skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recommend Greg's Bash Wiki ... https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide. See general notes, then at the bottom of the page are many links to additional considerations.

Like others say, "bash" is a hard tool to get right (and I'm not saying I do it right either, necessarily, but Greg's Wiki was real helpful!). I'm building a hybrid bash/python3 environment now (something I'll hopefully open-source at some point), and bash is just the "glue" to get things set up so most aspects of development can funnel through to python3 + other tools.

But ... things that make bash real useful:

* it's available everywhere (even in Windows with Ubuntu-18.04/WSL subsystem)
* it can bootstrap everything else you need
* it can wrap, in bash functions, aliases, and "variables" (parameters), the
real functionality you want to expose ... the
guts can be written in python3 or other tools

Without a good bash bootstrap script you end up writing 10 pages of arcane directions for multiple platforms telling people to download 10 packages and 4 pieces of software per platform, and nobody will have consistent reproducible environments.

EDIT: I think there's a revised version of Greg's Bash Wiki in the works.
Reminds me of old-school emission/extramission theories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emission_theory_(vision)
> Since the eyes obviously do not really extrude a beam of energy, this view is typically dismissed by science.

If you start with an assumption, the end result will probably be compatible with the assumption.

Rupert Sheldrake wrote a book titled The Sense of Being Stared At [0]. I recently found a copy at a thrift store (it was on my stack of books that I've yet to read). Dr. Sheldrake does not adopt materialist science's assumptions.

Perhaps the eyes do not exactly emit invisible energy, but something is probably happening that deserves to be investigated.

Here's a quote from Rupert Sheldrake's book (pg. 125):

[anecdote of girl's experience of catching
creeper following her]

In frightening situations such as this, the
sense of being stared at is particularly
memorable. But most people have experienced
it for themselves, usually in less dramatic
circumstances. In my own surveys of adults
in Europe and in the United States, 70 to
90 percent said they had sensed when they
were being looked at from behind. Surveys
by other researchers have given similar
results. Gerald Winer and his colleagues in
the Psychology Department of Ohio State
University have found that these
experiences are even commoner among
children than adults. Ninety-four percent
of sixth-grade schoolchildren (aged eleven
and twelve) answered yest to the question,
"do you ever feel that someone is staring
at you without actually seeing them look at
you?" So did 89 percent of college
students.

The sense of being stared is often alluded
to in short stories and novels. "His eyes
bored into the back of her neck" is a
cliche of popular fiction. Here is an
example from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the
creator of Sherlock Holmes: [...]

> We proposed (9) that a simplified model of vision may be related to a belief that is extraordinarily persistent across human cultures: the belief that the eyes emit an invisible energy. (emphasis added)

[edit: perhaps the belief is persistent because there's something to it.] Simplified models are one thing. Simplistic models are non-helpful.

Discussion question: In my experience, I've noticed a few times when I've been stared at, and I've stared at people who've spontaneously looked right at me. Do you have any memorable experiences of this phenomenon?

Perhaps people are most likely to notice they're being stared at when the starer is the opposite gender?

I guess I'm going to have to read Dr. Sheldrake's book.

[0] https://www.sheldrake.org/books-by-rupert-sheldrake/the-sens...
> Reddit.gov

This string... Hilarious, scary, absurd, or all the above, it's a remarkable string, considered both in and out of context.
the best advice I can offer is to join a team that has deep pockets. the biggest reason my company succeeded is that they had cash to burn. sure, they were smart. they moved quickly, they dropped failing products instead of holding on to them. they made consistently good decisions. but they also were able to sink millions into the company's products and promotion thereof without going under for years, long enough to stumble upon a hugely profitable model.

no idea how to assess the size of a company's pockets. maybe one that has a founder who has already had a successful exit. every other attribute of a company is basically fortune telling.
This depends on who is writing the code and who is compiling the headers. A software developer who is building headers for someone else (an internal or external client) may trade the overhead of this pattern for a faster compilation time. Reducing compilation time by 80% may be well worth the overhead of adding 10% more code to an interface.

