grammar checking tool might be the one which actually catches your typo. This is because a typo can produce a dictionary word, or words.
Why do we keep coming up with these bizarre ways to try and make this work?

It is the normal operating mode of an internet connected server to send traffic to the internet - often even 100% of the time! It is the normal operating mode of drinks at a restaurant to be drank by the person while there, and maybe one refill for the road.

Trying to liken "Using the 'Unlimited' 1gbps port that was advertised "to "Refilling a cup and dumping it into a garbage bag" is ludicrous.

I don't understand why people are doing mental gymnastics to defend a bad advertising practice.
HyperTaste, an AI-Assisted Electronic Tongue
Didn't Facebook already die years back? People moved onto Instagram, Whatsapp, Snap and a few other places already. The only reason Facebook was able to pull along was because it bought Insta and Whatsapp so they did not have to compete. But that now that they have to actually compete, the cracks are showing.
I exclusively use the purple heart where my online handle has the word Purple in it. Then others use it too. It has aided expression, however marginally.
You can certainly say that you don’t think Russian culture is valuable, or that you just don’t plain like it, and that is certainly understandable given the current circumstances. But that is something very different from saying that it has failed.

And you have clearly not read and understood Dostoyevsky if that is what you got out of Crime and Punishment. Maybe you shouldn’t be that fast to condemn a whole culture if your understanding of it is on the level your last paragraph reveals.
Let's be controversial. K&R is lovely, I learned from it, everything good everyone says about it is true and K & R and both beautiful, sexy, clever, kind and wonderous men.

If you are learning programming (and who among us isn't?), the code examples stink to high heaven. No really. Don't program like that! K&R didn't! If you're learning programming and C it will teach you a bunch of really bad habits /because/ it is a book for experienced programmers with fully developed taste and the examples were designed to illustrate a particular facet of the language as pithily as possible. It's great for that.

I realize any criticism of the sacred texts will result in inspiring revulsion and possibly bile among those who think of such things as above criticism and any commentary is about the shortcomings of the commentator not the holy book but there it is... It's 2022 and I'm old enough to take it. ;-)

Alistair Moffat "Programming, Problem Solving and Abstraction" is one I found that seems better to learn C programming. Maybe other people have better recommendations than that..?

Separate to that "The C Puzzle Book" is superb when you're learning to really thoroughly understand pointers, arrays and so on. Koenig's "C Traps and Pitfalls" isn't bad for some of the dark corners.
It is always better to get the authors of the API to provide a supported way of doing something, rather than trying to bypass the interface. That requires human skills rather than computer skills though.
Europe agrees emergency gas curbs, Russia supply curbs are 'price terror'
> The core insight to a problem is rarely what we spend most of our programming time doing.

I believe that is a mistake.

I'll have to check your language out though!
Reduce Friction: Do people still need to be persuaded to help their dev go fast?
Consider that the one whose comment is currently at the top is pro-cancel-Stallman, and he also works on "free" software related to secure boot --- not as in breaking, but instead aiding its adoption.

The FSF was strongly against secure boot, then inexplicably started seeming to be in favour of it.

Connect the dots yourself.
I wonder if Meta is going to speedrun Microsoft's lessons learned from stack ranking during Balmer days
It almost sounds as if there is a niche for that!

BTW have you tried dreamwidth.org, a fork of the venerable livejournal.com? They look as if 2005 had never ended,in a good sense.
Almost any routine can work if you practice it. Even just standing up and stretching from your desk before you sit back down and open Facebook or whatever.

Some things that helped for me: Get a cold drink. Do something engaging but not really difficult: a casual video game, or making supper. Talk to a different group of people. And give yourself a little time - unwinding could take 20 minutes, so be patient with yourself.
Same. Stuck at a “modest” diet & exercise habit daily for 8 months with great results. Then I stopped for a couple days and haven’t been able to “keep the chain” going again since.

From the article:

> While most people get demotivated and off–track after a bad performance, a bad workout, or simply a bad day at work, top performers settle right back into their pattern the next day.

I think that’s the key (which I’ve not mastered). With things like Alcoholics Anonymous, meditation practice, etc. they say “If you break the chain, then don’t beat yourself up, just start again”. But obviously if keeping up the streak is a big part of the motivation, then once it’s broken that’s going to demotivate.
What do you mean by "even Masters program into science"?
Firefox 103.0 – Released → (July 26, 2022)
You can oversell capacity in two ways:

1) You have enough slack that your edge case top-end users can utilize what you advertise, and there are enough people not needing it that this is all fine

2) You do not have enough slack that your edge case top-end users can't utilize what you advertise, in which case you are, at best, being deceptive in your advertising practices.

No one cares about the former, and even though the latter is common place, that doesn't mean that it isn't a shitty advertising practice nor should someone making use of a provider have to know that this is common place.

