skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For working on servers, tmux + mosh is a killer combination: mosh makes your connection resilient to network issues and tmux gives you (back) scrollback and cross-session persistence.

mutt is hard to beat as an email client and circe (an emacs package) + znc on a digital ocean instance or equivalent makes for a great persistent irc session.
There was a period where a lot of cards were sold with "TV out" as a bullet point-- usually a weird little port that connected to a breakout cable to provide S-video and/or component and composite. This seemed to be most common in the late AGP and early PCI-E era -- Geforce 2/3/4/FX/6, Radeon 8xxx/9xxx cards.

Before that, you could either get a "scan converter" which would convert VGA into composite video, or a specialty monitor which was typically a 27" or 32" CRT TB capable of synching to 640x480 VGA.

When flat-panel TVs started coming out they typically had a VGA or DVI port, and shortly thereafter HDMI, so it became moot.
Your view of college seems to be very media influenced. Just like 99.9% of Arabic people aren't terrorists, 99.9% of college students aren't 'safe space triggered social justice warriors'.
Maybe you should grab a statistics class at a nearby college. ;).

The media has really painted college students in a bad light.
There's such a wide variety of students and personalities.
It's a great place to share ideas and form networks.
No, "Personal"

Responder "flerchin" below, please tell me what employer offers "unlimited PAID vacation"....do you even know what "paid" vacation is?

Here is what it is. If you accrue four weeks of vacation and leave the company, they give you a check for four weeks of pay.

When I left a job in 2009, I had six weeks accrued. I walked out with a check big enough to buy a car. They HAVE to give you the money when they are accounting for PAID time off. This is also why employers that offer PAID vacation will cap it or require that you use a certain number of days per year...they need to actually account for these as days they are obliged to pay you for - its TAX LAW. In the public sector, there have been a lucky few that have negotiated away this cap. When my father retired from the fire dept he had THREE YEARS of sick time accrued...they had to pay him for it! It wasn't 100% pay, but it was still a huge check.

"unlimited PTO" is NOT PAID vacation. It just isn't. Unlimited PTO is the company telling you it will look the other way if you decide not to come into work on a certain day if you have followed company guidelines for scheduling the day off. By accounting rules, they are actually giving you ZERO actual paid vacation days. Yes, zero. Ask your accountant. Amazingly they convinced a generation of workers that the new model was a perk.

If you do not see vacation day accrual on your paystub, you are not getting paid vacation. So says the IRS, so I don't really care if you downvote me.
I moved those groups to telegram and riot.im when I dropped my Facebook. I've found it nice to have a complete app dedicated to one group, nice to know exactly which type of notification I'm getting.
Honestly that's going to depend on the engineer. I never considered Uber or Palantir prestigious, and I have never heard of Affirm or Blend. That doesn't mean I'm right to think such -- with Palantir I'm biased for political reasons, and with Uber, I was also likely wrong not to think so, now that I think about it.

Well, I never heard of Affirm as a tech company to work at, but now I thank you're talking about the company offering loans at high interest rates for people buying stuff they can't afford. I'm not sure what's so prestigious about a humdrum finance company.

Amazon and Microsoft, everybody has heard of, and at least they require people with a pulse. They know how to ship good software, and they got real shiznit going down, and that counts for a lot. Depends on your role.

High hiring bar + works on cool stuff + high salary + company visibility is the general formula here.
Music organizer/player http://beets.io

File browser https://github.com/ranger/ranger

Emacs - It does anything you want.

Emacs If you like vim keys bindings - http://spacemacs.org

Terminal multiplexer - Tmux
The only issue I have with xmlstarlet is that it can be sort of a pain when there are xml namespaces in the document. Most of the time, you just have to pass it the long option that ignores them all together
I had daily headaches and lived in a mental fog - until I had sinus surgery. My "turbinates" were made smaller, and my impression is that now when allergies make them swell there is still room to breathe. Made all the difference. My life is different since the surgery.
You are correct.