It is not always possible to just throw more hardware at the problem of compilation. For instance, one may be using a build pipeline that requires specific steps to be followed as part of gating tasks. The time it takes to compile code over and over again for unit testing, behavioral testing, acceptance testing, integration testing, etc., each impacts delivery time and handoff.

Earlier in my career, I worked with a code base that was approximately 10 million lines of code in size. Compiling this code base would take approximately 7 hours on the best hardware we could buy. The C++ developers were adamant about ensuring that their headers were "complete" as they called it. With a few changes, such as forward declarations, abstract interfaces, and encapsulation, my team was able to reduce that compile time to less than 35 minutes. Based on profile feedback, we saw less than a quarter of a percent difference in overhead. Productivity-wise, we managed to reduce developer workflows so significantly that it was a better use of our time for overall cost than working on a billable project.

Most projects aren't nearly that bad, but it does go to show that it is possible to significantly reduce compilation time without significantly impacting runtime performance, even in C++.
I could imagine it might sometimes be the H1B thing, but more common are hyper-precise lists of technologies needed, when they already know the candidate they want but have a legal or administrative requirement to post the job.

Also, I get the impression hiring managers start with what they would like, and out of a long-bred instinct to have an opening bargaining position that's more than they actually want, they put down too many things.

Of course, if no offers come in, and they don't actually have an H1B or other candidate in mind, then maybe they go back and reduce what they're asking for, which would lead directly to this article's conclusion.
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advanced bash scripting guide:
https://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

also,
https://www.shellcheck.net/
not reading, but pretty neat. static code analysis for shell scripts, points out common errors.
Ethical by Design: 7 Principles for Good Technology
When you start to scale performance, the core starts to matter a lot less. A standard 95w desktop processor has the TDP to push clocks much higher. It has the TDP to add loads of extra cache and reduce those misses. It has extra memory channels and the memory can operate at higher speeds. It has much more RAM reducing HDD read penalties.

When you start scaling out cores, interconnect starts to eat a huge amount of the power budget. All the extra PCIe and other IO eat even more.

When you start to ramp up into the 3+GHz clockspeed range, things start to get really hard and you have to make IPC tradeoffs.

The idea that a 5-10w A12 beats the performance of a 95w x86 processor is talk from a place of extreme ignorance.

Add all the features even a workstation laptop chip has and the A12 will start to struggle just like every other architecture does. There's no magic in chip design. There aren't really big competitive edges to be found anymore as all the low-hanging fruit has already been picked a decade ago.
Thanks very much. I'll look into the Kinesis keyboard. I have a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 connected to my MacBook Pro right now, but the design of the Kinesis looks interesting. My non-mouse hand (left) is the issue, but perhaps I will think of switching to a trackball as a preventative measure for my right hand. Fiftieth B'day coming up next month - don't get old! (actually, it's not that bad - yet).
Yep, it makes sense. I think this is why it was an easy decision for them. GitHub does not want developers getting cozy with Gitlab/Bitbucket, even for personal projects, because then those developers will start to push the companies they work for towards those same providers.
Kaiser
People who get service and can’t pay effectively have their service paid for by all the other customers. That’s basically socialized, since all the other customers basically means all of us.
Which of those links do you most recommend, if any?
Yes (for SMS and iMessage), but I don't have an iPhone, so there's nothing for my iPad to sync to.
How to make your life miserable in 2019
>If you don't pay your premiums, nothing happens, but if you need healthcare you're not covered until you pay your back premiums.

