skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's some concrete advice from someone ~3x your age who started programming at about the same time.

1. Keep at least one project going just for the fun of it. Remember the joy you've found in programming, and never lose it. A friend of mine is reverse-engineering the Civ IV AI so he can write mods for it. This will not make him famous or wealthy, but serves as something to look forward to when he's not pumping for The Man.

2. Stay in good shape physically. _Mens sana in corpore sano_ and all that. Your body is not just a dumb flesh robot that carries your brain around -- and even if it were, that enough is good reason to keep it healthy.

3. Learn to work with people remotely on important things. Find interesting or useful open source projects and contribute to them. The technical aspects will be easier than the social ones, likely. These are important skills. Vanishingly little non-trivial software is made by one person.

4. Keep learning programming languages. Software engineering is a discipline abstract from its tools. The more languages you learn the more approaches you will have to problems. E.g., learn lisp -- it'll permanently rewire parts of your brain.
> Similarly, a concern I have is purposefully downplaying the risks of long-term birth control via "the pill".

Depo-provera - the monthly injection of medroxyprogesterone - was temporally associated with my friend's first psychotic break. Medroxyprogesterone causes cortisol deficiency; psychosis is associated with an inability to produce cortisol...

"The pill" uses fake hormones to shut down ovulation. But the doctors are trained to tell women their hormonal cycles are being 'regulated' with 'hormones, so that's what women get told. Tragic.
You have posted this link 13 times.

You posted “Petitioning Rube Goldberg's Supreme Court (2013)” at least as often.

“Michael Phelps Supersizes Every Meal (2008)” three times.

Indeed, every post of yours that I’ve looked at, you have posted over and over and over.
It's basically only x86 among modern ISAs that lets you do base + literal + register * literal, aarch64 only gives you base + register shifted by a literal, and I believe RISC-V is similar: https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/dz768768z
Becoming one of the best ever is only possible if your IQ is one of the best ever. There is going to be some biological upper limit. Minds like Torvalds, Richie, Thompson are rare; and there is nothing you can do to reach that level if your own source code isn't on the same level. However, there is a lot of great advice here that can take you to your full potential, whatever that may be. That's important too, because it sure it easy to keep yourself well below that level.
I’m sorry, but if you thought the US fit the criteria you’ve just described, you’re sorely mistaken…
> The Mustang and Camaro were the size of a full size sedan today , if not bigger

This is verifiably false with three minutes of searching, which I did on my cellphone as I sit by a campfire. As an owner of both a 1965 Mustang and a 2015 Explorer, the difference in size between these vehicles is comical. I've rented a 2020 Camry that was larger in every dimension. It got great gas mileage, but small it was not.

1967 Ford Mustang
Length: 183.6"
Width: 70.9"
Height: 51.6"

2020 Toyota Camry
Length: 192.1"
Width: 72.4"
Height: 56.9"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Mustang_(first_generati...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Camry_(XV70)

The 1965 Mustang was even smaller and lighter. The 1969-1970 Mustangs, while larger, are still smaller in every dimension than a modern Camry. Some older cars were indeed boats, but almost all modern American automobiles are boats, and a lot of this has to do with the laws that regulate and shape the products created by the American automotive industry.
I agree that for the average consumer the a car chassis is fine. Unfortunately it’s not going to haul a large horse trailer over rough terrain and we don’t force a special permit for full sized trucks or have sufficient gas taxes to discourage them.

As to why Ford etc is targeting regular people with these monstrous trucks it’s both profitable and current regulations promote their sale. You can dig into the history of these regulations but as far as I can tell it’s a mix of trying to appease businesses and a specific voter demographic. Call it corruption or giving people what they want, it’s not going away anytime soon.
> now automatic transmissions are so much more efficient than manual transmissions * for ordinary people *.

Efficient in what way? I find it highly unlikely an automatic would have better fuel economy than a manual.
Is it really a lie? It's an approximation to something real happening. You might as well call the JWST pics of jupiter a lie because humans blatantly can't see it with their own eyes.
> What are some strategies for success?

You want to be the best programmer or you want to be the best known (famous) programmer? Someone like John Carmack?