Though things that are harmful without benefit tend to die out over time.

So while tradition doesn't make something magically useful, many traditional things are useful, often in unobvious ways. Of course, many do not...
Remotely rooting automobiles during rush hour to accelerate.

Several models now stupidly designed with media systems on same wire where it is physically possible.
That was exactly the problem. The web font (a variant of Open Sans) had bad TrueType hinting, which macOS ignored. I viewed the site using Edge and it almost looked as if all antialiasing and subpixel rending was disabled.
You could, but it's not just the LA Times that acts this way. Many websites have engaged in this behavior because of the restrictions imposed by the GDPR. Lots of issues with the GDPR...
Downtown San Jose is a curious place. There are almost no stores and only a few big companies (like Adobe) clustered together. It seems like bars and restaurants are the only things really thriving there.

If you compare the experience of walking around downtown San Francisco or any other larger US city during a weekday or on a weekend, San Jose seems very, very quiet and lacking that "bustle" that big cities have the world over.

This Google development has the potential to give the downtown area some much needed balance and revitalization.
youtube_dl an ffmpeg would be my top two in terms of power.

Here are my top commands by frequency of use:

4421 git
952 open
936 vim
908 cd
603 ls
566 grep
533 cp
429 rm
414 mv
250 atom
247 pip
233 mkdir
223 fab
163 docker
130 touch
128 find
123 youtube-dl
113 python
103 ssh
100 cat
99 wget
81 pytest
75 brew

total is of ~16k history lines... this means one in ever 4 commands I type is git! Wow I didn't know that. Probably `git status`...
Not exactly useful, but it makes me smile every time I use it: https://github.com/will8211/unimatrix
I keep hearing about this fear of Government overreach. I won't go as far as to dismiss them, but I do think its important to recognize that regulations do have an important role to play in a Capitalist Economic system, to prevent the accumulation of power, as happened in the Gilded Age.

Your comment talks of fears of Government oversight but I haven't seen a better solution to the menace of Facebook. They have repeatedly failed to curtail bad actors in their platforms. Government oversight may help increase the penalties for bad behavior to an extent that forces them to think seriously about these issues.
It's just like with politics, media, and its society at large, Americans insist on being extreme about everything.

In America, something always has to be either freedom-loving or tyrannical. Something always has to be for or against. Something always has to be good or evil. Something always has to be elephant or donkey. Media and politicians have convinced people that you have to pick a side or you're on nobody's side. Debates devolve into meme-regurgitation and cease to produce any critical thinking. You can't overstate how exhausting this is for most American citizens who come from vastly different economic and cultural walks of life.

If you can't wrap your head around a culture that is perfectly OK with constant ambiguity, uncertainty, and non-black-and-white thinking then you will never get out in front of China. This is not the first time in history America has produced strong anti-China rhetoric, but as long as the rhetoric today continues down this path of polarized thinking, Americans will continue to get everything about China wrong.
Linux kernel. Huge, but well organized and relatively easy to read.
httpie + jq is a great duo for exploring and manually probing APIs.

Gron (grep JSON) is handy when you get a massive API response and quickly need to figure out what subkeys interest you.

The silver searcher (ag) is my go-to code search tool. I'll have to try ripgrep to compare.

Pass is neat for injecting personal secrets into bash scripts securely.
They don't care, their employees can / will be able to afford the cost of living, and others will flock from the areas around to work low-paying jobs to support them.

I'm leaving the area because I don't want to be forced to work for a FAANG to be able to have what should be middle-class lifestyle abilities without having to worry about how I'd be so much better off just working at one of them. I find it fairly appalling that no BigNameCos are at least trying to work at:

a) remote work being a thing they offer
b) expanding on meaningful satellite office space

I don't want to really hear about how Amazon is trying to do this - they are simply exploiting alternate economies for their own gain instead of genuinely deciding to bolster them to give everyone involved an upside.

