skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, the popular author J K Rowling was in the list of wealthy people whose financial actions you've said are a problem.

J K Rowling wrote some books that lots of people liked and accepted a modest payment for each copy, making her wealthy.

To check, are you saying it's not good enough even if she decides to give away the money now, because she should never have had that much financial power in the first place, to decide what to do with so much?

If so, what should she have done instead? I think a wildly successful published author can only avoid getting rich by giving away their royalties. Declining to take royalties in the first place is just another form of giving them away, and that decision exercises equivalent financial power to taking them and giving them to someone else.

Same with making the books freely available, free to copy: that's exercising the power to give away the wealth to readers who would have paid, instead of someone else.

So taking less money in the first place is not a way out of your ethical constraint. It's just another form of being rich and giving it away, but with a faster cycle.

In some sense it's not her fault she acquired financial power, except in the sense that she chose to make something lots of people loved enough to be willing to pay for, which is hardly something to criticise. The power simply exists by virtue of large numbers of people being willing to pay without coercion.

If there's no way for a person to avoid having financial power as a result of some welcome action they did, not even by choosing to give every penny of their wealth away while earning it, I don't think it's fair or ethical to blame them for having that unavoidable power, nor sensible to deem them a psychopath. If you're going to judge the person, better to judge how they exercise the power they have, not that they have it.
Messel boa: Live birth in a 47M-year-old snake
> Which as far as I can see is just as much a claim made without evidence—all the evidence that I have seen about this has at least indicated the opposite, even if it's not crystal clear.

The evidence you're after is called being the richest man on the planet. He didn't achieve that by creating everything he sells by himself and by mistreating his employees. Some really, really brilliant people work for him and they thrive.

You, of course, are free to choose to believe what you want or to be objective for a second. It's trivial to hate someone, especially when you're fed negative news about them, but just give yourself the freedom to think about Musk objectively.

Disclaimer: I'm not his fan, but I'm honestly tired of self-proclaimed moral verticals judging the guy and every step he makes, not giving him a possibility of just being human and making errors along the way, as if they'd be able to do anything better if the places were swapped. It's disgusting.

If you were in his shoes and if an engineer who can't make an Android app to work in this day and age belittles you publicly, you'd fire him too.
Anecdotally, it was at least 2015 before the DC processing system was actually mostly operating against service-oriented interfaces (when I left in 2016 we had a few old tools left that still talked to the databases directly :/ ).
> For example the other day, I was handling a deer skull that we found in the backyard

Have you ever heard of prions, e.g. chronic wasting disease?
NASA’s Webb Catches Fiery Hourglass as New Star Forms
The idea that everything that can be differentially priced should is really annoying and leads to BS like this where everyone's life is worse to marginally increase profits.
Sure.

bgfx and imgui are very close to C in practice.

This is not very common practice but a few small to medium size studios are using C only.

TheMachinery was pure C.

My own engine is built in C with C/C++/Zig APIs.
Reading the recent posts about an Android bug and how difficult it was for the researcher to get them to fix and how he was reluctant to disclose or even threaten to disclose reminds me of a time gone past of… harder… type of hackers.

It’s like the completely backwards on the wrong foot.
How does this story keep getting worse!? Every time something new comes out.
Thinking about the failure modes is the default mindset of a traditional engineer. Unfortunately software engineers in general are entirely too focused on the happy path and nothing else.
Now that I have a smart watch, I don't think I'll be trying the pomodoro technique again. What I wanted from it the most was help to take breaks but now my watch reminds me to move around. It stopped the antipattern of sitting in my chair for hours and feeling drained. I can still use help with productivity but instead of four pomodoros I can just look for productivity tools that will help me get ready for work sessions. If I was going to try to do 2 sets of pomodoros I can instead just do 2 sets of 2 hour work sessions.

Edit: I joined Pomochat to try it out and I think chatting with strangers is probably about the worst thing to be doing on a Pomodoro Technique break. It should be done during the 25 minutes (but not every 25 minutes unless your job is to poke around in chat rooms), not on the break which ought to be used for stretching/relaxing both physically and mentally. I'm typing this during the Pomodoro but will just close the window after typing this.
How does this compare to your experience at CDC?
Sorry but if you are nbfobic in the paragraph arguing you aren't bigoted, have a picture glorifying someone who broke into the government building of their own country because they couldn't believe their candidate lost as a banner and are spreading COVID misinformation, I doubt you are apolitical.
You can apply some FP notions to any code base:

1. Don't use globals. Zero global variables should be the goal, that way, you avoid "spooky action at a distance" where some code here changes a global that changes the behavior of code over there. A function that avoids global variables is easier to deal with than one that doesn't. If you feel you need to use a global, think about why you need one before adding it. Maybe you can avoid it.