So what happens if you don’t pay your premium but then have to use the ER? Do they refuse to take you, or are you stuck with a bill? Does that bill go away if you pay your back premiums or not!
I wouldn't bet against Toyota's engineers.
I've got a subscription too, watching him go in some of the videos as he casually does Bash blew my mind, which is another reason I ask this question. I'm trying to at least watch all his videos, I intend to work through them after watching them all at least once, and then I intend to rewrite some of the solutions (the Ruby ones) in Python and Go just to be sure I understand the concepts more, and I'm not just copying and pasting.
R&D should be publically funded like basic research is. We can say 'these drugs are expensive because they are expensive to research' all we want because it's true, but this statement ignores the problem of it all, and that is every step of the way from a customers insurance payment to research and development, there is skimming.

Private health insurance cannot run at cost, private biotechnology companies cannot run at cost either, and this is because shareholders and executives demand it cannot. Every dollar of ROI in their portfolio is a dollar that could have gone to research and development or lowering drug prices, every yearly bonus could have tipped the scales and let one more person afford to save their life. It is tragically terrible that if you had the right books, you can calculate the exact x% of every dollar people spend towards healthcare that goes toward someone else's luxury rather than healthcare or in support of research. And thats ignoring the other half of the problem with private research, in that projects are decided by white collars and not white coats, so research efforts are focused on what will make a profit or what they can put out quickly before anyone else to dominate market share on a novel treatment, and not treatments for rarer diseases that might be backed with extensive basic research and only need to scale, but is marginally less profitable for the company.

However, if money for healthcare is taken publically, then there is no need to skim dimes on every dollar spent to grant someone a third house and a fifth car. Money can be earmarked directly for research, like basic research is, and what happens to that dollar would be of public record. Capitalism and its sole metric of success of infinite growth is inefficient by design and has no place when it comes to universal needs like healthcare.
The problem is you can game the comments. It's relatively easy to bot farm likes to keep your responses at the top of every single post. (Trump's posts had this problem extensively.) This is used to silence any other opinions whether positive or negative by burying them below the heavily automatically liked comments.
Intel Reveals 10nm Ice Lake Core, and Stacked “big-little” Lakefield CPUs
They're awful successful & have delivered on PR & hype in the past. It's always clear when its a concept (such as the hydrogen powered vehicles) or whether its for a consumer rollout.
dude, please don't participate if you're gonna do this. It wrecks the conversation for everybody else reading later.
WiMax was slower than HSPA+ (both under ideal conditions, of course).
Great idea, and $1000 seems reasonable for an electric version, but gambling on kickstarters has burned me a few times at much lower invested. Please post again once it’s in production.
Just got hemoroids frozen and cut with laser. Cost here in USA under premium insurance was $12,000. Went to Germany got it done on the same equipment in luxury stay for 14 days at $870. Plus $800 plane tickets. Meanwhile a friend of mine had a heart attack. As a Bank of America emplyee he had somewhat goog insurance that paid some. He was left with $180,000 bill.
What is referred to as a "water transistor" in the article is in fact a standard industrial part, known as a hydraulic relay:

https://www.bermad.com.au/category/hydraulic-relays/

Instead of the BJT that is shown in the article, these act more like MOSFETs; and in fact, the "water analogy of electricity" translates quite well, since the "gate" has no current flow besides the tiny amount of "leakage" past the seals, and the volume of the actuating chamber and its return spring acts like the gate capacitance.

This is just to clear the OUT hose, so it will be ready for the next cycle. If this wasn't done, the WT could block in the "Logical One" in some circumstances.

...and that corresponds to the "high-Z" state, which along with the "capacitance" of the circuit would actually be usefully analogous to dynamic CMOS.

One more remark from someone who has worked with hydraulics before: the valve drawn in the diagram is known as a spool valve, and usually for diverting the flow of fluid, the chambers would be so arranged that they don't create any forces on the valve spool --- see how pressure on the "VCC" or "GND" ports would act on the land and tend to push the valve? In practice a "balanced spool" design is used, where the pressure of the controlled fluid is balanced on both ends:

http://www.modernhydraulics.net/images/hydes/uploads/2011/01...
Java only works in classes :) . They're actually the compilation unit as well so no way around it. (Files are compiled a .class file at a time from single source files)

Adding another example, JPA MetaModel generator that allows you to make strongly typed calls in ORM.