I don't buy into the belief that this is the only place where people can build good software, that this is the only place to meet people to build great opportunities. The sooner we stop continually buying into this the sooner we can work on a change.
The US government has banned Intel/NVidia/AMD from selling compute units to China for the purposes of supercomputers. AMD must tread carefully cooperating in any way with them.
> I think it's fair to say that, generally, breadth is valued more at smaller companies where people have to multi-task.

IME, not at all during the hiring process. And only rarely later.
Some of my favorites, apart from the obvious ones like Vim/Emacs and common Unix utils...

notmuch - email database
ncmpcpp - MPD frontend (music player)
taskwarrior - task and time management
mutt - email
ranger - file manager
pass - password manager
It's a red flag that they're highly susceptible to social and news media propaganda and are bad at statistics.
I'm not sure I understand that analogy. When I'm doing the dishes I've never had my mind wander to where it adversely affects me doing the dishes. Is it just a way to focus better?
The Family Meal is a good place to start.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11955187-the-family-meal
Good mix of base sauces & 3 course meals..
There's only 5407 undergraduates at JHU[1] (for all years). If 10% of those qualify for aid that's 541 in total. Nowhere near 36k people. If we assume a degree takes 4 years, then 137 per year of intake, then those 36k people would be spread over 263 years.

[1] https://apply.jhu.edu/discover-jhu/get-the-facts/
If you aren't using tmux or screen, you probably should be, especially over SSH sessions. They allow you to have multiple consoles open and switch between them, split window, and disconnect from SSH and then reconnect with all your things still open and running (as long as the server stayed running).
Google to Let Users Leave Comments on Search Results
'Uber Eats and Deliveroo should be very worried': Ruling to reshape gig economy
It’s interesting - I assume you’re American as am I. The approach to food was completely changed after WW2 in the USA. There was so much new food tech that looking back isn’t so nice but that people of that time embraced (and many still do). And for good reason it would seem looking back through their lens.

Food and cooking lost a lot of value in our culture for many years. We started optimizing around the wrong things (fast and easy - cooking is a struggle!) and then again after more wrong things (lets replace fat with extra salt and processed foods!). And only lately has the idea of “fresh and seasonal” started to become more mainstream - again. Where as before the War it was what people did because it was how it was.

There’s a lot of good cooking in the USA that just vanished from before the War. Very localized dishes, lots of stews. Some old cookbooks reveal how much we’ve changed and have also reclaimed old values.
I agree, we can use the pipes to put them together. That is how I do such thing, and design these programs, at least.

For example, one program is "playmod" which read a module music file from stdin, and write the raw audio data to stdout. The program "amigamml" is takes the MML code from stdin and write the module music file to stdout. And then, program "aplay" is playing the audio data from stdin on the speaker. Other example can be, "ls" to list files, "shuf" to put into a random order, and "xargs" to run another program for each one, and a shell script might then do "playmod" and "aplay", you can play the music at random!
Emacs. Because it is.
Downtown San Jose business / office space is owned by a few agencies who aren't interested in working with the local business to build a better downtown, but instead are interested in kicking them out as much as possible from their leases to renovate and bring in all the other random non-local-built conglomerates into downtown.

I know this as I have a friend who owns a local business in downtown SJ who is being kicked off their lease, as well as every other club, restaurants, and businesses who's buildings were bought last year buy a single agency.

Not everything needs some big company to come in to make everything better, all that actually does is bring in a whole new wave of business to benefit off of what was built by others who were crushed before them.
That link is well worth reading about why they do it. There's no paper yet, but this, from the abstract[0], addresses how:

"In the final 8 percent of the intestine, feces changed from a liquid-like state into a solid state composed of separated cubes of length 2 cm. This shape change was due to the azimuthally varying elastic properties of the intestinal wall. By emptying the intestine and inflating it with a long balloon, we found that the local strain varies from 20 percent at the cube's corners to 75 percent at its edges. Thus, the intestine stretches preferentially at the walls to facilitate cube formation. This study addresses the long-standing mystery of cubic scat formation and provides insight into new manufacturing techniques for non-axisymmetric structures using soft tissues."

