skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's an entertainer, not a scientist. His stuff is definitely entertaining and thought provoking, but he does make some "Gladwellian leaps" to gloss over some inconvenient facts to get to his ideas.
It's refreshing to see the word "crypto" applied to cryptography instead of cryptocurrency, like the good old days.
Malcolm Gladwell is a hack who sells information that seems profound.

"Prepare to be dazzled" is on the cover of Freakonomics, and that's exactly what it is, dazzling. Dictionary definition "brightness that confuses someone's vision temporarily", and that's all that it is. Information that feels right, but is actually just engineered to evoke that feeling, distorting the truth to engage you with the content.
OK. Fair enough on all of this. The distinction you're drawing between interventions to improve gender parity and interventions to improve racial parity (or representation or whatever) make sense, at least in the sense that I understand where you're coming from. (I do not agree, regarding racial preferences for Black students, and I think it's a stretch to call something we've been doing for half a century "guinea pigging", but I'm not trying to persuade you, just to understand you).
Another aspect would be copyright protections. Depending on the circumstance people have widely varying ideas of whether copyright protection is good or bad. If my Linux distro includes some “do no evil” license what if they decide my anti-copyright program is evil? Or vice-versa?

Making a living as an indie game developer, perhaps one would be more inclined to view copyright protection as “good”. A decade later someone trying to archive the same indie devs game which made a big impact on their own childhood and copyright becomes “bad”.
Cloud services.

Someone sets it up, leases out instances etc..

Or someone works to ensure that everything gels together and provides support etc..

Or in other words: 'products'
I think that's fine as long as you're not holding me hostage.
Legalize drugs (both in Mexico and the US) and have them turn into legitimate, transparent businesses with less need to resort to crime.
I never claimed it was legal for "regular" large transactions, which would imply the person is in business. I do claim it's perfectly legal for occasional, large personal transactions. (Of course it's also legal for regular small transactions.)

But I'll quit since it's clear you're not going to reference any sort of law saying this is illegal.
Same risk, different rule of law
I think the point of differentiation is that being adept at Photoshop is a relatively advanced and specialized skill.

Manipulating an AI prompt to get what you want is also a specialized skill, but may require an order of magnitude or two less training, or obviate the need for the job entirely.

An art director for a campaign wants a set of images created, and a set of stock photos used. They may have a junior person on their team create those images, each of which could take hours to create, or they can produce those images with an AI tool, which might take minutes. Or the director may simply use the tool themselves for a few minutes and then hand it off to someone else to clean up "in post".
> money, interests, brand loyalty, level of education, people they meet, life rhythm, etc

All of this is widely available from your browsing history and social media. And every marketing database on earth already has your income level.
Encrypted apps?
It is, on the other hand it's a lot of easier to write correct code in, well, almost every language other than C.

To give a concrete example, I was able to write production-ready code with 2 weeks of Rust experience and nobody to provide support for questions (beyond reading StackOverflow), and that code was more reliable and less buggy then the Python/JavaScript code our company was otherwise writing, even though we were collectively much more experienced in those stacks. I doubt we'd have gotten that with C, even though we had a bunch of developers who were experienced with C.
The only thing that could trigger an all out war - maybe nuclear - would be the event in which the Russian Federation begins to capture european territories, effectively becaming an empire (again), but more important, potentially starting to restrict US from most of the natural resources out of the american continent.

It is not quite extreme to imagine they'll fortify the Mid East as fast as they can (they've already started, most of those countries are full loaded of advanced weaponry right now, you may wonder to fight against who), then they'd begin to build up military strengh in north of Africa, now you are in the XXII century, and they'll probably be replaying the Marshall strategy to capture african nation-state of interest, in order to contain the new russian borders.