Create something extraordinary.
> At the same time, I don't believe that just because the child's biological parents might have been wild and crazy, the child is doomed to the same fate even with our care

Tell me you haven't read many behavioral genetics papers without telling me you haven't read many behavioral genetics papers :).
I drove a manual for about 20 years and I still really enjoy them, but there is one thing that made me happily leave them behind: stop-and-go traffic. Not having to clutch constantly when driving in the city is a big enough win that I'm willing to give up the fun of a manual for it. But I do sometimes miss having a stick on a windy mountain road.
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These suits usually take place in east Texas, where people are unfamiliar with tech. Am from east Texas, have seen literal patent trolls open an office next to the court house. They wanted to build the web 3.0 (not web 3) bit only wanted to hire part time students. They made it look like big tech was stopping them from being successful. Their pitch to me was they had a strong patent portfolio.
I recall one manufacturer popped the hood so that it could act as a shock absorber should a pedestrian land on it...

Found it - Nissan has an actuator[0] that lets the cars hood be used as a damper for unlucky pedestrians in case of collision.

[0] https://www.nissan-global.com/EN/INNOVATION/TECHNOLOGY/ARCHI...
Interesting. you write your .d.ts file by hand?
The writer is not considering that each asset will be a separate connection or am I missing something?
> Some software companies seem to not send emails to custom domains.

As someone who operates a SaaS that does auto-block some account registrations based on email address, I feel like I should speak to this. We're actually fine with custom domains — and I imagine this is true for most SaaS companies. All our business customers use custom domains; and we're not about to blow holes in our funnel by making it harder to acquire new business customers. There's no logic in our codebase that especially favors the big email providers; no whitelist with gmail/outlook/etc. on it. (And we haven't found that any of the lifecycle-mail sending services we've tried have had trouble with custom domains, either.)

Instead, what we're mostly trying to stop is registrations using what you might call vanity or proxy domains — domains created by people who are only trying to obscure their real email address, but who aren't willing to invest the effort to make their domain into a "real" domain that has working email deliverability in both directions and maybe a web presence to go along with it.

Businesses almost always have such "real" domains; but people registering for illicit purposes (spamming, ban evasion, etc) almost never do, instead only bothering to set up e.g. an SMTP forwarding proxy that has no ability to originate mail. (Often they get such a service as a value add from their domain registrar; though there are independent services for this as well.)

To detect these, we check things like:

- Is your domain a known temporary email provider? (Immediate fail)

- Is your domain's MX record shared with one used by known temporary email providers? (Also an immediate fail; and zero false positives from this, surprisingly)

- Does your domain have SPF and DKIM records? (Good)

- Do your MX record hostname(s) resolve to the IP ranges of some skeezy VPS host, or to an IaaS's ephemeral-allocation IP ranges? (Bad)

- Does your NS record, or your MX record's NS record, point to a domain registrar that's well-known to be used for discovering + acquiring short nonsense domain names in bulk? (Bad)

- Does your domain have an apex A record? (Good) Is there a website there? (Good) Is that website a domain-parking page? (Very, very bad)

- How recently does your WHOIS record say that your domain was last transferred/acquired? Last 14 days? (Somewhat bad, but not as bad as the other things)

I would guess that if you're having problems, it's with one of these heuristics, or one in a similar vein.

If you jump through all the same hoops a business would jump through to make your custom domain "real", then any heuristics SaaS companies come up with to differentiate business domains from spam domains, should work out in your favor. (My own custom domain — which truly is just a vanity domain — passes all these tests easily; mostly by just doing the default stuff Google Workspace recommended I do when I set it up. Because that's all businesses are doing, too.)
Why YouTube decided to make its own video chip
If you have a Micro Center near you, they usually have the Ender 3 pro marked down quite frequently. Great printer to get started with.
> expects that (1) is a strong possibility

That might be the case, but why couldn't it instead be that she thinks it's unlikely, but still possible (and therefore she needs to be prepared for it)? Like even if she thought there's a 5-10% chance, it doesn't seem irrational to prepare for it? (Note I'm not saying it's a good idea to do this, just saying it seems rational.)
Only organizations or enthusiasts uses it legitimately. If former it's correct, if latter you know what are you doing. It looks practical.
Becoming one of the best ever is only possible if your IQ is one of the best ever. There is going to be some biological upper limit. Minds like Torvalds, Richie, Thompson are rare; and there is nothing you can do to reach that level if your own source code isn't on the same level. However, there is a lot of great advice here in the comments that can take you to your full potential, whatever that may be. That's important too, because it's sure easy to keep yourself well below that level.