2. Parameters to functions are immutable. That way, you won't have to worry about data changing during a function call. If the parameter can be mutated, can you signal the intent in the function name or signature, so the programmer knows that to expect? Generally, try to avoid changing parameters in a function.

3. Separate I/O from processing. Do input, do your processing, then output. God, I wish the major component I worked on did that (concurrent DB requests)---it would make testing the business logic so much easier as it can be tested independently from the I/O.

Those three things can be done in any language, and just by doing those three things, you can most of the benefit of FP without the mathematical jargon (Monads? How do they work?). There's no need for over-engineered code, and you can be as explicit as you like while keeping the cognitive aspects to a minimum.
Yes I did in the 70's.

It worked out well up until my 6th grade (8th grade if you count kindergarten)
The higher education part (Montessori Lyceum) never worked out for me as lack of structure and wealth of time freedom killed my effort and work ethos.

The difference between how primary and higher education was structured on a Montessori based education is to far apart of each other.

Primary Montessori education was more about getting the kids curious about the world and make them ask questions and get knowledge that way into the kid.
Higher Montessori education was more like standard pumping knowledge that you have to remember for terms and tests.

I was never prepared for that higher education part in my primary education period so I went from bad to worse in my higher education before giving up totally and went to work instead. Later I did catch up when I was grown up.

Still, I am thankful for getting Montessori education as it formed my worldview and kept me curious and inquisitive the rest of my life and even now.

I do wish that in the last 3 years of my primary schooling I had more support for conquering the higher education years.
Is there a reason Signal couldn't put ads in their video call product?
There is one in Amazon Echo Show. I've never used one though so I don't know how useful it is in practice. The thing is though that I'm never far from a computer in my house so I'm going to one of those for anything remotely complex.
I think what "Day 1" means at Amazon is that you're always still finding your footing, until you quit.
Crypto trading and Bitcoin prices: evidence from new database of retail adoption
Many (most?) people understand "learning curve" as a hiking analogy. A steep learning curve would mean a difficult climb. This is understandable as most people aren't data literate, and "steep" generally has negative connotations.
I never had the opportunity to go to more "not normal" school like Montessori, and I ended learning rather quickly, that at least in normal private schools, the solution to any problem, is violence. If that is not working, then even more violence.

At some point I had to defend myself from a bully (that probably had a awful home life, since that guy managed to come home to school 7:00 in the morning already drunk, multiple times) by bashing the guy with a metal table and then threatening to kill him with a knife. Only then, he stopped bothering me.

Also I knew more than one guy that admired Columbine guys, their reason is that it was a good way (in their minds of course) of both getting out of their shitty life and taking revenge at same time.

Thankfully, now that I am adult, all problems so far I could solve by just talking to people, no tables, knives, planks or chains necessary.

Note: I went to "good" private schools, thus nobody died or got seriously injured, but I have friends that went to public schools, and one of them for example was forced to cause serious injury when 3 older students ambushed him right outside the school, and the only thing he had to defend himself was his skateboard, so he proceeded to hit them with the metal axis where you attach the wheels, broke half of the teeth of one guy, caved in one of the temples of another, and broke the shoulder and one knee of the third, after that the school started to have the police patrol near the school to prevent a repeat of this. Also that school banned skateboards, yoyos, long rulers (specially a particular metal ruler distributed as souvenir during a political campaign, that people found out you could sharpen and use as a decent machete) and spinning tops (specially those with metal tip, one kid made a hole in another kid head with one).
Jesus Christ…does this guy not know that you should keep quiet when you’re the subject of a criminal investigation from multiple government agencies?
It’s not very constructive to respond to an article which sets out a thesis about thinking of scalability along multiple dimensions by instead just setting out your own different way of thinking about scalability in dimensional terms.

At least maybe address how your thinking about scalability in this way fits with or contradicts the original article.
I think the oreo thing is probably doable now with things like habitaware. It’s most likely a very easily distinguishable motor pattern. Not sure they could be programmed to give you an oreo-specific-reminder, but that’s a design gap more than it is a technological one.
How do you promote this kind of content
Well what are they (the developer-customers) going to do, buy from another vendor?
I had the same experience. They separated us "gifted" kids very early on.

I had no negative experiences other than being a bit out of touch with the culture of my area, which isn't necessarily a bad thing either.