All in all, the future will have no more than 3 super powers, ironically quite similar to what Orwell predicted in his book. 1984

I do not see this suddenly happening, but in a few decades you could be seeing this happening. Not that the West isn't aware of this or similar hypothesis, hence you've got all those billions being poured into Ukraine right now.
Next: the case against Cloudflare-gated websites.
Sure, but are they self driving?

A number of european capitals seem to have managed to do driverless high capacity underground trains. Here in the UK, we've got a number of automated trains but for union reasons they still have drivers in the cab who press go at each station.

In the US, it looks like Detroit has a self driving line, and there are a bunch of airport shuttles. Presumably you are hitting the same union issues as us?
Some technical decisions were made to avoid RED's patents, but I don't think that's the main reason BMD wanted to make their own codec.
Who decides on the fundamental rights?
What if your spaced repetition puts the questions in the form of problems to solve?
Bzzt. Rust doesn't have exceptions. It has panics. And that's exactly how it's already implemented. If there's a bug, it panics.

If you mean "return an error instead," then bzzt again. Read the next section down.
How many state economies were largely dependent on typewriter repair?
Didn't take long:

https://ez.substack.com/p/privilege-and-pro-office-pablum
You don't seem to understand.

These printers are designed to fail.

There's enough E-Waste being generated without these sorts of anti-user moves.

Those old devices you're talking about were thrown out because they are old. Not because they were designed to fail. I pull PowerBooks from this era out of the trash literally every week. They're basically useless to anyone but collectors. They still work! But they're not very useful for modern tasks, for most people. Sure, giganerds like me can get use out of them. But good luck finding software to run on them...
I added the might, not because I am unsure if the counter exists (it defintiely seems to), but because Epson won't aknowledge its existence.
They issue is absolutely with tech. Cars can drive themselves right now in good conditions and with a human taking over ASAP in case it fails and even that isn't working 100%. Put that self driving car on a mountain road or in deep snow and see what happens.

Also, if your bar for accidents is "slightly better than a drunk driver and even less accountable", sure, then we can fully deploy that right now. Unfortunately this really isn't sufficient and car companies are fully aware. There's a reason Mercedes made headlines by taking responsibility for the car for ten seconds after disengaging the auto pilot and why they're the only ones who are doing this so far.
OP here. I found your article after once again being dragged down the C6 rabbit hole. There was a comment on my earlier post re Jacques Pepin’s love of French cars, and off I went.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32368624

I was very close to buying a C6 after my Xantia perished a couple of years ago Found a winner with a manual transmission on a C6 forum, but got sniped somehow. Ended up with a German midsize estate, which is highly competent, and has a stick so it’s reasonably satisfying. I don’t look back at it every time I walk away though.

I’m sure you’re aware of Neil Young’s project involving vintage Lincoln behemoths. This was a decade ago at least. Ended in tragedy, IIRC, but I believe it inspired others to re-look at what vintage cars could make good conversion candidates.
"All other things being equal" is a massive qualification though.

The reason people like WFH often begins and ends at "No commute". If your commute is roughly an hour you get 2 hours of your day back instantly. Tough sell for come into the office when the options are "feeling part of something" vs getting 2 hours of the day back.
When this question gets asked on forums I ussually see the answer "use what you are familiar with". So probably yes it would still be made.
The original comment put forth:

>no onboard computers other than simple microcontrollers for the various systems (charging, etc.), no streaming wifi / GPS data collection, and no need for software updates

You are talking about a vehicle with no onboard SATNAV, no Carplay/Android Auto, no telematic roadside assistance. The Ford Maverick has all these things. My claim isn't that small trucks don't sell, my claim is that a car that doesn't even support Bluetooth audio wouldn't sell.
There is a difference between brushed motors that are open, vs sealed. A sealed brush motor complies with class 2, explosive dust environments. Actually explosive, like grain. But not class 1, where you have explosive gas mixture environments, there you need an explosion proof motor casing that can contain the explosion.

