skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you want to get on the modern hype train, you can think of it as a "mindfulness" exercise. There is something therapeutic about having busy hands and letting the mind wander.

I don't mean to be gatekeepery here, but aren't "mindful" and "letting the mind wander" pretty much opposites?

"Wash every bowl, every dish as if you are bathing a baby - breathing in, feeling joy; breathing out, smiling. Every minute can be a holy, sacred minute. Where do you seek the spiritual? You seek the spiritual in every ordinary thing that you do every day. Sweeping the floor, watering the vegetables, and washing the dishes become holy and sacred if mindfulness is there. With mindfulness and concentration, everything becomes spiritual." - Thich Nhat Hanh, in "How to Eat".

"Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes." - Alan Watts.

It sounds more like the modern "productivity" hype train than the mindfulness one; "do two things at once, and distract yourself from life, if your eyes are busy, fill your ears, fill all your senses all the time".

> the disaster that my wife leaves it in (i.e. How hard is it to actually nest the dishes instead of building them into some precarious tower?),

mindfully criticising your wife in public for a cheap laugh. :eyes:
"Earn 2.25% APY when you have up to $10,000 in your account. Amounts over $10,000 will earn 0.50% APY." suggests that you get 2.25% on a balance _up to_ $10,000, not that that's the minimum for that rate.
I believe Yahoo still provides the APIs for those apps.
Well i don't think i use 1333 pens in "years", so math checks out
Yeah it was priority. 90 days free trial.
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Don't worry, soon it will be 'systemui' and there will only be one way to do anything.
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I don't take an "obvious conclusion" position on it. We simply don't know.

Jesus is a known historical figure. Pretending otherwise is silly. The end.
It's the other way around. They only pay the 2.25% on the first $10k in your account. Any balance above that gets a lower rate (0.50%)
In India Punjab, I learned to jold the pencil between thumb, index & middle finger. Imagine these three finger ends touching each other with ends at same plane, & touching from opposite of nails side.

Now imagine a pencil between these three, with thumb & index fingers' opposite of nail side touching the pencil; & pencil resting on left of middle finger nail side.
Wow. such smart. Eliet hacker.

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=tail+call+optimization
Youre thinking about yourself. Students etc who have .com domains cant afford $100 a year for their domain? Should they be forced to give up their domains because people like you couldnt get their chosen domains from squatters/
There are two things that I like about React.

1. Componentization. I've found this to be super useful and helps me build items that I can use in multiple places. Pair that with something like Storybook JS - and you have an app that can be broken up into puzzle pieces with high reusability. This helps isolate the business logic from the UI. Granted - a similar effect could be pulled of with HTML templating.

2. State Management - Love love that I don't have to handle UI updates when the data changes. This I believe is the whole "reactive" model [if I'm not mistaken]. Consider building a Rich Text Editor, and the user is typing, he uses keyboard shortcuts to enable bold, underline and italics. How do you update the UI to reflect those have been selected. Listen to the shortcuts, and add the necessary class? Great, what if that shortcut had to kickoff ten more things? Another method also adds a contradicting class to that same element. At some point, the logic becomes super entangled, and it becomes hard to track where and why. With React/Redux - life runs like an FSM. Each update/action can be traced.

[though I use MobX because it takes less effort]

P.S.
I also don't recommend React for Single Page things. It's unnecessary bloat. Complex in my head means multiple distinct components (like > 5).
I disagree. S-teams set the culture. They drive their organizations in a way that is very, very active (especially relative to places I've worked elsewhere.) When there are cultural issues at Amazon, I believe that they can be at least partly traced to the s-team leaders.
The "town and gown" separation is a tradition born from the upheavals of the Reformation, not some natural law. Many places have abolished it successfully.

The whole of Australia, for example.
Happy to see more people interest in Nix. At the end of the post there are some links on learning resources, that list is 100% the best way to get started.
I live in a "bike friendly city", competing for the friendliest bike cities. Yet bikes seem like a distant after though. Things like putting "share the road" signs IN the bike lane during the day. Even worse at night they don't move them, but fold them down so they are near invisible (black cloth) even with a light. They re-engineered intersections with big cement islands to protect pedestrians... but force bikes into traffic right at the intersection.

When they want to slow down a bike trail they put a "S" in it, then line it with large boulders... typically where there's no street lights.
This is not true. OS's generally blit their entire UI with GPU shaders, for power efficiency as much as for performance. This may be mixed with scanout compositing, depending on the system.
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May I ask why “minimal branding” is so appealing to you, in addition to being superlatively well made?
Specifically science fiction topics though? Not so sure I agree. Not like those topics are well defined or universally applicable though.
Looks really nice!
Out of interest, at what stage would the dbas here consider running a newish third party project such as this on a production workload?
At this point we can’t realistically “solve” climate change, to do so would require too many sacrifices from too many entrenched interests.