I had mostly ok teachers and no problems learning or making friends. I recall there actually being a lot of free time to just study whatever we wanted most days. We never struggled on the mandatory standardized tests, so the system left us alone. It was very uneventful and boring.
Handling social conflict is a reality of adult life.
because people like me post things like this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33626587 I really doubt it.

But it's probably inevitable that Hacker News will wither and go away (or at least stop being a place that attracts people like me). Eventually, somethign will replace HN like something replaced Slashdot (which had fantastic comments with not that much moderation, back in the day) and Usenet.
such comparsions are mostly stupid, since there are too many factors that would make it really hard to analyze. i.e. as long as cars are produced the 13k kg hit on co2 will be made no matter if you buy it or not, your old ice car will probably be resold and probably to somebody that can than save co2 emissions per mile, not every electricity is green, your old card was probably produced with more co2, it depends if you upgrade/downgrade/keep your car class, it depends how you drive (and if you ever driven an ev, you will see that its easier to drive it economically), and so on.

of course the plain numbers might make sense on paper but not on the real world.
So you think it's fine for CPS to force these measures onto a parent just off of random accusations?
My daughter is better.
I think those are just for control & telemetry. The actual missile has a battery on it usually.
It wasn't right to issue a fraudulent takedown either.
The reason that's valuable IMO is that once you get into the Real World, you are going to run into these complex social situations and need to be able to navigate them with grace. Especially in the business world.
Free customer? I get it.

Paying customer? That's big no no
Read "The Mom Test"
This is a hilariously passive aggressive attempt at gate keeping. Considering that nearly every term on this list has a range of uses: from the very precise with an attending list of up to date peer reviewed exceptions and footnotes to the the obviously false, manipulative, and reckless. In an attempt to reduce incidents of the latter, they are asking that everyone move to the former: "list of 50 commonly used terms in psychology, psychiatry, and allied fields that should be avoided, or at most used sparingly and with explicit caveats."

Perhaps if this field of study did not suffer from a replication crisis, the language in use might have more meaning.
That's what I do for photo printing. I use my laser for things like maps, tickets, instructions and forms. Love using it to print out instructions for use in the shop, where I can get my greasy fingers all over the paper, and not on my nice clean instruction manual.... When I need some color photos printed, I head to the print shop.
Montessori is awesome, have put two kids through it and everything about the approach is wonderful. We committed serious financial resources (for us) to do this.

However, as others have said, the individual school can have a huge influence on the quality. We moved interstate a year ago and sadly the new Montessori school doesn’t even have a Montessori teacher in my kids class, so we are leaving.

So make sure you go to an established school where the teachers are Montessori trained and have been in the school a long time. That’s the #1 metric of a Montessori school if you ask me.
Anyone got a source for this? I’d be interested to learn more
The 5 Gotchas of Stripe Test Mode
My experience has been similar at other large companies (MSFT, Google). My advice is to look for founder-led teams (not companies). If there are plenty of founders still on the team, they will likely care a lot about the product and code and hold everyone to high standards which make the work easier in the long run. On the other hand when I've been on teams where all the original founders left, it's been a constant struggle to make anyone care about anything. At that point there is no ownership and most people are there for a paycheck. Lots of sloppy code gets shipped, everyone approves anything that looks like code, and eventually adding a single line anywhere feels like playing Russian roulette. Extreme short term thinking takes hold and no one cares that in 2-3 years the code will be unmaintainable because they don't plan to be on the team by then.
Yeah after the NYT interview I'm a bit shocked at how bad these messages look. He looks stupid, brazen, delusional, and lacking in compassion.

If his texts are normally similar to this, how did anyone serious think this guy was brilliant?
The Near Future of AI Is Action-Driven
Objectively speaking you are one of the least-bad moderators I've seen in 30+ years of internet communications. But I wish you'd stop giving me a hard time about my comments as they are intended in good faith and written carefully with specific goals in mind (changing opinions as well as being amusing) and I honestly see far worse crap than my comments go unchallenged.
> Aside from 365mm on 10bn being a bad trade, the volume will 100% drop off drastically after the loss of trust. That 365mm would be fortunate to stay above 36mm in my opinion

You wouldn't have had a loss of trust because the loan would've allowed FTX NOT to transfer customer deposits to Alameda, and instead use borrowed money (on their future earnings).
How are these good examples? Those product’s revenue streams and user bases have grown tremendously.