Incidentally, I grew up in the Australian bush, about halfway between Sydney and Brisbane, but never saw a wombat. (But often cockatoos, kookaburras, rainbow lorikeets, spiders, ticks, leeches, snakes, wallabies, possums, and once a tiger cat (tiger quoll) got into the chook pen.) On a recent holiday to a tiny village near Canberra, everyone had stories about wombats taking up residence in or under their houses, and I saw quite a few dead on the side of roads.

[0] http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DFD18/Session/E19.1
I think it’s doable with tightly integrated compute nodes, ie specially engineered.
rsync. It’s installed everywhere and makes it super easy to keep source code in sync between laptop and remote servers. It’s so fast that I completely ignore more advanced solutions based on fanotify or similar, and literally include rsync before every “build/run” command during development.
It's funny how you round off precise Mac prices in a sensible way but insist on quoting much much much more fuzzy inflation calculator output with ludicrous 1 cent precision.
Keep in mind here that the topic is cheap computers and once you get into scan converters and agp and pci-e gpus, let alone special monitors, we're well outside that realm.
UK: Parliament hosts Muslim MP despite her praising jihadi who killed girls
I wonder how many people think about longevity...for me that is less so about living to 100+ but more about doing as much as I can now to make sure old age is not filled with chronic illness. I’m a “millennial” and already very mindful of lifestyle choices that I hope help maximize my longevity i.e. fasting, low carb, exercise, no drugs, no smoking, less alcohol.
> Every nation has their problems, buddy. ... I’m just in position to think about how to make money

Both sides!

> That’s the American way.

That's the amoral way. The sociopath way. Nothing particularly American about it.
How much are you making? How did you market it?
I'm not saying it was always that low, but that's the lowest I ever saw it get.
https://wiki.freebsd.org/PortingHAMMERFS
If you're still interested in Postbox, the Black Friday sale just started, 40% off to make it $24. (And if you're not interested, that's cool too.)

https://www.postbox-inc.com/store
Hard to go wrong picking any FAANGs or the big unicorns of the day. I’d recommend it over joining a startup, you’ll learn good engineering practices. I started my career in startups out of college and I remember being the one always feeling things were done way too sloppily (poor testing, hideous build systems, code duplication, ... all in the name of speed), and in hindsight I was absolutely right. You don’t want to be in that position.
Show HN: All-pair similarity search on millions of sets in Python and on laptop
Anyone who does claim that fax works well over VoIP is full of shit - in my opinion. If you're an occasional faxer, and only send short faxes you'll likely have pretty good luck with VoIP - but in most cases, you'll have better luck with a dirty but functional PSTN line (V.34 modems are pretty tolerant of noise) I'll note though, in many cases, the desire by the carriers isn't to replace copper - its just to eliminate PSTN service - see AT&T U-Verse, which is FTTN, not FTTP.

Either because of poor implementation or a lack of universal uptake T.38 doesn't seem to solve the problem well enough to resolve the issues.

E-Fax is the current best end solution - but adoption is slow, or lacking.

What I'd like to see is a universal, easy to use encryption system come into use, so we could just send this stuff over email.
Alton Brown talked about this in his Hot Ones interview but basically Food Network became insanely popular directly after 9/11, as a sort of apolitical escape from the real world.
I'm happy for you but increasingly your experience is the exception.

Even tier-one companies offering me positions with "top of market" pay have offered me health insurance that requires a monthly contribution...with a family these contributions are often meaningful. These are a stealth pay cut. If you are being paid $200k but have to contribute $1k a month for your health insurance contribution...

