skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm inclined to agree, I think (if I understand your point). this has less to do with "the future" or "computers" and more to do with a very low margin business (probably a large chain) that faces little incentive to go the extra mile.

it's like shopping for groceries at walmart vs the local grocery store. if I go to walmart, I can basically get the lowest prices on most items. but if I can't find something, it might take me five minutes to find a disinterested employee who may or may not know where to find the thing I want to buy. or I can go to the independent grocery store where someone will ask me if I need help if I so much as walk down the same aisle twice. of course, the exact same items will all be shifted up by a dollar or two.

in markets where customers are willing to pay more for good service, you typically see businesses at a bunch of different price points offering different levels of service. for the most part, movie theaters aren't this kind of market, except perhaps in very affluent areas. people already consider movie tickets to be expensive these days. as long as the experience goes right enough of the time, they're not gonna pay extra to see the same movie.
I don't think banning predatory practices is elitist. Keeping people from being lied to or mislead isn't elitist.

I think banning usurious interest rates can be elitist. But a lot of upper middle class politicians don't understand how expensive it can be to not have money. And getting hit with overdraft fees, having your electricity shut off, or not being able to make it to work because your car broke down can all be very expensive and make the usurious interest rates look cheap.

I don't see the connection but restricting medicine but I do think that non addictive medication is overly restricted.

Smoking and gambling(and drinking) are specific vices and restricting them isn't elitist but banning pall malls would be.

I'm not against elitist policies in principle. Of there is a lot of data that a particular intervention has a strong positive effect than I'm for it. But I'm just suspicious of a bunch upper middle class politicians deciding what's best for a lower class one and legislating away their options.
I disagree with your argument that we shouldn’t care about this as long as it’s legal.

There are many things that are legal but still damaging or wrong. In many cases (including this one, IMO) we as a society should be able to know more about the behavior so that we can deal with it if it’s problematic.
>Why does it matter if owner is known or not known?

Because money laundering
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I would posture that much of what the author is trying to describe is differences in thinking patterns. We've got loads of psychological research that shows that across the population spectrum, various patterns of thought dominate (MBTI, for example). I think this is a case where people who think logically are attracted to professions where this skill is valued highly. Perhaps creative thinking is another skillset that's also influenced by personality. These folks are going to be more attracted to fields where they can exercise their creativity.
Right now, I'm trying not to drop to my knees like Wayne in front of Alice Cooper!!!

I love the enthusiasm you guys have for this though, it's so palpable. I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for these coming episodes, they all sound amazing.
The problem is that, trades aside, higher education is a must for earning money that one can actually live on.

The US needs public funding for universities. It's not impossible - Germany's universities are all free of charge, most even for foreigners.
Or, you know, a underscore, as has been de-facto standard for deacades?
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You'll mainly get opposition from people who own patents, not inventors.
> their work is owned lock, stock, and barrel by the companies

As benhurmarcel says, this isn't unique to software development. It's the norm.

The most obvious exception that occurs to me is research, where your life's work is published (albeit often paywalled).

> we have github, but even that is suspect and many potential employers don't look at it

I'm not sure it's really 'suspect', is it? I suppose it's subject to Goodhart's law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

As for employers not looking at it, I think that's a separate issue.

> I've read on more than one occasion somewhat famous developers of tools being turned down for positions at companies that use the very tools they developed. It is somewhat maddenning.

Yep. Here's the one that springs to mind: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15713801
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Yes, because “cat” can use either STDIN or a file as input:

https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/cat.c...

It’s an intentional design decision.
California’s ‘hydrogen highway’ never happened. Could 2020 change that?
Wages vary according to marginal utility rather than total utility. The question is not "what if all teachers disappeared", but "what if one particular teacher disappeared".
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This is a great use of a Makefile- notice how the audio file will only be downloaded if it does not already exist.

That said, if you're just looking for a simple one-liner you can paste into the terminal, my go-to is this one:

cat *.jpg *.JPG *.jpeg | ffmpeg -r .5 -i - -vf "scale=w=1280:h=720:force_original_aspect_ratio=2,crop=1280:720" -y slideshow.mp4

There are many approaches described in [1], but none of them handle varying aspect ratios, which I find to be the most common problem when creating slideshows.

[1] https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Slideshow
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Are housing and transportation not valid applications of a student loan? I am currently close to graduating from college. During my last 3 years I haven't had a stable enough family life to consider living with my parents. I'm very fortunate in that I've spent a large amount of time, throughout my childhood, developing a skill set that is highly valued and I also had the energy required to work full time as a SWE while doing my degree. Had any of those cases not been true I'd have to either give up on getting a degree and live with the sunk costs or I would have had to take out larger loans to cover housing.

