skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotally, it seems to me that I work with a lot of folks that swear frequently but not in their code comments.
Check out this follow-up post: https://iquantny.tumblr.com/post/87573867759/success-how-nyc...

It shows how the city updated the paint marks for 2 of those illegal parking spots after they were made aware of the issue.
Canadian here. If I have $800,000 saved, and earn $150,000 a year I still could not buy a house in Toronto even with a maxed out mortgage. Pretty messed up situation.
That wouldn't even make sense. They created hack/hhvm to scale and optimize the platform and codebase. Taking a step backwards and refactoring (hack != php now) would be a horrible idea.
My gut feeling: when you start to submit swear words in your code, it indicates that you "breathe" the code and know it in and out.

The other extreme: if you have no idea what you are doing, you might try to mimic "corp speak" in your code to hide the fact that you actually have no clue.

In other words: it needs some confidence in your ability to assess some aspect of the code in order to use swear words.
Chat with Andreas Kling about Ladybird and developing a browser engine
One thing I’ve heard others do is they look at the next job they want to have, work with those people, and then, put what you did with those people on your resume. And then in the back of your head keep thinking what you might do differently. Some of the more hungrier folks just shamelessly claim the next levels wins as their own on their resume and speak to those. Not saying you should do any of this but this is just what I’ve seen. Good luck.
Those are generally on internal networks and rarely need to communicate with the internet. They shouldn't be affected by this.
Google Isn't Grad School
Tea as Hepatoprotective Agent: A Revisit
This is great site!
I guess people want something similar to Twitter that is not Twitter, since Twitter has become a roaring dumpster fire.

I've never much understood the appeal of Twitter, because the discussions devolve and it seems like the signal to noise ratio is extremely low. Also the UI makes it hard to follow threads; I much prefer a nested layout a la HN to whatever Twitter is.
I'd like to agree with you, but the issue then becomes this smaller company is competing with a much larger company, which then has a larger marketing budget. The smaller company's offering becomes just another set of features the larger company offers.

It's not fair because the larger company continues to get VC funding which allows it to subsidize features or even give them away for free. Remember, all these companies are effectively racing to become monopolies and part of that process is "price dumping" to kill of smaller competitors. Again, this sucks, but those are the incentives VCs provides and companies have to oblige or get swallowed up by bigger fish.
>>I’d love to see less government interference in people’s reproductive rights, in education like the massive censorship around US history of slavery and genocide and the slightest mention of lgbtq people.

I bet I can test your resolve to both of them and show you really do not want more freedom, you just want different government controls than "the other team"

For example Education. Do you support backpack funded school choice, putting the power of what schools people go to in the hands of the parents?

Reproductive Rights.. How about "Financial Abortion" or Default Joint Custody with no support to either parent? Or mandatory DNA validation before entering names on birth certificates.

>Government protecting corporations from their responsibilities to the safety of the public and toward our ecosystems is extremely oppressive

Corporations are a creation of government, the entire purpose of a corporation is to protect them from liberality. That is really the sole reason for their existence. I always love when strong government supports rail on and on about corporations when strong government is the source of power for corporations.

The stronger the government the stronger the corporations. The more centralized the government, the larger the corporations.

Since We have been putting more and more regulation an power under the pervue of the federal government the largest corporations have gone from about 20% market share on average to 80% market share on average.

Strong Central Governments weakens and prohibits competition in the market place, history proves this time and time again

>>People keeping their fair share of their labor is a similar one. I’d like to see a cap on exploitation of 99% of people, not constant reductions on the taxes that the 1% earn while they sleep - mostly at the cost of the rest not having livable wages.

"A world that is safe for today’s rich will never be safe for the rest of us. Not until the rich’s massive fortunes, and the state power propagating them, is destroyed will we be safe. Smashing the state and eating the rich are two sides of the same coin." [1]

>I want to see the US as a strong healthy nation, very very much. I think we’re on the same page, would you agree?

I want to see a Federalist nation of 50 semi-independent States joined in a common economic union under a single National Defense Apparatus where the bulk of out government interactions are at the state and local level, and most people never even think about the federal government who simply ensures we are not invaded from the outside, that States do not fight each other, and that we can trade freely on the world stage.

[1]https://c4ss.org/content/30085
To save you a click or a login, it's just this image (although a different cropping of it): https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/023/397/C-6... ..
Maybe it's some remnants from RLHF?

A lot of these look like what I'd put in a training dataset, not something I'd pay money to generate, IMO it's unlikely to be responses for other people.

