skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is one of those weird self-deprivation exercises that some "advanced" people like to engage in

real men don't use debuggers

real men don't use ide's

can program on a piece of paper with both hands tied behind their back

etc...

The actual article is much more polite than this, but I have to deal with these people, who think of themselves very highly, at work every day. Crap i'd get at the code reviews from some bizarre cult-ish schools of thought like "remove all your comments because comments in code never age well", or "logging is distracting and unnecessary", "unit tests spoil programmers so they become sloppy", people actually enjoy imposing these bizarre ideas on others.

The more relevant point, actually, is that the OP seems to do a bunch of multithreaded code and for their use case debuggers may not be utilized to their full extent. But I'm sure some half-wits at work would just read the title and run with it.
I didn't know that VW owned Tesla!
Do talk to your foreign colleagues about the immigration bureaucracy one of these days, it's frankly inhumane. China is simply offering better conditions, no need to apply the whip when you can hand out carrots.
That's not enough information to make the post count as substantive. This is not a borderline call!

The OP is something between a landing page and a job ad, not an in-depth article. This is not a borderline call!
I am not sure that the primary usage of public transit is commuting. Perhaps it is more prevalent in some regions of these United States, such as NYC and environs, and perhaps it is prevalent for certain routes. Certainly, most metro areas provide special "Express" lines with prices, routes, and hours geared for commuters.

But what I've found in transit authority policy is that they typically disregard workplaces when planning routes and schedules. The terminus and transfer point for a typical local bus route is in a shopping mall. Sure, this is a workplace for many people, but for every mall worker aboard a bus, I see 10-20 shoppers, and 10-20 students, and 5+ homeless people.

Furthermore, public transit service levels are not determined by payments of fare, but by taxpayer funding and ridership levels, etc. So if ridership dwindles on commute-oriented lines, those lines could die out. And certainly, WFH will reduce the number of people traveling and the miles we travel as well.

But transit as a whole will still be OK. There will be less private ownership of vehicles as time wears on. People will opt for ride sharing more, and those who get rid of their cars entirely will probably want to take a bus or train, once in a while, for a doctor's appointment, a mall visit, a baseball game, you name it.
Is header generation substantially faster than compilation? I guess it skips codegen and instead replaces it with header generation, but isn't most of the time spent in parsing/semantic analysis? Or is header generation done in some hacky way that's much faster than full parsing?
As someone who just spent 9 weeks in the hospital with his wife in order to safely deliver his child, I’d just like to say that this sort of tech can’t come too soon. I’ve always wanted to be a father, but due to PCOS it was questionable whether it would ever happen. IVF finally worked after five years, and then we capped it off with a mega hospital stay.

Totally worth it, but I definitely wouldn’t choose to do it if there was any other option.

Point being, the default comment for reproductive research seems to be “Oh no.” And I’ve never understood this. Having babies naturally sucks. It’s difficult, painful, and something that people do because they have to, not because it’s fun. And in the worst case it can kill your wife, which was on the table for us.

Bring on the incubation pods, I say. We have six more embryos in cold storage, and it feels so surreal. We have the option of having a kid when we’re 60 — we won’t, obviously, but it’s literally a miracle that we could. (We’ll probably donate the embryos.)

We’re definitely living in the future, and I am so grateful. More advances in this space, please.
https://twitter.com/jeremyvaught/status/1687444457837187072

> Oh wow, I didn't even think to look up the alternatives they were offering. THEY ARE ALREADY USED AS WELL! So if I choose one, I'll be complicit in stealing more accounts.
For a long pipeline in a remote area the cost of keeping leaks minimal is not economic
Bram Moolenaar, the Dutch author of Vim aged 62, see #4 on the homepage right now.
Not to mention the sites that make it impossible to see their footer because of infinite scrolling.
Google Effects on Memory: Consequences of Info at Our Fingertips [pdf 2011]
Attempting to change the subject doesn't change the fact that this obscene compensation amounts to stealing from the pockets of his own employees. Rather than structuring Google as a dictatorship, how about we structure it as a democracy and ask Googlers what they think the CEO should be paid, at their own expense. Do you think they would come up with a number that is less or more than the current figure?
In many contexts, one should rarely pass -O2/-O3. A project that is built thousands of times during development may only be run on intensive workloads (where -O2 performance is actually a necessity) a handful of times by comparison. A dev build can usually be -O0, which can dramatically improve compilation time.
The correct analogy is sports, so if you're comparing CEO pay to salaried SWEs rather than European football stars, you're going to distract yourself.

