skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It seems like such an insane language

I can understand that because I thought that way too before I really learned it.

Bash is a language like any other: it takes reading and practice to get good at it. Also most of the WTFs in Bash actually make decent sense when you consider that whitespace is the delimiter in bash (for example setting a variable is VAR='value' instead of VAR = 'value'. That trips newer people up pretty badly at first).

Most people also abandon good software practices when they write bash for some reason. For example, you'd never write 100 lines of ruby or javascript without declaring functions, yet people do that all the time in bash (they shouldn't). If people followed good practice, I think bash would seem a lot less insane.
Vastu for Business ( 2) – Vastu Tips by Enlightened Life Guru Dr. Puneet Chawla
I call this putting my garbage in (reverse) quarantine.
> After doing deep soul searching, at this point I just can’t say that if I were in someone else’s shoes - that I would do ‘better’ than them.

I believe in Open-Individualism. You (the subject of experience) are in everyone's shoes. You can't seperate the 'you' I believe you're referring to here (the ego) from the shoes, so to speak. So yes, with the identical neurology of someone else, you would act identically.

I'm not advocating punitive justice, justice for the sake of vengeance, because of the belief outlined above. What I am advocating for is reducing suffering as a whole, and part of that solution, unfortunately right now, involves separating some individuals from the rest of society. It's a pragmatic matter. Of course the environment (including the "patriarchal" lessons directed towards men on emotional management) strongly influences the odds of an individual necessitating said seperation. We should be researching ways to fix that. In the meantime, though, there is a certain percentage that simply won't respond to treatment or therapy. To think otherwise is simply naive, and suggests one has had few encounters with true malevolence.
> I would have expected the essential share-alike fairness of copyleft to resonate more.

I have so much to say on this topic I could write a novel, e.g about commercial artists versus those who just want their art to be seen versus art commissioned with money obtained elsewhere. But in the most simple terms, at least with me, is I prefer to write and to use software with as few restrictions on/from others as possible. Can't feed my family on that of course and wouldn't try. If public domain were more accepted than MIT, I'd do it, but for now I just slap MIT on it and move on. If you make a million dollars on it, keeping changes hidden or not, good for you. I'm trying to do the same in my day job, the primary code of which is of course closed.

As for the prevalence of restrictionless licenses on non-hobbyist software, you can attribute that to their stewards simply recognizing the value of hobbyists working with it (the company reputation gained, the influence, bug finding, etc). People want fewer restrictions, companies want people.
BBC says in bold:

> Russia is considering whether to disconnect from the global internet briefly, as part of a test of its cyber-defences.

Sounds scary. But than clarifies:

> The test will mean data passing between Russian citizens and organisations stays inside the nation rather than being routed internationally.

Which contradicts the previous sentence: Russia is not planning to disconnect from the global internet briefly.

I so disappointed at BBC for spreading misinformation.
Why are half the comments complaining about giving name and email? Thanks for sharing this!
Fractional Calculus
I don't think you need to use binary blog GUI clients for Telegram. Here's the source to many clients: https://github.com/TelegramOrg
Canadian taxes are lower? Maybe if you’re comparing BC or Alberta (lowest taxes) to California (highest taxes).

And if you ignore things like Canada’s VAT.
Well I definitely spend most of my hobby time modeling 3D printed robots!
That is indeed what I was implying, but it’s good to state it explicitly.
Ask HN: How Fast Is Your Home Internet Connection, Advertised versus Actual?
Interested to know what speed link people are on at home, and what is actually reported via Google Internet speed test?

https://support.google.com/websearch?p=speedtest

Happy to say I just tested mine which reported 60Mbps download and 25Mbps upload!!

Although it could be better because it's advertised as 100Mbps.
That's no kind of evidence. There is at least one hidden premise to your argument, something like "If people cared about their privacy, they wouldn't use Facebook et al", which doesn't seem true to me at all. You first need evidence for that. But these points have been debated a thousand times on HN already... (Anecdatally, I hate that such sites sell peoples' information, but I use FB)
As a long time mediator, your response was what I also saw in the article.

People damage themselves in all kinds of ways when they are unsuited/poorly trained/ prepared for extreme environments.

You wouldn't expect a grossly overweight person to run 11hrs a day for 10 days. Goenka's practices are extreme, and the 10 day silent retreat isn't suitable for everyone.

This is why there's the questionnaire for Vipassana during enrollment: it's an attempt to recognise someone who's not fit enough (yet) for it. That the author was able to persuade the volunteers, despite his known past, to let him in should not really reflect against them.
Why doesn’t someone this wealthy have a “body man” to carry around all this shit for him?
I've been running basically this setup since 2015, and I don't think I'm any closer than you are to looking forward to changing this setup.
Don't kid yourself, it's not going to be as efficient. Audio and delay are big issues, as not everybody can talk at the same time. But the point is that it is doable, and some companies have good success with that. They are usually small-medium companies though, my guess is we won't be seeing any 100% remote unicorns popping up.
Seems like "term -site:pinterest.com" works.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47198426

This BBC article. It makes that statement I the first paragraph in bold and then in the second paragraph they explain that they meant the opposite. But who reads past the second paragraph, rights?