It feels like if I was someone with a chronic medical condition that made it impossible for me to work 75hr to 90hr I would have effectively been barred from getting a degree.
The weird legal protections for student loans seems bizarre to me. The effect of making these loans exempt from bankruptcy just inflates their value which puts colleges into a position where they can inflate their fees - safe in the knowledge that banks will lend practically anything and students have very little choice. But I'm still left wondering- what is the reason that bankruptcy exists at all, and if there is a good reason, why does that reason not extend to student loans?
This is great. Doers versus talkers,nice to see a doer get a win
Damn that's ugly.

I'm luckily still on Azure's MSDN tier...which is hardcapped to 150 bucks.
As an engineer myself I do agree with this in a sense. Engineers lack creativity and they also tend to lack analytical skills. There's a high focus on "best practices" and design patterns without the critical thinking on "why." So you tend to see the over-application of these kinds of things everywhere in code. If I were to describe the style of thinking engineers tend to have, the best word is "religious" with grand delusions of being "analytical."

I work in a golang shop where engineers were stupefyingly trying to port Java Design patterns over to the language. I literally told them straight up that most of these design patterns are horrible and bad for code. I told them about the huge pitfalls of dependency injection and Nobody even wanted to listen or believe me.

One guy tried to have all init functions that create structs replaced with a builder pattern. Literally can people not see how the builder pattern enables the creation of structures with invalid state? Why? Why? Why? I think because the builder pattern is prettier and more elegant looking. Overall though these engineers are miss applying their analytical thinking.

It's only when I referenced quotations by Rob Pike (creator of golang) on how Rob Pike designed Golang to get away from OOP did people start to actually listen to me. Appeal to authority rather than logic, that's how "analytical" engineers think.

Obviously these engineers love OOP as a language they also like Golang which is the antithesis of OOP. The fact that these engineers can exist with conflicting beliefs tells me that their isn't an analytical bone in their body. They worship the buzzwords of OOP and Golang for religious reasons.
>Why is that wrong?

In addition to what other commenters have said:

Because some geniuses seeking to freeze time have made it impossible to build more anything at the scale required and therefore land not being used because it's an investment is bad because it jacks up the price of what's left for everyone else and we want to know who's doing that so we can shame them because that's easy and changing laws is hard (edit: sarcasm implied).

TL;DR because zoning fucked everything up.
Did he publish any IP of his project(s)?

Lets flood it and have him pay the bill
Everyone can care about things they want to care about.

I own that house and I don't want you to know who I am - and this is part of my hard-earned assets protection strategy.

Why your casual curiousity to know is more important than my desire to legally own the property without disclosing information about me to everyone and their cat?
You're right: They could implement some kind of autonomous general intelligence to assist in resolving issues.

Probably take about 9 months to build an MVP, but about 16 years worth of training data until it's able to handle most cases.
> Few people start at minimum wage and then get stuck there. The ranks of the poor are fluid.

This is false. The US ranks very poorly for economic mobility- in fact, even 3rd world countries like Pakistan rank higher.
The government should not be in the loan business in the first place.

Further a degree is not a hard asset thus can not be "repossessed" a degree is simply proof of knowledge (or rather that is what a degree should be, modern degree's that is not so clear) thus it would be and is today treated as unsecured debt for the purposes of bankruptcy
It is a pipe, just for a different definition of pipe.

| is the pipe operator in sh for doing a shell "pipeline". However, the parent comment is referring to a linux pipe as in pipe(7) [0].

One easy way to see this is with the following:

$ ls -l <(echo foo)
lr-x------ 1 user group Jan 12 01:23 /proc/self/fd/16 -> 'pipe:[2937585]'

As you can see, that command created a fd (16) which referred to a pipe (pipe:[2937585]).

Those file descriptors were created using the pipe(2)[1] call by the shell, so it seems fine to refer to them to pipes.

I'll also note that <() / >() are _not_ using the "redirection operator". They're actually distinct operators for "process substitution"[2] in bash terminology. They look similar to redirects, but they're not the same operator, so that stack overflow answer isn't really relevant.

[0]: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/pipe.7.html

[1]: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/pipe.2.html

[2]: https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/process-sub.html
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What then is the value of:

Education: University of Higher Eductaion, M.S. Computer Science, (repossessed)

on a resume? I ask only half jokingly.
What’s your goal? I haven’t received a paper bill in years. They are already digitized. Same for most news/magazine articles. Aside from older/historical documents, nearly every piece of paper I encounter has a digital counterpart that I can access in some form.
Yet, their was more plastic in the Pacific when they left than when they started. Filtering river discharge could make a meaningful difference, what their doing is at best a publicity stunt.

