skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i dont know if i'd call its syntax bloated at all.

jq is something i've hated learning but powerful beyond tying grep and awk together.

jq is a tool, and like every tool, requires some upfront learning. Once mastered its much more productive than the grep/awk/friends solution.

Take this example JSON

<pre>
{ "code": 42,
"items": [
{ "type":"color", "name":"red", "rgb": [120, 2, 2 ]},
{ "type":"color", "name":"green", "rgb": [2, 120, 2]}
]
}
</pre>

for instance, to grab the rgb field for the color green...
jq -r '.items | .[] | select(.name=="green") | .rgb
I've had one boss who was terrible at basically everything, and he actually justified his behavior using Steve Jobs as an example. His company was only successful because he was in the right place at the right time, but the company was failing to maximize its full potential because of him.

Would anyone try to claim there is a shortage of asshole managers, owners, or bosses out there? It's just a fact that many jerks exist, and a portion will inevitably end up at the top despite this behavior.

Would YC have been more successful if it better emphasized seeking out this behavior in founders? If this behavior is critical to success then shouldn't we be training people to be jerks?
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I think the writer is correct: there is a meme out there that in order to be great, a leader, a trailblazer etc you have to become inevitably the arsehole. So much so, that arseholism is not just tolerated but celebrated.

I wonder why the author did not feel persuaded to mention our current poster child of arseholism, the quintessential kind: Donald Trump.

Here's a good video essay on the same subject by a filmmaker, Max Joseph:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRRvjZ_XNog
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This is a strawman argument, they did not say searching a home is not real police work:

> actual police work rather than kicking in someone's door in the middle of the night, throwing flashbangs into cribs, and massacring homeowners who dared defend themselves against what in any other circumstance would obviously be a violent home invasion.
Weird how i just assumed this would be Michell & Webb. I've not seen much of there stuff, but it just felt like it was going to be skit of theres
The number one reason I do not keep CC info, and why I don't fill out details wherever I can.

I don't trust your security.
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Yeah, comparable infrastructure for deliveries, but my point isn't about distribution centers though.

If stores are closed all their stock can just be delivered with UberDash(tm) delivery drivers because they are everywhere:

https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/mu18i_4q9FQSqMWuBtGuXw--~B...
The computer language benchmarks game[1][2][3] may be of interest here. It benchmarks C, Python, Javascript, and Julia, in several tasks involving FASTA input (regex-redux, k-nucleotide, and reverse-complement), but implementations are bespoke rather than relying on libraries. Relative timing is much more favorable for Julia in these benchmarks. Looks worse for Python outside regex-redux.

[1] https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

[2] https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

[3] https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Nah, that’s not true. Something like Common Lisp (AOT compiled, btw) you can write without types and then add them in later to bump performance by facilitating unboxing and removal of inline type checks. It is a tradeoff because you lose some safety, but it can lead to some pretty fast code.
> we should stop having children and let people from high growth countries immigrate here.

Your comment doesn't make any sense to me. Why did you ignore first part of the sentence and just address the second part.
I've had a lot of stuff take significantly longer than even the extended estimate
> There is no ill intention behind using certain phrase and doing so does not spread any harmful stuff around.

I agree; very few people use male-centered language with ill intentions. But it's still a choice people can make if they choose to, and it means a lot to those of us who often feel marginalized. You're not a jerk if you don't, but it's pretty much all upside if you do.

Anecdotally, I would say I hear gender-neutral language used about 2/3 of the time in the Fortune 500 world. While I don't hide the fact that I'm trans, I'm fortunate to pass for cisgender so most people I work with outside my immediate team don't know -- I'm pretty sure they're not altering their language for me. Maybe it's because I'm a woman, but it was a trend I noticed before I transitioned as well.
I don’t understand this as an argument against being an asshole. Watch out, you might become the president or one of the greatest athletes in history!

I find this stuff very suspect to begin with. Sure we can all grew Trump is an asshole, but in smaller scope, what really matters is who gets to decide who is an asshole. That’s the whole game.
YMMV, but I've found anecdotally, that qualitative aspects of my sleep have an outsized impact vs. the # of hours, to a point of course.

For instance, in my teens/early twenties, I (like many) was able to sleep quite a bit less. Lots of late nights traipsing around the internet, lots of midnight projects.

In my mid-twenties, I suddenly found that I needed much more sleep. If I didn't get at least 8 hours, I woke up completely drained. Other adults I spoke to confirmed that this was normal.

Then, I switched apartments and got a new bed. Suddenly, I was waking up much easier, even with few hours of sleep.

