skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After I took a C++ class, I built a small neural net in 2 weeks (no C beforehand, nets only from school a few years ago).

A few months later, I replicated the neural net in Smalltalk in 2 half days.

Fortunately, our project went with Smalltalk...
For what it’s worth, I really loved this relaxed style of writing. It’s the first time I’ve ever seen you seem to enjoy yourself.

> It used to be a truism that one should "think for oneself" (and even "question authority"!)—not so much anymore—but although we all tell ourselves we do that, most of us don't.

We get beaten up when we do. The part that people envy isn’t his money, it’s his freedom.

Incidentally, if you really want an answer to your question, you can see this phenomenon in yourself. Run a thought experiment. If pg said X was a good idea, are you more or less likely to believe it than if I’d said it?

You could say this isn’t a fair comparison, since you have a lot of data about pg, so you’re using different priors. Still, even when he was Lisp-famous —- an era I miss —- he had the freedom to say whatever he wanted. He didn’t need to care whether you care what he thinks.

His recent rebellion against Twitter was especially notable. That’s what happens when you think for yourself. He can do that. The rest of us have to pick our battles.

So, the answer to your question of “Why are people dismissive of pg?” is undoubtedly related to the think-for-yourself aspect. It’s an aspect forced out of most of us, either by our parents or by authority. And that lack of freedom seems to be the underlying emotion.

Interestingly, you seem to imply that any of us can be like pg. Just think for ourselves, have good ideas, and don’t say dumb things. But when people actually try to do that, they risk far more than someone in pg’s position. So the “rich motherfucker” aspect is merely an extension of the same reaction that always tended to pop up. It’s a bit like a prisoner watching someone talk openly about how wonderful it is to walk outside whenever you want; of course they’d be jealous.
I wonder if the top-down mindset can provide some benefits for innovation.

* State backing-- whether it's guaranteed markets or simply R&D on a government budget-- means innovators have a disruption-free space for work. There's less worry about "we've got to ship some garbage before we run out of runway."

* The goals of government research initiatives are also likely to be more broadly palatable than "the shareholders will love this!" Nobody in the Central Committee is saying "we really want to be the world leader in adding annoying subscription features to stuff." Even the grand boogeymen-- surveilance and social credit-- come from a place of trying to improve public safety and quality of life.

The free market is good at making marketable products. Is it good at basic research that's not directly monetizable, or producing things we need but don't want?
Maybe within a city, but people are not moving to another town/city to get access to a good school. The primary factor for people moving somewhere is still jobs. If that wasn't the case why will these people move out of the place which made them this capable?
That wouldn't be a problem for the more talented players - the ones you most want to keep
Taxes aren't ideal, but a brief philosophical defense of the dividend investor mindset:

Before the 1920s stock bubble, buying stock in a company was buying a portion of the company's future free cash flow in return for investment. The value of a stock was fundamentally coupled to running a profitable business. The dividend was the point.

The 1920s saw a major shift of valuation philosophy to a speculative mode, focusing on the price of a stock. Now, occasional crazy things happen where the price of a stock can shift dramatically even without change in the dynamics of the underlying business. Prices should reflect future earnings... but they often don't. Portfolio construction and indexing are protections against this, but the underlying philosophy goes even further in treating stock prices as random walks with underlying market beta, not as real businesses. Indexing punts out of real valuation.

I won't defend "dividend investing" with weird dividend manipulation, but I really do like having an alternative valuation model: the value of an investment is not the result of an increase in price since my purchase of that asset, but instead my recurring cash flow yield from owning that asset. I certainly have money in index funds and speculative assets, but I get a lot from a yield based valuation philosophy instead of price based valuation:

- Prices are heavily manipulated and favor insiders and funds, not individual investors.

- It feels more connected with reality.

- The growth of passive investments probably poses systemic risks (Mike Green's talks and interviews are great) and I don't want to piss in the pool too much. Yield based valuation makes me more comfortable making active investments.