You should be able to reasonably expect to get what a commercial entity is advertising itself as giving as part of your payment to them. Just because this industry has been garbage about it doesn't mean that it should always be garbage about it.
Pretty sure they meant Popper’s Paradox. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

(Here, so the paradox would go, the tolerant society Android, gets hijacked by the less tolerant Apple.)
Climate disinformation leaves lasting mark as world heats
Did you forget how Friendster and the ones before lost their user base overnight? Facebook was not in that situation because so far there hasn’t been a worthy competitor. They bought the last two, and it’s not possible with TikTok. Facebook is pissing it’s meta pants.
Somewhat. Http/3 is a protocol that runs on top of QUIC. Every http/3 request uses a dedicated QUIC stream. However it is possible to use QUIC for other use cases that have nothing to do with HTTP. QUIC is more of a multiplexed TCP with mandatory encryption.
I'm honestly not sure why I didn't. I guess subconscious habit.
It's the IT industry we're talking about here. I feel like no one in IT is capable of "just stopping" when the product is good enough. Everything is required to have scope creep or at the very least feature creep and regular UI redesigns for no good reason, seemingly by law.
Faster commits with 1PC+C instead of 2PC
So, for the email industry (both marketers and client developers) "Spam" is used to specify emails that are not compliant with the CAN-SPAM act - they don't have a way to unsubscribe or report abuse.

ITT people are using Spam to cover all sorts of junk email, but in my mind there is a difference between companies engaging in annoying methods to get your consent and organizations engaging in bad faith breaches of CAN-SPAM.
Yet somehow me and my group of friends all use Instagram to keep in touch in the same way we’ve done for years, and in the same way we will likely continue to do so for years longer, mostly undisturbed by the changes that come and go…
See First Post for Comments (10 hours ago - 1 comment) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32239521
sorry, typo should be DSP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand-side_platform
I don't get it -- he's finding optin newsletter boxes and spamming the people asking for an email address? Why? Because he doesn't like optin email?
Battery issues being a cost of early adoption aside, I love my Bolt. It’s a hatchback and with the 0-60 of an EV it handles like Mario Kart. Super fun.
Given that they lost users in the final quarter of 2021 that’s a remarkable time travel machine your whisperers seem to have invented.
We did this for the free tier at a previous company. It was terrible in terms of overhead.
The supposed quote says "We’re writing to you today because of your traffic use, which currently averages above 250 TB/month on some of your servers."

It averages on multiple of their servers, which indicates to me that the average was taken over the course of some months (?). They may well have reached 320TB in some months on some servers.

I'm not surprised by this. For me, unlimited traffic (with 1 gbps) means i can spike in some months without having to worry about costs exploding, but if I'm maxing it out consistently, then I might be asked to move to a different service or upgrade.
The Kindle change wasn't behind-the-scenes, though. Apple made a change to their publicly-documented App Store policies that made the Kindle Store against their new rules and the subsequent back and forth between Amazon and Apple was widely reported on.

And that's kind of what I'm getting at. It's not that Apple doesn't do petty, vindictive, and greedy things. It's that if Apple had been blocking Google from submitting an app for five years, it's very hard to believe there wouldn't have been an "anonymous leak" from someone on Google's side over it -- this is the sort of story that tech reporters would eat up, and Google would have good reason to want it out there.
The Anarchists (TV Show)
> Of course all this crap needs to be open source

slightly pedantic maybe, but i would just add that without being able to replace said software/hardware (while maintaining a root of trust of course) just being open source (you can look but don't touch) isn't enough
Thanks, though those guidelines are for submissions, not comment links.
This is my current struggle. I've enjoyed mentoring in the past, but right now I'm getting very exasperated feedback. It's hard because I don't have control of the environment to alleviate the deadline pressure, but I still want to help people learn. The end result seems to be a pile of tech debt for now. C'est la vie.
A major part of passive aggression is being subtle with hostility to avoid being exposed. If anything calling it out is poetic justice, but you’re welcome to just let it happen.
Which would do nothing to prevent them from rolling out draconian remote attestation technologies, if they wanted to.
Sure, Midway and the freight yards use about the same amount of space. The point is that the rail uses a thin strip between towns. And if a road is to cross it, you've got to build an underpass or an overpass. The topological challenges are big.

Of course you're right about dual use and adjacencies and everything. It's the land between the towns that really is the issue. The airplanes are up at 30,000 feet.
> Facebook and its rivals call this a "discovery engine" because it reliably spits out recommendations of posts from everywhere that might hold your attention.

All I can think about is how every big social media company continues to invent persuasive technology to keep everyone glued to their devices and steal away our most precious asset in our lives; our attention.

Where your attention goes, your life goes. I'm only 30 and much of my 20s went to these platforms. I can't say for the better. I think we all need to be bored again and not have a constant IV drip of dopamine in our hands at all times.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Persuasive_technology
Pronouncing the "-grind" like the word "grind". I think that's probably how most English-speakers first assume it's pronounced.
I never start in the first place.
Working remotely 's been extra chill for me.

