skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it's hilarious, not because musk shot himself in the foot (in the long-run he likely didn't), but because he tweaked the whole gambling industry otherwise known as the stock market, day traders and algorithms alike, in 7 words (9 actually, but whatevs) on a popularity contest, aka social, network. he's too cool for school.
What's the point of the 'val' keyword? It reminds me of Visual Basic's "Dim x As String".
The Cash Money Millionaires episode was totally like this. Big empty mansion with generic decor and the requisite shiny cars parked outside.
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Location: WA, USA

Remote: Yes!

Willing to relocate: Only for something special

Technologies: Pixel-perfect mockups, mobile app design, user interface and experience design, A/B testing, user flow design (taskflow, wireflow, and high-fidelity interactive prototypes), responsive front-end web development, CSS

Résumé/CV: https://dillonbrown.me/pdf/resume.pdf

Email: hello@dillonbrown.me
I wonder how go garbage collection and real time data streams get along together.
25% is generally more than both the dealership & manufacturer's gross profit put together, so 25% would be a loss. Dealerships themselves generally markup 2-5%.
I disagree. You can grasp the meaning of pv=nrt without memorizing the value of r. You can understand that electrons exist in probability shells without remembering what atomic number the d orbital starts at. You can understand that e=mv^2 is only an approximation that works at low velocities without being able to do a Lorentz transform.
While Egypt is generally loose in this regard, they are super strict about few things. Sharm Elsheikh's reef come to my mind.
Sounds like a good cliffhanger leading into the third act, though.... :)
Thank you people for being human and trying to fight that horrible for profit prison system which I think is a crime on its own.
They create better drivers.

Nvidia dont adhere to specs. Amd does.

Developers develop for nvidia.

Problems ensue for amd users.
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Is this this what mainstream appeal is now?
FYI we've got a Web Audio API guide in the works for web.dev. We're still working on it but here's the staged version: https://deploy-preview-2757--web-dev-staging.netlify.app/pro...

(Figured I might as well put in a plug while Web Audio is on page 1)
Even accepting that dubious premise, you also seem to be assuming that startups only hire software devs.
A Proposal to Admit New States for the Purpose of Amending the Constitution
I got it working via WSL on windows. Thanks!
Yeah. It's worth noting that Microsoft's Precision Touchpad enforcement happened ~8 years after the Mac's (multitouch) Touchpad arrived.
it's amazingly useful. I have used it since 1987, most recently today.
The argument is not about the init system. systemd’s is probably fine.

It’s about an ever expanding take-over of userspace by a single module, which is not the Unix way.

And about a high-handed project leader who is paid by Redhat to do it full time.
Takuo Aoyagi, an Inventor of the Pulse Oximeter, Dies at 84
My first lead as an FBI agent would be investigating all HN account holders.
Found the python programmer!
If any of the major manufacturers were stuck with the entire inventory their dealerships are sitting on right now, that would sink them.
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They just issued $2B of shares only ~6 weeks ago

But that was when Elon was sober, so who knows
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Technologies: Many and varied. C, C++, Go, x86 asm, Spark, etc.
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Email: ori@eigenstate.org

Generalist systems engineer, able to work everywhere from firmware through large distributed systems. Contributor to multiple operating systems (9front, OpenBSD) for fun. I've been programming for the last 15 years, and have spent time at FAANG giants and small startups. Looking for a place where I can simplify the tech stack for everyone through good engineering decisions.
If they were doing that, then they are not doing a very good job at it.
> The port is fortunate in having another source of revenue, though. It’s a big importer of tropical fruit, like pineapples, avocados and especially bananas.

I hope they've also considered the looming panama disease crisis as well https://theconversation.com/the-quest-to-save-the-banana-fro...
> How much whiskey is there in the world right now and how can we get it delivered to Tesla’s compliance department?

Wishing alcoholism on our enemies now are we?
Evaluating GunJS as a local-first database
"One type of pushback we can receive is from facilities themselves. One facility returned one of our letters and said that you can't have anything in the letter that could be some form of encrypted message or symbol. In our case, that happened to be the bar code used by the third party service to manage their letters."

Here is example of bad scenario which I sincerely hope will never happen. Anything containing image (letter itself included) can be considered as encrypted due to a tech like steganography. They can get really creative there.
> * Mutable and immutable strings (buffer/string)

https://janet-lang.org/
GNOME OS is already a thing
I’ve had luck with not putting something directly after the asterisk.
Solving problems doesn’t necessarily mean getting numerical answers. If you don’t know how to apply the equations you list algebraically then you don’t really understand them.
Does it?

Not everything is monetarily cost based.