It kinda looks like what GPT-2 or small current models used to output when they got "lost"

What prompts did you use? Did you use some kind of unusual syntax that could make it bug?
Yes, if Dr. Fauci says COVID came from the market it should be good enough for everyone. But the MAGA conspiracy theorists will try anything to discredit Dr. Fauci.
It's not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36618432.
Speaking as someone with a decade as an engineer and another decade in management roles, I wholeheartedly agree with every single point here. I suggest reading The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier to better understand what the path to management (and beyond) looks like.
My old man recently got a bunch of boxes from my childhood out of his, including multiple tubs of mixed Lego and a box of incomplete instructions. This will prove to be a valuable resource in the coming months, thank you very much!

I keep staring at all the artwork included on some of the early Bionicle instructions and I love that dark mysterious island aesthetic.
Though it was really easy to pirate on the Dreamcast.
https://neon.tech/
the huascaran landslide too
I'm a stoic.

Hedonism only led me to disappointment.
Lots of bad things commonly happen and yet are news, since someone might be learning them for the first time.
> Next, Strehmel and his team quantified the compliance of these two different sets of open source code with coding standards. The results were presented as an indicator of the quality of the source code through the SoftWipe tool.

I would read that study as coding standards lead to profanity. (Not sure wether or not coding standards should be correlated with code quality, I just think it is obvious that the measure is correlated with the conclusion in an obvious way.)

[Post posting:] Also looking at the plots, it seems that the two distributions are different, first the swear word distribution seems to be wider and second it has a clear outlier at "software quality" 8, so if anything it is an indication that something much more complex is going on.
I appreciate the kind words; I was feeling particularly upset this morning, I'm feeling a bit better now.

I know I'll find a gig soon enough, and I have enough money saved to survive for quite awhile, but I guess just the dozen or so rejection emails I get every morning are getting to me.
"Bros" (immature, quasi-adults) just need adult supervision and guidance. If they refuse both they need not let the door hit their ass on the way out. If there isn't any adult supervision that's a different problem entirely. It doesn't matter if the immature quasi-adults are male or female, both will do stupid things if there's not counsel to act differently.
I was discussing regular web links. I think Adsense is still PPC, which is a bad deal considering it may not result in a conversion. I’ve only used it when they send me $100 free credits. It tilted in no sales. I actually sold a book in my website last through MySpace, so I’m probably not an expert on any of this.
You should think about why you're building the software.

If there are other established companies with many customers, you feel their offerings aren't incomplete or have bad UI/UX, and aren't too expensive then be prepared for it to fail as a business. However if you want to do it because you enjoy the work and don't care about making money then go for it. Another thing you think about for making this MVP is to ensure you have proper users otherwise you'll have no "expertise" to evaluate what you built.
Fair point. But the deeper problem was most of that money never trickled down to its own citizens, built infrastructure or got reinvested in the country. Someone else, not the people, became "owners", making foreign agents the policy-makers.

Just pointing out that the deeper issues often gets lost in the geopolitics. When it progressively makes people's lives worse or exponentially increases debts, it really all leads to the same outcomes in the end.
you "disable" mmap and you will break:

- dynamic loading
- malloc
- any just in time compilers

it is a core feature of a modern operating system
The big issue is it's hard to test the actual problem solving process in math with a multiple choice exam so you're either stuck doing it in higher level classes with less people so you're not drowning in grading or clearing/removing calculators entirely. The option of just not having calculators and formulating the problems so they could be solved without them was the most common solution to that when I was in college. Usually it's relatively easy to select a set of parameters for the problem to make the solution easy to compute numerically.
looks like they just threw something basic together over a weekend, probably doesn't matter what they used, someone probably said "hey, sasha knows jetpack compose lets just go with that u down? ya i'm down"
Ah, you're right; I think most of that speech (fighting words, obscenity, etc.) is already illegal anyway, but in case there's any that isn't, I will edit that to say speech that's "protected by the 1st amendment".
> Everyone post your favourite conjecture!

Places uptight enough that developers never swear in comments are uptight in other ways that lead to poor team dynamics which hinders quality.
Learning to Learn Rust
That's not at all what the injunction says. See point 5 at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36618822
I'd probably look for a tech co-founder. Such a small percentage of startups make it, and having a learning-as-you-go tech team will not help those already small chances.

That said, passion and curiosity win out in the long run.

If you build a POC without the right expertise you might find the product needs rewriting from scratch pretty soon. That might be fine though.
I'm sure they're not, but that's what they've got -- and it's continuing to decline.
Perhaps keep in mind that per capita income in this country is on the order of $25K and has been for decades. We can argue over the reasons or whether that number is artificially low, but once you get away from the coasts, a lot of this country is poor and that $80K would be life changing.
What a crazy country.
Tradition is anything your grandparents did that you also do. Few people remember their great-grandparents well enough to know if they also did something, (with modern medicine this is somewhat more likely, but still not common) and thus few have any clue if it is something their grandparents started or not.

