skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry I edited to include my point there. If you don't have 30-60 minute check-ins with juniors, they're not going to have the same rapid feedback that they'd get from in person mentoring.

And very importantly, I'm saying 30-60 minute remote check-ins are an absolutely insane idea that should never be implemented.

I don't know any kind of remote system that provides for anything even close to the power of in-person mentoring.
Microsoft recently renamed Yammer as well. I think middle management is bored and looking to justify their jobs.
I wrote my first trading system in Clojure because a few of the libraries we relied on were in java.

It was 2011 and I'd had about 3 years of lisp experience. I got a bit of side eye from people when I told them I was using a relatively new programming language but the fact that it was based on the JVM, which alot of HFT firms were using helped make the case.

We didn't use if for more than a few years before it was retired and rewritten, though that was due to new requirements that included C++ interop.

In the end tracking memory usage and allocations got too hard and if you've ever written something that is time sensitive you'll know just how slow memory allocation is, so you could argue I made a poor choice but for the rewrite was easy to reuse the java libraries when we moved to java.

The harder part was porting the algorithm implementation code.
The reason was that I chose a common lisp trick of first writing a DSL in Clojure that was then used to write the algos.

That was the one part that seemed worse in the rewrite as it became far more verbose and clunky.

But man was it fun, I learned more in a month than I often do in a year now.

Thanks Rich!! It's not often you get to experiment with cool tech and make lots of money doing it. I appreciate your work.
Somehow it reminds me of the people (that also can be found here) that decries that a programming language is "horrible", "unusable", "a mess" because of some esoteric detail. Its just ends up as a too strong description of what people are talking about. Language needs some nuances.
> Women prefer attached/promiscuous men. Women's attraction is largely influenced by social signaling.

Nowhere in the article says that women prefer "promiscuous" men, but men regarded as "attractive" by other women.

It also does not justify the fact that women are regarded more negatively when they have had multiple sexual partners, compared to men.
> I love Unicode quirks that OSes and big software developers miss

It's more the development and specs of Unicode that did miss a lot of things. When Unicode came out Bruce Schneier envisioned all the attacks that'd inevitably come and he was, of course, totally right.

As he put it a quarter of century ago (2000): "Unicode is just too complex to ever be secure".

It's Unicode that did fuck up, not developers who are forced to deal with non-sensical things because somewhere a committee decided that it'd make sense to use a broken system for domain names (for example).
Thanks for confirming. I knew it couldn't be just me!
Indeed, each win against Corporate Last Mile persists. High value effort in inhibiting the success of their lobbying efforts. Get the fiber on the poles or in the ground and drive them out of town.

https://ilsr.org/broadband-2/

https://communitynets.org/content/community-network-map
Bodybuilding often feels like a dark art. There are thousands of clickbait articles out there promising the routine to give you the physique of a classical statue, but almost nothing seems proven. Perhaps it's because, ultimately we each have a unique biological makeup.

I've been in the gym consistently for the better part of 12 years now. Bodybuilding was never a goal of mine, so I don't have the physique but over time my experience in the gym has shown me a few things:

1. If you really want to be a bodybuilder the best investment is a notebook. The people in the gym that I've seen that have the actual competition aesthetic pretty much always have one and track all of their workouts, meals, etc. Bodybuilding is for really disciplined, rigid structure loving people that can commit to a consistent routine and identify how to gradually, incrementally increase intensities over time.

2. Cardio matters too. Warming up with cardio generally doesn't seem to be a bad idea no matter what it is you're doing.

3. If you're like me and mostly just care about being fit and strong and less about the specific bodybuilding aesthetic, start doing a sport. I started bouldering at a climbing gym about 3 years ago, continuing to mix it in with the weight training I've always done and I've never been stronger. Seriously, it was like an extreme force multiplier. I highly recommend picking up a sport if you don't plan on competing in bodybuilding and just want to maintain a healthy body. It's fun too!
I’d watch that movie.
The Swiss National Park was mostly untouched since 1914: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_National_Park However, that probably does not qualify as old growth. The list you linked to does not list any forest in Switzerland.
I guess you don't really understand how insurance works...
My experience with Robocalls (I get 25-30 per day) has been that the overwhelming majority are trying to run a scam against Medicair (the US government's health program for older people) by fetching some personal information from the victim, which they then use to send fraudulent bills to Medicair.

So I assume that the ease of scamming the US government in this regard contributes to us being the victims here.

Edit: I hadn't RTFA and now I see this fine was about auto warranty scams. Second theory: lots of Americans are living below the poverty line, public transit sucks here so most people need cars to get to work, and it can get risky/expensive relying on an older vehicle to be able to get to work, so it makes an easy target to offer somebody what looks like coverage for a likely expensive auto failure for a few hundred dollars.
> The stark contrast between the sugary-sweet facade of “helping the libraries and readers” and the ridiculous amounts of money the company makes from these same libraries is quite depressing.

