skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another anecdote in the opposite direction: I've had good social skills, made friends with diverse groups of people easily, etc. all my life. When I was working in a grocery store in my mid-twenties, I was a typical person to call on when there was a customer who needed to be placated.

I spent my years 17 - 20 doing little aside from programming. I went from having written two little things in VB to writing games and game engines, emulators, 3D model loaders etc. Whenever I was on a bus I was probably reading Real-time Rendering or the OpenGL Superbible.

I had no social difficulties at that time. And soon after I quit programming because my wrist were bothering me, and I fairly easily made a new group of friends who I started hanging out with (non-nerdy friends with no technical backgrounds or interests).

BUT, by the time I was ~27, after spending about 2 years working obsessively on a software project (it was a new way of writing code that could make it efficient to do without mouse/keyboard)—I could recognize in myself the characteristics of a more stereotypical social-skill lacking engineer: difficulty making eye contact, excessive tension, generally fumbling/passive in social interactions.

Eventually I got out of it, but my understanding of what happened was similar to what the GP posted: I always had that project on my mind. I would get deep insights about it out of the blue, and if I was working (grocery store) or watching a movie or hanging out with friends, I was still trying out different ideas related to it.

When you don't leave that abstract/analytical mind state, you can't really connect with people, and you end up approaching things with a similar conscious problem-solving mind set, which is just not effective for so many aspects of human interaction. There's also some difficulty from how other people perceive you when you're interacting with them while in that state of mind.

And there's almost certainly some connection to anxiety here: anxiety is a feeling of needing to change your situation; at its core, rational thought is our means of detaching from current happenings to form a plan for an alternate course of action. I think that if you're always thinking, you're always at least a bit anxious as well, which makes you something like more fragile in social interactions.
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It's not likely to take off.

Do you want pre-shared secrets and the expense of a quantum network to, in theory, have infinite security (in theory!), or are you okay with tried and tested RSA which gives you >1000000000 years security at a much cheaper cost, that actually works in practice?
I'm kind of the opposite. I have a very good salary now at a young age, but I feel that I'm losing my youth. In many ways I would half my current salary to not be stuck in an office writing CRUD - but then I think about all the flexibility my salary provides and go the other way. It's a hard choice
I always like to use games as small projects. They usually require the use of a wide variety of programming concepts, and can be scaled up or down as needed.

If you know GUI like Swing or AWT, you can use that to do simple games like space invaders or pong.

If not, text based games work too. Good examples are battleship, tic tac toe, number guessing games, small adventure games, or dice and card games.
To me, the increasing buyback trend is an indicator that the US economy is effectively nearing a peak and the underlying economic model that depends on infinite growth is going to need rework in the not too distant future. Companies generally do buybacks when they don't have any productive use of their profits that would contribute to fundamentals (and thus boost share price the old-fashioned way). Companies are piling up profits and then realizing that it's easier to boost share price by just buying their own shares than by investing in more long-term things.

As per-worker productivity increases and wages continue to see only modest gains this trend is likely to continue. That's worrying for the vast majority of Americans who aren't executives or shareholders.
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goodbits/ is smaller though ;)
And still nobody would argue to pack everything together into one executable because of these issues. As everything in software engineering, it is about finding the right trade-off.
The most amazing piece of art I've seen in person is "Christ of St. John of the Cross" by Dali at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow. It's an amazing painting. And the museum is free.

Unfortunately, getting to Glasgow is not free for me, and I probably will never do so again in my life. Sure, great art is better in person. There's more great art than I have money to get to, though, so (at least for us non-filthy-rich types), digital copies are far better than nothing.
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I'm interested to know the following:

Is selling vaporwave songs legal, such as those that remix Michael Jackson?
If not, who is liable - is it the creator of the song or the seller of floppy disks?
To misquote Winston Churchill, SQL is the worst data approach except for all others. As far as query languages, I'd like to see more language competition. I imagine it would take a decade or two to be competitive with SQL, which has a big head start. (I'm partial to SMEQL myself.)
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Yeah it's funny, my first thought was since I started using Arch, the most common thing I hear people say is that packages from AUR should be considered unsafe until you've read the PKGBUILD, at least. It's a good thing it gets brought up so much, unfortunately.
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I don't disagree but don't fully agree... Paintings can't be experienced in print the same as in close proximity to the original. You're right that in most cases for renown art you'd better of just just studying a good reproduction rather than have to wait in line and not being able to have some intimacy with it, a quiet study , some rflection... The setting is equally important in how you experience the work. You have to admit though that it's not the same thing, the layers of pigments them at different densities and with different strokes cannot be reproduced identically, not even close(maybe one day with 3d printers). Of course, this all depends on the artwork. Some get their point across at low res too..
Trademarks: Who
Copyrights: What
Patents: How

Many do not realize that utility patents generally protect how something is done, not what was done. Inventors will often say, we can't patent that because someone else does that thing already. But it is the "how" that matters not the "what."

