skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But I know that when I pull a 3 year old log out of the archive, I can gunzip it and will still be able to read it, no matter how much the file format has changed since then, and I don't have to dig up a 3 year old magic decoder program (that may only run on one operating system) to be able to see what's in the file.

Oh, but you can rest assured that systemd will never, ever have a breaking change. Lennart Poettering can be trsuted to never do something that would cause anybody any trouble! /s

And that's the problem: systemd is a great idea, and it does a lot of really great things, but the man in charge simply can't be trusted not to break things. It was one thing when he was breaking desktops with PulseAudio; it's an entirely different thing now that his decisions can break servers (how many systems have broken due to nohup no longer doing its job?), and break the ability to retrieve logs over time.

I honestly think that systemd is going to arrive at a good place eventually, and a great deal of credit will belong to Poettering. But it will also cause a great deal of harm before it gets there, and he deserves a great deal of the blame.
Early in my career I heard just such advice from a guy I respected as a big success in his field.

A couple of years later, when his code started taking down other actors in the ecosystem, it became my job for a while to replace his modules with my own implementations that were more efficient. Sometimes by a factor of 1000. Literally.

Doing it right the first time would have only taken a fraction of the effort it took in the end (assuming you have the proficiency to do so).

I find dismissive comments about efficiency troubling.
The death of localhost and the rise of cloud development
Thanks! I was quite puzzled, as they had this roadmap of having manned mission in like 2 years from now. Now as I learned that they do static fire shortly before lanching, and given that in this moment the astronauts should be already there in the rocket... I can't really imagine this.
Goodbye, Ivory Tower. Hello, Silicon Valley Candy Store
Right, is that not exactly what is supposed to happen? Performance and profits are directly related to pay, especially when you're publicly traded.
> perhaps (gasp) a startup would have started selling epi pens

The first version of Soylent lacked iron because Rhinehart couldn't be bothered to Google basic nutrition requirements.

We've tried the no regulation medical market. The term "snake oil salesman" exists because of it.
This comment is not only absurd, it's mean-spirited and offensive.
There's a lot of overlap between the two, or there can be; there is as much variation in what one does in EE as you can imagine, from supervising operations to semiconductor design, etc.

A design engineer tends to have a batch-oriented life. Typical workflow might be like CAD -> sim -> layout -> debug -> small scale production -> testing -> handoff to production. Of course all of this is as a member of a larger team. Somewhere in there you'll either work on software or firmware or both. I spend about half my time in the lab or field, the rest in my office or meetings.

One bad side of EE is that you can break stuff much differently from software. When the magic smoke comes out, there's no 'svn revert' - you have to figure out what you broke and fix it before you can move on. This always happens when you're in a rush and causes plenty of unplanned late nights. And for additional fun, it's not uncommon for problems to crop up where you just have no way to get at the underlying issue. Datasheets don't have all the info you need, and you can't always figure it out. Sometimes you hit a wall and just have to start over. I used an Atmel processor which had a weird bug in its I2C slave module which prevented it from working properly. Best solution ended up being to go to a different processor, which was incredibly painful.

It's really awesome to be able to hold on to a thing that you built and make it go. Seeing your thing go out in the field and work is very rewarding.
It depends on where you want to start your axioms. We can go the Whitehead/Russell route or just use this as an axiom.

We convince children that 1+1 =2 without delving into the Peano axioms. It's ok to not delve too deeply into the axiomatic structure of the reals.
>Do I understand you correctly that you _only_ get around via Uber/Lyft?

Back in Europe at least, I know several of people who use taxis for all their getting around -- with the occasional subway ride thrown in.

And those are people that get around a lot, though that's mostly true for above a certain income source and usually on creative professions (directors, composers, journalists, etc. -- kind of like people whose work doesn't necessitate commuting every day to some office, and who couldn't afford a 24/7 personal chauffeur, but could still pay for 2-5 taxi rides per day).
To expand a bit more, there are many different definitions of money. Here are some measurable ones, roughly defined:

M0 - Currency in Circulation, physical coins and notes in public circulation.

MB - Monetary Base, M0 + physical coins and notes held in bank vaults.

M1 - Money, M0 + checking accounts (excludes bank vaults).

M2 - Money and Close Substitutes, M1 + time deposits (CDs, bonds, etc.)

M3 - Broad Money, M2 + money market funds, repurchase agreements, other wacky shit.

Wikipedia has more detail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply

Here's a graph of different monies over time: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/58/MB,_M1_and_M2...