Unless of course it was written down. Some religions have things written down as of a few thousand years ago. Just looking at them though we can see plenty of examples of things written down being ignored for a while and then some reformer comes and revives the tradition. Anything not written down is questionable in ability to survive for long.
So I need to use more profanity at work, then ask for a raise?

(But I concede that effort and productivity are not the same thing.)
The Federalist wasn't an actual legal document, it was just the opinion of a few people (not even all of the founding fathers). You might as well be pointing to the NYT Opinion section as your source.

You can't be a strict constitutionalist and also use the words of the Federalist as a way to enhance or modify the constitution. These are contradictory viewpoints.
I mean if you can drone strike a citizen as president there is little left to have in the toolbox of "unilateral power over their people".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Abdulrahman_al-Awla...
And no blue check mark *gasp*.
This entirely. The truth is messy and doesn’t make for an easy story.
Generative AI Governance: A Market Overview
People who have had access to this already, can you share some interesting use cases?
That’s a pretty big leap IMO. What gives you that impression?
Seems like "TFG" made it kinda derail here instead.
> We know that these chemicals are terrible for human, animal, and plant health. There isn't a debate.

A statement with neither nuance (no distinguishing the types of chemicals) nor precision (no quantification), either false (because we do not actually know for certain that all of them cause noticeable quality of life decrease even at tapwater concentrations) or trivial and meaningless (e.g. enough of any substance will harm health).

Here's the article:

> High concentrations of some PFAS may lead to adverse health risks in people, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Research is still ongoing to better understand the potential health effects of PFAS exposure over long periods of time.

Simply saying "There isn't a debate." doesn't make a statement true. It's certainly true that some of these chemicals have good evidence for harming human health at concentrations people could actually encounter them in. It's not true that we know this for all of them, nor what concentrations cause issues.

Your post reads like a call to action, rather than a curious and considered analysis. The propagation of these types of posts makes hackernews a worse place as more and more people use it to proselytise rather than explore, discuss and learn.

If you wished to actually contribute you could cite some form of meta study giving a breakdown of the health effects of the various chemicals at certain concentrations.
Bugs in cybersecurity products are not okay at all. We call those zero-days.
Look at the sibling comment. In 2013 it wasn't painted clearly. I imagine now that it's painted clearly, this hydrant is no longer raking in the same amount of fines.
One rule I live by is I never ever swear in comments or commits, just not worth it. Even in personal projects.

But one of my favorite projects to ctrl-f for "fuck" is in the jedi outcast source code. Since it is proprietary and was a good game: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Agrayj%2FJedi-Outcast+fuck...
That makes some sense.
> And why aren't these chemicals banned?

Not saying they shouldn’t be, but a problem is companies will just move on the the next, likely bad, similar chemical until it is also banned. I’ve seen suggestions to require chemicals to be proven not dangerous before widespread use, but this seems untenable. Perhaps the best solution is not to ban the chemicals themselves, but to obligate containment of waste, regardless of if it’s “bad”.
I think he started buying it for Trump but then when Trump said he wouldn't join, Musk tried very hard to get out of the deal.
I’m very pro ebike, so I’d love more paths for the them. But they aren’t a complete replacement for trains.

Trains still have a greater capacity (see the Lexington Avenue line in NYC - 1.3 million riders per day, pre covid).

They’re also way better in bad weather, more accessible for people with disabilities, better for families, allow you to do other things while commuting, and way better for long distances.

But e-bikes > cars. 100%
Any genuinely terrible idea should be an uphill battle politically.

Do you know how much you, personally, benefit from modern material science? Do you think our nation could even operate with out Bayer, Dupont, 3M and the likes?
To be fair Madison personally owned around a hundred slaves and the Constitution in Article 1 Section 2 counted slaves as three-fifths of a free individual, but please tell me again that this guy is the patron saint of defining personal freedom and the Constitution some kind of twelve commandments of freedom "Thou shalt count Black people that you hold in bondages as three fifths human". And of course let's ignore the law AS WRITTEN and instead talk about slave owner Madison's feelz on inalienable freedom (◔_◔).
Everyone wants to make more money. But if you are already making more than you would if you had to leave for another company, hence paid above market, then that is basically greed and nonsensical thinking. That is what I am against. People who are paid above market, wanting more, instead of writing a thank you letter to their CEO.
Can you please just summarize? There's way too many definitions and this isn't helpful.

I gave you my opinion on what an opinion is, now why can't you return the favour instead of throwing thousands of words back in my face with no nuance or context?