For example, even though the paper mention Amazon's one-click patent, there are probably 100's of other shopping cart patents that claim different methods of making an ecommerce shopping cart work.
Grass is always greener I guess. Most of the doctors I know work tough hours and envy the engineer lifestyle.

There also isn't a huge gap in pay unless the M.D. is specialized, but then you have quite a few years of low-earning vs. engineer's almost instant earning power so probably comes out about even.
why do these buybacks happen (seemingly) closer to market top rather than bottom? thats just reflecting a common theme across market over last year or so. seems like a very dumb way to utilize cash on hand. is there a more structural reason for this?
It's not an English language problem, terms like informatics[0], computing, computation or <x> engineering are valid and used by some universities.

My degree is simply "MEng Computing". It's recognized[1] by the engineering association, although that's so irrelevant in most IT that I had to look up the organization: the "BCS (BCS - Chartered Institute for IT) and the IET (Institute of Engineering and Technology)."

[0] My job title includes the word "informatician".

[1] https://www.imperial.ac.uk/computing/prospective-students/ac...
Some people disagree: https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-make-sense-of-the-present-...

This is a pop-sci article, so take it with a grain of salt, but there is a growing body of research that attempts to frame many cognitive processes as inherently predictive (inferential?). I think this view arises pretty naturally when you start thinking about us having a 'model' of reality that we is updated based on sensory information, but I digress.

I think I see where you're coming from.

A human might not be 'predicting', since the term has some kind of temporal element connotation. But we could say that it's 'inferring' what the photo represents?
They would for the simple fact of approving a lease arrangement for the city property surrounding the sign. And some increased patrolling would serve the same interests you mention, in a more direct and more immediate way.
I’ve worked exclusively in tech for the past 30 years for 10 orgs or so. I learned new skills through formal and informal training. Not your Walmart example but I both progressed organically and joined company teams. Nowhere was there a static tech team without mobility. Maybe I’m just lucky but even giant banks and Gov orgs had career ladders.

If anything this is less of an issue in tech than other industries.

Tech knowledge isn’t innate, no one is born with it. So it’s good that decisions are made with people who have specific tech knowledge. It’s also good that tech knowledge is one of the most democratic, accessible, and learnable knowledges out there. I know dozens of high level tech leaders who have no degree at all, a couple with no high school diploma and one who dropped out of middle school.
It's probably easy enough to simulate the "bash" implementation done in a distributed way. Doing that python library full parsing locally, 10,000 lines (or however much memory one can configure up to) at a time might also be easy enough.

Come to think of it, just benchmarking a single-threaded run of enough lines of each against each other should give you an idea, especially with even basic profiling from time(1) to estimate how much was CPU and how much was I/O.

That said, I don't think that such a discrepancy, if it exists, takes away from what I took to be the author's overall point, which is that old, simple tools, are underused, despite being much faster and good enough, i.e. worse is better [1].

[1] This an example of sacrificing correctness for simplicity in implementation, something detailed in the "rise of worse is better" essay, not merely an excuse for sloppiness in engineering.
And if you repeatedly commit blunders on accident, that are repeatedly called out by a majority, this whole situation has just magnified the problem by a non-trivial factor. Because you are literally telling a person 'don't do things on this list' ... Okay
... What can I do? 'oh, figure it out'

Why does it not make sense that people like this have to be acutely intelligent super insanely fast? You've basically been conditioned to solve a problem that is np hard because every new person has different preferences and every old person eventually gets tired of you not adapting to them quickly enough.

And honestly, the bottom line is this all may happen because of something insanely stupid - like having acne, freckles, a big nose, whatever. So you can never win with these people! And eventually you realize that and find real friends, and we all live happily ever after, just like everyone else is allowed to. The end.
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I have one question...can we do this with fire ants?
It isn't, though. I expect Parcel will eventually be superceded again by Webpack, and continue to use it for new projects because it's more entrenched.

And, moreover, it basically doesn't matter. Pick what you like, change it later if you care. (You probably won't.)
Anyone who thought the working class would benefit in any way from these tax cuts was delusional. Profit is almost never seen by the creators (workers) of the profit in this current system.
The (flawed) assumption that hard work inevitably leads to success is perhaps the biggest reason why capitalism is so successful.
who was the whistle-blower in the Hillary emails?