On the other hand, credit is very difficult to measure since people borrow and lend from each other all the time.

Interestingly, M2 is larger now than before the 2008 crash, but money+credit is smaller than it had been.
A significant fraction of designing any complex system consists of getting the people who design different parts to agree on the interface between those parts.
I completely agree with Margaret thatcher. She was a great leader who wasn't afraid to stand up to the parasitic labor unions.

The problem with globalists is that they are not capitalists who want to get rich by competing with each other, they want to get rich by using the power of government to literally take money from the poor and middle class through corporate wellfare, inflation, wage depression and immigration.

This Harvard profession in testimony to the Congress should shed some light on how this has nothing to do with what Thatcher was talking about.

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/03-16-16%20Bo...

[see Table 2 on page 9 for his conclusions]
Another one of his famous songs: Кукушка (Kukushka: cuckoo)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJItrpLE8rE

Tsoi was a great artist who died way too young.
I use Google Play Music and really like it. Both on the desktop (web version) and on my Android phone. If "premium", can make playlists offline, etc. Selection seems comparable to Spotify.

Drawback is, IMO, that the "top charts" take a little bit longer to catch-up to current fashion than Spotify's.
I hope at least they don't depend on constantly increasing stock prices, otherwise they are likely the source of the problem in the first place.
That was a very high minded response to an attempt at commiserating.
>Almost no one (outside of those who were friends with math majors) are actually familiar with the nature of proof-based mathematics

Hmm...when I was a CS major, a discrete math course was required, and it was all proofs. I believe that is still common. I don't find the proof aspect that relevant to programming, but the concepts of discrete math, such as sets, graphs, definitely are.

As far as things that aren't programming go in relation to programming, contest math, with its focus on efficient and creative problem solving, is probably more similar to the daily experience of writing software than any course I took. The exception would be Math Modeling and other courses that actually required programming.
That's interesting. Because clearly separating parts of content too far presents a usability challenge of its own, but failing to separate them enough presents a similar set of usability challenges.

I personally tend toward the "users do scroll, it's okay to make long pages" school of thought. But certain extreme cases are extremely unpleasant to use. That said, I don't consider this one case so extreme, because it at least does not take over my ability to scroll at the pace I expect.
Nifty idea - but I couldn't trigger it. Must be because it detected my sweet choir boy nature, and knew that my attempts at profanity was 'cute' rather than grumpy!
Indeed this is pretty close to it. It's funny the things which can throw you off too. Striking up a conversation with someone and they ask how many kids you have, or if you are going to try again for that boy or girl. Sometimes it's easy, but Some days it will tip your emotional canoe more than you were expecting.
Not only that, but zcat is standard on every system I've tried (which, admittedly, isn't very many) and vim reads gzipped files as if they're plaintext.

Last time I was writing a logging system the only reason I couldn't write directly to gzipped files was that I couldn't append to a gzipped file using Python (fairly important in logging). It looked like the reason was a Window's specific workaround having to do with seeking from the end of the file.
make sure that the drivers understand

Yeah, right. https://www.youtube.com/c/yovo68
How are your troubleshooting skills?

I'd say my EEs spend 50% in design and 50% in debugging customer problems when a board fails in manufacturing or fails in the field.

The answers can be easy (say, a resistor is out of tolerance or the wrong oscillator was placed on the board), or they can be really tough (a transient is killing a FET and locking things up).
It's interesting how clear political ties between Mylan and Democratic party are swept under the rug. Also the Mylan CEO was instrumental in ensuring that FDA didn't approve any competing products because more regulation is always good. Warren, Clinton et. al. are all Pharma funded politicians. Don't get me wrong I think Obamacare is great but had this been case related to an oil company, there would have been 20 different Vox, Atlantic articles blaming Republicans.

However this time since it does not fits the optimal political pattern the outrage is far more silent.
They could use a "hinting" system similar to what fonts use. Type 1 fonts and Metafont both do this.
There was an FDA approved competitor. It got pulled from the market because of fears it wasn't delivering the right dosage, and the company selling the drug wasn't willing to put up with the potential liability.
Sadly, there's not much that can be done to fix humans.

The elevenfooteight bridge now has a traffic light which goes red and stays red on detecting an overheight vehicle, with a lit-up sign saying "OVERHEIGHT MUST TURN". It's still getting hit by overheight vehicles.