If you have a properly size electric motor, with a sealed case, it’s not a problem in a wood dust environment. You’re still responsible for sweeping up the dust, to comply with fire codes for a bunch of other reasons.
I don't disagree. Definitely depends on how opaque the assertion test is. In this case, yeah, probably don't need a message. Pithy illustrative examples are hard.
Neuro-linguistic Programming et. al. It's currently considered a pseudo-science (which is technically false: it's pre-scientific. However, unfortunately, many practitioners and promoters do try to make it seem more scientific than it is.)

It's actually fairly widespread, people teach it and use it all over the globe, and fairly stodgy organizations have used it (e.g. the US Army.) Yet the mainstream rarely mentions it, and then only to denigrate it. However, this seems to me to be that stage right before something goes from "fringe" to "common knowledge".

Once NLP goes fully mainstream there will be a sea change in human society. Psychological hangups will be a thing of the past. There will still be people who have mental problems, but they will be the ones with actual physical problems with the brain (or whatever) as opposed to just bad programming. Things like addictions, phobias, neurosis, etc. will vanish.

Educational possibilities are mind-blowing. Learning multiple languages becomes easy, as does learning musical instruments and dances. Really any behavioral patterns will become subject to symbolic manipulation. Competitive sports will be transformed when each player can "clone" the best moves of the best players.

Politics has already been revolutionized by NLP innovations. As far back as G.W. Bush NLP language patterns had already made their way into political speeches. The current culture wars are, at their root, gangs of hypnotists programming furiously.

To me the fascinating thing is that, once it's common knowledge that you can alter your psychology as easily (more easily!) than your wardrobe it becomes a matter of personal responsibility. The whole "it's just human nature" argument goes out the window when you can reprogram yourself.
Also there is nothing preventing Stock Image Sites themselves using Dall-E to generate additional images. Heck they can use their own existing images for training (which the other's can't due to copyright issues) to increase the portfolio, but the Stock Image Sites can access free public images.

So, counter-intuitively it may strengthen Stock Image Sites value
Wow, I had not heard of that - thank you for sharing. I've now gone and read up on it.

Similarly, many people "forget" (in quotes, since we're picking on that word today!) that some of the deadliest fighting in the Pacific was in Alaska*. Deadliest in terms of kill ratio, not total dead).

https://www.armytimes.com/veterans/2018/05/27/75-years-later...
Privilege and Pro-Office Pablum
Let's not dismiss the point that self-driving cars are the "stone soup" of machine learning industry. Like the monk who claimed he could make soup with just a stone, machine learning claimed that with two cameras, two microphones, and steering/brake/accelerator control, a machine would someday soon drive just like a human can with that hardware equivalent.

Then it turned out well, we actually need a lot more cameras. Now we need high res microphones. Now we need magnets embedded in the road. Now we need highly accurate GPS maps. Now we need high power LIDAR that damages other cameras on the road. Now we need....

Each little ingredient in the soup "made only with a stone." Machine learning has utterly failed to deliver on this original promise of learning to operate a vehicle like a person, with no more sensors than a person.
This won't remove DPRK's profit and the amount of additional suffering DPRK is going to feel is a lot closer to "zero" than the American who uses Tornado Cash to firewall their hot wallet from their cold wallet.
I got the same impression looking for Go a few years ago. I guess in a world without legacy code because it's too new for legacy code, you're going to use the newest programming languages. That was also the kind of startup that was getting funded back then. I haven't paid much attention but maybe the hype has died down over the last few months.

My overall thought is that programming language popularity is a lagging indicator; people might be hiring Java engineers even if they wish they didn't write their codebase in Java. Changing that is risky; getting one more employee can stop the bleeding. Meanwhile newly-formed companies use the newest tools, and thus among newly-formed companies, you're going to see many more requests for engineers with experience with the newer tools. (It's one of those secret advantages for startups; your competitor might be slowed down by all the legacy and thus resources given to your new startup might get more value than if given to the incumbent.)
Two different kinds of games. Some of them are almost interactive movies with little replay value and some, especially multi player competitive games are entirely replay.
There’s another website for that - https://orbis.stanford.edu/
Check out our TTRPG zine project on Kickstarter. It is a self-contained game and RPG setting, set in the fictional megacity of Dragontown.
> One consequence is that something on the edge of a borderless print can be cut off so if something is important to the composition you have to leave some extra space.