Basically, it let's you generate code at compile time that's seamlessly integrated into the existing code. So it's generated code that still gives you IDE autocomplete support etc.
I watched that video and it was certainly not my takeaway.
The linked source article is from 2010: https://www.secretlab.com.au/ipad-day-941-am
That's true, so many times I have used shellcheck and started to improve a bash script, only to realize my time was better spent rewriting the script in Ruby.
I have, but many years ago. It’s on my todo list to try out some more distros and Debian is top of the list. My main problems with Ubuntu are things like it doesn’t always suspend, sometimes waking up from suspend the keyboard doesn’t work, etc. Minor things, but they add up after a while.
the following assumes you are in the US.

If you already have a bachelor's degree, then I would do online lower div courses, often available via community college (Virginia has the whole lower div sequence online), then I would do the University of London graduate diploma, run by the London school of economics.[1] The courses are basically equivalent to upper div math / stats / early grad school classes.

If you don't have a bachelor's degree, UoL don't have a degree with just math. They used to just have just a "math and economics degree", but have recently launched a "data science and business analytics" bsc [2] which looks like it has very little non-mathematical content (certainly less than a US math degree that has gen ed requirements)

I did a non-mathematical undergrad a long time ago, then did the lower div math courses online via community college. Currently doing an MS in math and stats in person at my local state school, but also enrolled in the london graduate math diploma this year to go over some things in more detail, and to help me review things before comprehensive exams next year :)

Message me if you want more info, happy to help!

[1] https://london.ac.uk/courses/mathematics

[2] https://london.ac.uk/data-science-and-business-analytics
I think such predictions are pretty much useless in most situations. For example, there are so many experts now who predicted the stock market crash. I follow a guy on Twitter who has been predicting global economy meltdown forever. These days he is suddenly looking like a prophet even though the meltdown has not totally started yet! Saying that Apple will have problems in China means nothing unless someone provides estimates for the losses.

This article uses all the data that is publicly available and yet claims that somehow Apple executives missed all that.
Listary is awesome. Been using it for three years.
Useless Use of dd
Have you checked the stock price lately? $223 to $148 in a few months is no one’s definition of good. Top company by market cap to getting passed by many of your tech rivals, not good either. It implies that just blindly raising prices on your products to increase profits only works so long.
I've noticed in some past ad's the clocks are set to 4:20.

Programmers hard at work there. :-)
~10:10 is because it's a happy face, as the story goes.

https://petapixel.com/2013/06/27/why-photographs-of-watches-...

(sometimes used on digital displays)
Forgot to say, University of London is super cheap, maybe around $2000 for the grad diploma, or around $7-8000 for the degree.
It is super easy to pick up, you can understand the whole concept quite quickly. Follow one the tutorial and you will be ready to deploy new apps in days. One of my fav free tutorial: https://www.yoember.com
I saw an interesting article a while back. It looked at the benefits adjusted income of workers in the US since 1980 or so. Basically, the “disappearing wage growth” at of the last part of the 20th and early 21st century fir the bottom of the income curve is largely (although entirely) explained by the increasing cost of health care as a component of compensation.
First, wasn't Infineon always on the 3G/4G scene?

> It is only because Qualcomm can't go against Mediatek on its home soil, they went after their channel, and clients in courts.

Qualcomm, or wireless patent holders in general, never go after component makers; as a long-held industry practice, they always go after the handset makers for maximum royalty. That practice has been upheld by regulators around the world -- though there is a lawsuit by the FTC to change that at Apple's behest now. This also presumably allows new entrants to enter the wireless chip business and, therefore, increase competition.