If you're not interested in the conversation that's fine too, but just say so.
Starting with Godot 4.0, they now support GDExtension which allows you to basically write your own game code in C++ (and other languages), then have the engine import your code: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/scripting/g.... There is also a set of Rust bindings that utilize GDExtension too: https://github.com/godot-rust/gdext.

They might be worth looking into.
Fair enough! It means FF is the browser for you, and it's not the browser for me.
Clickbait: I thought this was about supposed assent to a political statement (many of which seem to be illegal in Canada now). Instead it's a disagreement about what constituted consent to a contract rather than a view about something said.
Does anyone have opinions (or even knowledge of actually reliable data) about whether drinking water filtered with reverse osmosis is worse for you than drinking tap water with PFAS, etc? I've seen the argument made that RO water is worse because of mineral loss and that the little remineralizer cartridges and such don't do enough to replace the loss.
You can use something like git-crypt[0] to e2e encrypt it.

[0]: https://github.com/AGWA/git-crypt
> Much of the community considers profanity as a vulgar display of lack of intelligence and education, because why use profanity when you have a rich vocabulary?

Why not use the full range of one's vocabulary?
It's still rooted in evidence, and that evidence doesn't need to be conclusive.

This was to say the injunction is not completely on a whim, agreed on everything else you wrote.
Meta stock higher as 'Twitter killer' app Threads sees signup surge
Incredible map of PFAS hotspots in the article -- very notable applying the "is this just a population map?" test, specifically look at the West coast in comparison to the rest of the country. It seems dramatically lower out west.
It is obviously a non-solution which exists so that you can pretend the problem is "solved", while doing nothing.

Many countries manage to do standardized (or semi-standardized) testing without shutting down the internet. When I took mine, we were in a large hall with several teacher present and had precisely the materials allowed on our tables.

Shuttibg down the internet speaks of an enormous distrust towards the test takers and high degrees of suspicion towards teachers for tolerating cheating.
https://knhash.in/blog

Very sparse writing, I intend to write more. As it says on the blog, mostly mundane observations and such.
Nice work! Would be even more useful to be able to have a conversation with it.
> What's absurd is the notion that profit is evil, or that there is some set amount of profit above which it is evil.

The term "price gouging" exists because we collectively agree that, at a certain point, yes, excessive profits are indicative of abuse.

This isn't even controversial. The most extreme libertarian economist would agree that, for example, market failures like monopolies can create circumstances where excess profits become egregious.

And we know from history that widespread crises can lead to market conditions that result in excess profits.

> Should companies not be allowed to lose money, either, then?

And this is a silly strawman that isn't worth responding to.
I feel like “written in a memory-safe language” is a fair selling point, especially when we are talking about a tool designed to accept completely untrusted data from the network and keep you safe from attackers with significant resources.
Behaving better isn't the only outcome. Another outcome is leaving the service permanently.
Also grew up there. The soil was _very_ rich.
Wow, Canadians must be super rich. /s
Adding a list of carve outs doesn’t make the ban ok.
> Elected officials are not government employees.

[citation needed]

The IRS disagrees, but obviously different legal contexts have different definitions, but I am aware of none supporting the distinction you are trying to make.
Ah OK, I hadn't (still haven't) downloaded the app so presumed it wasn't at all accessible without the app.
Everything is correlated: https://gwern.net/everything

Take almost any two things like this and you're actually virtually guaranteed to draw out some weak, but quite likely statistically significant, correlation.

What lies behind that correlation is probably a entropic mishmash of so many factors that it defies human explanation, and also, defies any attempt to try to "harness" the forces that seem to appear. It could be that all the siblings to the comment are right all at once.

I'll cop to just glancing at the graphs, but they don't look out of line for this effect to me intuitively.

Also backing this is that more-or-less the same article/thesis could easily have been written for the opposite correlation.
Yes, during the rounds where VCs are stepping over themselves to invest, founders can negotiate terms that permit them (and their employees and early investors) to sell some of their stock as part of the deal, in a secondary sale (https://rizstanford.medium.com/secondary-sales-in-vc-backed-...).
Certainly once you played it passed a certain point, but by that point you bought the game.
Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads
You can not - not enough spots.
People telling that management is not a "next step" while not lying are just not telling the truth. Management is a big club and you ain't in it.
Basically everyone can be manager despite the fact saying otherwise.
However developers are rare. Thus it is counterproductive to promote programmers.
You can perhaps leverage your experience by moving to another company to a management position directly.
The expense is the opportunity cost, the time spent not working for money.
The developer who knows what they're doing is also more likely to be 1) overworked because they do much of the useful stuff and 2) cognizant of bureaucracy which gets in the way of them doing useful stuff.
So glad we're condensing entire tech stacks down to a language now.