I always thought it was weird that well-capitalized companies like Canonical weren't leveraging the fact that libraries pay so much money for shitty enterprise-grade desktop deployments and other services for library operations. Seems like the perfect target for the "selling services and support" model that everyone talks about wrt making money off FOSS.
> Charles looks healthy, he has the muscle mass most women prefer (…)

> In most people's opinion, the first woman is thin (look at the frailness of her arms) and the second woman is fit.

This normativity is gross.
I think gaming is very similar to remote working. You log in when you sit down, put in your headset and typically are available.

Work isn’t much different. My team leaves zoom standup open all day, we break into conversations all the time. It both (a) keeps everyone engaged and (b) removes blockers fast.

That said, we setup side “rooms” we can move in and out of. There is also the option not to be accessible, but it’s typical to be available
I can't imagine any scenario where using 1000 km of superconducting material would ever be worth it to save 6-8% though.
> I just don’t understand how we got to a place where the way things worked for decades suddenly doesn’t work anymore.

You're making up a past that didn't exist. During the entire period where caller ID existed in the U.S., I can only think of a single person who screened their calls in the way you've outlined. (And that person also happened to screen calls from known numbers, too, so it doesn't really count.) Everyone else would screen obvious calls coming from toll free numbers (1-800, etc.), and just take a chance on the remaining unknown numbers. An answering machine/ringer could be turned off for special occasions, but that's no different than putting a cell in airplane mode or whatever.

In fact, there was an entire genre of comedy albums devoted to messing with incoming telemarketer calls during this period. Those albums wouldn't have resonated like they did if most people had been screening all unknown numbers.
Alphabet dumps more than 90% of its stake in Robinhood
I ditched Rust a year ago in favor of Zig and have not regretted since

Number of memory bugs in several fairly huge projects: 0

Zig is way more maintainable, leads to less code which translates to fewer bugs

How about that?
Corporations should have no fucking say in things like this. The blatant corruption in the US is incredible.
This is the "daily average sea surface temperature between 60°N and 60°S".

And southern latitudes have more exposed ocean than northern ones.

See 60° to 60° on "Land Mass at Each Latitude" https://www.ecoclimax.com/2016/08/land-mass-at-each-longitud...

Which would make sense that southern summer (ending ~March) would be the typical yearly peak. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_equinox
The twitter thread linked below says that it was an independent discovery and the Korean professor was not aware of the prior knowledge until after the discovery, so it's not inspired as much as parallel development.
> We went from offices to cubicles to open space and nobody stopped to think if it was a good idea.

People have been complaining about this development since forever. I'm not sure who that 'nobody' in your sentence is?
I made my lunch the day before and carried it on a small tupperware (how are these called?)

Wasn't as great as fresh food but at least I made sure it was healthy.
> The industry is now even legally making money on many things that would've been considered outright malware just a decade ago.

Sounds a bit over the top. Can you name some examples?
I've worked remotely for about 9 years now. At the start of the pandemic I'd argue there's a wide gulf between those who knew how to work remotely because they've done it for years, and those forced into it and still figuring it out.

We spent 3 years in pandemic mode working from home for everyone. We've all figured it out by now. Go into the office if you'd like, but don't force everyone back to it.
Season 2 has just come out! It's really fun :)
> allowing the system to optimize for throughput and flow.

Sometimes you need lots of small synchronous communications and sometimes you need and fewer large asynchronous communications.

Large asynchronous communications work when everyone already knows what they're doing. They work at a company which has already figured out its business model, built out its necessary expertise, and saturated its market, where everyone's a senior engineer. Like, I don't know, GitHub, where the OP works as a Director of Engineering.

Frequent synchronous communications allow for tight coordination in the face of business risk. This is the startup world, the "we're-still-figuring-out-what-we're-doing", "maybe-this-will-work-maybe-not" area of the company stability spectrum. Also this is the area where junior devs are with their careers, so this model is best for them, too.

This reminds me of parameters that can be used to tune garbage collection. Collectors can either be tuned for throughput, or availability, but not both. Throughput optimization translates to long stop-the-world GC pauses, where availability translates to more frequent, but smaller pauses so the application is available to take traffic.

It also reminds me of a soccer player trying to control a soccer ball. Getting the ball down the field (throughput) is often via a single really hard kick. It's fine if control is reduced, it's throughput that is needed when the ball is too far away from the goal. Conversely, controlling the ball downfield requires lots and lots of tiny touches of the foot.