Cant recreate a space probe 30 years ago to replace the one malfunctioning now.

Cant recreate makret share gained against compeitors with stability problems.

Interesting point though, definitely ignored it til now.

Iguess the point is, everything is a trade off, and we shouldnt be acting like its either high quality or high throughput or high cost. Its somehwere in between and you get to choose depending on your contlstraints and needs.
Yes. Maybe look at Gstreamer.
Maybe not a firing offense, but if you ran 'ssh -R' at $JOB-1, you'd pretty much immediately have someone from the security ops team messaging you to ask what you're up to.
Thanks!

No, I don't. I am familiar with BI a little bit from my time in marketing, but no experience in data visualization like D3 or similar. It is something that I would be interested in learning though, if there is space for that on the role.
Actually, if you're open to it, hell yeah... sending an email.
Last worked with it maybe a year ago. I have a lot of SRE experience so deal with this stuff directly, and I'm giving you my experience and the experiences of my colleagues. It's anecdotal of course, but not unfounded.
I think counter-cyclical SaaS business are well-poised for some favorable term sheets this quarter, which sounds like your setup: enjoy it! :)

Our product is consumer facing (so it lags the cycles a bit, we can't triple our sales team this quarter and immediately double our revenue), and in an industry with regulation-capped margins (effectively capping ROI, without market expansions). Maximum profit percentage is in the single-digits, but revenue is measured in billions, so it's a small slice of a big pie.

All this to say, we're a fairly conservative investment, so VCs don't look to us to save their currently-imploding portfolios, like they might look to you. Again, enjoy it! :)
val is immutable, var is mutable
Nope, not familiar with them.
Scite.ai tracks positive and negative citations for Covid-19 literature
OMG, this spec was so readable I actually read the entire thing for pleasure.

I think this is a first.
I've seriously enjoyed reading your comments. Would love to get in touch sometime and discuss some ideas. I think the book idea you do is awesome. My email is in my profile. Please reach out if you see this!
For sure! Shoot us a message at team@ameelio.org
We really appreciate your help :)

-Gabe
You must not appreciate that the systemd name is overloaded; there's systemd PID1 the init daemon, and systemd the Katamari Damacy of Linux project.

Most contention is over the latter, not so much the former by itself.
Even DoorDash is a dropshipper since they list all restaurants on their app, order from the restaurant when an order comes, and then handle the "fulfillment" aspect.

Aren’t restaurants calling DoorDash and GrubHub out over exactly this “ghost kitchen” practice though?
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Very nice project, but I just want to randomly point out that 3 years of hourly data is really not as much, as it may sound to somebody. In fact, it's 3 times less than 24 hours of every-second of data, which is pretty common scale for all sorts of real-time monitoring tools we often use. These fine-sliced stats really pile up quickly...
> I think that this article points to a general challenge with our education system. By and large, the people who stick with training all the way through a PhD and postdoc in a complex field are not hoping about being a cog in someone else's machine.

That's not limited to academia. In the industry (and even outside of tech) people who will have a sufficient understanding of how something works will at some point in time no longer purely want to follow orders, but want to drive things and innovate on their own.

In this situations both sides - the current leaders and someone who wants more responsibility - need make some compromises in order to try to accomodate this interests.
Checking if a Brainfuck program is well formed (i.e. can be run) is a linear time operation. In C++ this can take forever. They have different complexities.
systemd comes from a gnome developer. a gnome developer doesn't care what came from before and doesn't care what they produce. all a gnome developer cares about is the future.

the future is what is all that matters and getting there is what matters. have you heard the phrase "the end justifies the means"?

that's it.
They are providing real products, as advertised, and usually process refunds etc honestly. While quality and service aren't likely to be amazing, I doubt they get scam-levels of chargebacks.

Besides, payment platforms don't mind if there are chargebacks and refunds. _They_ still get paid.
Meanwhile, in the real world of VC’s, they’re still looking for the “Uber of x” to pull in a 100x return before they can offload the smoking carcass to the public markets.
I've built it a few times for smallish startups.

1. Build tools/dependencies from source on macOS and Linux

2. Use an OS agnostic init (supervisord)

3. Automate machine setup and deployment in something like Ansible or Saltstack

This allows you to bootstrap a bare macOS or Linux system with a smallish shell script and run all the necessary services in the same way they'd run on production. You have very little specialization between production and dev -- like in the cloud you just run Postgres, you don't use RDS on Amazon.

Coincidentally this makes supporting multi-cloud or bare metal very easy since you don't use anything that's really special in any cloud. Like I would run our main thing on ec2, but CI/dev workloads on Linode where I can get cheap VMs.