Qualcomm further is not exactly known for lawsuits, though it always seems to be fighting regulators around the world. It reportedly initiated fewer than 3 lawsuits in the past two years -- now compared to Apple's 90+ pending lawsuits.
WeWork has a major problem in that they signed a vast number of real estate contracts during the financial crisis 10 years ago at fire sale prices that are now expiring and will require renegotiation. Unfortunately for WeWork they are a gentrification agent which means those leases are going to be negotiated at rates which would be a multiple of what they were originally at.
I'm a fan of reading code.

I would generally describe a GNU/Linux distro as being a "giant pile of shell
scripts". That's a little less true with init scripts generally now being systemd units. But that's where I'd start: Look at the code that distros write, that isn't part of some other upstream software.

- Arch Linux's `makepkg` https://git.archlinux.org/pacman.git

- Arch Linux's `mkinitcpio` https://git.archlinux.org/mkinitcpio.git/

- Arch Linux's `netctl` https://git.archlinux.org/netctl.git/

- Downstream from Arch, Parabola's "libretools" dev tools package https://git.parabola.nu/packages/libretools.git/ (disclaimer: I'm the maintainer of libretools)

Gentoo also has a lot of good shell scripting to look a, but it's mostly either POSIX shell, or targets older Bash (their guidelines http://devmanual.gentoo.org/tools-reference/bash/index.html say to avoid Bash 3 features). I tend to believe that changes made to the Bash language over the years are enhancements, and that they let you write cleaner, more robust code.
there's this language called gro that i'm hoping to look into when i get some time -
http://depts.washington.edu/soslab/gro/
There are some very good mattresses online for much less than 2k. We recently got some all-latex (normally very expensive) twins for $600.
Immigration related jobs ads will have these qualities:

a) a very specific list of requirements, that just happens to match a specific person. Definitely not any choices of language in the list, but possibly degree or equivalent experience if necessary.

b) be posted in a newspaper and on their main jobs page, but not widely elsewhere

c) ask for submissions by mail only, by a certain date

B and C are more telling than A though, because a weird list of requirements could be just someone weird, but narrowly posting and requiring applications by mail are part of exactly following the rules for demonstrating lack of candidates.
And Americans tend to be overweight and unhealthy. Access to healthcare doesn't automatically shift culture to live a healthier lifestyle (and I suspect it might even do the opposite).
I'm a diehard capitalist working in Wall Street and I could not possibly agree more.

Healthcare is not like other goods and services because (a) it's an universal need for which price sensitivity is zero (b) no one should have to pay life-crushing bills because they had no luck in the genetic lottery and (c) even for those health risks that people can control (obesity, cardiovascular problems), we have to admit that educating the population to eat better, sleep more and exercise is a pipe dream, particularly in the U.S. where shitty food is everywhere, the lobby for junk food and sugar is rampant, labeling and advertising for food is downright evil and work is incredibly demanding (unbelievably more demanding than in Latin America or Europe).

Healthcare and Education should be entirely subsidized by the government. Everything else can just be regulated to various degrees, always with the dual goal of minimizing state intervention while ensuring the market remains competitive.
Age bias against startup founders is rampant by age 36
I disagree I prefer cat 6's design more streamlined so the photons travel more aerodynamically
By far my best advice is to write auto-complete scripts if possible: https://iridakos.com/tutorials/2018/03/01/bash-programmable-... . Many of mine will do things like look up database values, so "command<tab><tab><tab>" is the workflow 99% of the time.

Keep them short. There are always exceptions but the "do one thing" mantra is handy, they can always be wrapped into a more complex workflow with a bigger script. None of my frequently used ones are over 100 LoC.

Write them for you and you alone when possible, start off simple and iterate. Fight that developer urge to solve a generalized problem for everyone.

Embrace the environment and global environment variables. We're trained to avoid global variables like the plague but they are really useful in scripts. My auto complete scripts that I mentioned above, they know which database to connect to based off the environment variable and there are separate commands to switch environment.

Make sure you aren't using it where things like make would be more appropriate.
Yes, and Kaiser has some of the lowest cost healthcare out of all insurers.