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Yes as libertarian who was offended by the idea of regulating what adults can put in their bodies at home, I have changed my mind after seeing real world consequences. As a young college student its easy to believe some kind of naive model of humans as basically well-intentioned or rational or at least a blank slate. Experience tells me that most illegal drug (and heavy alcohol) use has negative externalities and tends to harm the character of the user over time. An assertion younger me would have probably found offensively moralistic (what is “character” anyway?) but here we are.
I'm not one of those people who hates on companies in that way. They are all evil in some form of another and life is too short.

I'm glad I tried it. The technology is pretty cool. I can see uses for it. The Saber game is a lot of fun. I just found that I'm not compatible with the device.

After some period of time, it literally made me feel nauseous sick. I felt that I could have spent time training myself, but I quickly realized it isn't worth it.

I'm not much of a game player any way. If I'm going to be on a computer, I'd rather be spending that time writing code, reading/commenting on HN, or learning new things.
We're on HN now.

Why have you deleted every comment on your post mentioning GPT-3? There were at least 4 or 5 comments mentioning it and you've deleted every one.
>> Not a condemnation of your statement.

I didn't take it as such. And you really helped, because was a total loss with OP's comment...
This is a colorable argument, but I think it's ultimately a pretty poor argument:

First, freedom from compelled speech is not an inherently stronger (or weaker) freedom than freedom of speech. If the government can prevent you from saying something, then it can almost certainly prevent you from saying it by not not saying it.

Second, national security is one of the most powerful legal trump cards in practice. The government saying that something is necessary for national security will be treated as fact by the court, no matter how much evidence there is to the contrary.

Third, the purpose of freedom of speech is to protect freedom of expression. Speech that isn't expressive in nature has a much lower bar to clear for the government to be able to restrict it. Warrant canaries strike me as essentially commercial speech, which the government has pretty wide latitude to regulate.
Attitude.

Are you a 'Mac user' or have you used Mac's?

Good luck.
Discussed 2 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34254766 (65 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34268397 (23 comments)
I look forward to being overtaken while walking through Shoreditch.
Hi, this substack is an impersonation. Not a guest post -- this isn't my (Gayle) substack at all.
Too fundamental of a key to even be a combination IMHO. I
terminate each edit operation by it, like a dot at the
end of a sentence, it needs to be a half a second operation so I can spend most
of my time in normal mode.

I just remap Caps Lock
to Esc system wise (a setting in both Linuxes and MacOs) and use both shift for
Caps Lock (setting on Linux, Idk about MacOS)

I have always found the "jk" solution quite elegant although I don't use it

The benefit of using it system wise is that it then works
with all programs that have a vi mode (zsh, gdbtui, etc.)
There are ~15 breweries within two miles of my house in Seattle.
Never had shower moments, only "it's late and I should be asleep but brain decided to solve some random problem instead" moments.
>> A lot of this stems from the accepted norm that an estimate is a single value.

If we want to estimate accurately, it is necessary to break work down into smaller pieces. However, we can only estimate the items that we can identify at the time of estimation (I.e., we know that we need to do A,B and C but discover that D,E and F are needed as well).

The other factor is combinatorial explosion: we'll do A,B or C and this impacts what we do next. This graph can become enormous when attempting to construct up-front.

I agree that having a probability distribution for each estimate is better than a single value. If you have two values, this is a uniform distribution. It is also possible to do a normal distribution, triangular, truncated normal, etc. However, it isn't clear to me that increased sophistication leads to better outcomes.
Smart people who are out of work quickly become neurotic. The interview process is an exercise in humiliation. Placing a neurotic person into a series of humiliation rituals is a good way to make them more neurotic.

A better way to get a job is to follow a lighthouse strategy; build something cool, present on it, then side step the humiliation ritual (have the employer agree that you are being evaluated this way). Or cheat, get access to the evaluation procedure before you are evaluated on it. Everyone has their favorite interview problem, and they like to brag about them (see comments below), find out what they are into, then train up on these problems before you engage with their humiliation ritual.

As for therapy, instead I would recommend coaching (someone who works with salespeople), since they are good at rebuilding confidence after each humiliation. Remember, the interview doesn't actually evaluate you, don't believe its results, it's mostly a randomized process. I could come up with simple-seeming problems to stump most people, especially stressed out developers. The author of this post has lost her perspective, and her article is being posted by someone who makes money from the humiliation ritual.