Someone else gave the Pentagon papers as an example of a "good leak" and it was. But I think good leaks tend to be those, like the pentagon papers that are handled by responsible organizations (NY Times and Wash. Post in that case). The people who created this code may be just such people, but there's no reason to think someone who does git-clone on this repo is.

By the way, both the Post and the Times openly solicit leaks.
With hype always comes a throng of people who aren't capable of doing the necessary analytical thinking to solve their problem and who think they can substitute a magical pattern for designing their application instead of truly understanding their problem domain and building a real solution to that problem.

Does that make it the fault of the technology/pattern? I don't think so. I think it just means that there's no magic bullets in tech and people who don't know what they're doing will always cause problems no matter what models they follow.
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Thanks. Here is a question about Gravwell, non-community edition: how much? I personally get really annoyed when I look at a tool or system that is possibly interesting, depending on cost, and don't find a price on the site. I don't have time to go through the whole sales-spiel for every tool of interest, and just want to quickly filter on "now, maybe later, no way" and cost is key factor in making that determination. And usually, if the answer is "it depends" it typically means "it depends on how far we think we can push". So thanks, but before I download a trial, community edition, or sign up to become an honoured member of your sales-funnel, please, lets' not waste anybodies time, and let me know "how much".
It's all about jacking up the stock price for shareholders. Unfortunately.
A related analysis of the economics of the 'Buyback Economy', from about a month ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17296102
I have a copy of this "LP". It's just the cover art, no actual record inside. I guess that made some people pretty mad who actually bought it. https://www.discogs.com/Pigeon-Religion-Why-Do-You-Hate-Pige...
Is this what you are looking for regarding Christmas Tree Birds?

https://www.boothbayregister.com/article/christmas-tree-bird...
Buybacks have significant tax advantages and are little different from dividends. Really, the entire point of companies is to give shareholders money, so buybacks don't say much about the wider economy.
There is the aspect that if you want to study the artist (rather than individual works), then having access to such huge body of their work is immensely useful and can provide great context for individual works. This is something that would be very difficult to achieve without these sorts digitization efforts.
> This means, everytime you touch something under a repo, it affects everyone.

This is horrible at scale.

> This is a classic case of not understanding micro services and trying to fit a problem around a tool.

That much I agree with. TFA even acknowledges that, in the conclusion. Not in so many words, but they basically admit they did it wrong.
It's like a heat engine of hype that you can extract useful energy from.

$_max = 1 - (H_c / H_h)

That is, the amount of money you can extract via consulting is proportional to the ratio of "hot" to "cold", representing the minimum and maximum hype for a given technology during the cycle.
Agreed. This looks interesting, but I just do not have it in me to care about a company's sales funnel.

The last time I put up with this kind of thing I was on an hour-long call with a HashiCorp sales guy who didn't have the answers to any questions but did want to tell me that support would be $25,000/year for 9x5 access (lol).
You should look at Snowplow (https://snowplowanalytics.com/) which offers a good amount of power and can be self hosted or run at AWS, and is fully open source. That being said, Adobe's product has truly "enterprise" scale, governance, and industry integration across many regions, and if you have that need, few products can really get you there.
There are plenty of consulting firms that do work for federal government or fortune 1000 that need people with your skills.

Add value to your skills by learning how the cloud environments layer on top of this and maybe by getting a cert or two. A colleague of mine blitzed the AWS Solutions Architect Associate in a day based on similar experience to yours.

There's lots of work in advising best approach to move to cloud or stay on prem or do combo.
The 'environment' is really never in balance. Predator/prey oscillations and crashes are the norm even without humans around. Maybe some ecosystems have been around long enough to have some properties of complex adaptive systems where the parts interact to keep extreme oscillations from occurring, but knowing how an ecosystem will respond to a single species disappearing is really unknowable until it happens.
Definitely interested, but would like to see a demo or some screenshots of the UI or something featured more prominently.
I'm always a bit unclear on how stock buybacks get reported so badly, though I suppose it is in the complexity of the transaction. If that $437B was in dividends I doubt anyone would think twice about it, yet that is in essence what they are.
Sterilizing with Wolbachia is "natural" and thus reduces time-to-market versus a GMO-based solution.

The Verily folks are well aware of gene drives and CRISPR, but they're working to get a useful profitable product out to market, so they'll have more money to support that sort of R&D.
Wouldn't it make more sense to issue more stock when the stock is at all time high and buyback when the stock is low like during a recession?
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... and yet: it's a reasonable thing to ask how much of a GDP should be spent on research funding. That the US will spend more than India (for now) isn't surprising.
Already there :)

Maybe I'm getting pessimistic due to my workplace and what I see in websites like WeWorkRemotely, RemoteOk, etc. I'm not sure, maybe I need to stick my head a bit more and get a glimpse at other companies.