I’m so disappointed at BBC. They spread lie and misinformation.

Russia is an authoritarian state, but it doesn’t automatically make all the junk they write about Russia true.
Step 4: audit controls against FFIEC and NIST

Step 5: begin remediation to remove suspiciously hands-off automations that a few dozen humans could do and check manually instead

Step 6: lift and shift another past due application into your old hyperconverged private cloud because ITIL is looking pretty good right now

Step 7: git pull upgraded K8s, go to Step 1

/s (typical enterprise IT allergic reaction)
Dropbox Is Still a Work in Progress
Hi, I'm the author of this talk. A couple quick notes:

First, the source materials I relied on are available at <https://github.com/google/opencasebook/blob/master/patents.m.... If you are interested, please read them.

Second, about Bowman v. Monsanto. The logic of Bowman is a pretty serious challenge to what I presented above. It might invalidate certain parts of my argument. Specifically, the question is whether it is even theoretically possible to exhaust the exclusive right to "make" a patented item.

I haven't yet been able to go back and do further research. But what I would be looking for is a case where someone sold an item - like a software application - with a license that says, "make as many copies as you want for internal use." If the buyer then transferred the software, would the new buyer get the right to make copies? I'm not sure. But if so, that would be evidence that a sale could exhaust the right to make.

Third, I thought this was a fun rabbit hole - and, as I said in my talk, a "surprising" result. The surprising bit is important. It is entirely possible - and even likely - that a court could agree with all the precedents I cited, and "distinguish" them to come to a contrary, non-surprising result.

In short, I think exhaustion is more important than people may be considering, but don't take this analysis to the bank.
I don't know if anything has changed since, but we definitely hot cold start perf issues on lesser used routes at a company I was with 18 months ago.
This is interesting. Go proclaims itself as a modern spiritual successor to C, but I think what you've done is much closer to that goal.

BTW, if you're going for immutability by default, perhaps swap := and =? Reason being, if variables are immutable by default, assignments should be far less common, so the language should discourage them with more verbose syntax over initialization of immutables.

Besides, C originally used = instead of Algol's := for assignments for the exact opposite reason - because assignments were more common in C code than comparisons - this would be a nice opportunity to fix that mistake.
What matters more than leaving the posh job is to know what you're leaping into. Will the problem and company you work at be something you want to wake up and work on for the next 7-10 years? Are the founders people you love spending every moment of your waking hours with? Are they pleasant when you disagree with them?

If you have a current opportunity, it would be much easier to compare X with Y than talking about hypotheticals, so my advice is keep looking around for opportunities, and once one arrises think hard and then think again and then take the leap.

In the meantime, focus on becoming a kick-ass coder and/or product person and/or manager and/or fundraiser and/or marketer because these are all critical skills for building successful organizations.

I am currently a masters student doing a 4+1 year program in a prestigious school CS department. I know that if I go work at a big tech company, I will have no motivation to put in my 110% effort, so that's what influenced my decision to join a medium-sized startup. Besides, life is too short to be doing something you don't enjoy.
It's a good novel. This is also a good interview, and point of the novel comes out: a portrait of a person as a hero by doing nothing other than being himself.

A novel doesn't need to include morally ambiguous characters to be good. It doesn't have to reproduce the world or the people in it faithfully. It can be impressionistic or allegorical or whatever.

I suppose this is all subjective. Something is only overly sentimental if it failed to make you feel something, which is clearly the case here for you. I don't know why I'm compelled to argue. I suppose because I liked the novel and it made be feel something.
I don't understand, there are still lots of companies that fund FOSS. Publishing FOSS doesn't mean you can't go out of business, it means customers get an additional layer of protection from you going out of business or deciding you don't want to be in a certain market anymore, as Redis Labs has clearly done here.
My leisure time is worth far more than 1.5x or 2x, with each additional hour being exponentially worth more than the last.

I would be giving up time with family, excercise (my health), and my other goals, so I don’t see how a simple 2x would even begin to cover the loss of those.
> This sounds like commonly reported withdrawal symptoms (aka freaking the fuck out) from long term use of very very powerful poorly understood drugs.

Withdrawal symptoms do not last decades.
>RedHat makes, for example, patches for kernel vulnerabilities, but they actually give that away for free. What they sell is a promise that when there's a new vulnerability, you can get a patch from them quickly.