One final comment: asynchronous works great for open source, so why not business? In short: business has a deadline, (hobbyist-run) open source often does not. This being the case, it's fine if the communication takes a little longer. But in a time-critical project, synchronous communication is still our friend.
Interesting. In Rome we have a similar week in October, it's called "the roman October"
> It's a direct side effect of reputation and funding being closely correlated

This sheds some light on it to me. I guess what partly surprises me is that people seem to care more about reputation than just a means for improving the signal to noise ratio in papers or as a estimate on what will give you your biggest bang for your buck.

The other issue I see come up is the idea that if there is no signal to noise filter, then a scientist might "waste their time," either reading the paper or trying to replicate. But to me, it sounds a little bit like trying to avoid actually doing science. And peer reviewed papers don't imply excellent quality either. You should evaluate papers on their merits. It is your job, as a scientist, to evaluate the most productive approaches based on the merits of the science being done, not based on reputation.
It's a decent strat right up until the greater fool learns their lesson and leaves. Then you become the greatest fool.

The only way to reliably succeed at this is to take steps to ensure the existence of a greater fool. We call that "fraud."
I can't take stimulants for many reasons, but mostly they just make me a miserable A-hole to live with so I tried Atomoxetine/Strattera which worked for a few months and then my anxiety went from 0-1000.

Even getting in a small argument with my kids would increase my heart rate and blood pressure to unsafe levels. However, it did help me focus and pay attention, it also helped me kick my Marijuana habit (Legal state) which looking back just fueled my ADHD symptoms. It was also being used as a crutch to avoid dealing with my emotions and problems in life which just added to my anxiety.

Going back to the studies, another issue is that these medications can vary wildly from person to person based upon our own perceptions, experiences, and other comorbidities combined.
Yeah boo foreigners!
>> avoids ... C++ headers

> Same question for this point - but is it the same reason as for avoiding STL containers or something else?

ABI compatibility and the ability to easily create FFIs for other languages are the strongest appeals afaik.
> it suggests there is something about that person that does not align with that.

I think this is insufficiently nuanced (assuming you wouldn't reject someone for going on a lot of dates and being picky). Many people have come to the conclusion that sexual chemistry is really important to a good relationship and thus try to test that as early as possible. This is quite different from sleeping around "for fun".

I've only ever been interested in long-term committed relationships and racked up a high-ish body count this way. One to two dates, clear it's not going to work out, keep looking. I've now been in a long term relationship for over a decade and imagine I'll be in it till I die, many of my friends are in similar positions.
> But criminalization certainly isn't the solution.

There are many ways to see criminal law - as a punishment, or as a tool.

Portugal uses it as a tool. They know, because many of the founders are ex junkies, that junkies can't say no to another dose. They have to remove the dangerous option and that's handled by taking you off the street, for which they use the crimes as an excuse to remove your autonomy temporarily. Critically, they don't stick you with a criminal record for anything self-harming - when you get clean your record is also clean.

As a parent I believe in talking to kids, explaining, making them allies. But if they misbehave dangerously you simply pick them up and carry them away. You don't pretend that a 3yo, or even an 8yo, can understand everything well enough to just the dangers in a situation so sometimes you just take control.

Given that junkies have less reasoning capability and willpower than a 3yo, I think that trying to reason with them "Oh come on, don't you want to put down the drugs and not feel awesome? Don't you want to sign up for a 'meaningful' life with a 9-5 job?" is going to work because drugs are engineered to take that ability away.

IMHO the correct response, for where we've let ourselves get on the West coast, is to take everyone who ODs and throw them in an ambulance when narcan-ing them rather than leaving them on the street. To give them suboxone when we get them to a holding facility. After a day or two of good food and TV and smokes, etc, etc, but no more hard drugs - but also no more desire for them or detox pain from not having them - you ask if they want to continue the program. The trick is that both paths lead to the program - one directly and one via a bit of a cooldown in a more traditional jail (though still super low-security) until they come to the conclusion on their own. This is where you use the criminal charges, from whatever they did to obtain those drugs, to justify the captivity.

There's a good documentary (Vancouver is Dying, I think) where one of the government guys helping people, pushing for new laws, had spent five years on the street himself as a casual habit took him to rock bottom from a high-status life, so he knows all sides of the issue, and he thanks the people and the systems that gave him the opportunity to live again. There are many such stories, but his - juxtaposed with the misery people are currently in - was heartwarming and breaking.

Opioids don't have to be a life sentence.
No one in Europe wants to create "hospitality-driven" cities. Who do you take us for? It's not bloody Disneyland.
The Saudi > Softbank > Uber subsidy ride is over.
George Carlin has a lot to say on that topic... well, had.

In this case, it wouldn't really be better if it were "encrapification" or "enpoopification." IMO the problem with the term, aside from "shit" being a word you can't say on television, is that it's juvenile.
I have never worked under the hood of an emulation project, but my understanding is that the Mister/Analogue cores are best understood as an "FPGA implementation of existing software emulation."

In other words, they are not emulating the 68K, VDP, and other supporting chips on a gate-for-gate basis. They are emulating them at a higher level.