In the printing industry it's nothing new, it's called bleed.
I don't think anyone's holding anyone hostage, but it is true that these kinds of things require a relatively consistent corporate culture, because it's fundamentally about how you're relating to the other people you're working with. Showing up to an empty office doesn't really do anything, the point is that the office is where the other people you're working with also are.

I don't think all companies need to operate in one particular way, but getting the sense of belonging and meaning out of work some people want I think does generally require the team/org/company they're at to have that culture.
People weren't killed by Theranos either. In both cases, it was an open secret in Silicon Valley that the CEOs were selling a bridge.

The media coverage took a long time to catch on because everybody loves a superhero story. Tearing down people who aren't famous doesn't get eyeballs. (What ever happened to Carlos "Alex Piper" Watson?) You'll only get a story that can be milked for weeks after they get big enough.
The ArriveCAN app needs to go
Ive been thinking about this topic for years and OP was finally able to put it in writing. I dont think anyone would claim english is the best, but it just so happens that the most powerful empire on earth (until recently?) uses it as its primary language. Its good enough at what it does, and has a lot of history backing it up

With this knowledge I choose to align myself with languages and platforms that respect C and complement it (Lua, Objective-C, etc) instead of languages and platforms that try to supplant it (c++, java, swift, rust, etc)
Rejected.us
Was the Czech one the vz58? I’m not aware if the Czech ever made a kalashnikov in mass production, but the vz58 looks superficially similar while having quite different internals.
I would recommend books. Psychology (Deep Work Rules, Thinking fast and slow) , sociology, theology (Buddhist, Confucianism, Tasoism, Alan Watts), Ethics and Philosophy (Stoicism, Ego is the Enemy, Bruce Lee), Communication Techniques (Non-Violent Communication, Brief)

etc, etc. Eventually, constant shared truths that you will find in all of these fields will occur to you, and you will develop an organic leadership based on grounded knowledge of yourself.

Everything else is either a band aid or supplementary, in my opinion.
It would be cool that someone made a crowdsourced, open-hardware, open-source printer that people can self-service using refillable cartridges.
I think you can work remotely or privately and still get quite many things more from your work than a paycheck? Even including meaning, belonging, etc?

While there may be many things that you got from a shared workspace, there are only a few of them that aren’t also available remotely.

You probably don’t need to be caricaturing other people’s experience to justify your own. I imagine you’d still be fine to do you without making it suggest anything in particular about the rest of us.
Not to mention that Korolev, “von Braun of the Soviet space program”, was Ukrainian.
fork-exec is probably the most robust way. But having some std API to enable backtraces seems reasonable too. Someone just needs to put in the design work and champion it.

std::backtrace will be stabilized soon. I wonder how far you could get with a custom panic hook that unconditionally captured and printed a backtrace? https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/panic/fn.set_hook.html
Everything is designed to fail, the only questions are when and how. These printers are designed to stop working before the absorbent pad is full/used up. My guess is that most of these printers are thrown away long before the 'soft-failure' is triggered.
I try to get lots of sun and sleep.
Ah, right I don't know the story. Anki has similar problems (a competing service with the same name because IIRC Anki didn't trademark its name).
Same. I would have thought the arts would be the last to move to AI. What do you put at the end of the list now? It's not trucking. Or ordering. Or anything related to porn. Eliza is 50+ years old, not actually a good replacement for a psychotherapist yet but I would imagine it could go a long way.