Team Google is a juggernaut with the funds to match, so they see value in putting up the money to get the top performer. They don't care how much luck the guy had to get where he is or how fair the pay is. They operate at a scale where small performance gains mean huge impact, so getting the guy who can make things go well (or who is less likely to drive the whole org off a cliff) is a bargain at any price. And let's not pretend we all know how to be CEOs of giant companies.
I agree, it's a nice layout.
I never want to know the count of words once. If relevant, I want to _always_ see the count.
I dunno. I think you have to build a lot of units before the NRE cost increase beats the BOM cost decrease. Anyone that knows Python can write software that runs on a Raspberry Pi. Getting someone who knows embedded systems is going to cost you a lot more than that. Let's say you pay your Python engineer $200k a year and your embedded systems expert $350k a year. By hiring the Python engineer instead of the embedded systems engineer, you now have $150k to spend on parts. A Raspberry Pi 4 is $35, and a RP2040 (probably waaaaaay more compute power than these things need) is $1. So you save $34 per scooter, maximum. $150k/$34 = 4411 scooters before you break even by optimizing BOM costs. Do they have that many V1 scooters? Probably not.

Another angle is paying contractors. I doubt that you need a person-year to make an electric scooter, so that pushes the break-even point down a few units. But, your Python engineer can also make the backend when you're done with the hardware. It really depends on how expensive your recuriting/hiring/onboarding pipeline is. I am sure many people you run into will say that they know how to design e-scooter control systems, but you have to find the ones who are not lying. That's a cost.

So all in all, it seems like they spent their investors money wisely. You do the cost reduction when you want to expand, not for the "yeah, this business can't work" test phase. It seems like that's what they did; the business doesn't work in Seattle at any scooter BOM cost, so it's not a business.

The dumb part is not paying someone to round up the scooters and eBay the electronics and batteries, though. They could easily make a lot of their money back, probably even selling the used Pis for more than they paid!
The story "Bram Moolenaar has died" on position 4 on the frontpage with 3000 upvotes. When Queen Elisabeth died the story had only 2800 upvotes.
A lot of the methane consumption can’t be moved overseas
A 200 person swe org is not 200MM/year of cost at google
I don't think that's what a social network is necessarily - many people use Facebook entirely as a "friends only" sharing tool, and indeed almost all Facebook activity appears to be between people who know each other in real life. There are social networks that are primarily between strangers (Twitter, TikTok, etc) but that's not a defining feature of all social networks.
Look up Qian Xuesen, a former Caltech rocket scientist who helped establish the Jet Propulsion Laboratory before being deported in 1955 on suspicion of being a Communist and who became known as the father of China’s space and missile programs. "Alienating" our best and brightest is strategically among the worst thing we could do towards preserving the success of our nation.
The tell is that a PhD position in the sciences that's worth anything is fully funded - the PI has grants that he will use to pay his graduate students. This isn't about undergrad education, it's about graduate level studies.
LOL. Right.
Re-frame?
I don’t understand the relevance or any of those things, nor does the prediction need to include emerald mines.

What should have been on the bingo card is “this company with whom I have no formal agreement might change its terms on a whim and destroy my project”. Even by 2008 you could probably have looked at Facebook apps as an example. I remember some startup for music sharing became the most popular service on there then one day FB changed some integration detail and their business died overnight.
Nobody said if it can't be measured it doesn't exist. Nothing of this nature was said or implied.

What I do believe is that if it can't measured then it's existence is only worthwhile and relevant to you. It is not worthwhile to talk about unmeasurable things in a rigorous way. We can talk about unmeasurable things hypothetically, but topics like whether something is intelligent or not where we need definitive information one way or another requires measurements and communication in a shared reality that is interpretable by all parties.

If you want to make a claim outside of our shared reality then sure, be my guest. Let's talk about religion and mythology and all that stuff it's fine. However...

There's a hard demarcation between this stuff and science and a reason why people on HN tend to stick with science before jumping off the deep end into philosophy or religion.

My point on burden of proof was lost on you. Who the burden is placed on is irrelevant to the situation. Imagine we see a house explode and I thus make a claim that because I saw a house explode an actual house must have exploded. Then you suddenly conveniently declare that if I made the claim the burden is on me to prove it. What? Do you see the absurdity there?

We see AI imitating humans pretty well. I make a soft claim that maybe the AI is intelligent and suddenly some guy is like the burden of proof is on you to prove that AI is intelligent!

Bro. Let's be real. First no definitive claim was made second it's a reasonable speculation irregardless of burdens. The burden of proof exists in medicine to prevent distribution and save lives, people do not use the burden of proof to prevent reasonable speculation.
> And, it will be doing all of that under new leadership. Badri Rajasekar, who had been CTO and CPO, is taking on the role of CEO from founder and current CEO Johnny Boufarhat

Johnny made his $200M and got out.

https://twitter.com/pitdesi/status/1518988096976551941?lang=...
> But I'm asking for the use-case.