And then there's the lengths that had to be gone to in Syndey to stop overheight vehicles entering tunnels:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoTMC-uxJoo
seriously? people giving up their cars in LA? Oh, sure, I believe that buzzfeed was able to find 3 people who gave up their cars. But what do the statistics say about LA car ownership?
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In defense of math:

Statistics was the one ongoing use of math in my former roles as a manufacturing engineer. Beyond that I haven't used much math directly. However, I have replied upon my knowledge of engineering core courses to understand and solve problems. I needed to understand calculus-based math in order to understand that coursework. So math is important.

There is a saying among teachers that in K-3 you "learn to read" and from then on you "read to learn". The same principle holds for math. Math itself may not be the end goal for many degrees, but after you "learn to math", you "math to learn".
It's the Times...it's a bought and paid for neo-liberal rag at this point. Of course it glosses over this.
Looks like he also created Oswald, one of the most popular fonts on Google Fonts: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Oswald
Investors seeking profits? The horror!

Profits are what caused investors to create these companies in the first place, so without that we wouldn't have EpiPens.

In this particular case, there is an anti-trust argument to be made (after the generic got pulled), but drug development is a side-effect of investors seeking maximum returns. If anyone here thinks there is a better system for drug development, I think we'd all love to hear it.
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While remotely plausible, this sounds farfetched to me, considering that there would be virtually no R&D budget to deal with, and unlike chemical pharmaceuticals it is easy to test the full life cycle of the device in seconds, thousands of times in a row. Epinephrine is in the public domain, and there is no chance that flaws in the delivery device would take years to discover.

So in comparison to most of what Big Pharma spends money trying to bring to market, an epi pen is (in comparison) extremely easy.

My guess is that even if a patent were successfully filed for a new delivery device, the challenge lies in getting all the sweetheart deals that Mylan was able to get.
Heh, "suns out guns out" in my part of the world means you can wear tank tops to show off your muscles 'guns'.
Because our hive-mind technology is sadly underdeveloped. :(

If there were a Borg-a-Tron 5000 that we could all stick our heads in to let dev and QA and PM and mgt know what the rest of the team was thinking, I'd use it. But only during work hours.
If that's so newsworthy, then why hasn't Fox News brought it up? I think it's pretty well known that conflicts of interest are rampant throughout the government across party lines. I don't think there's any liberal conspiracy going on here.
My condolences to you. I can't imagine the pain of losing your child, I can only think of losing my younger brother and watching what my parents had to deal with.

I'm very sorry for your loss.
example: https://twitter.com/tzmartin/status/688950091063771137
a few of his other fonts, in github

https://github.com/vernnobile

I will use it
> The first version of Soylent lacked iron because Rhinehart couldn't be bothered to Google basic nutrition requirements.

Yet it is legal for someone to subsist only on Doritos. Why not regulate those too.
> The economist looks for competitors in cases like this. A firm cannot just willy-nilly raise their prices without a competing firm leaping in to give consumers what they want at a lower price. As it turns out, Mylan has a great friend who keeps would-be competitors out of the market, or at least makes it so difficult for them that they eventually go out of business. That friend is the FDA.

> ...

> Mylan has been repeatedly protected from competition, and it has repeatedly (and predictably) increased the price of EpiPens in response. Allowing all of these companies to compete in producing epinephrine auto-injectors would be the best course for all of the many patients who want a cheaper solution for severe allergic reactions.

> One thing is for sure: capitalism is not to blame. Government regulations have choked this market and many others. What we need is a big dose of freedom.

src : https://mises.org/blog/lack-epipen-competitors-fdas-fault
Also Meni Rosenfeld who's one of the first people involved with Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining research. Also the founder of the Israeli Bitcoin Association.
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Correct. I am not scrubbing anything, but the carriers do.
There's something else here, too. For thousands of years, national wealth and power were largely based in natural resources such as agricultural land and gold mines. In the industrial revolution, new natural resources, especially fossil fuels, were added, but wealth and power shifted mainly to manufactured goods. That is why you can have great industrial powers like Japan, China, and South Korea that are relatively poor in natural sources. And it is why Russia, even though it has natural resources far beyond any other nation, is about 10th in the size of its economy.

The problem with Putin is his mind is still partly back in the pre-industrial era, and so he only half gets this. He knows Russia has to industrialize, but he still sees natural resources as being much more important than they really are, and so he is simply on the wrong economic track.

