skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Who would ever code like this? Those kind of quizzes can be made for any language

So tired of those smug "hurr durr language X hehe" posters
Get a linter
Some cancer (harm, in general) is going to have to be acceptable. Zero risk is rare. I am not a chemical engineering domain expert, so I can’t speak to the acceptable amount of harm caused to progress ratio. Do the math and make it public. With that said, I’d argue we’re too far to one side of the pendulum and need to find the middle close to less overall harm caused.

It’s not all doom and gloom. Switching from lead and MTBE to ethanol as an anti knock additive in auto fuel was an objective win. There are more wins like that out there I believe.
1. Personal network of non-recruiter acquaintances.

2. Recruiters (it's popular to hate them but they can help you land a job).

3. Scan the "open jobs" on LinkedIn and apply for them.

4. Post on some big board like Indeed (I set up a junk email account for this because 98% of the replies are junk/low-ball offers).
Any look into this will show that C's designated initializers are significantly more flexible/better in every way.
This is from the IEEE-745 spec. The rationale is explained at the link below by a member of the baord at the time.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1565164/what-is-the-rati...
Why is this a requirement? I thought Linux takes over after it loads.

Your guest GPU ROM must support UEFI"
I’m not one of the authors and have only skimmed the paper thus far and found it interesting enough to warrant further study. I guess one could run the simulation in the hardware and monitor convergence as a function of time. I can also imagine cases where one could work on a class of problems that have a priori known worst case condition, or cases where the exact solution every time is not a hard requirement.
Fortunately LLMs should end this idea of ranking content. It’s going to poison the well so badly search engines will have to rank on everything but content. Except links already proved too spammy and Google had to change gears to prioritize content. I wonder where that leaves them now.
Running a webmail client helps protect against a lot of the problems desktop mail clients have, but downloading attachments is still an issue
I don’t consider it perfectly safe. We live in a world of constant change. If you install something, say fireproofing on a structure, you need a plan to remove it in the event of a repair or renovation. You can’t say “it’s fine as long as you don’t touch it” because what thing on Earth is never touched again?
America is not full of people who can't afford their next meal. America is full of middle class fat people. Americans throw away what, 40% of the food they buy?

The vast majority of Americans are also healthy and able-bodied, they are not dependent on life sustaining medical help. The bulk of a person's medical bills are heavily skewed towards aged people. And there's Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare.

> without the resources

Every American child is offered free K-12 education (with free lunches), and easy loans for college.
> I'd love to point to an app and say "see? this is 20 years of development, look at how nice it is, how perfectly thought out everything is, how everything just works flawlessly".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory_Opus
> Just look at marijuana and abortion laws for two different prime examples of how supposed federal law superseding "lower" law can play out in ways that circumvent the nature of that power structure.

Neither of these are good examples.

Marijuana is because the Feds choose not to act; the DEA could raid every dispensary tomorrow if they wanted.

Abortion never got meaningfully protected at the Federal level. The Dems had sort of a chance at it, but chose the ACA to spend that political capital on instead.
Cause people wanted to write their front-ends and back-ends in the same language, for various reasons (code sharing, economics of hiring developers, etc).

My issue with JS (particularly but not exclusively server-side) is less that it has some weird aspects and more that its built-in functionality/standard library is incredibly barebones in many respects. IMO that’s the main reason why it’s considered normal in the JS world for a project to pull in hundreds/thousands of largely un-vettable dependencies.
True, though that's because the US has a fairly free press and the Freedom of Information Act.
Sounds like something more interesting happen above or below than browser.
The Cambridge based British Antarctic Survey group hire sysadmins which don’t look particular senior however the pay sucks which could be an issue for those with mortgages etc. £25k or something if I remember correctly.
Yes, for example, if the team was building new features, being 1 not 4 could just means it takes longer. As an example (hmm doesn't strictly mean s/he is doing 4 people's work though)
Very odd reason to pick on WebAssembly
I think you should submit a PR ... well, if you can find Trig's GitHub ...
> I marveled at Hugo’s speed, loved the fact that it supports theming (although it’s not as simple as it sounds) and that it has a lot of useful stuff built-in like syntax highlighting, image processing, RSS generator etc. But it took me sooo long to understand its structure.

Exactly my feeling.
How on earth did this person make it to VP of PM
Once you've moved beyond a junior-level of experience, I'm not sure if there's a better way than working your network for opportunities. In my experience there is never, and will never be, a shortage of business people looking for technical problems solvers.
Then the law should enumerate very specific actions that only those are allowed (e.g. sending you an email or calling your director home or mobile number only, and only, say, once a month). Anything else should be punishible.