Twitter’s workforce bloat has outpaced both its users, revenue, and its share price.
Can't argue with those points. I went too far and ended up leaving the field. :-)
Completely different type of applications, I remember an old thread on twitter about one useless wallpapers app being sold for that kind of money. And it was not the only one. It's a business model.
In some ways the Electron app is better because there's more formatting options (code blocks, finally!) but most ways not. On my systems it's so slow to startup, and I don't have that complaint about other Electron apps.
Who Said It: Elon Musk or Mr. Burns?
actually this is more than normal in all 3rd world countries. Starting from 6-7 years most kids walk to/from school on their own.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire-guided_missile

I think the TOW missile is the most prominent example.
Sam Bankman-Fried admits FTX got ‘overconfident and careless’ ahead of collapse
I always figured the labels were effort on the y-axis vs. learning on the x-axis, not learning on the y-axis and time/effort on the x-axis.
Huh, I wonder why FTS4 and not FTS5? I could understand omitting both of them for reasons of size, but having the older version but not the new one feels surprising to me.
GitHub already offers this - they scan all the code that gets uploaded to look for keys. I think the issue here is that the code wasn't on public GitHub, but the artifacts were uploaded to PyPi
This is one of the most amazing things I've ever read. Also, I feel so bad for his lawyers.
"Fuck regulators (and their gung ho attitude to stopping me defrauding billions from everyone around me whilst high on off-label smart-drugs)"
But you can also comment on poll.
Smalltalk in Self: nearly complete Smalltalk implementation on similar prototypical language. http://www.merlintec.com/download/mario.pdf

Mootools: ancient class system for Javascript. https://mootools.net/core

Also, here's a very old Crockford article on implementing classes in Javascript. https://crockford.com/javascript/inheritance.html
We have a question bank that we are required to ask from that can be found online.

Coding questions and system design challenges are individual to the interviewer. Some are good, some are bad, some are leet code, some are reasonable, it's kinda a crapshot. I saw a bar raiser (a bar raiser!) asking path finding algorithms as his coding challenge which is nuts to me. All that signals is if you've worked with path finding algorithms before, or remember your college class that taught A*

But I'll be honest, our interview process is public and online and hasn't changed in a long long time. We select mostly for people who have the spare time and dedication to learn our interview process.
That woman has no certification or authority to decide whether a child is in danger, and the fact that the kid was a block away from home is not some undeniable indicator that he wasn't.

That woman has a civic responsibility to call authorities when she's worried about the welfare of a child. The authorities have a responsibility to be competent. The woman fulfilled her responsibility, the entire justice system failed. If the police and justice system aren't expected to have or use any expertise beyond some random concerned chick, they're not only failures, but useless. Lone individuals shouldn't be held to a higher standard than these people that we vest with the authority to make these decisions.

If anything, it would be nice if the police would have explained to her, when she called, the minimum standards for intervention when suspecting that a child is in danger. The reason they can't is because they don't have any.

Instead, it's somehow super-important to focus on and villainize this random concerned busybody. It's not important, and that woman could have been a hero for reporting on any other day (or with a legitimate justice system.)
You have a good point about enterprise requirements and the challenge of wrapping an SLA around open source which is entirely or primarily made from community contributions. I ran into this all the time when I worked at Acquia which provides a platform for Drupal.

One thing to note - proprietary does not necessarily mean it is any safer or more stable than OSS. Superblocks is actually a closed source fork of Appsmith, so the code is very close to the open source version, but now it is not visible.

In my experience, proprietary vs OSS is not the issue, but maturity and support.

Most newer software either has undiscovered bugs, or develops them as they grow and become complex. More mature software tends to be more stable in general, and OSS projects with commercial backing tend to have the resources (and incentive) to focus on security and stability.

This is why I am so interested in the explosion of Open Source business models. In theory, it provides a more stable product and commercial support, while still being transparent about its code and being open to community contributions.
If rent increases are limited by the government, should the government also limit how much they can increase the "rent" on the property owner in the form of property taxes? My landlord is increasing my rent by 6% this year, which is quite reasonable, especially after leaving it flat last year. She was apologetic about the increase but since property values have gone up, so have the taxes on the property.
The Society Library Presents: The Diablo Canyon Debate
It’s certainly better in my mind, who knows how Russia will take it. Even with missiles you are still interfering with the attacks. That’ll raise aggression against NATO.
Linux Kernel and its drivers, but I would assume you would need to put up a lot of upfront unpaid labor before you are picked up by a company who wants to pay you
SQL is not functional. But otherwise I support the desire for an FP and relational language.