Most of the piecemeal automation - migrations, cron were just tools written in python - some were daemons, others just scripts that ran during a deploy.
The lockdown is delaying electrics by a year or two. In 2018, Fiat Chrysler said the all-electric Jeep would be in 2020. In 2020, they said 2022. Now there's no date.

There's "mild hybrid" junk coming out, but that's a transition technology to skip over. Historically, things like that don't last long. Ships with both sails and steam engines. Metal-plated wooden hulled warships. The B-36 Peacemaker, with six props and two jet engines. (The all-jet bomber, the B-47, came out the next year.) Diesel locomotives with mechanical transmissions, like a truck. Acoustic coupler modems. Compact fluorescent bulbs.
It is but it doesn’t matter, unless the rent is 20% less in the future because next year a restaurant just as good will pop up and they can charge 10-15% less because their rent is lower and the original restaurant is still screwed.
Higher level tooling doesn't prioritize this.

That's an excellent point.

It's deep in the DNA of GitHub, unfortunately. I'm always reminded of this contrast:

> Look, I don’t give two shits about my Git commits. [...]

> From GitHub’s perspective, individual commits become less valuable because the atomic unit is the pull request.

Utter Disregard for Git Commit History
https://zachholman.com/posts/git-commit-history/

(The problem with this "unit of change" theorizing is obvious, especially considering GH only recently added a squash-merge feature.)

vs. Torvalds on GitHub PRs:

> Git comes with a nice pull-request generation module, but github instead decided to replace it with their own totally inferior version. As a result, I consider github useless for these kinds of things. It's fine for hosting, but the pull requests and the online commit editing, are just pure garbage.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56546...
Just remember that Mulder and Scully at some point answered posting like this... Truth is out there...
joshstrange says>"We have been using it since 1955 and people take it regularly. The risks are largely known."<

This.

Actually "we" (the Western World) have been using it [quinine and variants] since the 17th century! And it is a fascinating story of political and medical intrigue and skill. Without quinine derived from the bark of the Peruvian cinchona tree, the British, Dutch et al could not have built their empires in malaria-infested regions of the world:

"The global history of quinine, the world’s first anti-malaria drug":

https://medium.com/@tcassauwers/the-global-history-of-the-wo...

There's are many books that discuss this history, among them:

"The Miraculous Fever-Tree: Malaria, Medicine and the Cure that Changed the World" by Fiammetta Rocco

https://www.amazon.com/Miraculous-Fever-Tree-Malaria-Medicin...

"The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years" by Sonia Shaw

https://www.amazon.com/Fever-Malaria-Ruled-Humankind-Years-e...

There was apparently as much anguish between rival groups (Roman Catholics vs. reformists) about cinchona bark (from which quinine was first extracted) in days gone by as there is today between Democrats and Republicans on the use of quinine's descendents, the sythetic drugs known as (hydroxy)chloroquines. It has been said that Oliver Cromwell's death of malaria in 1658 was a result of his refusal to take "Jesuit's bark" because of Protestant suspicion of anything associated with Roman Catholics. Similarly today, Democrats may choose to die refusing "the Trump cure" rather than accept the shame of admitting even the possibility that HCQ/CQ might actually work against Covid-19.
I too hope that NixOs becomes mainstream because I like the basic approach, but the same time there are some issues with it still.

I'm not sure it will ever become mainstream. It might remain small forever, e.g. like the haskell/fp community.
LWSP=Linear White Space
"Linear white space is: any number of spaces or horizontal tabs, and also newline (CRLF) if it is followed by at least one space or horizontal tab." [1]

I don't know what LWSP gobbling is, though. Google didn't help.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21072713/what-exactly-is...
Thanks for sharing. What are examples of counter-cyclical companies?
Even many programming examples are long out of date. Google for how to do something and the top answers are 10-15 years old using jquery or C++11 etc...
Meanwhile they have become the rockstars of the dev world. Get on twitter and hashtag away.
My company really pushes finding the cause of bugs since we maintain older versions of our enterprise software and might need to push back patches. Multiple times I've been blamed for bugs just because someone only looked at the first piece of commit history where maybe I moved a big chunk of code into a function or something, when really the bug was introduced 10 revisions back. I'm tempted to take a long vacation to write a code blaming AI.
In context of the other bullet points, buffer is the mutable variation. I can't say that I find that to be too disconcerting
If the issue is a single module take over of userspace then I have good news for you. The systemd project is made up of multiple modules handling differing tasks not all of which you have to use.
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It was early days and I think she just had about 200k different fabrics and wallpapers and ruled SEO or at least got a decent chunk. She probably did well because of the bulk import of products. I am not sure but I think all of the warehouses were in the US. We didn't talk to anyone in China. We placed orders through distributors that sold to retail stores. The brands I remember were Duralee, F.S. Schumacher, Ralph Lauren, and others I forget. Customers knew what they wanted, usually from an interior designers recommendation. We could just send them a swatch of a specific run of fabric or wallpaper. It was always messy though because it was almost impossible to guarantee the swatch would match the actual product delivered. Every run of a product is slightly different. It's why people buy extra carpet or wallpaper for high traffic corridors to be replaced early.
Mostly that it WAY more complicated than it needs to be, and it often replaces well written and tested tools with VERY poor implementations.