Or the law could get a little more flexible and punish them for their intent, even if what they do is a "gray" area.

Or it could also make "collection agencies" illegal in their entirety.

The other side can just inform you of your debt, once, and if you fail to comply within a legally mandated deadline, they can go through the courts if they want to pursue it further. Who said "debt collecting" companies should be a thing?
> Why a Basic Algorithm Garnered Unprecedented Support from Quantum-Net Billionaires

> In an absurd twist of events, the quantum-net community is perplexed by the curious case of AI-RH1002 – an unremarkable algorithm sowing division in a universally united world. Like many divisive codes before it, AI-RH1002 seems to have won the backing of quantum-net billionaires.

Very funny site idea! This snippet reminds me of Ian M. Banks novels about the Culture.
I mean, it is a weird statement in that the language apparently needs a === operator.

Of course, after looking up what === is, the behavior is obvious.
We've resumed all services for OP. The tl;dr is this was a new account with no billing history and on track for a relatively high monthly spend. We attempted to authorize the card on file for the projected amount, and the authorization failed, leading to automatic suspension.

This is obviously overzealous abuse management, and we will fix our systems so this kind of thing never happens to legitimate users.

To OP and others who may have been affected, I'm deeply sorry.
"Haha", great attitude dissing other people's work. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

What Go structured logging libraries predate Zap's 2016 creation? Only one I can remember is Logrus, which was using type Fields map[string]interface{}, the bad qualities of which are kinda the whole reason for Zap's creation, and slog follows the Zap-style API[1].

[1]: Though ignoring many of the optimizations..
Is there a reason why you are not dedicating some of your time to gig economy work, such as DoorDash, Uber, TaskRabbit (or the equivalent in your country).

Those should allow you to not overly depend on your partner, which is very unhealthy because you don’t know how long they will allow that to happen, while still giving you time to pursue better employment opportunities, possibly at the expense of cutting out some literature studies.

If I were in your situation (but clearly I’m not), the absolutely first thing I’d do is ride my bike for 4-6 hours a day delivering doordash meals and making at least $50/day to cover basic living expenses on my own.
I mean, if you want to always be on the cutting edge, then a new technology rewrite every few years keeps you from sinking into the corporate pit that caught blockbuster. You always stay relevant at the cost of annoying non-paying customers (who won't have any meaningful recourse to complain or to stop paying you).

It kind of makes sense, as long as you don't care about your customers.
Outreachy: Create your first patch to the Linux kernel
After you refuse to address/answer my questions? No thank you. I can recognize sea lions just fine from here.
The question is about being able to load in the first place. Can it be loaded in one machine, saved, and then opened in the browser of another machine?
I think that it can be both. Yes, weird code will produce weird results but in my opinion, the language should at least help one find the weird code.
Riveting writing. I have a family member who collapsed from sudden cardiac failure, from a non diagnosed heart syndrome she had since birth - she luckily was at the hospital when it happened.

This and aneurysms make me value the small things in life - you could fall down and die any minute.

I hope the sound of the valve will fade away!
“Dead” seems like it would mean video calls went away, but in fact they’ve just become commonplace. If they are used slightly less now than two years ago that’s perfectly explainable by loosening of social distancing requirements rather than a lack of interest in the medium. My workplace still uses video as the default for almost all meetings to the point where it would be somewhat rude to have a meeting that unnecessarily left off the option to attend virtually.

It’s not a “dead” revolution if you won the war just because you’re no longer churning out shiny new weapons every day. There was victory, and now the market & society is consolidating the territory.
>> Who cares?

I care, and I appreciated this submission. I dont think the submission is meant to be a replacement for Literature or Science Fiction, I think it is meant to be a Proof of Concept and showcasing a technology hack.
>The irony is palpable!

If I got a penny for every time someone points out an “irony” when it isn’t.

Hating on a new tool right off the bat without going on an extensive testing because you feel “threatened” that your knowledge in the old tool won’t be needed anymore, isn’t like when you (or in this case myself) dislike the old tool because of how cumbersome it is after actually using it for a while, and you try to avoid using it as much as possible. The only reason React is still around is because it’s popular and mostly are looking for jobs, but it’s definitely not the best nor the fastest out there.
> always ironic when ppl say this on websites hosted in the us, a country with the most documented cases of governmental organisation backdooring/spying :/

That is because other countries do not let you document/publish this information. :-)

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/04/world/europe/russia-censo...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/uks-online-safety-bill...