With the decapping of the Genesis' hardware, it should now be possible to truly emulate them at a 1:1 hardware level. This theoretically can lead to far more accurate emulation. I believe this is a lot more FPGA resource-intensive and may exceed what the existing MISTer/Analogue cores can handle, though I'm way out of my depth here.
If I had to guess? It's SpotHero that's sharing their database.

I recently used a reservation in a Chicago garage and the gate went up as soon as I pulled up to the ticket machine, before I could scan my barcode.

I talked to an attendant to make sure my parking was valid, he said the license plate (which you also register with SpotHero) triggered the gate opening, not the barcode.

The garage at 2600 Western is a SpotHero client.
> I think Cory is about half right about enshittification but there's also a huge dose of entitlement and apathy. If you expect corporations or government to just Do The Right Thing when it's not in the interest of those in power, without regulation or continual threat of loss of power or market share, you're going to be sorely disappointed.

Sure, but do you think Cory expects people to do the right thing? The entire thesis assumes everyone basically having good intentions except the middleman who mostly wants to make money.

It's not a judgment, so much as a very obvious pattern driven by understandable and predictable human behavior.

If we can find a way to break away from the pattern while still assuming people will not do the right thing and keep doing human behavior, we should do that.
I stopped using WF over 10 years ago because they did some really messed up things to me. Nice to see they haven't changed one bit.
Depends on the light, in the ones I have from April it looks quite brown but in my pics from cloudier days it does look a bit more of a brown-grey colour.
Unmatched doesn’t make it qualitatively unique. It’s a problem everywhere.
My experience was similar. I've built far more impactful things since then, but at the end of the day, the software that I'm most proud of was a calculator, of all things, that I made in Clojurescript. It was loosely based on the final chapter of SICP, and implemented an hilariously metacircular approach to transitioning the state of the register machine. Since the implementation was way more interesting than the actual application, I used Processing to visualize the register machine as if it were a rudimentary ALU (which it basically was).

If it hadn't been for Rich Hickey, or Clojure, I'm not sure I'd have the slightest inkling of how joyful and creative it can be to write software. It was an A+ experience, even if I'd be swiftly fired for trying to push logic like that into production.
I myself have also learned a lot from this. But I also see people doing it whilst they feel more pressure and less space to ask for help. That can lead to a non helpful state of a very quick shallow search for solutions. Anything complicated gets dismissed as 'will take too long', and you end up with completely suboptimal bodged solutions that, if anything, taught the wrong thing.

Learning to do things properly by banging your head against the wall is great. But only if you feel like you have the leeway to figure out how to do things properly. Without that leeway, you need the space to ask for help.
The pearl-clutching over "book banning" is ridiculous. It's parents not wanting schools exposing their children (i.e., minors) to certain materials the parents think is inappropriate. And these supposedly "banned" books are still readily available to adults from Amazon, B&N, and (usually) regular libraries. Why is this such a big deal?

Meanwhile, you now have censorship at the internet backbone level, with ISPs arbitrarily, unilaterally deciding to stop routing traffic to legal websites, and there's been little outcry: https://twitter.com/IncogNetLLC/status/1685359845505957888
Google is offering an on-campus hotel ‘special’ to lure workers back to office
nationalism/patriotism is gross, except for the people who happened to be born in the same country/political system/religion as myself
This reminds me of 'sync.Once' from the Golang. Very nice to have this sort of functionality in the stdlib. Glad to see Java getting something similar.
I was a Pocket user basically since it launched (I was looking for an AvantGo replacement, so imagine that), and I still don't understand Mozilla's purchase or very heavy-handed advertisement of it.
> Not having some amount of gatekeeping just lowers the bar too much and introduces so much more noise.

I can see how this would be a very controversial subject. Discouraging scientific participation? That's a tough pill to swallow without a lot of justification.
A checklist and guide to get your repository collaboration-ready
The gamification of reading is changing how we approach books
Microsoft Edge searches for some .ru domains instead of visiting them [video]
Looks pretty neat.

Their logo is reminiscent of the old Fushia OS logo https://ms.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail:Google_Fuchsia_Logo.svg
Ah I see, well I don't think we should be resigned to it. We've had male dominated societies for thousands of years, so it's going to take time. Our ability to think and move on from these primitive ideals is one of the more endearing facets of humanity.
Orig article has lowercase ‘n’ in ‘next’, which makes more sense…
> have companies to start treating Florida university degrees as worthless

As long as the government is in the student loan business, this is never going to happen.
> Governments on the other hand understand very well that money is a sham. Thats why they hold hundreds of billions of dollars in gold:
> https://www.madisontrust.com/information-center/which-world-...

Wow, that was really interesting. I wonder why some supposed richer countries are quite low on that list. E.g. Sweden way down at 30