Ever transfer a file more than a few hundred gigs? This makes that take less time. Even if I’m only pulling down files at 1800 mbps Ive got plenty of headroom for everything else.
In the highest comp regions (where new revenue generating projects almost always get staffed) it’s a common ballpark estimate of the allin cost of a SWE including all benefits, office, hiring, infra costs, ancillary roles. Consider that a senior SWE alone is pulling about $400k in direct comp. Also consider Google’s total spending per employee (not even just SWE) is about $1mm and many of those are not engineers or in high comp regions. Of course a new org with no big sales/marketing/compute costs will have different cost structure vs search ads but it really is a workable ballpark.
I was half joking.

My personal experience with both WSL1 and Cygwin, which offer a Linux-like varnish on top of a Windows environment, is that mapping Linux filesystem semantics on top of NTFS result in a sizeable performance hit.

Not enough to make them unusable, of course, but enough perceive.

When Wine does the same, mapping NTFS semantics on top of ext4, there is no such hit - on the contrary, if feels faster.
On the contrary. Those sites are still free to say what they want. Google is not censoring their freedom of speech.

But freedom of speech also means you can't compel someone to say something they don't want to say. That's not censorship, that's freedom. You can't force Google to rebroadcast that message.

And if you think that's the first or only thing they choose not to show, you must be very new. Otherwise you'd've noticed by now that your search results aren't all full of child porn and other garbage. Google isn't forced to show that to you.

If you want to see things that Google doesn't show, you're free to find it by other means.
> A professional cuddle is safe and certified, but also explicitly non-sexual. For those who want more, who desire the intimacy but not the risks or vulnerability or self-doubt of a sexual relationship, there’s a whole new category of sex therapist, one who will not only discuss the physical act of love, but actually do it with you — at least sometimes, at least for a while. Their patients are people who struggle with physical intimacy, perhaps due to disability, military injury or gender transition. They call themselves “surrogate partners”.

So the author starts by saying there is a service being provided to people with understandably a real need, like a disability, and then goes on to criticize the whole things as if just regular people all have become risk adverse and are making up partner as a paid service to avoid dating. I don’t think they established the thing they are critical of actually is happening.
Also handy is this to run the current buffer through an external command:

%! somecommand

So, for example, using perl to make everything uppercase:

%! perl -pe '$_=uc'
I agree with your overarching point.

But, how exactly does being able to install a keylogger on someone's computer mean you can also break memory integrity and steal data from the browser's memory?

From what I know, windows keylogger "services" were very popular some 10 years ago and hence the banks rushing to "fix" it.
The way out of burnout (2016)
> IRC had a thing called "CTCP", client-to-client-protocol, with which two users' IRC clients communicated directly, client IP to client IP.

That's DCC (Direct Client-to-Client). CTCP is another in-line protocol that allows things like /me or asking what software other clients run.
That's what I came here to say. You can hear the differences when people from various parts of British Columbia speak, much less Saskatchewan and northern Ontario.
In 1989, I managed to persuade UIC to let me borrow a terminal and 1200bd(!) modem so I could connect to their IBM system from home. I remember how inconvenient it was to lug that terminal home by public transit. I ordered a dedicated phone line for it and it was a shame that I had 749-7491 as a number that nobody would ever call (and that I gave up when I returned to California in August).
Mozilla literally forced out the creator of Javascript, Brendan Eich, because of his religious and political views.

They're funded by Google because Alphabet doesn't want another IE6/MS anti-trust case. They are planned/fake competition. The fact that there are privacy aware forks of Firefox (like Librewolf) speaks volumes.
>The existing problem is that multi-family dwellings are illegal in many high demand areas

This is technically correct but the areas mentioned are the size of a block or a subdivision so it's hardly the limiting factor. You can build high rise apartments in any big city and multi-family anywhere. The reason prices on housing go up is that it costs a lot to build housing and it's pretty hard to secure financing for a housing project which you plan to sell/rent below cost. It's combined code compliance, materials, labor, and financing. If it costs $300 to build a square foot just in the labor and materials then it comes up at $150K for a tiny 500 sqf 1br and you'd need to rent that for more than $2000 per month to break even on the commercial loan you took. Throw in maintenance, lapses in occupancy and some profit and you are looking at close to $3K for a 500 sqf 1br. Unless it's on Manhattan or on an ocean beach somewhere, it's going to be very hard to find tenants.

It appears that America had ran up its credit card to the limit. Mass produced goods from China are still cheap but the hoses are just expensive, can't ship those in containers from Shenzhen. Playing with zoning is rearranging chairs on the deck of Titanic, it's not going to lower the cost of construction. And yes, adding more housing would lower the price but the problem is that adding housing is held up by the cost mostly and the developers only want to build in very limited prestigious areas where they hope to get tenants/buyers willing to pay their cost. It's not sustainable.
For programming in languages where indentation means a nested block:

>>

and

<<

indent the current line right and left by one indent position respectively, typically a tab or 4 spaces, though I need to check whether it works for spaces.