At least not as much as American courts will allow. The US has it's own censorship laws, but American resistance/choosing to ignore, is quite strong.
I agree. The more attention we give AI, the more it will be profitable for sites to use it to gain advertising revenue, and the more money will be given to it's development. That is why I have adopted the policy to NEVER click on any video or link that celebrates the use of AI, or uses AI to get more clicks. Of course, websites or blogs that harshly criticize AI are good.
Very much why I write my front ends in Elm. It might be a PIA, but it shields me from quirks like this.
I've found that "PDF-XChange Editor" does everything i wanted for free. At least in the version I nabbed a few years ago, not sure if they have removed options from the free version since.

Reordering pages, splitting, joining all worked in the free version, and it's not bloated. Windows only though. I think they might watermark the output when using the Save option directly, but you can get round that using Print to PDF.

Their site looks a bit "scammy", but it's actually decent software.
This is the reason you don’t pick JS for the backend? I’ve been using JavaScript professionally for over a decade now and I’ve literally never needed to write +!![] or “” - - “” or even a single one of these esoteric edge cases. (Except the floating point weirdness, which is an issue in basically every language.)
It's from the satirical video "The Expert" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg). It's up there with the "Microservices" Krazam video.
Fizz could be the next Facebook on campuses, with users across 80 schools
Are you mixing up race and culture/nationality as a rhetorical device, or because you genuinely cannot understand the difference?
A few of the most recent JS frameworks have been scooped up by by San Francisco VC funded companies, at some point they have to align with their funding's values (generating income).
Yet I still somehow vastly prefer it to Zoom, who seemingly randomly chooses where to place 5 different windows, all with important controls, each time anyone on the call shares or unshares their screen.
And Kevin Hart is taller than most female gynmasts.

It's hard for any organization (aside form Congress and Facebook) to not be more trusted than Google.
What would you list as respectable sources?
Such as HTTPS?
Interesting info. It seemed like a reasonable common one to me over the past decade on the web.
So are ~53% of adults in the EU. And there are more obese kids than before in the EU too: knowing that there's an insane statistic saying something like 93% of obese kids shall stay obese their entire life, that 53% in the EU is only ever gonna go up (unless there's serious food shortage due to a war or climate event).
1. Make friends with people at work

2. Eventually, some of those people will get new jobs, and they can refer you to their new employer (and vice versa).

3. Repeat for a few cycles and you have a network full of potential job opportunities without ever going through a job board.
Counterexamples: body tells you to eat more when stressed or depressed.

A bit of stress is healthy for the body. Your body doesn’t really tell you to go to the gym.
Funny how "in a browser" almost is supposed to be a feature... Is it? Guess it makes it instantly cross-platform.

And since some are complaining about lack of tools, surprised no one mentioned https://tools.pdf24.org/en/creator yet, it's excellent, for Windows at least.

If anyone knows any good tool for Linux, esp from cli, I'm all ears.
Stan and I worked together at DreamWorks Animation and I kept in touch with him after we both moved on. At DreamWorks, Stan was dealing with some difficult problems such as moving our code from 32 to 64 bits.

It is inevitable that Stan will be remembered for the C++ Primer. When being introduced to Stan, some percentage of people would recognize his name and ask about the book or some other aspect of C++ history. Stan would kindly respond, but I always got the sense that there were other things he would rather discuss than time spent with Bjarne in front of a whiteboard or dealings with various standards bodies.

Stan was complicated and complex. I feel that he would much rather be remembered as a father, an artist, a dancer and a lover of beauty. We usually can't determine how we will be most remembered, but Stan's work on the C++ Primer, while important, is low on my list of memories of him.
js being a dynamic language on the web with very "helpful" coercion logic, it is much easier to unintentionally perform such an operation than a non-js developer might expect

typescript helps, but i have fired some of these footguns even with typescript.
It is also possible that they think they understood the answer when they did not.

I got impressed when GPT-4 was able to explain "TVC" from Permutation City.
Same machine or not, browsers often have special rules for file:// urls.
Yeah, well, my family was lower middle class. The same for many wealthy people I know.

I noted also that my comments were referring to America, which is (still) a free market country that provides a great deal of opportunity. That's why millions of poor people try to get here.
Google had "nap pods." I don't know if they still do. You could book them via the calendaring system.

It was like a big half-sphere that covered your upper body & head, but left your legs exposed. You were still sitting, not reclining. You could have headphones with white noise.

I tried them. Not very sleepy, for me.
This person’s blog pops up every once in a while in HN but might be a good inspiration [1].

[1] https://brr.fyi/
It depends what you do.

If you do embedded software/embedded hardware (microcontrollers, FPGA, kernel dev kinda stuff), you'd probably have a spot with the experiment operators. Maintaining the experiments generally requires a decent bit of low level software and hardware experience even if you aren't necessarily sitting down and coding every day.