The best we can do mitigate climate change, adapt to it and try to avoid the worst consequences.
> my goal is to make ~$250k a year as fast as possible. To do so at my current company would take at least 3 years and 2 promotions

Hi,

I don't want to dunk on you, but I would truly encourage you to gain some perspective on just how myopic a view this is.

(I couldn't reply to your comment below where you said this)
I came hoping that this was about people who play Doom.
Awesome mindset and perspective. Wish I could say the same about my co-workers. I'd work with you in a heartbeat... This intrinsic motivation is highly contagious to me in my experience and I wish I could be around it more often.
The fact that this was a SoftBank backed company, the insane valuation placed on it, the poor vetting of founders/higher management, and the wild gyrations required when new decisions come down every month (get more customers doesn't matter if they are profitable! no, stop getting customers, they aren't profitable yet! etc) does in-fact have a lot to do with the outcome tho

signed: someone who programmed for a SoftBank backed company
The basic ground breaking conceptual innovation is - "self serve".

The innovations with respect to tools - either support or serve that basic need.

All hygiene tools - Nail cutters, Contact Lenses, tooth pick, soap, tooth brush, shaving blade may fall in this category.

If we step little outside - I feel bicycle is one of the biggest innovation which triggered modern day - self serve - without depending on/troubling animals.
I haven't read all of Crichton, but from what I remember, he covered

Nanotech/grey goo

Genetic engineering

Aliens and their freaky orbs

Time travel

As far as I know, he's not really explored the possibilities of space exploration, AI, VR, transhumanism, etc. I mean he's great but I don't think he covers all that much ground.
Man I'm glad these threads pop up. Every so often Amazon starts to look tempting as a place to work, and I need threads like this to remind me that it sucks and isn't worth it.
I have several fountain pens, and vastly prefer them to anything else for note-taking (even the pen for One?Note on my Surface Pro!) My favorite was made in 1947, and still works as well today as it did then. With care, it'll still work as well when it's 100, which is a fair fraction of how long I'm expected to last (at least statistically...)
I worked there until very close to the end, and the collapse of GO/Eo provided me with a priceless instant network of friends at dozens of companies around the SF Bay Area.

I met my spouse and some of my best friends through GO/Eo, and to this day still greatly value the connections made there for my personal and professional networks. Silver linings.
Honestly (disclosure: I own some of those second class domains), I highly doubt it.

This is a case where efficient markets mostly apply I would assume. Sure, I'd reconsider if I'm really going to ship this dream side project in my lifetime and I may drop some of those domains, but if they're good, professional domain resellers will snap at them before you get a chance.

And if you think that $10/year is too cheap, what makes you think $100/year is closer to an optimum? Why not $1000? I don't want to get into politics but this is a universal problem.

Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if this makes things worse. Raising prices evicts small domain speculators from the game and concentrates the supply into fewer hands.

This is a money grab. No one in charge intends for this increase to make things fairer. I don't think anyone looking for a domain name should rejoice that taxes (going straight to for-profits) got higher.
Unfortunately, as you mention, not all are high-quality.

If I want good white-label vodka I go to Costco.

Good white-label monitor arms apparently come from AmazonBasics.

Good white-label socks come from a third place.

Even worse than the fact that these different classes of products are in different places is that even items in the same class from the same place are completely different quality. Costco's vodka might be fine, their whiskey might be awful. Monitor arms from amazonbasics are fine but their mic arms are garbage.

There's no manufacturer of consistently very high quality consumer goods. There's not even a manufacturer I can point to and say "everything they make, even in their narrow field, is fantastic".

And that sucks.
Okay, what was this used in, and where/how can we play with it? Preferably in test/debug mode so we can directly poke at the different features. (But source not necessary.)

Also - the ANSI graphics example... it honestly looks bitmapped, not like a bunch of colored character cells. But then the graphics example (link 2) also looks bitmapped, so I think I'm missing something.
Caution for OS X users — https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2925
Facebook decided to block all mentions of a Seattle startup
Are CRTs still manufactured or used?
It seems like you remember that meme because of how it made you feel.
If they want to be left alone, the kindest thing you can do is to leave them alone. Maybe consider being an example to others in the spirit they were an example to you.
From a reliable source, a Western journalist who was evacuated, this article's information seems accurate.