Another 9 million tons (8 million metric tons) of plastic waste, including plastic bottles, bags, toys and other items, flow annually into the ocean from beaches, rivers and creeks, according to experts. So 8,000,000/year vs ~36 per month.

In other words they spent 300,000$ and reduced the oceans added plastic load that month by 0.0054%.
Shouldn't premature ejaculation be viewed as an evolutionary advantage ? After all when presented with the opportunity, the male has to get in there and get the job done quickly before you get eaten by lions.
I used to get them once a month or so. I disabled them.
I think we're probably in agreement, but we're getting caught up on the definition of "piping".

In my case I'm using it to describe the use of a kernel pipe object. In your case, you are using it to describe the higher-level concept of connection from one processes stdout to another process's stdin (or something along those lines).
I totally support the notion that if violations are remain unresolved and fines are remain unpaid, government should have full right to repossess the property and sell it on public auction.

Regardless if owner is known or not known.
The argument for bankruptcy protection for student loans is that, at the end of college, students are in a uniquely advantageous position to file for bankruptcy. They don’t have any assets, they don’t have any significant income earning history, etc. I think the original intent was to incentivize more lending, and thus more access to higher education, by giving lenders more protection.

It was a mistake, IMO.
No mention of the SuperH.
2-3 instances over ~10 years.

Access via Tor, new devices, and travel, generally.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/2w618r/how_to_... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9060922)

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3mo7l6/that_go...

This is a Hard Problem:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/7qya12/informa...
Same thing happened to me once. I called google support and they send me another phone.
He is saying that people in Canada are less concerned about Canada's unemployment numbers than people in America are concerned about America's unemployment numbers.
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I think a more likely factor would be stopping after the first child if it's what you wanted, and trying for more if you really wanted the other.

But there's so many other confounding factors (e.g. do billionaire men have more testosterone, as either a cause or an effect of their success, do they have children when they are older but the mothers are younger and so on) that it offers no evidence on its own.
Yeah that definitely seems off. I worked at a tech company where approximately half our employees were customer support, and each was paid closer to $30/hour. I don't see how we could have ever paid $15/hour/head for our support team.
> Kafka

Name checks out...
Mortgages are not hard to discharge. Millions of Americans did it during the housing bust. I did as well. I did a strategic foreclosure, got my credit score lowered for a few years but it’s been back to normal for several years now.
It's also subject to many of the same footguns as Bash so I'd put that into the 2nd camp (re my previous post).

Not that I'm taking anything away from zsh. It is a nice shell. But I think we can do even better considering how dependant we still are on shells for day to day stuff.
I'm surprised the gitlab page has no issues, and the Nota.cabal file still points to what appears to be a stale github repo.
> Robust anonymity can't be created via technical means.

Perhaps, but it can be easily lost by via technical means.
FinCEN knows who owns the property.

It's just the casual Joe doesn't and he thinks he has the right to know everything he wants.
>> I'm still left wondering- what is the reason that bankruptcy exists at all.

Because society decided that people should have a way out of bad financial situation they've gotten into, quite often for reasons beyond their control (e.g. car accident that leaves them unable to work for a long time, and with huge medical bill to pay).
I’m skeptical that using student loans for things other than school and related expenses makes up a non-trivial percentage of student loans, do you have any data on that?

That said, housing, car payments, and paying down credit are all normal things that happen while you’re in school. Vacations is the only thing on your list that might be legitimate abuse of student loans. Though, it’s a loan with interest, so there’s no clear reason why there should be any restrictions on how someone spends it.

Bigger picture, these seem like good reasons to do away with student loans and subsidize higher education 100%. Other countries are doing it, and it could easily be paid for via very slightly higher incomes taxes only on people with degrees, who currently enjoy an average 2x higher salary than people without.
This probably depends on your perspective. If you think of a metal as a homogenous linear medium (which is a good approximation for long wavelengths but is not exact), then light is a wave, photos are an unnecessary detail, and the wave mostly reflects and is absorbed as heat. If you look the metal as a whole bunch of atoms and a sea of mobile, discrete electrons, then the incoming photons excite the sea of electrons and, when the interaction settles down, photons are leaving. If you insist on modeling the electrons with QED, congratulations, you’ve made your life unnecessarily complicated unless the photons have such high energies that electrons are created or end up with relativistic velocities. If you believe in string theory, maybe the photons were only an approximation in the first place.