Also, if you're getting eye strain you should take more breaks.
What's going on with Facebook product management? It's shocking to see core products deteriorate, others barely every improve (where's instagram and whatsapp for iPad?), while competitors (these days tiktok, before Snap) are merely imitated years later.

Actually kind of sad to see considering I'm a big fan of Social and 'Meta' has been on the forefront for years. I hope they find a way to rethink this.
Skimmed this trying to figure out the angle.
It’s crazy to think the social media era may finally be ending. There’s really no viable platform anymore where you can just go passively keep up with what friends and acquaintances are doing. Everything is about feeding you content you didn’t ask for but may be targeted enough to catch your attention.

And for what? To show you some ads here and there? To collect data that can be used to… sell more ads and products?

Instagram was once my favorite app. There was a golden age before stories came a long where people just posted random pictures of what they were up to or what they were seeing. Things weren’t too memefied or political, unlike Facebook. Then photos got more and more glamorized and more about flexing and showing how much cooler and more awesome your life was. People started following themes and niches for their profile content rather than just posting random unorganized series of photos. Businesses and brands started getting built on the platform.

Building an Instagram clone the way it used to be is fairly trivial these days. I could probably throw one together in a few months, but growing its popularity is practically impossible these days with such entrenched incumbents and no niches left to start a user base with.

…unless perhaps… we build a social network on the blockchain
I took his reply in the AMA as “Yes I do this, but it’s dumb that I get credit for it because it’s a pretty common idea.”
Does anyone else find it really too coincidental that the anti-Pluton article goes under, and not long after, this one appears with such comments?

All I can hypothesise is that some entity with huge vested interests is now trying to do damage control.

to prevent not trusted binaries

"trusted" by who? The faceless bureaucracy that wants to control every bloody aspect of your life?
Good for you!

How are you liking the Y?
I staple as well but never go more than 30-40 pages and with double sided printing (sometimes 4 pages in one) gives me enough to read on the go. I like the format because it can take any abuse or scribbling and is just a print away from getting a new one.
Valgrind's maintainers are super pleasant and have been quite helpful in a number of cases I've personally had to reach out to them.

Lovely piece of software toward which I owe a lot of gratitude.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Google has channel for “pre-reviews” - some mechanism by which they would run proposed apps by Apple so they could avoid wasting developer time on apps that have no chance of being approved.
Yucatan's Lost Hacienda Trail
You're basically describing myspace.
A lot of the German-language families and culture in America pre-WWI didn't go back. "Freedom Fries" was more of a temper-tantrum to make a point.
Then you make burgers hip again. You extend the menu. You bring out cool new styles. You advertise hard. You give samples, you discount, you run specials, you collab with others. 100 things you can do to reinvigorate your 'boring Burger' business.

You don't just pivot to copycat the tacos business years late. Why would customers go to you rather than staying with their Taco brand of choice?
I know it sounds dumb but its hard to say we haven't moved closer to what only ~10 years ago we considered a "playful exaggeration" on the worst of humans and social media.

In WallE, everyone is floating around in chairs having their content spoon-fed to them with a generous amount of ads mixed in. If you've ever scrolled or seen someone scroll, its kinda close. Just mindlessly moving their thumb up and down, taking in content that will be forgotten within minutes. Ask a tik tok user to tell you even 10% of the videos they saw within the last hour. I'd be surprised if they could.

I hope its not too "old man yelling at cloud" because I do my 15 minutes of mindless instagram scrolling but I have a timer that locks the app and I usually only need 15 minutes, more just feels bleh. Some of my family/friends "brag" about having 7+ hrs of "tik tok time" on their iphone stats. Just crazy.
Uh huh. "Kiev Mule" is way less edgy than referring to China as "West Taiwan".
So, was this how Google hired Blake Lemoine? Now famous for his claims about Google's AI system.

"Google fires Blake Lemoine, the engineer who claimed AI chatbot is a person"

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/07/google-fires-eng...
It stems from the desire to receive revenue without actually performing new work.

Physical objects sold never had that option before the advent of a persistent internet connection, and you at least fully owned it.

Now, software updates which are mandatory, are making physical objects not be truly owned by the buyers.

There needs to be new laws to allow consumers to retain the rights of ownership that is being erroded at record pace.
Fair enough. I know that some journalists on the left have openly made a conscious point of capitalizing the "black" in "black people" but not the "white" in "white people" because they just know that will do an amazing job at improving race relations. So I was wondering if this was something similar.

Edits: little spelling and punctuation here and there.
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If your tests can take the performance hit, Valgrind would tell you about uninitialized memory reads, which isn't covered by those tools you mentioned. If however, you are able to add MSAN (i.e. able to rebuild the entire product, including dependencies, with -fsanitize=memory) to the pipeline, then you would have the same coverage as Valgrind.
And yet there are regulations around health and safety that supermarkets must follow.