Prefixing those with a number n will indent n lines, starting with the current one.
In the US, different states have different rates. At X00,000,000 he's basically all in the top bracket so ~13.3% in California (it's taxed as income), other states have lower, some states have 0%.
I'm sure there are a bunch of Fortran libraries, like BLAS and LINPACK, that are still actively developed by the original developers and date back to the '70s. (Assuming one bug fix per decade counts as "actively developed".)
Pretty important for LGBTQ+ people, too.
To the author, here's a common pattern you can use to avoid defining global variables unless it's needed.

;(function() {
const dropzoneDefaults = { ... }
class EasyDropzone { ... }
const h = function() { ... }

// Export to global
window.EasyDropzone = EasyDropzone
})()
Bioengineering now is what silicon and plastics were decades ago, the new frontier.
I feel bad for Vaught. Most have been misquoting Musk, creating a great deal of confusion. So of course Vaught, like many more to come, was unwittingly caught betwixt.

Musk is a Freemium Speeches™ absolutist.

If you wanna have your say, then you're gonna have to pay. A lot.

PS- In totally unrelated news: Stackoverflow hit $1.6b (?) valuation from exploiting uncompensated labor. Retailers, MLMs, gig economy titans, among other grifters, have since been furiously studying this sterling example of plantation inspired ventures.
You are saying like it's any different in Europe.
Dassault Systèmes CEO Bernard Charlès makes €20.6m with company revenue of $6.05 billion.
For reference, Google CEO made $226 million (~10x) with company revenue of $279.8 billions (~46x).
Do keystrokes still come through Zoom? The noise filtering has become extremely aggressive lately, often hear people say “Sorry about that engine / ambulance / city noise” but nobody knows what they’re talking about.
I'd go so far as to say this entire post is grossly misleading and should be flagged.
Rest in peace, Bram. I'm forever grateful for your dedication.
What about domain names?

I have a really nice .app site and fear this every time I renew it.

(For those who don't know: .app is owned by Google)
Small correction - I believe it’s 8.8.4.4 and not 4.4.4.4 for google dns. Mentioning this since I’m pretty sure I got this wrong myself in the past when setting up dns and I’m sure I’m not the only one.
Tim also operates the Novelty Automation arcade in London. When I return to the UK, it's at the top of my list of things to see. His machines have his amazing sense of satire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ort-VEOZ0iI
what about per square km? Or per GDP, since emissions are loosely tied to production, we could gauge efficiency?
Excellent points. Many people forget that human population is going to peak by about 2100. The "humans are not separate from nature" point is something most people don't believe, but it's perfectly intuitive if you zoom out a bit. A human city is no different than a beehive or an ant colony.
One good reason is to prevent data exfiltration, or, at least, make it less convenient.
So, lessee - we already got Alien universe, Futurama* ... maybe another I already forgot...

No "Demolition Man"? No "Idiocracy" ... Red Dwarf, Saturday Night Live**, Austin Powers***, ...?

Good lord, I didn't even realize how many of these there are that I'VE seen / can think of.

In any case, THIS is what popped into my mind (who needs "support systems", amiright?):

https://youtu.be/hw6xBdXl1Aw?t=15s

Edit: But look at what has been done with hearts and kidneys...

Hearts and kidneys are tinker toys! I am talking about the central nervous system!

I am a scientist, not a philosopher! You have more chance of reanimating this scalpel than you have of mending a broken nervous system!

...I am not interested in death! The only thing that concerns me is the preservation of life!

[jams the scalpel into his leg...

:)

* Heads in jars, but, of course the basis of the series is Fry coming out of "cryogenic stasis"

** Caveman lawyer ... the usual mix of stupid / corny but with some amusement value, I guess ... can't even quite remember how dumb vs. funny that one was ...

*** "Evacuation complete..." <urination sounds> ... "Evacuation comp..." <urination sounds> "Evac..." <urination sounds> ...

... classic.
DP is lauded as an open specification.

I am sad to hear altmode is "semi-proprietary". A stain on this reputation.
If China's academic sector is still growing, I imagine the primary draw is opportunity, not pressure.
stay strong, bro, lots of twitter fan bois here
Hi! I love it. The magic of original HTML inspired my current website : http://razi.ps

I remember the days as a kid when I just threw together CSS and HTML to see how things worked. Playing with the edges of Unicode/ASCII web-host-shittification made for a creative playground ..
You don't typically need to pore over the paper and absorb every detail. Usually you can skim a little and backtrack if you missed something.
Yes it does. I don’t remember agreeing to have my computer files backed up to OneDrive. Then, one day, they just were.