- Easier to value different asset classes against each other, for example buying a house to rent out vs stocks. The valuation is my dollar yield per time per dollar invested.

- Boomers retiring and pulling money out of the system plus decay of globalization will put heavy deflationary forces on markets in the coming years. I don't feel like a price based approach to valuation provides clear guidance on how to navigate investments other than "be smart". A yield based approach lets me walk away with a return even if stocks stay flat or go down.

Pretty much all of the above comes from the book Getting Back to Business by Daniel Peris. Bit dry and dense, but very thought provoking.
CS6200 is awesome (currently in it myself this term). The projects alone have been an excellent exercise, mainly because I come from a web development background. The papers we are reading are very interesting. Prof. Gavrilovska does a great job explaining concepts that I found confusing in my undergrad OS course.
Given the target market, I don't find Sharepoint that bad given the alternative offerings on the enterprise space.

All of them have different levels of pain.
>> they don't have a way to explicitly program it to do that

They do, they just took the shortcut
Imagine a 5th gen fighter costing as much as a 4th gen one and being able to do almost anything pretty well.

Only a few countries can afford to have multiple types of aircraft to serve multiple roles. For everyone else the F-35 is a bargain and a technological marvel. Just buy a bunch of them and you're pretty set.
More than 1 to 100 IIRC…
The F-22 flew over Jemen? Didn't know that... But then, the only really contested air spaces were Iraq, Serbia (both before the F-22, and the latter let to the retirement of the F-117) and now Ukraine. In all other cases, NATO and other forces had complete air superiority. And under these conditions, WW2 planes would do the job.
I am guessing this might cause increases in fees
I thought it’s not one plane but at least 3 with enough parts commonality to amortize the cost?
why use many word, few do?
Whoever is running that company should be let go
Neat! Took me a while to work out how to download extra voices so in case I can save anyone else a bit of googling here's a guide: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchlp2290/mac
Slow your roll Eleven. Sounds like you have beef with everything I feed you.
Yes, that is the current state. I was entertaining a future scenario above. TSMC is currently building more capacity outside of Taiwan, and the US is making investments that will likely continue this.
Make them test their disaster recovery plan. One organization I worked for took three tries before they could even simulate disaster their recovery process.
Reporting the numerator without the denominator is a classic clickbait trick. In this case it was a 9% loss on $1.5 billion, during a period where tech stocks dropped 25-30%.
When I was writing my post Jamie Zawinski (The "Mozilla guy") was what I had in mind. A great programmer but very outspoken in his social views to the point that he's entirely disconnected from reality. Lacking perspective. This is a blog post of his that I find to be one of the better examples of what I'm referring to: https://web.archive.org/web/20221211061513/https://www.jwz.o...
Missing radioactive capsule found in WA outback after frantic search
This is a talking point that is being put about by people (eg Jacob Rees-Mogg) who supported Brexit in an attempt to discredit the bad news. In research, the IMF's forecasting accuracy for GDP for G7 nations is pretty good and has been reasonably accurate over time. For example https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2016/12/30/How... , https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2021/08/06/An-... and https://www.heritage.org/trade/report/how-reliable-are-imf-e... but you can find other sources.
This is part of the reason why I think companies are in for a bad time trying to cargo cult layoffs. Productivity is going down because people are tired of working long hours for the same pay and even if a bunch of people are forced into the market they'll need to hire more people to hit the same targets.
I’m sure that’s the MBA type rationalizing going on Intel.

Without the second part where the dividends have not been cut and the company would otherwise be making sound business decision it would also be understandable.

As it is tho, it is smelly as hell.
Then where do all the calculators go?
Honestly, that's a relief and the best outcome.
I think they quietly stopped putting the bitter coating on switch carts two or so years after it launched, since there was a trend of people putting them in their mouth because they tasted bitter.