This pattern has repeated a few times throughout my life. I'll notice I'm waking up more tired than usual, and then something will change—a new room with more natural light, a better mattress, the loss of something I didn't realize was stressing me—and I'll suddenly need less sleep.

I'm sure none of this is shocking to anyone, but the key thing for me was that even when my sleep quality was apparently deteriorated, I didn't notice it. I still fell asleep easily, I still had dreams, I was still comfortable in my bed, etc. The sleep cycle, it seems, just wasn't as restorative due to other factors.

I have a little pet theory that some of the "Super CEOs" we hear about who get by on 4-5 hours of sleep a night are:

1. Slightly exaggerating the rigidity of their superhuman schedule (I used to work in media, and I've worked with an outsized number of people who have public reputations for this kind of stuff. Anecdotally, I've found that nearly all exaggerate and sometimes outright lie.)

2. Adept at compartmentalizing stress and environment, to the extent that they're able to get quality sleep regardless. This skill would naturally track other responsibilities in their life as well.
Valid point! Might still be able to get a speed up if you can write and import your own C code though.
I embed images in my web pages using base64 blacks so there's no need to worry about having to move images around.
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I wish more states viewed it this way. I think that COVID19 has proven that Internet isn't a luxury, it's a utility that we all need. In a world with online meetings being the way to simply hang out with your friends, those with bad Internet connections are suffering more. It shouldn't be that way.
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But excellence is hubris. That's the point.
This logic doesn't hold up, because there's something very important missing:

Sure, assholes can sometimes shake up hive minds. But it doesn't require an asshole to shake up a hive mind and bring excellence.

What it requires...is a leader. Like the article says, someone who can recognize what each person or group actually needs to be brought to excellence, which is not always an asshole.
If they are not paying you they are not a customer.

The equity requirement is a version of "if you do it for free, I will tell all my friends about you."

At best, that is an offer to tell all their friends about how you did it for free.

To put it another way, the potential client ran you around in circles instead of being forthright.

Is that who you want to bring on as a partner?

Good luck
I do wonder what will happen to the beer...
They probably _are_ being conservative in estimates, but I ordered a new Kindle on April 9 and it didn’t arrive until the 27th.
it seem like a waste not to continue the jet.com. its a simple domain that is easy to remember.
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Public discussions inherently have an effect on policy. That's why China censors so extensively. The reason they can apply strict lockdowns to cities with double-digit case counts is that their citizens can't have discussions about "hey this seems an overreaction".
I recall something like this from a sound system engineering course I took in 1990. It was a course for people wanted a job of setting up speakers and operating the mixing board. (It was supposed to be a course to be a recording studio sound engineer... I'm still pissed)

The instructor would often mention odd transharmonic distortion. It sounds pleasant to our ears but even transharmonic does not. That's about all we were told about that.

Years later I was reading about brains and somehow I understood transharmonic distortion. The article mentioned something that I now forget but it was clear to me why we like to listen to loud rock music.
Little Computer 3
Face mask selfies could be training the next facial recognition tool
I am also working on an app using LispWorks [1]. If you want, please contact me and we can jump on a call and share experiences.

Off topic, but many years ago I had lunch with Larry Tesler (John Koza was also there) and Larry knew of my CL book from the 1980s and pitched me to rewrite it in Dylan. That might have changed my career trajectory.

[1] http://knowledgegraphnavigator.com/
I don’t understand. Optional parental leave would allow both parents to take work off. We’re debating whether or not parents (specifically fathers) should be forced against their will to take time off in order to satisfy an arbitrary desire to unify the distributions of work experience between men and women. In this debate, there is no dichotomy between freedom and justice; taking away one’s individual rights in the basis of gender is injustice—it’s neither freedom nor justice.
The bookKeeper has a nontrivial dependency on the ZK. Sooner or later Pulsar needs to solve the same issue.
Indeed, it's not license to go for forgiveness rather than permission.
Relentlessly upping a teams standards in everything - strategy, execution, effort etc, tires out everyone on that team.
But that’s usually what you need to win or succeed in a competitive system.

People who push for this will always be called assholes because they force team members to stretch themselves which is never a comfortable proposition.

The corollary to this is that to win by not being an asshole, find something that is needed/wanted but no one else does or that which you can do 10x better than everyone else.
Without competition you won’t need to push you or your team that hard.