And if you are good with interpreting/processing data you may also still be able to land a seat with the experiment operators since they do that as well.

Or if you have Ops/DevOps, SysAdmin, or DB Admin experience, you likely could secure a slot in IT.

You likely wouldn't get the job the first time around but if you keep submitting applications, eventually you are likely to secure a job down on the ice.
tbh Im not sure what do you mean, since 40% of my comments at hacker news are get censored, is HN a chinese or russian org?
She turned her adopted sons into daughters.

What could she possibly know about men and masculinity?
oh, that's very nice! Do you happen to know a place with a good collection of those UI customizations not to start from scratch?
Dare I say "The Onion" but in the future? That's what came to my mind when I saw it the site!
No. A cargo cult is about doing X, or more commonly some flawed facsimile of X, in order to attain some desirable Y, because you've seen someone else do X and indeed attaining Y. What you don't know, however, that Y is not directly caused by X but there exists some W that's the cause of both X and Y.

Now, "Y after X thus Y caused by X" (see: post hoc ergo propter hoc) is a perfectly fine hypothesis worth testing, but to keep doing that even if it doesn't work? That's the "cult" part.

What Feynman criticized were certain fields of study, which in his opinion claimed to apply the scientific method to get scientific results (and importantly the associated prestige of Doing Science), but which in his view only practiced a facsimile of the scientific method and got merely facsimiles of scientific results!

Now, cargo cult engineering definitely also exists. If you do X – even without entirely understanding why – and reliably get the wanted result Y, that's engineering. If you don't get exactly Y but are able to adjust X to compensate, that's also engineering. But if you keep doing X without understanding why and keep not getting the wanted result Y (even though you might get some different result Z and misinterpret it as Y), that's cargo cult engineering!
parseInt(0.00005)

// 0
parseInt(0.000005)

// 0
parseInt(0.0000005)

// 5
parseInt(0.00000005)

// 5

Huh??!
no no no, python is weird
It will leave them in a tarpit of their own making. Google was useful only in a world where content quality mattered.
Nice Work,

I was literally trying to create something like this

Anyways good job
> Why oh why did the whole world decide nodejs sever side js was a good direction?

Knowledge transfer, context switching, the stuff you already know. But there's also an interesting non-JS reason that's gotten forgotten because the serverside landscape has changed so much since the early 2010s. Node very heavily popularized single-threaded asynchronous request handling (ie, not starting up a thread for every request that came into the server).

Of course there is nothing about Javascript that means it specifically as a language is essential for that pattern, but I remember hearing talks from Netflix employees and industry advocates about how much Node had improved their performance; I remember industry people coming to my college and talking about single-threaded serverside code and saying "you all need to check Node out."

And there are downsides to asynchronous code (callback hell was the obvious downside that got brought up a lot before `async` or even promises had arrived in the language) -- but I remember among especially younger serverside developers this trend of people saying, "Node is just faster. That's why you use it, because it's just straight-up more performant than what you're currently doing." And I understand serverside devs from other languages can at this point jump in and say that it's not, that the single-threaded model is possible in other languages, that there are downsides to the single-threaded model, that Node doesn't do it well, whatever. I'm not arguing the point, I'm just describing the cultural shift I saw.

All of the conversations about sharing code happened too, but I remember having conversations where people talked to me about jumping to Node specifically because Express was single-threaded and because it could handle more concurrent requests than other popular server architectures that they were familiar with. And I suspect that it gave the ecosystem a lot of momentum.

Node's original purpose was in part an experiment to see if single-threaded async request handling would be able to handle large numbers of simultaneous requests. My somewhat-limited memory of the conversations that were taking place back then is that running the same language clientside and serverside was just the icing on the cake. The big reason people were excited was because Node was single-threaded.
As another comment points out, this isn’t JavaScript related, it’s just how the semantics of NaN in floating point works.

Because, conceptually, 0/0 is not equal to -inf + inf. NaN is not a semantic value (it is a lack of one), so you can’t do semantic comparisons with it.
>Today, people’s resistance to neopronouns likely stems from their use by nonbinary and trans people

Or maybe it's the fact that it's fairly reliably self evident if someone is a he or she, and if you don't know or aren't sure you can use they.

You need to know before hand if people prefer another particular pronoun, and then you need to have been introduced to them, but if you've been introduced to them you can use their name, infact using pronouns in that situation can be considered rude (see: "who's 'she'? The cats mother?")

I think the area of fruitful debate is who to label a he/she/they.

Presenting as a certain gender seems straight forward? What are the edge cases for non binary people though?

I suppose gay people have various ways of showing they are homosexual, maybe something like that will come about?

Maybe a non gendered Mr/ms equivalent?