Physics is all about choosing an appropriate model of the world that captures the detail you need without being more complicated than needed. Is a person on a playground swing a pendulum, or is it a bag of molecules sitting on a flexible piece of rubber suspended by a bunch of rusty metal links from a flexible steel bar that is, in turn, supported by many geological layers in the Earth’s crust?
Certainly the ones I appreciated the most were two related episodes from Benjamin Walker's Theory of everything [1], very informative, very personal:

- 1984 The Book [2]
- 1984 The Year [3]

[1] https://theoryofeverythingpodcast.com/

[2] https://theoryofeverythingpodcast.com/2019/08/1984-the-book-...

[3] https://theoryofeverythingpodcast.com/2019/08/1984-the-year-...
That's not at all the same thing...
You're confusing something. Fully consistent databases are primarily limited by the speed of communication because they need to replicate writes and queries to all nodes and wait for a response even if a node is on the other side of the planet. Unless your CPU is extremely slow (clock frequencies of a few kilo Herz) the speed of light is a significantly more important limit. This is actually a usecase where modern CPUs are more than fast enough and we don't need a significant improvement in processing speed. Faster storage and networks are welcome though.
Because an engineer sees one solution and somehow it's always theirs
Not really, since you are counted as "employed" if you work 1 paid hour per pay period.
Attending a state university as a resident is actually well within reach for almost everyone. And people who can’t afford it usually qualify for financial aid and grants. The problem is that too many people overspend on higher education. And most people are only able to do this with access to humungous student loans.
But that is exactly my point: there are not only a technical but also social considerations. And yes, in the end a code quality improvement - if the refactoring actually is - should make one happy. But still it is the decent thing to check with the author first, if that is possible.
Absolutely they mentioned it in the article.
Because nearly everyone wants to feel they're contributing to society in some way. I think we agree here. I'm not saying you need a horrendous office job.
Ironic that the Seattle Times website asked me to subscribe before I read the story on how to maintain anonymity.

After you subscribe, you probably get a page saying:

"Well, not this way."
> there was always an inconsistency between $* and $@

There is never a legitimate reason to use $* . Even in the rare cases where you want those semantics (hint: you don't), you should use something like "$(join ' ' "$@")" instead.

> They were both totally valid;

No, they weren't.
Exactly that. Thanks for writing that up.

...one big gotcha is gdrive, docs and GCP. Haven't worked out what to do about those yet, but priority is being able to salvage the email addr since everything is linked to it
Dogma?

Although you probably didn't mean https://youtu.be/Cz6FOyTmFUA it's what jumped to my mind, it's a really beautiful song for sure.
Well, shame XYZ LLC. then.

Zoning laws and feces covered SF streets are not XYZ's fault.

We all know whose it is.
I think this story would make for a great movie:

Radiolab's "The Punchline" https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/radio... (starts at 3:19)

"John Scott was the professional hockey player that every fan loved to hate. A tough guy. A brawler. A goon. But when an impish pundit named Puck Daddy called on fans to vote for Scott to play alongside the world’s greatest players in the NHL All-Star Game, Scott found himself facing off against fans, commentators, and the powers that be. Was this the realization of Scott’s childhood dreams? Or a nightmarish prank gone too far? Today on Radiolab, a goof on a goon turns into a parable of the agony and the ecstasy of the internet, and democracy in the age of Boaty McBoatface."
City and county government typicaly hold the deeds. If an anonymous LLC is being problematic just have them send a letter "Pay fine within 30 days or we sell your property on the courthouse steps." I prefer to know my neighbors but I also understand why some owners would want to stay anonymous. But being anonymous should not allow you to be an asshole as well.
Looked for a few minutes. My best guess is that if there was one, it was probably submit under a different link with an editorialized title. On Red Gate's site alone, there's at least a few copies, along with the one on Davidson's site and the other copy that used to be on his site.
I also agree that affordable housing is adorable.
Owning real estate property isn't the same as other assets, your investment effects your neighbors.
That doesn't describe my experience with Home Depot at all. After I complained about their contacted installer, the manager of the store called to apologize and they had a new installer stop by at my convenience to redo the installation for free.

Appliance delivery and installation companies absolutely depend on their connections to big box stores to stay alive.
The laissez-faire line is that the common good happens spontaneously if you allow some people to buy ten cars. Because that's "freedom".

No matter that homelessness is rising, life expectancy is falling, debt is increasing to catastrophic levels, the planet's ecology is becoming increasingly hostile to life (ask the Australians...) - and counter-evidence is piling up on all sides.

The suggestion that aggressively acquisitive small-minded personal selfishness ought to be the one true motivator of a healthy economy should be obvious laugh-out-loud nonsense to anyone capable of rational thought.

And yet, mysteriously, it's not just taken seriously, it's elevated to a near-mystical principle of omniscient collective market wisdom. (With the caveat here that markets need to be "educated" - an interesting thing to define.)

It's really quite strange.