I'm biased from the terrible experience I had trying to get my kids to learn online in the pandemic, but I think schoolteacher might be one of the mass professions that is least susceptible to being AI Engineered away.

Ethicist is probably a safe career path too, but there aren't that many of those. And Politicians will of course prevent robots from taking over their jobs.
"Broken since day 1" and "made for enthusiasts" are not the same thing! Otherwise every crappy product will be listed as "for enthusiasts only"!
I listen to audiobooks in the car. So it doesn't feel like time wasted to me.
"Any C alternative will be expected to be on par with C in performance. The problem is that C have practically no checks, so any safety checks put into the competing language will have a runtime cost, which often is unacceptable. This leads to a strategy of only having checks in "safe" mode. Where the "fast" mode is just as "unsafe" as C."

This one is the main point. Highest possible speed while consuming as little resource as possible. Put in checks, and most of those checks will run redundantly compromising performance.
Ross Brawn said in his book about strategy that the luck is preparation waiting for opportunity
Besides the fact that HF does sell spot welders, you can substitute a rosette weld for a spot weld, and do it using any fusion welding process like MIG, TIG, Stick, or even oxy-acetylene. With practice they are nearly indistinguishable from a spot weld.

https://garage.eastwood.com/tech-articles/perfect-rosette-or...
Do you have any notes on how you studied? I’m interested in going back to math grad school but forgot everything from undergrad, basically.
Just document it!
There are other ideological reasons, such as inefficiencies of meat production through grain, water shortage issues, meat factory working conditions, boycotting the importing of low quality foreign meat, possibly others.
I use GitHub pages.

https://pages.github.com/

My entire site typicalprogrammer.com published there, written in Markdown.
Bzzt to the language, if anything.

Panic practically everywhere is just not an admissible option, most definitely not for anything that tries to call itself a systems language. Proving that there is no reasonable alternative would be equivalent to claiming the language is unusable.
MA was a sage, but as Seneca said we do not have to be a sage. We should instead content ourselves with walking the same path, if at a crawl.

But really, what negative external could be more intractable than the hordes of Germans lining upon the Rhine and Danube? And yet MA rose up each morning to deal with them as seen in that documentary with Russel Crowe
While true, its lack of restrictions is also a hinderance in terms of performance. As pointers can overlap by default (unless you throw a __restrict on them), a whole class of optimizations cannot be performed. That's why Fortran and Rust can in theory beat C from a performance perspective even though they do more checking as a rule. That's just one example, but it's a pretty big one.
Office jobs, particularly for engineers also used to involve the requirement of showing up in a suit and a tie. Unnecessarily on-site work, I predict will go the way of the suit and tie.
Would be interesting to hear more about this. You mention fake jobs. Do you mean companies advertise vacancies but have no intention of hiring, or do they actually hire but only have useless work for the new employees?
I reject your notion that everything is designed to fail. I regularly use machines that are older than you are. They certainly were not designed to fail.

The waste pad on every professional grade inkjet printer I've ever seen is a snap-fit part that costs under $25.

But no, defend this practice of throwing away a printer because a sponge is saturated.
When I see the Gladwell hate threads, I usually conclude that I'm not quite smart enough to truly criticize him. I'm not an intense fan or anything, but I have read a book or two of his, many articles in the new yorker, and listened to some podcast eps. And, yeah, he's entertaining and thought provoking. His podcast endeared me to him since he genuinely seemed to enjoy it (I haven't listened in a couple years - not since WFH and not having to commute!).
that is what the parent of your post was referring to. You want office fine? You want it nonempty? You want ME there too, by force? now you're holding me hostage
If anything, "replacing C" is a good excuse to stimulate creativity. The scope is known, the land well trodden. I like seeing new things in programming languages and OS design. I like nerds having fun and giving me interesting stuff to wrap my three neurons around in the process. That's why I love computing to begin with. Not increasing productivity, not disrupting who knows what. Just cool, smart shit.