Knowing that you will become neurotic, look for work while you have work. If you are coming out of school, where everyone is single-tracked, know that the corporate world isn't fair. The corporate world is also disorganized, you could call someone within the software group and just ask them how to prepare for the interview, get creative.
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> It's amazing how many road blocks an executive trying to save their reputation can clear for you.

Precisely. The grandmaster software engineer learns to manipulate organizational inertia, fear and egos in order to achieve their goals. Simply detecting when someone has their heels dug in on something will take you about 80% of the way there.

Showing up to the 5 alarm fire with a perfect solution that can be deployed within 48 hours will make you look infinitely better than if you engage a months-long headbutt session with your managers about potential fires. Prepare your magic in secret and reserve your hope. If you are right, it will pay out. Be patient.
So not yet compelling a lie.
Doubtful. Have you seen any precedent?
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Southwest’s Christmas Mess Has Roots in Its Long Financial Success
Linux has a no MMU mode where it works very well without an MMU, just using an MPU for process isolation. I'm not sure if it's been ported to RISC-V M mode though.

Edit: looks like there is already a port https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/02/17/how-to-build-run-lin...
I see, thx for clarifying
3. co-driver or other passenger
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Mutations are inevitable no matter what. Many viruses mutate extremely quickly, probably because they are much simpler than a bacteria - that's why many vaccines stop working in a matter of months. While you're right about selective pressure giving preference to some strains, by limiting the spread of a virus you limit its potential to mutate since there are so many fewer viral particles around.

For example if 100 people get sick vs 10, the number of viral particles and mutations you can expect increases tenfold and the risk of one of those mutations being dangerous increases as well.
It's similar to the symbol used in old writings for the letter "s", which makes it even worse.
I don't know Vim, my fingers do. More seriously sometimes I'll get a question about how I did/do something, and have to sit at the keyboard and actually perform the action to be able to provide the answer.
Ask HN: Why don't you live with your coworkers?
After having switched companies ~6 months ago, I was dead-set on living with coworkers as I think it helps to form stronger connections, and can be convenient when commuting to the same office, gym, etc. However, I found it way trickier than expected to find compatible roommates as I didn't know anyone at the company.

My friend and I recently started building a platform to try and address this problem, but we're keen to learn what it is that prevents other people from living or wanting to live with their coworkers.
In this thread: a bunch of people with uninformed opinions who haven't driven a Tesla daily.
I’d love to read a qualified and accomplished lawyers take on the pedantic differences between your example and the subject at hand.
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"Green synthesis" in chemistry should probably be renamed. "Closed-loop synthesis" is closer to what it's about. The fundamental concept is that you're not producing any waste products or unwanted side reactions, and all the reagents and catalysts are recycled back to their original state at the end of the reaction.

This typically involves synthetic routes that start with small molecules and build larger molecules from them in a specific manner (rather than say, cleaving a large molecule and then having to throw away part of it as waste). With something highly reactive like HF acid, it might mean generating the HF from a fluoride salt, using it in the reaction, then converting any leftover HF back to the salt at then end of the process.
That will just raise the market price, scalpers will keep scalping and overall sales will decline.
> I think that if we legalize dangerous addictive drugs then we might as well legalize all medications/drugs by which point the medical establishment loses a big chunk of the income that it gets from being a monopoly supplier.

Do you seriously think this is why medication is regulated?

In most developed countries prescribing and dispensing are separated (doctor/pharmacy) in part to prevent this. Japan is a notable exception and guess what: more drugs are prescribed per capita there than the rest of the OECD.
Modular synths are similar in that way, except way less popular so more expensive on both kits and ready-made stuff.
What negative consequences are there to doing MDMA or LSD a couple times a year?

Especially when comparing with the negative consequences of doing alcohol.

The argument that any drug use is bad is pretty blown out of proportion.
You're right. I came to this HN thread from Twitter https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1611758284175966209
Yes, but that’s just because most people have stronger legs than backs so it’s easier for them to jump up to the bar that to pull themselves up.
I don't know what you mean.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oPb6D5ZT7Y
You need time to think but you also need something to think about.

A favorite quote on the topic whose source I never remember: The news doesn’t tell you what to think, it tells you what to think about.

Hamming talks about this effect as The Open Door Policy in his wonderful you and your research talk – https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

The key seems to be to tend to your inputs, make sure they’re decent quality and on topics you care about, then create time away from inputs to ruminate and ponder. Reading outrage-of-the-day content won’t give you better software engineering insights in the shower. But reading hyped-tech-trend-of-the-month content might.