A key case here is petroleum. It accounts for half the Russian government's tax revenues, and it is central to Putin's plans and investments. But thanks to the renewable energy revolution, based on manufactured technologies like PV cells and giant wind turbines, in half a century petroleum will be largely replaced, and so worth very little. But Putin doesn't get this, which is why so little effort is being put into renewables.
I have told parents their child has died. It may not be 'right', but in every case, even when both parents are present, I'm talking to the mother.

I am a father of three. Were I in those horrible shoes, I'm quite certain I would feel that my wife was the one "being told". Maybe that's just some misplaced "macho" attitude on my part, but it's always been true, in my experience.
Isn't Mint still basically Ubuntu, but with their own release cycle that's even further abstracted from the Debian one?
That sign is horrible! It's like it was designed to be utterly useless.

"Overheight must turn" means to virtually all "IF you are Overheight you must turn". Obviously that driver doesn't think he is overheight.

Change it to "Warning: Overheight truck detected in this lane" (with proper lights/arrows pointing to lane). And blink red as well.
Perhaps they knew the design was flawed, or perhaps they made a very foolish decision (since they would have profited handsomely if the design could be fixed).
No one markets Doritos as a complete nutrition substitute. They're not equivalent at all.
You're talking about different things. Foodstuffs can and should be regulated to a reasonable degree, and they are regulated, not only by the FDA but also by state departments of agriculture and local departments of health. Whether an early iteration of Soylent should've been legal or not is beside the point.

The point is that, iirc, Mylan has a government-granted monopoly on the EpiPen via a patent for the injection mechanism. That means Mylan is the only company that is legally allowed to manufacture it in the United States. In addition, it takes millions of dollars to bring a treatment through the slow FDA approval process (though it's not clear if this is necessary to compete with EpiPen), so even if someone was somehow able to circumvent and/or license any patents Mylan may hold, it'd still take herculean resources to bring a competitor to market.

That's what the grandparent is talking about. The EpiPen can be so expensive because no one else is legally allowed to sell a substantially similar device without Mylan's permission. When the consumer has only one option, especially for something as crucial as a life-saving medication, things are really bad, whether the economic system that consumer is living under calls itself "capitalism" or something else.

We've got to fix our intellectual property laws, both patent and copyright. A large part of the Fortune 500 is only there because of the excessive legal monopolies that we've granted through intellectual property (which means it'll be basically impossible to fix).
I wonder about the other risks. What do you think is the most effective way to disable a satellite? (And correspondingly, the best way to keep one safe?)
Exact same boat. My entire life I would consider myself stoic, just generally not moved to tears for anything. I've felt sad, tremendously sad before about things that have had other people losing their minds around me, but crying never really seemed part of my process.

Then the first child came and I can't stand more than a passing glance of kids in war torn areas or have to shut off a news clip where some monster did something awful to a child. My blood boils and my heart shatters nearly instantly.

1 second after my first child was born I realized I had only two fears for the rest of my life: not being a good enough dad and living longer than any of my children.
I guess it depends on the frame of reference. The change happens while the plane is still on the runway before lift off.
Just because our system falls so far outside the ideology it claims to espouse does not mean it's not capitalism. Just as the reality of communism was far from the ideology, so is our reality of capitalism. I'd argue, however, that this is capitalism. How things should work is a fantasy. They do not work the way you describe in most 'capitalist' systems (US, European countries, China). I'd argue that what you call capitalism doesn't exist and pretending that it does supports and fuels the current system and state of affairs by legitimizing the idea of capitalism when the actuality of capitalism is not so rosy (hundreds of dollars for an EpiPen). The idea of capitalism that you espouse, I'd argue, is mere fantasy and delusion and a rather dangerous one at that just as the idea of communism has been to the world.
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You are looking at this in much the wrong way.

Here's the real trend:

People who are currently 25 own less cars than people who were 25 ten years ago.

People who are currently 30 own less cars than people who were 30 ten years ago.

People who are currently 35 own less cars than people who were 35 ten years ago. (Note, these are the people who at 25 owned more cars than current 25 year olds)

Yes, when the people who are currently 25 turn 35 (aka the millennials age), they will own more cars than they did at 25. But all trends support the idea that they will own less cars than the people who are currently 35.

While not exactly purchases, I like this graph showing every age cohort is less likely to take out a car loan today than in 2003.

http://public.tableau.com/profile/joe.cortright#!/vizhome/Ca...

And also this graph about how many people have driver's licenses, every age cohort has gone down since 2008. And for young cohorts, it has gone down tremendously since 1983.

http://public.tableau.com/profile/joe.cortright#!/vizhome/Dr...