Paid vacation is becoming as rare as a white rhino. Even big companies are moving to the "unlimited PTO" model because they know full well no one actually exploits the "unlimited" time off; if they do, they put their jobs at risk. Companies are increasingly out of the business of accounting for your vacation time. Amazingly, there are some rubes out there that think "unlimited PTO" is a perk. if you don't see vacation days accrued on your paystub, the IRS says you are getting none.

Once again, when I entered the industry, you didn't even have to ask about these benefits, they were assumed. Indeed, lots of companies did 2:1 matching of 401k. Try finding that now.
Aren’t those individual actions still applications? I don’t know what you mean?
Even if you get cleared initially, you may spend a significant amount of time and cash proving that "clearance" in lawsuits. Time is your most important resource. A year in litigation is year of your life you're not getting back. At some point, you may have to decide if it's worth spending time on litigation or other things. Pancreatic cancer made this clear for me. One moment a family member had years to go. The next moment they only had six months. Six months and a few weeks later, I collected their ashes from the crematorium.
This isn't a case of Facebook influencing the election. It is a case where they outright took money from a foreign government to help them interfere in the democratic process to the foreign governments benefit. It's borderline treason, not simply using it's resources to speak louder via lobbying or broadcasting as many other companies have done.

This is not a case of "all sides same" as much it seems that many posters here want to keep pushing that narrative.
> Our moral axioms are totally arbitrary and subjective.

I don't agree with this, but I'll go with it for the sake of argument. So: if we think that moral axioms are subjective, where does science enter into it? How could we even begin to do science, the field most invested in picking out real things in the world, on a set of axioms that we concede don't map to any objective truth?

> Indeed, there is a lot of work to do to translate the tools of logic into the domain of morality, define the conditions and limitations of the methodology, and possibly at some point do experiments or observation to check if the model matches reality.

Reasonable. But what epistemic principle tells us that affirming or disaffirming observations are important at all? How can we derive that principle, if it indeed exists? If we're modeling some system of morally relevant actions, what metric are we using, and where did we get it from? You mention "reality," but we haven't overcome the tension between subjective moral axioms and an objective, scientific, decision procedure for moral choice.
"I’m just in position to think about how to make money"

Son, that ain't the American way. That's just the wall street way. Which you never escaped, and was always a part of, it seems.
And I’ve had two employers furnish me with pagers.
Tracktion_engine
just fyi you (mis)attribute the referral to producthunt for clicking the HN link, that might mess with your traffic analytics a bit
In most, if not all, places with unlimited PTO, the P stands for paid. The rub is that it's not unlimited, by convention. What you have described is a sabbatical policy.
Having seen a national level competition up close and personal (and seen very good boulderers do V13+ on real rock), the most impressive thing to experience is their sheer determination. Yes, you can tell they are trying hard when watching a video, but it's just different seeing it in person.
That sounds a bit like CAD actually, where they let you set properties on various dimensions and auto-fit/organize everything else according to that.
> Another technique I found was when you are sitting in your bed in a dark room with your eyes slightly open and focusing on a point in space. You will see everything fade to white and it's very easy to slip into the meditative state. I don't know what this is called as I discovered by accident during my teenage years.

This is Troxler's fading. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troxler%27s_fading

> I don't like people productizing what's already has been available for millenias.

As long as people are only being introduced to meditation in a user-friendly manner, I don't see the harm in productizing. Maybe some users will get interested enough to go look up original sources or carry on meditating without a product/crutch.

The only organisations that are doing some harm IMO are cults and/or those that profess to have a secret formula that they only disclose for money. Transcendental Meditation is one such organisation.
Apollo Guidance Computer Restoration [video]
Are you familiar with any of the theories that prehistoric megalithic structures were cut and moved with sound waves? There are lots of 20, 50, even 100 ton solid stone blocks around that no one really knows how they were cut or moved about.
So, about 3 acres then?