Conversely, if your mind is constantly engaged in other people’s thoughts, it won’t have time to create its own. For me personally that means avoiding external stimuli for the first 2 to 3 hours of the day (doesn’t always work).
> Why the government preventing me from choosing the control I like the best

For the same reason you can't drive while on the phone or drunk. If it's less safe than buttons, it's putting others in unnecessary danger.
Hell, even just long echo allows for some funkiness
> You can't trust a candidate when they complain about why they were rejected. They really don't know.

Sure they know. One or more people didn't like them. Oh, but there's nuance, details and such, but it usually boils down to one simple - someone didn't like you as a person.
You can escape with alt too

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34168031
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What is the gain in this impersonation? Seems weird af to me.
> I have another that cd into a project and launch the dev environment.

I have this set up with direnv[1] and it's incredibly useful, especially with Emacs integration. Not only does it reduce the cognitive burden of keeping track of whether I've opened a venv/launched a nix shell/etc, but it also prevents time-wasting mistakes like launching the wrong version of an interpreter or compiler.

[1]: https://direnv.net/
That's something you can easily experiment on yourself, unless you're hopelessly addicted to your entertainment devices
Can you explain the energy price gap portion of your hypothesis?

From my personal experience showers take less energy than a bath. For my usage, if I block the drain, take a shower, there will only be about a foot of water in the tub, maybe a 1/3 of what I would need to take a bath. Are you assuming other forms of washing or that Americans shower more frequently? Just curious!
Dalle 2 does not use any adversarial loss (so no GAN), it uses a text2image diffusion based model and two diffusion based upscaler, VQGAN is an autoencoder, alone it can't do much, Dalle 1 works thx to the autoregressive model (also no GAN), Stable Diffusion uses an autoencoder because running a diffusion model on a 1024/768/512 image is really inefficient as the model has no bottleneck, the autoencoder has an adversarial loss but upscaling a 64x64x4 latent up to a 512x512x3 image is a much simpler job than generating the 64x64x4 from scratch, that's why you need a diffusion or an autoregressive model as a base.
This is exactly my point. It's even worse in a "school test" situation, because who knows what contrived scenario the instructor has invented depending on what their focus is (eg: DNS vs physical net vs routing vs apache config).

Maybe there are multiple DNS servers for the zone that are returning different IPs, maybe one or both of them is even in split-zone configuration so it returns a different IP depending on if you're internal or external. Maybe the client has manual DNS configured or a hosts entry that's wrong.

Each of these problems would have several more layers of troubleshooting steps and branching, and it's not even a complete list -- and this is only if the problem is DNS-centric! There's hundreds of other branches for each of the other problem categories.
> Questioning the established science is pro science provided it’s done in good faith and it looks like the parent is acting in good faith.

I see the opposite here, it's another take of outrage porn based on misinformation.

Good science would be having a hypothesis and doing scientific research on it. Science is based on hypothesis. It rarely gets to 100% but does work off of statistical significance. Whereas conspiracy theory regurgitation is based on opinion and story telling and does little to nothing to move science forward.
in 17 years of professional software development I've used a binary tree exactly zero times
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Where in the US has number 1 been done? I am not aware of any places where the offender is required to alert people. Most commonly they need only to report to the local government/police who then may (and may be required) to publish that info.

Often that is also often a condition of probation, meaning they are still under the authority of the courts and are still being "punished" by the system in leiu of prison. This is seen as the individual "giving up" some of their rights either by committing the offense or agreeing to the terms of probation instead of prison. This would also apply to #2.

Neither one of those justification for infringement of the 1st amendment would apply in the cases of an NSL which are already on very very shaky legal ground and gag orders on them have been ruled constitutional in the past, currently they are only constitutional because a person getting an NSL now as the ability to appeal the NSL to a federal court, something that was previously missing
> It's sad to dismiss something because it doesn't benefit "me", without considering how it may benefit "us" as a community.

Really seems a problem with many areas of modern society.
> No one in San Francisco today built it to what it is. That city hasn’t changed in any substantial way since before 1960.

SF has changed quite substantially just from the late 90s which is the time I've been around the area.

If you find some 60s hippies to interview they'll recount even more change from those decades.
Do you refuse to ride in Ubers, or avoid Amazon delivery vehicles? I have to admit that the level of tech-denial in this thread seems to be getting out of hand. Everyone uses in-vehicles maps. Everyone deploys them on touch screens. They're pervasive and everywhere, and none of the arguments change when you bolt them to the dash.

Why is "Tesla" being held to a different standard than UPS/FedEx/Amazon/Uber/Doordash/etc...?
Not sure that's the part of C++ I'd heap praise on. For one thing, real RAII invokes the destructor, not a constructor. If your constructor throws, the destructor isn't going to be called. If your destructor throws, you're one passing exception away from std::terminate. Plus malloc doesn't throw, though new sometimes does.