What's preventing someone from freeloading? It sounds like regardless of whether you're paying, you can still get the patches.
I need to fly on st patricks so I have excuse to wear one my tac kilts. Fun for everyone!
What's the difference between "break" and "continue" inside an or-block? Or do they apply to the outer enclosing loop if there is one?
It's true that it does not work for any task that you need to pay attention to. Folding laundry, cooking a known meal, cleaning anything and driving the standard commute, however? No problem at all. Maybe I need to rewind 15 seconds a few times (which is purposefully made easy) if something unexpected happens in the menial task, but most of the time those menial tasks leave more than enough attention for a podcast.
Is this a proper ebook or one of those bullshit O'Reilly leaflets focused on a particular technology?
> You only get this line if you're a US citizen as justification as to why H1B visa quotas need to be increased. If you're here on an H1B visa, you get reminded daily that your replacement is waiting back in your home country, you can be replaced with a single phone call...

No offense, but that doesn't make any sense. Right now, there's a lot of paperwork and the H1B lottery that means it's non-trivial to get a new H1B worker into the country. Increasing the quota would make it easier for the employer to act like H1B would be replaced on a whim, and actually create the scenario you're complaining about.

> ...and you better have a plan to get all of your things and family back to your home country quickly when you get bounced.

Knowing a lot of H1Bs, this is the real reason H1Bs can be exploited and bullied. Their visa is tied to the employer, which gives that employer way more leverage over the employee than over a citizen or permanent resident.

The real way to fix these problem is to keep the quota, but remove the control the employer has over work visas (by making them easily portable). That way, the employer can get the talent they need if there's really a shortage, but they'll have to pay market salaries and provide reasonable working conditions to the immigrants.
I forgot security cameras only run at like 5fps, so that's a good point.
AWS doesn’t keep instances warm based on forecasted demand. It uses one instance per request and instances stay warm once they are started for a predetermined amount of time based on the size of tyrvlambda environment.
I think lack of proper arrays and structured data types is a big issue with bash. Basically everything is a string, with all the issues around escaping and corner cases that that implies
MPU supports Linux? Can somebody explain how they are doing this without MMU? Is it a security issue or complex compared to MMU?
If You Want to Change the World, Start Here
Donald Trump Wants 6G in America, Presumably Because It's One More Than 5G
I don’t recall the exact quote. We do have a ton of traffic (more so back then as it was a freemium product then). Not sure if it included their warehouse as well.

Our dev team at the time said rewriting it internally was impossible, so we actually paid it for 6 months. After changing the team, this was on the top of the list. It was trivial to switch.

Now, all the services that we used were stable so the benefit of easily adding and removing services was not something we needed.

Rightscale suffered similar fate when their rates kept going up. At some point it became cheaper to rewrite it ourselves.
Study Suggests New Test Could Diagnose Sepsis Faster
I don’t someone has to support open borders to be “ok with legal immigration”.
I used to work at a car dealership so my opinion/information is going to come from the years I worked there. The usual title stuff has been gone over.

1) Buy domestic if possible. Parts, service and mechanics will be cheaper for the most part. Japanese cars can be cheap but make sure OEM parts are used.

2) Check the gaps between doors, panels and trunk. This is an easy way to spot sloppy body work or a wreck that was repaired poorly. More than likely it had a terrible wreck and got fixed at home or was done by a cheap shop on the low.

3) Look for any fluid leaks. Leaks == (Money + Time + Fixes)

4) Find out what the most common problem is for the car you are looking at. Some have rust problems, ECUs that die easily, bad fuel sensors, etc... Google will tell you about them. All cars have design flaws that need to be dealt with.

5) Check the mileage. The higher mileage means you should go and replace every single reasonably afforable maintenance part you can (belt/chain, brake pads, tires, fluids, filters, bushings, gaskets).

6) Haggle for every cent. I don't care if the car is some super rare model. The owner is getting rid of it and once you buy it they aren't going to give your money back. Also, when you buy a car, you buy the problems it has too. Get as much as you can knocked off the asking price because if you are going to rely on the vehicle spend that money on parts/labor that it needs (there is something that is on the out for sure at $5k).

7) Buy from a friend/a friend of a friend. Someone has a car that perfectly usable and doesn't need it or just wants it gone. Put the word out with friends and see what falls out from the woodwork. They'll be more honest and forthcoming about the car than some guy from craigslist.

There are many more but these are my main bits.
Today I came across Cosma Shalizi's review of A New Kind of Science, and his page with 169 book reviews 1995-2018, I've read half a dozen so far, they're all great - he has a very attractive style. A wide range: science, politics, social science, history, philosophy, mathematics..

http://bactra.org/reviews/
How[0] many[1] times[3] is this going to be posted here?