Go to YouTube and search for "Big Think Larry Wall" and "Big Think Bjarne Stroustrup" and listen to a couple of the greats.
Yet somehow search engines like Google and AskJeeves existed and worked alright 20+ years ago on hardware 1/1000th as powerful as it is today.
What does it mean to be the "best programmer ever"? You probably want a more specific objective. Maybe you want to be the best at competitive programming? If so, then practice that, read books on DSA, etc. On the other hand, programming is a means to an end, and most people who are thought of as "great programmers" built something useful, such as an OS, a programming language or a software framework. Rather than focus on development skills in the abstract, it might be more productive to focus on a problem you want to solve, and learn what you need to achieve that.
Is there number, data, lab test session that proves it's worthwhile ? I sometime feel like these are all KPI detached from conversion but since it can be measured we do measure it.
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People are getting into "prompt-craft". People have also started pasting different AI tools together like putting these images into CogVideo[0] to generate actual videos (takes ages and usually the length of a gif currently). Others have realized you can run these images through GANs to make faces look extremely convincing

I think "what's next" is fitting these tools together in a larger system

[0] https://replicate.com/nightmareai/cogvideo
Uh what? Starlink is for anyone who wants to buy it. I don’t think Elon would say that you shouldn’t use it, under any circumstance.
The article seems to imply that the 3D printing part is roughly “free”. The lens elements cost $14.50 at the site the creator suggests using: https://www.surplusshed.com/pages/item/T1686.html
Anyone else find the way they got to this number to be a bit sketchy? There's only a vague description of how they apply some ecological model. (One which, I'm sure, they can never really validate)
I don't go on twitter for that long honestly
I think we can find some middle ground between "I won't have kids until I can afford to send them to Harvard" and "I'll have 7 kids while being addicted to drugs and having no family to support me".
I think prudence really depends on the whim of the executive, since generally the executive is Parliament given the majority it normally possesses. A number of British governments have historically shown little regard for the unpredictable consequences of violating international law.

For example, Iraq, the Chagos Islands, the Brexit trade deal concerning customs checks in Northern Ireland, etc.

I suppose it's all really just one big political matter: do they want to chance it? Probably not, but they could, legally. We just haven't had the government who's willing to do that yet, but given the current government's willingness to flout international law, prudence seems like it might have vanished some time ago...
But what exactly are those worse things?
Counter-example:

You have to remove all desks from #20 to #30, how many desks are there?

Oh, it's 11 desks, I see. This is because we used INCLUSIVE indexing, instead of semi-open interval.

If we use semi-open intervals, we don't include the last item, so that we can write

match index {
0..10 => println!("first ten"),
10..20 => println!("next ten"),
_ => println!("something else"),
}

but this forces us to start our intervals at 0, otherwise we would have to write 1..11 which would be awkward
Towards the bottom of the page they say: “The potential risks of misuse raise concerns regarding responsible open-sourcing of code and demos. At this time we have decided not to release code or a public demo. In future work we will explore a framework for responsible externalization that balances the value of external auditing with the risks of unrestricted open-access.”
Spammy? I haver been using Evernote for many years and it doesn't spam me.
how do you disable fonts? Plugins?
I'm pretty sure the (hypothetical) specious argument referred to was "people are becoming alcoholics to trick doctors into giving them party drugs".

And in addition to that, anigbrowl believes Paul isn't sincere when he professes to believe that "you ought to be able to pretty much do what you want to do as long as you don't hurt somebody else", which is why they chose him as an example, but that wasn't the important part.
You might be interested in John Carmack's recent interview on Lex Fridman's podcast. He'd probably be one of the leading candidates for "best programmer".

One thing that's common to people who are unreasonably great at something is that they do it a lot. Like, an order of magnitude more than what a normal person would consider reasonable. For Carmack that was pumping out a new game every week when he was working for a mail-order software company before he became famous. Everyone talks about how the Beatles played tons and tons of shows all over Germany before they made it big. Great comedians go on the road and hone their acts in thousands of clubs until they have something that can be a comedy special.

Quantity has a quality all its own and you have to just experience a lot of variations and run into a lot of different situations and try lots of different things to become really good.

Note, as others have pointed out, this may not be the same thing as having a happy and fulfilling life and the things you want to spend your time doing might change as you get older, but also, they might not. Best of luck.
["end of" + "near"] != "long term".
Long term I'd see Europeans moving away from cars, as much as possible. €4k incentive in France to get rid of your car and get electrical bikes, and a public transportation of the kind that the US can't even dream (inside cities trams and buses + high speed trains + inter-cities and inter-countries buses - all at least in Europe and neighborhood (where car could be a term of comparison)), are much more impactful than the stick shift obsolescence.
> The only meaningful difference between Denuvo and floppy-DRM is that Denuvo employs a bit more sophisticated obfuscation scheme.