I haven't verified this myself, but I do remember the massive flood of youtube videos of people tasting them early on.
But never just backup chitchat: there's always a massive amount of unpleasant advertising.
I agree with you. It’s like having too much doc, or doc so outdated it’s harmful. These are fairy tails. I’d take too much doc or outdated doc any time of the day over no doc/comments.
New money comes with new strings attached. The more the founders are diluted, the less they have a say in things.
Try five:

- https://www.thedailybeast.com/i-dropped-acid-and-saw-into-th...

- https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...

- https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf

- https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical-interview

- https://mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minis...
>> most text content is now AI generated

do you have any sources to back it up or is it a gut feeling?
> Other lane-keeping systems do nothing but try to keep the car in the lane (and some do a poor job of even that).

This is simply not true. Drove recently in BMW, Audi, and Volkswagen and all had a very reliable adaptive cruise control + automatic lane change assist.
I have two cars, one of them being Tesla, and Tesla does not have advantage in basic cruise control.
This describes passivity not social skills. I can't really say that doing nothing or walking away in the face of an unpleasant situation while privately declaring the other people involved "cringe" and "dickheads" and "weenies" really demonstrates great social skills honestly.
Loved antifragile, but is it really comparable?

It's essentially one "model", explained over an entire book.
That's not the same. This one is a pay cut while maintaining the same hours.
Ask HN: Will Signal publish their roadmap?
I love Signal and the fact that they are open source and "funded by the people for the people"!

One thing that bothers me: There's no roadmap. It would be really nice to see what features are planned and what's coming next. Tutanota does this, for instance, and it's great for transparency: https://tutanota.com/roadmap

Just my two cents, what do you think? Will they publish a roadmap if we continue to nag?
In the 2000s, US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates cancelled the program. IIRC Gates concluded - and many agreed - that the F-22 was designed for an enemy and fight that no longer existed, the Soviet Union and the Cold War.

You might think history proved Gates wrong, but no air power can compete with what the US has now, sans the F-22, and it would have been very expensive.
Every employer of note across tech is behaving in pretty much the same manner right now. There's no point holding a grudge over this if the alternative is working at... Anywhere else, that treated its people just as poorly this year.

The more plausible risk is people mentally checking out, and not giving much of a crap about their work.
On Postgres you can run

SET SESSION synchronous_commit TO OFF;

(Update: I just looked in our test code, you can also replace the CREATE TABLE commands with "CREATE UNLOGGED TABLE" to disable write-ahead logging.)

There are possibly other tricks?

I slightly disagree with the tech debt comment, though. If you get a huge speed up, it may be worth paying for the occasional bug, depending on the circumstances. Or you could do both, and only run the test on Postgres occasionally.
So much negativity for this in here. Is it a flop? Maybe? Most things are. Can we know it without trying? I don’t think so. Why not just let it run and see the results?
I have no idea what clear code without comments mean. I think I’ve actually once or twice seen that. The first was an erlang codebase. The second was a golang codebase (the letsencrypt codebase!). I’ve read a shit ton of code in my life and these were the only time I found something uncommented that I could follow easily. And even these codebases would have been clearer with comments.
Bitcoin.

The value of censorship resistant low fee fixed supply digital money seemed to fly over the heads of people that many would expect to see the potential.

It still amazes me to this day but as they say, "you will buy bitcoin at the price you deserve".
The thing about remote work is like Entropy (or some religions): you can't go back , it's a self-reinforcing thing. So it really isnt very useful to ponder whether it's 'bad for the economy', but what economy will result when people adapt to an increasingly popular reality.
Most of the software that is in the Debian release from this December was released in 2020. Examples include: go 1.15, gcc 10.2, postgresql 13, systemd 247. Ubuntu 20.04.1 has go 1.18.1 and gcc 9.4. It's all a mixed bag and somewhat disappointing.
So now people can't even prove the text is organic. Professors can suspect students even when the essays check out not to be AI written. Look at this recent post:

> My professor falsely accused me of using chatgpt to write my essay.

https://www.reddit.com/r/GPT3/comments/10qfyly/my_professor_...