Or, construction could return an optional/maybe style thing that you branch on, and then you don't need goto (sorry, non-local come-from with pretty branding) in your base language.
One would have thought that a normal distribution would be the normal state of affairs rather than an abnormal exception...
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*and countless clones
> But the hypothetical existence, however remote of another Rosetta stone means we can know the answer to these various questions.

Partially flawed logic here aside, a Rosetta stone needs to be qualified in this case.
We most likely (almost definitely) cannot know whether these tools at these sites were made and used by hominins or monkeys without time travel, as the sites themselves have been processed and additional discoveries likely eliminated as a result of the destruction of the sites. A Rosetta stone in this setting would be a recorded observation by hominins that lived in the time of themselves making and using these tools at every site that is at question, made in a format we could interpret, because anything else leaves open the possibility that at least one of them, and thus many other sites, were made by monkeys.

Recovering this Rosetta stone, or its equivalent, is so unlikely that can’t is the better answer.
Of course that's "extending." It's a very clever attack on open source generally.
Due to language limitations, a lot of C programmers make all their variables shared pointers, which means they don't have to figure out how to do value semantics, moving and copying objects, especially in multithreaded environments.

Interestingly, it seems Rust programmers do the same too, because otherwise programming in Rust is too hard.
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Damn, that’s rough. I am sorry this happened to you. I hope it’s taken down soon.

Doesn’t detract from the fact that your books are excellent, though! Thank you, they’ve helped me very much at certain points in my career!

Edit: They’re referring to it as a “guest post” now in the comments - ridiculous.
Now why would anyone choose to eat something? What reason could there possibly be? Oh, maybe to some it tastes good? Not really en enigma... But why do so many meat eaters really worry about this? And why do you presume well being? Could it not be one of say some combination of taste, climate, economy, well being, ethics, religion?
Interesting how it takes 1-2 days for this to make it into U.S. news, even in the internet age
I don’t believe meat actually lacks vitamin C. The USDA doesn’t measure it so it is just assumed to lack vitamin C.
I have a bachelor of software engineering, accredited by the Australian institute of engineers. Many of my university buddies studied computer science, so I saw the difference in course loads and expectations then, and 17 years later I’ve seen it play out long term.

If I have to pin it down, I’d say my degree had a lot of focus on all the phases of the SDLC, while computer science and programming are just one phase.

My course was an extra year and included mandatory classes on testing theory, large scale system design, real time systems, personal software process, and much more theory about the what, why and how of each phase of the SDLC.

My computer science friends were just writing code, without much education on the bigger picture.

So I would say a programmer is doing one piece of building a software system (like a bricklayer), while a software engineer keeps in mind and can actually perform all the tasks required to design, build, test, document and support the software (all the people required to build a building from conception to completion)
I don't think my wife would like it.
> Why does the EU believe every facet of life needs to be ordered and control by government regulation

It doesn't, the author is just projecting their authoritarian nanny state fantasies.

The EU regulates the internal market and sets minimal common standards for example for medication, food safety and allowed pesticides and fertilizers etc. These are necessary for the well functioning of the common market and need to be specified to a high degree of detail, otherwise states would try to cheat and flood the common market with products grown with the cheapest most toxic methods, and you wouldn't be able to remove them from your national market without breaking the free trade rules.

This nature of the internal competition needs detailed regulations that states need to negotiate and specify very well (and then try to cheat anyway), and it's unlike a national unified market like the US has. This gives the appearance of over-regulation, but in reality the UE is quite neoliberal and doesn't give a fuck about your car controls.
> Raising animals takes a huge amount of resources, so in order to sustain the number of people we have in the planet, we need to find other ways to make food that don’t require so many resources.

Is that really true? Livestock farming can be entirely sustainable using renewable inputs. The per unit resource usage might be high by some simplistic arbitrary metrics, but when those resources are basically sunlight and its natural products, what’s the problem? In any event we’re nowhere near the planet’s renewable carrying capacity.

I’m against foolish, cruel, and unsustainable “factory farming” practices, but the existence of a bad method of doing something doesn’t mean there aren’t good ones.

> People clearly like to eat meat, so if we can replace a lot of it with something plant based that also satisfies those needs, then why not do it?

People clearly like to drink sugar water too. So we replaced sugar with food science experiments like aspartame and sucralose that can’t be metabolized. But now we’re learning they’re endocrine disrupters with significant side effects.