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18798910

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18792327

3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18789188
I support having mandatory yearly vacation day minimums (such as 20, 30, 40 days), but I don’t see the point of requiring specific dates off. Some people prefer certain dates, others don’t, and supply and demand can easily sort out the extra pay required to have people work on days that more people would want off.
Little Things That Matter in Language Design
I appreciate the response, but this doesn't seem relevant to my situation - I don't have any form of controversial content on anything. My primary concern is migrating online development work to personal accounts so I can reference them professionally and the resulting impact on communities I'm involved in that know me by a different name.
Testing Myths of High-Speed PCB Design [video]
> These should probably be filed better on day one

Maybe, maybe not! I've optimized aggressively for writes (common) over reads (rare) - I don't want to even waste time deciding if I can throw something away or not, so I also keep everything that isn't super obviously recyclable immediately (mass mail, autopaid bills for less 'important' things like internet/utilities, most receipts since I don't itemize my deductions, etc.)

Anything sent to me goes into either a yearly "keep long term" (10+ years - tax docs, house/car stuff, etc.) or yearly "keep short term" (2+ years - insurance receipts etc.) folder in a filing cabinet where it can be forgotten about. Even that's over-complicated IMO - I haven't gotten rid of any folders from either category. If I need my hard copy of something, I probably need it for a specific year anyways. Sorting into more categories doesn't help much - I'd still have to remember which category my 401k documents went in (tax documents? did I have a financial folder? was my system still the same in 2012?)

Hand written notes are slightly more complicated - I actually read my notes enough to optimize reads a little by scanning them in to save me the hassle of opening up my filing cabinet. Still extremely streamlined - I symlinked the default location to a single dumping folder where I actually want them (I:\home\scans\) without needing to select anything. I keep the default sequential numbering naming scheme. I got a sheet fed scanner so I don't have to keep lifting the lid of a bed scanner. I setup a shortcut on the scanner so I press the scanner touchscreen twice ("Shortcuts", "Scan to File"), and a file appears. I don't bother with OCR - my handwriting is terrible, a computer probably can't read it, I probably can't read it.
Please, before you quit or do anything stupid, create a single page preorder form that shows off what you're going to make. If it doesn't sell, you just dodged a bullet. This should be a law or something. Not having to work for someone is a dream, and every dream needs a reality check.
Against All Odds- Junkie to CEO
Thanks for the tip. Looks interesting, but still on the "analyze and do something" side vs monitoring then making suggestions.

In other words, this could be another input for the kind of tool I'm thinking of.

Kind of surprised this doesn't exist, as it seems doable. Given a combination of query optimizers, slow query monitoring, and common tuning techniques, even a rudimentary, heuristics-based recommendation tool could provide significantly more value then manually analyzing explain and log file output.
I was saying this in the context of offering a treatment to the general public. That's very different from a clinical trial, where there are benefits beyond the immediate effects on the patient that help to justify the individual risk. The benefits of scientific studies on medical treatments are well-established.

Even if you think you can find some weird corner case where this doesn't apply, do you disagree with the general principle that benefits should outweigh risks for medical procedures?
Calendarific – Obtain Public and Bank Holidays Programmatically
Riot-web is a really nice app. Drop it on any web server and you're done. I use it all day long to talk to my family on a self-hosted, non-federated matrix instance. If you use linux, Fractal is a pretty good option for a desktop application. The latest release is "beta" but very usable.

https://matrix.org/docs/projects/client/fractal.html
I have listened, and you're right that they're amazing. Perhaps OP is right that they would be better printed, but I doubt it, Carlin does speak with a passion.

In my defense, i did use the weasel word "mostly" :)
I think “doing one thing” and “getting called one time” are getting confused.

GetData()

FormatData()

UploadData()

Those could do one thing but could be called at several points within a larger program, which i think you are fine with. Or they could only be called once in which case i think you are saying it might make sense to just inline them.

If I understand you correctly, then I agree.
If you haven’t heard this before, listen to Gladwell’s unhinged thoughts on which race/nationality/region (he seems to use the 3 interchangeably) is best at basketball:

https://soundcloud.com/the-bill-simmons-podcast/draymond-vs-...

Absolutely wild and the host is just along for the uncomfortable ride. I still have no clue what he was thinking.

There are hits, there are misses, and then there are whatever that was.
What do you do if you don't want to upload your stuff to somebody's server?
I personally wonder what has the modern world come to, that an individual cannot take a leisurely walk without distraction, and thus feels like they must be working on a computer while getting in some basic movement for their body.
It's not clear from that page what I'm getting for my money.
> I'm not saying iHeart is evil

I don't know why not. Back when they were known as Clear Channel, in the wake of 11SEP2001 they censored songs that went against the agenda of starting wars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_Channel_memorandum

(Ah, I see it has been spun as mere a suggestion. Just like I'm sure the managers at each station only passed along the suggestion. There couldn't have possibly been any accompanying social pressure, especially at that time, that would have made it a tacit order).
Oh Nice! I’ve been waiting for that.