It's difficult to tell what the current numbers are, or even what they will be because of censorship, but you can bet it's 2-5x what's reported. Also, it's compounded by the delay of information having to go to intermediaries before reaching international journalists. And, there are some isolated instances of bodies on the streets and in crashed cars of people not making it to the hospital before expiring, and then not being collected quickly because of fearful coroners/undertakers... which is expected in a minor pandemic in a densely-populated city. I would bet there are at least a dozen dead bodies on the street right now of the 400+ people who die in NYC's five boroughs every day. Even if it were Ebola-deadly and infectious as an airborne-mutated norovirus, sustained isolation of population members can kill any pathogen because its transmission rate drops to insignificant and then 0.
Cool design, but the idea of messages disappearing after they're typed makes it practically pointless for general use. There would be a lot of other ways to accomplish similar functionality of keeping the most recently typed messages active, without removing them completely.
It is!
I spent a week traveling the Pacific Coast Highway in 2018. I brought camping gear, but never used it because I found a warmshowers.org host (sometimes multiple) at every stop.
Customer takes car in for service, Telsa sells it
Journalists never write about... Shhh! Yes they do, and this tool can show you
They're approximately the same speed.
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I've been using NixOS on my laptop for a couple of years now and I am still embarrasingly undereducated on how to do some of even basic things. I feel I still haven't fully grokked "the nix way". You will need to understand it pretty well to do even basic things like running specific versions of ruby or python with specific native libraries. I have spent a couple of hours here and there on nix pills but I think one really needs to set aside some concerted time to get into it properly. I consider myself fairly proficient with Linux in general and never had this kind of steep learning curve with other distros.

(This is a not me criticizing NixOS, just noting that they do things very differently and you really need to invest some time and effort to start being able to solve your own problems rather than relying on what's provided by others)
Hi. OP here.

> The reason I find random access into cache having the same performance as sequential access as not that profound is because it falls out directly from the above scenario

Correct. The behavior can be logically explained. There's no magic involved.

> sequential access into RAM _is_ random access of cache

I actually like your statement even better than my post. Sequential access into RAM _is_ random access of the cache! What a delightfully profound statement.

High-performance computing is your specialty. Of course everything in my post is obvious to you. Elementary even.

If you want to argue the semantics as to whether a logical conclusion constitutes as profound or not. Well, I guess?

Not gonna lie. Your comment kind of comes across as a long-winded humblebrag. "Everything OP said is true. I just think it's obvious." Sorry if that wasn't your intent.
Fountain pens are the ultimate in no-waste - Clean them, refill them and keep using them. I have a handful, the oldest is 73 years old, but I have several that are around 50 years old. Cleaning, refilling with ink, and very rarely, a new nib (quality fountain pens have nibs coated with very hard metals that last for decades) keeps them going indefintely. Quality is worth the cost here, but by the late 1920s we knew how to build quality fountain pens that do not leak and definitely last!
For two reasons. The first is that I dislike the idea of being a walking advertisement. The second is that frankly I find most brand logos to be somewhat tacky.

Branding is fine if it is considered, but most simply isn't.

If you make something well enough, people who love your gear for its quality will shout about it from the rooftops.
React is cool if you want components. Web components had crap support because browsers needed to implement them; React you could use immediately.

I agree Redux isn't an improvement there, media queries for user preference[0] were. However, rendering details aside (this may still use a CSS class), you might choose to give a separate option inside your regular UI or have some other interactive blob that is colorscheme-aware but needs to be told that manually. Maybe you have lots of options. The app-colors state can be set to some explicit value initially or default-inherit from the environment, but it still has to be tracked somewhere that isn't the stylesheet. It doesn't have to be Redux but it does have to be something.

Relatively soon I expect web components will start to eat into the UI framework nonsense.[1] React never really hid the need to know HTML, CSS, and JS well just like jQuery didn't. They made it _easier_. They also encouraged a plug'n'play ecosystem that made it easy to kinda-sorta hack together what you wanted -- without having to do much reading. Bold prediction: In the future we'll look back at a lot of "React developers" like we do at "jQuery developers" now.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...

[1]: https://caniuse.com/#search=web%20components shows Safari as the only partial out of major browsers, plus some in the long tail. I've only poked at it a bit recently, they were a mess last time I tried (years ago)... it's much better.
Useless on mobile device.
The military is a much more legitimate target than a credit agency
I've always wanted a minimalist Dean and DeLuca meets Trader Joe's.
The entire contemporary devops process is awfully convoluted. In fact, I've heard DevOps people call themselves "yaml engineers". Often in your docker compose there is some stupid error, there are 3 versions of Docker compose files, there are 7 ways to do something, Docker CLI manual can be printed in 1000 pages and we've created extremely bloated (despite of caching whatever) CI/CD. For what? Dependencies? Let's download 4.5 GB of images because my app needs to be reproduceable.