(The only catch with having no competition, is that, having no competition will slow down the rate at which you can improve or stop all improvement in most people.)
It's a cool domain, but I don't think anyone is going to forget walmart.com exists.
And risk going to prison for a long time.
I just ran into actual Smalltalk-in-VR project called PharoVRIDE. I wish I had time and skills to recreate Smalltalk's VM images. I still haven't thought out how persistence would work.
Sure it’s a three-letter domain, but Walmart is one of the most recognized brand names in the US.
Was it published by Mirosoft officially? Then yeah, absolutely, I'd argue that Windows 2000 is open source. Was it leaked by someone through shady means? Then no, of course it isn't open source, since accessing it is not necessarily legal depending on the jurisdiction.
Datomic is cool but not an intelligence, artificial or not. The GP was trying to point out that having a prolog-style inference engine is not required for intelligence and pointing to humans as a counterexample to prove why not.
HHS, Industry Partners Expand U.S.-Based Pharma Manufacturing for Covid-19
In Canada they're really slow, it's taking 2-3 weeks to get Amazon packages delivered, so I end up using eBay and other vendors as much as I can.
> The license must not place restrictions on other software that is distributed along with the licensed software.

When I base software on GPL software, then my software is distributed along with that GPL software. According to this phrase, GPL might not place restrictions on my software. Yet it does.
People focus too much on your water analogy.

But it is true: if there was a plate that could move like a square it would not mean all air in the front and back of it would also move like it.

The air compression would move like a sine instead of a square.
Even in the context of bioinformatics my comment applies. With modern C++ libraries you are able to replicate the numpy user experience almost line by line. A baseline FASTQ parser in modern C++ would look nothing like the fastq.h C parser the author presented. Naive versions of sequence alignment algorithms like Needleman-Wunsch are easily implemented in C++ aswell and you can even do most of your development in a Jupyter notebook with cling/xeus.
I read it first as 4ms per row, but yeah 4ms per scan wouldn't be too bad. There is of course additional time taken for communication etc, which might take another 4-10ms, which could make it almost a frame behind. Not terrible still.
"That's not scrum" is what I hear every time someone has a problem with it.

Being able to follow Scrum seems to be harder than getting work done...
We've been waiting 30+ years for this... At last!
There were sweeping purges on Twitter after the elections. The official story was that these were 'bots' or 'trolls', but lots of good accounts got permanently deleted. It happened two or three times as I recall. You'd wake up and see that your follower count had mysteriously plunged overnight indicating another crop of bannings.
Clickbait titles is the new journo
Compared to walmart.com, though, there's no reason to keep it. As a consumer, I don't really know/trust jet.com.
Tesla raises cost of 'self-driving' cars
Godspeed Vermont. May you have more success than your promised single-payer health care.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_health_care_reform
Yeah, read it as 4ms per row at first. Should be fine for general use, and rather impressive as is :)
Ask HN: How do you dress to work as an introvert?
I work in a small startup with ~30 employees. Its an open office plan (We are 5 devs. mixed with marketing, sales & support). Am often being teased for wearing only lacoste to work.

I happen to be the youngest person there (22yrs) and also an introvert. Dressing of the things I struggle as person.

Thanks
Some customers might not like other customers knowing where they live?
Obviously you can obscure some details but if you remove names would it require the customer to scan the package to confirm its theirs?
I guess you could make it opt in for community delivery, otherwise you wait for a doordash delivery?
There are a few lingering questions in my mind regarding their "Trump hack":

- Would they actually delete their copy?

- Is the hack, and subsequent buyer, manufactured to drum up media attention (and subsequently, buyers) for their actual hacks?

The implications of this hack being legitimate might mean that cyber criminals find targeting politicians and political candidates more lucrative. Not that these folks didn't already have a significant target on their backs, but I can envision an escalation of non-state hacking that leads to "election interference."
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Yeah, I thought of that when I wrote that. I wrote it anyway, since in reality it's that's what we all do.
Story time!

When Jet.com launched they had some promos going on so I wanted to check out what it was all about and ordered a bunch of stuff. I think at that point they had 2 day shipping over 25 without a membership.

Their signature purple package arrives on time, in a larger than expected box. I open it, and there's a smaller Amazon box inside. I open THAT and it has all my items. I got two receipts, one from jet.com and one inside the Amazon box with the actual cost of my stuff without the promo codes.

I don't know but something about this was poetic and funny about the world of venture funded startups.

Even now when I ship something from Walmart to my address it says Jet.com. hopefully it's not an Amazon prime wrapper anymore.
I can’t seem to drag it on iOS safari.
King releases the Defold game engine as open source
I recommend going with fzf. I can search my whole hard drive with fuzzy expressions (e.g. "find all files which are in home directory and ends with .py" == search: home py$). Both home and / directories are searched completely within 2-3 seconds, just enough time for you to type what you are searching for. High recommendation.
Based on your comment I stumbled upon this tool: https://wkhtmltopdf.org/

It preserves hyperlinks and styling. Neat.
> As for the quality of the translation, the solution for that is for developers to make better translations.