Funny thing, professor's email gets flagged too.
Is that common in practice? The only example I can think of of a smallish town with excellent public schools is West Lafayette, IN. (It looks like Jackson, WY, and Aspen, CO, also have good schools, but I don't think those are very good examples given that they're so far out of reach for typical families.) Other than that, all of the great school districts I know of are in suburbs of big cities, and the small towns I'm familiar with have decent schools at best.

Maybe it will be more common in the future as a result of remote work. But today it seems hard to create the conditions that result in great school districts - i.e., a relatively high concentration of relatively high-income parents who value education - in a small town that's not within commuting distance of a city with good jobs.
> Refactoring it usually made the comments redundant

That sounds like a nice story
That s where european cities have an accidental advantage
Yep instead of starting the container in the build script it’s nice to start it in the test code file itself.
Making it strictly worse. TOO_MANY_REQUESTS? How many is too much? In what scenarios?

The code comment in the GP is pithy, explanatory, and reads in plain English. Yours is ripe for misunderstanding.
Your positions are too confidently severe. For starters, self-directed education isn't effective for most young people. Some form of school need endure, remote or not. If you're going to make more dystopian leaps with AI as an infinite conceptual gap-filler, just remember that people need constructive socialization.
Apple, Google, Nvidia & gang will always be happy to snap up a few promising/experienced engineers.
I toyed with it for a bit found Zorin OS to be a nicer choice in this segment of the Linux market.
> Code cannot lie

Sure, but it can take you on a freaking trip. Comment your code bro.

This whole argument makes me think of C coders who say C is perfectly safe as long as you don’t write bugs.
The latest officially avaiable su package is for 16.0. My phone's on 18.1 and the latest version is 20.
If you want SU on a supported LineageOS, you have to use Magisk or potentially this project.
> it was a 9% loss on $1.5 billion, during a period where tech stocks dropped 25-30%

If Tesla invested treasury cash in tech stocks they'd be similarly criticized.
Test the queries your application is making. I wouldn't put much effort into this. You have to trust that other people test their stuff anyway so why make a difference with a database? I'd much rather test that your backups work.

And that can be done by dumping the database (possibly verifying the content of that dump), taking a backup, restoring the backup to a fresh container, then comparing dump of that freshly restored database to the one you took at the start.
Because C++ has offered better alternatives for bounds checked data structures since it exists.
You are forced to pay tax when you get a dividend. Buybacks allow you to sell over time and achieve the same thing but with preferential tax treatment in most jurisdictions.

Or more importantly not sell at all and not be forced to pay tax when you are just going to re-invest the dividend.
Yes I see what you mean.This idea of substitution comes from the Oulipo group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo
N+7 was invented by Queneau if I'm not mistaken.
On large projects like Linux the overhead of frame pointers is visible.
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20170602104048.jkkzssljsompjdwy@...
Most people would expect the answer to be "No" accordig to Betteridge's law of headlines
here's a worse way that's a lot more work and maybe has some advantages:

https://gist.github.com/cozzyd/efda739301bb7eb3a4a63a145c93e...
401k match at Intel is just normal $ through Fidelity now
Is there any other car company trading bitcoin? Is it normal?
I admit it's not the best but I do almost like you. Graphs are definitely helpful.

I also have a few 'test' queries that insert there results into a 'test_results' table. Most of the queries check the cardinality of the table since to me wrong cardinality is where the biggest errors come from. I do something like :

insert into test_table

select
case when count(*) = count(distinct users) then 'pass'
else 'fail'
end as result,
'test_cardinality_temporary_table_a' as test_name
from temporary_table_a
It is, and it makes so many fast foods feel too salty
Mine was also deleted recently, I just had assumed I wasn’t reading their emails carefully, but good to know I wasn’t the only one.
probably not in the near term, I want to make the webapp work well on mobile and encourage users to employ a keyboard when journaling
Spending hours a day on HN has certainly affected my brain but I shudder to imagine how.