I see people spinning up K8s clusters with no thought to security, performance, etc. All. The. Time. And they are getting so much accomplished with a flood of kudos. And I'm the party pooper if I, very politely really, raise these concerns and offer solutions. It's like I'm the uninvited guest to the party, I don't know how to put it another way.

This is what drove me to think of being a consultant. That way people can shoot themselves in the foot and I'm called in to clean everything. At least it's not this daily struggle (or is it?)
Regarding your 3rd point, there was a recent study that made the rounds here finding that fasting may actually be beneficial to intestinal wall lining (but no word on stomach lining): http://news.mit.edu/2018/fasting-boosts-stem-cells-regenerat...
Ah, I read the first link in the comments first, which really does imply they're using GP methods.

https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~bornholt/post/synthesis-exp...

However they're using a SMT solver as part of the fitness function of the program.

You know - it needs the correct output, but you need to prevent overfitting, and if you have a formal proof of the program generated you can expend greater effort into reducing its complexity and optimising.

Again, it's an old new thing and possibly going to start getting hyped like neural networks have been of late.
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This looks great, is it free as in speech or free as in beer? I didn't see it on https://github.com/gravwell
Is there any good reason to use Azure for those kind of apps when you have plenty of competitors with much better performance?
Agreed; I hate mosquitoes but I worry about change amplification. How will this ripple up the food chain? I wish this article also addressed the concerns, if any, by those studying the affects.
It's exactly the other way around:

If you can afford all your components sharing the same database without creating a big dependency hell, then your problem is _too small_ for microservices.

If your problem is so large that you have to split it up to manage its complexity, start considering microservices (it might still not be the right option for you).
This misses the mark completely. A separate repo and service simply for different serialization and routing? Each performing the same basic function. That’s not a legitimate use-case for microservice separation and was doomed from the start.
Once we got into a big discussion at c2.com about "proving nested blocks were objectively better than go-to's". Being most agreed nested blocks are usually "better", it seemed like it would be an easy task. Not! Too much depends on human psychology/physiology, which both varies between people, and is poorly understood. We couldn't even agree on a definition of nested blocks, being hybrid structures were presented as case studies.

I personally believe nested blocks produce a visual structure (indenting) that helps one understand the code by its "shape". Go-to's have no known visual equivalent.

Computers don't "care" how you organize software, they just blindly follow commands. Thus, you are writing it for people more than machines, and people differ too much in how they perceive and process code. For the most part, software is NOT about machines.
A lot of it seems to be abandoned fishing gear. Another 20% is from the 2011 Japan tsunami, which can't be helped by recycling. https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/03/great-pacific-ga...
I agree. "I'll interpret these strange before and after images that way and move on."
Indeed. Aedes aegipti originated in Africa and spread to throughout the world due to trade and globalization (including the transatlantic slave trade). It brought with it many African mosquito-bourne diseases such as Dengue and Yellow Fever, which are specifically transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes.
Verily has also been releasing these sterile mosquitoes in Fresno since 2016:

https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/07/18/heres-the-real-buzz-g...

https://blog.verily.com/2017/07/debug-fresno-our-first-us-fi...
My friend, you’re barely a few generations removed from a time when a scraped knee could be a bacterial infection and death. This news is fantastic and your life probably isn’t as bad as you make it seem.
Cue the people saying "yeah but we all make our own luck"
or "luck favors the prepared"

Which misses the point. Of course you have to be good AND lucky to succeed. But not everyone can be lucky. So think of that the next time you're looking a few rungs down the ladder.
Technically, Lotka–Volterra tells us that almost no environment is in a stable equilibrium (balance).
I once scoffed at microservices.

Then I was tasked with building a scalable platform around a message broker system.

Then the switch clicked. I get it now.
As annoying as fire ants are, invasive aquatic species like Zebra Mussels are having a frightening impact in the United States. If we can remove them using a similar technique, that would be amazing.
Visa issues don't allow me to consider that at the moment but I think joining as a SRE in one of these companies would be a great choice.

Unfortunately, it's impossible for a 3rd-world citizen to get a US visa and one European country already refused my visa request a few months ago (on the basis I don't have a degree). I don't think I can go through that path again with the odds of getting through being so low for me.
they had a flashlight (but I think just one)
I had enough of this stuff in my case so I locked repo down so only members of a team can merge PRs and no one can merge anything without a PR.