Translation is inherently lossy.
I do this too! I like to write the whole litany against fear out a few times to fill up a page. I find this helps me identify the root of whatever I am currently feeling anxious about. Once you identify the fear, then it can be addressed directly.
This one is proprietary to them.

The "open source" format/practice exists already: just bounce your mix into separate audio files, one for each track or group, into a folder, zip it, ship.

Only, it's not (yet) much embraced on the commercial side. When you pay up to 20 boxes to get a full album, why couldn't you pay, say, 100 to get the same album but with separated tracks for your own use + instructions as who to contact & how for any other kind of uses?
I think there are three factors for this redirection: the Oath/Verizon (probably illegal) interpretation of GDPR that you opt-in once you arrive on their websites; the IAB (deeply arguable) interpretation of GDPR that once you opt-in to one partner, you opt-in to everyone of their partners; and the fact that ad-blockers simply blocked the modal to accept cookies/data tracking/data sharing/etc.

Now they simply redirect to advertising.com so that the user is forced to accept every form of tracking before being able to read an article, their emails, a blog, etc.
You just don't notice the non-confident assholes because they don't seek the spotlight.
Ah, but can you power all of those from a battery pack and keep them on your lap on the train after taking them out of your small backpack? And all at the same time!
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Unless you are being sued by the bank as the one who stole the money and this happens in another country and the time to claim your innocence is out. Then it’s you who suffers the fraud, not the bank :/ (talking from personal experience of a close friend)
You raise several excellent points and thank you for taking the time. I was wearing slight blinders on some points.

On the average life point, I think you're reading something into the text that isn't there. I think 95% of people or more have enjoyable lives. Everyone enjoys eating and socializing with their family and friends. Absent terrible health issues, most everyone can have an enjoyable life and those who don't probably are limited by medical, psychological, or other factors which are typically not primarily educational/financial.

Stating that the average life is quite enjoyable doesn't imply to me that the 25th percentile or 10th percentile life is dire. Both of my grandfathers had relatively tough lives, certainly much more difficult than my parents or my own. Both of them also seemed to relish every month and every year and enjoy it, even if they didn't enjoy every single hour (neither do I).

It would be as if saying "the average RGB pixel color of your screen is #aaaaaa, which is still quite bright" led to the conclusion that a great many pixels on the screen were #000000 and that's unfair.
This seems quite wishy-washy to me.

Excellence and leadership requires strength, and determination, no doubt about it.

But do you then ruthlessly impose those values on everyone else, or help them get there?

To me, that's the difference between a leader and an ahole.
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I just logged in to change my easyJet password:

> Your password must be a single word between 6 and 20 characters in length and must not include the special characters # & + or space.

Come on! This is ridiculous. If you're going to get hacked at least have a sane password policy.
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Would it help to see a more "honest" letter of apology from a company? What would that look like?
What's the problem with that?
I might be nitpicking, but viewing the source of this website HN does not give you the source code for Hacker News - there is plenty of other code working in the background that you can't see and which is required to make the website work.

Clicking on "view page source" is more akin taking a picture of the Eiffel Tower, while "open source" would be if France posted the architectural plans in the open. But just because the plans are out in the open doesn't mean that someone doesn't hold copyright to them.
That's absolutely awesome! Much better than my theoretical solution.
What's walmart?
I do know Walmart, and I don’t trust or like the brand.
Excellence is privilege.
I would expect Rust to be faster. I never claimed Go would be faster than Rust, but that it would be faster than Python.

I think for rust, the barrier of entry is high in that it is a difficult language to learn. Admittedly, I don't know rust, but people I know who do have said as much.

I think Go strikes a good balance of being easy to learn and use, having a rich standard library, and also being performant.
So I just went to easyjet.com and logged in and they don’t prompt to update my password. I wonder if failure to invalidate all accounts is their technical ignorance or if my account was simply not hacked? I assume the ignorance of course.
My wife bought a Ridgid drill with a promo kit of four batteries. The chuck eventually wore out, but the local Ridgid repair shop replaced it for us for $30 (would have been free if we’d registered for warranty). Because we had all those batteries, we were sucked into the ecosystem: cordless sawzall, impact driver, etc. They sell “naked” tools (no battery) at a significant discount. Definitely worth looking into, we’ve been exceptionally happy with the kit we’ve slowly been growing.

Edit: in Canada. Not sure if they’re the same elsewhere.
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Acquisitions are bad, folks

Only two YCombinator companies have ever gone public. The rest of the companies “exited” by either dying or being acquired.

I doubt many of them are chugging along as profitable “lifestyle business” without having a goal of being acquired.
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