Things like NTP, syslog, DHCPd, cron, iptables, mount, automount, handling /tmp, /dev, DNS, su/sudo, etc.

Letting the init system talk to the network before userspace has the ability to setup firewalls gives me the heebie jeebies.

Often the implementations of systemd don't handle failures well, leave off critical features like encryption, DNSSEC, etc. They are often hard to debug, and generally worse than the features they replace.

Not that Linux didn't need a nice init system, but that systemd is trying to take over everything. The lastest volley on that front is taking over management of /home with homed, but in a way that's incompatible with ssh.

Do you really want to depend on systemd's homed for managing /home? I'd rather not.
I've been doing software engineering (predominantly java) for the last 20 years and I don't understand your comment.
Could you please explain what you mean by "tree shaking"?
I'm working on a project right now where the centerpiece is a Three.js scene. It's about data visualization, so the surrounding code covers much of the same ground as a typical single-page web app: fetching data, UI for manipulating the dataset, etc.

I decided not to use my beloved Clojure and re-frame because it seemed like I was going to end up wrestling with Three's imperative API.

Others inclined toward projects like the OP and the Clojure ecosystem more generally: how have you approached similar projects before? Where there's a very non-Clojure-native library that will be critical?

I ended up with TypeScript, React, and Redux instead of re-frame.
Well done site, simple layout, stuff just works the way you want it to.

Except: I liked it enough to trying clicking on the icons 'For Fans' and 'For Artists' to see the details: nothing. These days, I'd be very unlikely to register for anything without having seen them first.
I use awk to write csv-parsers for my personal finance setup. They take transaction logs and convert them into a ledger format (https://www.ledger-cli.org/). There's some pretty trivial if/else branches based on regexp's, which awk is pretty good at expressing.

I'd normally write this sort of thing in python. The awk program is usually smaller than a comparable python program, but for me the main selling point is that awk programs a more "UNIX-pipe-native" than python programs are.

At some point, I'll probably rewrite these programs in a more "serious" programming language, once the file sizes get too big or something, but for now they're working great and are easy to extend.
What is this exactly? I’m seeing mostly boilerplate code. Anywhere I should be looking?
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I don't understand why a Mac is such a bad platform for gaming, what is the technical challenge here? Can someone enlighten me?
I'm low carb, so gimme the avacados! No bananas, thanks. Edit: who downvotes avacados?
Location: Portland, OR

Remote: Yes!

Willing to relocate: No. I could be convinced to move to Eugene.

Technologies:

- Standard traditional backend, Perl, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. I'm not a talented frontend developer, but I've worked with ES6 and Vue.

- Managed a home-grown ERP/CRM/CMS, and came to understand the importance of understanding business processes to build correct software. The SDLC happens to match industrial quality improvement cycles, and understanding that is really critical.

- Ran IT for a 50-75 employee company, reporting to the CFO.

- Helped build a web application that changed how people communicate online forever.

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Email: charles@capps.me

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> but I just want to randomly point out that 3 years of hourly data is really not as much, as it may sound to somebody.

you're right, it isn't. and yet many js charting libs struggle even with this.

on my i5 thinkpad with integrated gpu uPlot can render 600 series x 8,000 datapoints in ~2000ms [1]. and it finishes this job in ~7s on my 2015 sony z5 compact phone. so there's that :)

but really, pumping 4.8M datapoints into a browser is probably not a great idea. you're gonna want to aggregate on the server at some point. just sayin'.

[1] https://leeoniya.github.io/uPlot/bench/uPlot-600-series.html
1990 called, they want their business model back.
...claims to have made “around 400k, I guess” in his dropshipping career. (When asked to provide evidence, he told me that he didn’t keep records. ... I don't understand how a this youtuber person can get successful?! Is it his speech, his appearance or some other magic?
I think you may be right, &int would be better than int*.

I did not want to stray too far from what C does now, for the sake of argument. I just wanted to say that the ambiguity in C is often because it's so loosey-goosey with whitespace.