I'm pretty content to stick to internet comments. They're below the radar, and I prefer to hide.
thank you! It's an SPA build with React
> Comment bit rot is inevitable, because comments don’t compile and can’t be tested

Not true in Rust
Wellllll.... debatable.

This argument of expense rerouting is a bit flawed. Suppose working from home saves one some money that they spend elsewhere. Working from the office they spend that money on fuel, indirectly spend on road maintenance, directly spend on vehicle maintenance where the shop in turn spends on parts and tools and so on. The money one spends circulates in the economy much longer and reaches more actors until it eventually falls back into original pocket. Working from home then they buy more items that have been manufactured in China, spend eating out where restaurants pay mostly wages and farmers, making the chain much shorter.

There are different economic health considerations for different spending habits. While not exactly a loss it's not entirely equal too.
It's barely related, but that reminds me of Dimethyl sulfoxide [0]. Which tastes like garlic, if you get it on your skin. As-in, it'll soak through your skin, and get you your tastebuds pretty quickly via your blood. It's pretty bad, because it'll take any substance you have on your skin with it on its way in.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyl_sulfoxide
You think the goalposts have been "moved" because you've misinterpreted the context of this discussion.

The original post we are all commenting on is an introduction to some basic concepts of Japanese, aimed at programmers.

After learning several languages to a basic conversational level, Japanese was by far the most logical, simple, and had the least "gotcha's" or exceptions. On the whole it was a breath of fresh air compared to others.

My comments regarding the relative ease Japanese can be learned to a basic, useful level versus same attempted in other languages stand. Attempts to reframe them as regarding a level of complete mastery won't alter that.
I don’t know about you, but I’d rather die healthy at a ripe old age than at 40 from some stupid plastic.
It depends on who you are shaming. The whole "ZOMG stop eating avocado toast and buy a house already" thing directed at young people is disgusting.
I regret making an integration in SQL Server Integration Services, with some nice addon tools that can make http requests and such. In the end it is untestable piece of hard to follow solution.

Anyone have any recommendations on testing SSIS ?
That wouldn’t be a problem for engineers who are good at networking or the interview song and dance, but plenty of talented engineers aren’t particularly good at those things.

The company will lose some talent, sure, but let’s not pretend this isn’t a strategic time for a layoff or pay cut.
This is the right answer

People here blaming management but discussing how to do things at the last day. You don't

You give them a new device before locking out their old one
"Write simply" is given as advice because, well, it's good advice. Too many writers try to ball before they crawl.

A memorable critique, from an English professor, of my writing: "stop trying to sound smart". He meant that I should stop trying to use big words and stop trying to construct complex sentences.

>People state they want/like simple writing but revealed preferences show otherwise.

Simplicity isn't what you think it is. The simplicity people want is sentences that flow regardless of complexity. You say complicated, I say clunky. An author might use a complex sentence to coalesce several ideas, but if that complexity, because the construction interrupts the flow, requires the audience to reread the sentence, the author has failed.

That's how we arrive at simplicity. I find it easier to pepper diversity into my prose ex post facto than try during first draft. Connecting two simple sentences is less work than unwinding a complicated sentence.

The advice isn't really to leave your writing simple, it's to start simple. At some point, you will be required to use a complex sentence to connect ideas.
I don't think so, unless it was long enough ago to be outside my window of experience.

Intel went through a major round of layoffs in 2016. (This was called ACT.) I don't know of any pay cuts, just salaries that weren't particularly high to begin with and haven't risen very fast.

This time they're apparently trying to avoid large-scale layoffs. Cutting salary/benefits isn't great either though. If they want to reduce payroll expenses, they could take volunteers for people to switch to a 32 hour a week schedule in exchange for reduced pay (which wouldn't even be a new policy, it just isn't very well known).