I tried reading about Kubernetes. Holyshit what a monster we've created. I am sure there is going to be an orchestrator abstraction for multiple Kubernetes clusters. And then we have environment variables, secrets, access keys, a bazillion different parameters that need to trickle down from Gitlab CI settings all the way to the app through many layers.

Good lord. All engineers should be ashamed of this mess. We've forgotten how to build simple, beautiful, lean and parsimonious software. Instead of writing logic, I am configurating things all day.

Let there be a day where there is some deep compiler problem and this entire house of cards comes crashing down because your DevOps team ain't gonna know what happened down in lower abstraction layers. But, let's shit on the F-35 program everytime there is a Lockheed article on HN. Because surely, software engineers are the smart bunch ya. I know, I am unreasonably obtuse here, but jeez, no one complains about today's deployment process,... its apparently accepted without a question.
For those who aren't aware, not only does Costco pay well (I was earning $13/hour back around 2004), they also offer good benefits. I got healthcare, 401k, dental, vision, and time and a half on Sundays. And I was just a food court/service deli employee. Things got even better when I became a food court supervisor.

The mantra I heard, over and over, while I was there was "Hire good people, treat them well, and the rest takes care of itself."
Not quite a copyright concern but wouldn't this get confused with the island[0]?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yap
A little disingenuous to compare without docker multi-stage.
What about that has to do with the contents of the article? You didn't make contact with anything besides the term "S-team" in the headline.

And even then, you say they drive all this culture, but you don't say anything substantive. How? What events?
I'd argue firearms are the most important mechanical devices, as they and their production led directly to interchangeable parts, mass production, and precision tooling of all kinds. The modern world is literally impossible without firearms. And yes, you can make crude firearms yourself, but good ones require more skill and capability.
- Redrawing the entire screen on every frame is indeed disastrous

- Redrawing entire application windows every time something gets moved around a bit and something gets a paint event is also higher load than necessary

- Drawing things that won't change every frame into textures (not shaders), and then compositing those textures together on every frame, is by far the most efficient approach today, on all platforms

I am genuinely interested to hear the definition of "less" that you refer to. It's possible some piece of assumed context is being lost in translation.
I suppose you could think of it as an unexplored continent that has very specific requirements to survey each region. You mount an expedition, and you probably just find more trees and brush. The important thing, though, is that now that area is on a map, and the map keeps getting bigger.
Another one is the railroad wheel -- the shape that self-centers the train on the rails without using the flange.
Are you familiar with their circumstances? Maybe they have a limited window before retirement age. Maybe they have medical bills. Maybe they need to support a parent or grandparent. Maybe they need to send remittances to support a family "back home".

There's any number of reasons why that number might not be myopic.
If "you should ignore it"/"just downvote it" was sufficient, we wouldn't need site guidelines or moderators. Off-topic Amazon hate will always win the upvote wars unless people are principled.
If you're really spending that much on quality materials and craftsmanship, why not spend a tiny bit more overhead to effectively market it? That's why judging based on marketing is actually rational.
from the homepage: For every one hundred frames in the video, we only transmit one, and use adversarial learning to fill in the gaps. This allows us to save data transmission, and makes up for latency.
For anyone else wondering:

Iridology: the inspection of the iris of the eye as an aid in determining a person's state of health or in diagnosing a health problem.
What exactly is it distracting us from? It sounds like you're suggesting more important is being overlooked, and your comment has left me curious.
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The problem here, as always, is that all of the routine jobs that require minimal employee knowledge are being automated. The remaining jobs, even in 'blue collar' areas, now involve job-specific knowledge which takes time and money to impart and which goes stale if not used regularly. It's far less effective to have two part-time engineers design a widget than it is to have one full-time engineer design it. It's even worse having two part-time electricians wiring up a machine, because the handover is going to be messier.
If you like Nix than probably try GNU Guix [1] and if possible use Guix System on server side. This is one of the most modern development in operating systems.

In the modern security conscious world where most companies run their workloads on virtual machines controlled by other companies, it's imperative that applications are deployed on such predictable, secure and reproducible operating systems.

Guix supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, and more. When used as a standalone distribution, Guix supports declarative system configuration for transparent and reproducible operating systems.

I still think Amazon, Google and Azure will take a decade or two to build and offer something like this to it's customers. Indeed Google's Fuschia is trying to do the same, but I feel it's at least a decade away.

It has one of the best wonderful documentation [2] to get started and explore with all the details.

[1] https://guix.gnu.org/

[2] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/
TIL hardware planes (the "dedicated hardware" you refer to?) != the GPU.

I presume these are inside the GPU die, though? Probably near the display controller logic?