Funny, I don't remember any code wheel having kernel level access to my system... They also never caused performance issues https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/282924-denuvo-really-does...
NET and can be used to develop applications which run on Android and iOS.
> I wonder if anyone has studied the impact of latency on user behavior while considering the impact of user expectations from their typical connection speed. Whenever I see an article about page speed optimization, the assumption is that a user will give up if a page takes too long to load, ans that everyone gives up after X seconds. Usually X is about 7s based on a Nielson article from years and years ago.

N=1 but I think I am quicker to close a tab with a website that does lazy loading and/or hide stuff for a blink second or three just after showing me the thing I am here for than a tab with a slow loading.
power transmission. With 7 and 8-speed clutched automatics, there is no longer the same transmission loss as with older torque converter models.
Ok I’m just going to list ideas, feel free to add more

* Text to 3d model

* Text to video clip

* Illustrations for newspapers

* Generating pictures for food menus

* Generating a music video from a song

* Generating pictures or even an entire movie for a book

* Interior design ideas

* Product design ideas

I have noticed that leveraging these tools isn’t easy. It requires a fair bit of creativity to come up with the prompts to create an image to really wow somebody.
How many bills has he introduced to legalize currently illicit drugs at the national level?

Exactly.

Look to a man's actions. Ignore his words.
Ah that is interesting - yeah, we were on Sun Solaris at that time (which AFAIK remember, didn't have the GNU toolkit on it). Thanks for making me feel better about it :)
If you become one of the best programmers in the world, what will you have achieved? What is there about programming that captures your passion? Will that be sustainable for the brief moment you are alive. What do you want as a legacy after 80 years of work?

One example: The Hacker's Conference ["Hackers"]. It is populated by a diverse group of people, . Attendees program, but I doubt that anyone of the attendees would call themselves a programmer except in jest.

Hackers do what they do. Some are mathematicians, some are musicians. At least one plays the organ. Others are into sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Some are spiritual, some agnostic. Some climb mountains. Others worry about how to planet-form the earth to recover from an over-abundance of CO2. Some have families and kids, some do not. Everyone is interested in everything. Hackers know things, observe, and learn things. They delight in sharing knowledge, particularly arcane knowledge. They are compassionate, ethical, and loving (although there are occasional exceptions).

If you are good at programming you are likely to be good at living an exploratory life. Be fearless and brash. Always wonder why and learn how.
Seven years in the life of Hypergiants' off-nets
Maybe DDG is good replacement for English users, but I wonder does debian developers considered is it fine for global users.
are you OK to wear closed-can earphones? If so one of my tricks is:

1) put in silicone earplugs

2) wear noise cancelling headphones (Sennheiser seems good to me)

3) crank your music at 30% louder than you would normally
Ah, and one more from another perspective:

A very interesting series of articles would be "How to take down your K8S cluster" describing the many ways a cluster can be [mis]configured to easily be brought down by one single error / pod / application.
> you’ll notice modern manual cars keep the revs up even when you let off the throttle

It's called "engine brake" and the fuel consumption is 0 in spite of the revs.

As far as mileage goes, my experience in modern cars is still the opposite, manuals still use less fuel.
I don’t have a citation handy, but this is something that Google has famously studied. They claimed years ago that a tiny increase in the loading time of the Google home page led to a measurable decrease in the number of searches (like, a few percent).

Not everyone is operating “at Google scale”, of course, but in aggregate the effect is real and faster-loading pages have better metrics.

So, most satellite internet users won’t give up just because your page is slow, but some of them will, and even the ones that persevere will likely appreciate a faster page.
That slogan has caught my eye too—the future belongs to those who show up. I’ve been thinking about these things in terms of generational investment. To pour time and resources etc into oneself is an investment in generation 0 with respect to the individual. If our societies don’t encourage investment in generations beyond 0 (ie in our children) then they effectively vote their genetics and those of their ancestors to be not worthy of continuing. They exit the cosmic stream of existence.

I’ve often pondered seeing in my own children the echoes and higher order harmonics of combinations of traits and proclivities of their living ancestors which show up in their unique combinations of their being. I daydream about perhaps catching glimpses of non-living ancestors whom I never met and what things we inherit from them. That thought translates to other family lines and I wonder about that vast set of traits and peculiarities I will never experience once they’ve departed this life.
Is Google going to share or do something other than better advertising with this? What do they plan to do with it? I'm frankly tired of these show-off blog posts by Google that neither make it into general hands nor are used for anything positive.

This is just a link to their previous posted site btw, nothing new.
If somehow Google and AskJeeves worked perfectly fine 20 years ago for millions of monthly users, I find it hard to believe a modern powerful computer lacks the resources to support a search engine for a single person.