skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this has anything to do with the particular reward structure at one company or whether this or that company encourages it. It's a structural problem.

Unless innovators are rewared with equity in the innovation (not the broader company - the reward needs to be tightly coupled with the power of the innovation), there's no incentive to produce extremely successful innovations. You won't be rewarded for outliers. That's all there is to it.
Unless you're a police officer of course.
It seems likely that some of the comments here are reacting to the headline as opposed to reading the article - which is one of my favourite pieces of writing on the subject of observability and responsible maintenance of large scale systems.

Lots of great quotable bits in here. Here's just one for people who didn't make it to the bottom:

"There’s a lot of daylight between just throwing your code over the wall and waiting to get paged and having alert eyes on your code as it’s shipped, watching your instrumentation, and actively flexing the new features."
From my experience this is not true. Once a company has a working businessmodel, a marketshare and predictable annual revenue stream plus some growth it seems the business is nearly bulletproof to an astounding amount of technical ineptitude. As long as the main value proposition of a succesfull product remains intact it's very hard to sink it.
A shame, but understandable. I wish you luck with your code foraging!

(Also, don’t underestimate the power of people wanting to play worms on MacOS — it’s the type of thing I’d rewrite out of pure joy. But that’s not in the cards.)
Thank you for keeping such an old game alive and awesome!

Slightly offtopic: I haven't played Armageddon for a long time, but I assume the pace of Worms Armageddon is similar to Worms W.M.D. (which I'm playing on Switch), and it seems like there is a lot of waiting involved - just a few seconds here and there, but overall, it feels like the game could move at a much faster pace, especially when playing single player.

Do you know if this is a conscious decision (e.g. to keep people from burning through the available content through fast) or due to technical limitations (e.g. the AI actually has to think), or just happens to be that way?

A few seconds before the damage count shows up, a few seconds before the next enemy worm gets selected, the five-second countdown before the bot worm starts moving, a few seconds after the turn ends, a few seconds between the "machine gun destroyed" and the explosion etc. - would it be possible to add a "faster" mode? (Sorry if Armageddon has that, as I said, it's been a while.)

(For W.M.D. on the Switch, the long loading screens add to the waiting, but those sound a lot harder to avoid than the in-game delays.)
> Structures in C are not padded and they do not even hold any meta information, not even for the member names; hence during allocation, they are allocated the space just enough to hold the actual data.

I get that this is a simplification and that the point is there's no hidden metadata at runtime but this is dangerously badly worded. Structures in C can be padded, they just happen not to be in this particular case. All the fields are 4 bytes and they're on a 32bit platform so these particular structures will be packed.

That's not always going to be true however. For example, if you add something that isn't a pointer or an int. Or compile on a platform with 64bit integers and 32bit ints.

See also: http://www.catb.org/esr/structure-packing/
The problem is that this article is misusing the catchphrase and now people are discussing the misuse of the meme instead of the article's content.
Worms World Party is the last game of its generation to use the same engine. The reason why the updates are for Armageddon and not World Party is mostly arbitrary - it was the game that the original maintainer had and was playing. A bit more info here:

https://worms2d.info/WA_vs_WWP

There is also Worms W.M.D., which we understand is based on Armageddon's source code, but that came out much later, and is still very different in terms of gameplay and style.
"I know that philosophers like to believe in some mystical bullshit about a whole different category of things"

I've found that it's the people who are most contemptuous of philosophy that could benefit most from taking a few good introductory philosophy courses, so they can finally realize that an enormous part of their own (often unconscious) understanding of and attitude towards the world derives from long established philosophy.
If you have technical criticisms please share.
Not really. Sure, programmers that only know HTML, CSS and JS and that were/are making money by building restaurant websites are having a hard time because there exists Wix and the like. But the IT world evolves: Docker, Kubernetes, Go, Terraform, React etc., and developers are hired if and only if they know the new stuff. In 20 years probably all the stuff we usually do now (manually) will be automated, but again in 20 years we will probably program in $NEW_FRAMEWORK and $NEW_LANGUAGE, so Docker, Go, Kubernetes, VueJS will all look like plain HTML + CSS + JS today.
Same, except I use NextCloud to share across machines. And edit in Emacs. I still have trouble seeing what I am missing by using simple, universal files instead of some lock-in app. Any extra feature seems to come at the cost of losing the benefits of constraint.
French Hill neighborhood in Jerusalem.

Named after British general John French.

Amusingly, erroneously translated into Hebrew as giv'at tzarfatit - the word for the French nationality.

* Full disclosure: Wikipedia claims it's not true. But it's disputed and I have heard this story from local historians.
Every keystroke isn’t the same if that’s how deep you’re going to get into it. You never use the exact amount of force, or fall from exactly the same angle when typing either.

It has nothing to do with that. There’s nothing inherently creative about writing. But it adds value in that it forces you to spend more time on a single thought while writing, which is not the case while typing. On a computer, you write your notes so much quicker that by the time you’re done, you barely put any thought into it.

I have so notes I don’t even remember creating, but that never happens with handwritten ones.
that's actually quite funny ;-)
TikTok's UK headquarters in doubt amid US pressure
I think it’s a comfortable lie people say.

There’s so much that comes with the power that it’s a very shallow argument to make.
Less than 1%. # of 22s (1) / total cases (2).

To your following point, that’s not how bankruptcy works. Creditors can credit bid, creditors can hand together and push a company into involuntary bankruptcy (not common), creditors have a tremendous amount of remedies whereas shareholders do not. It would be a super long discussion really chopping this up, as to why, however look up recovery rates for different assets and/or market prices for various liquid (aka tradeable) assets after a company files for bankruptcy. You will find the higher up the capital structure the security (aka secured debt, followed by unsecured debt, followed by equity) the higher the price/recovery/expected value.

The link you sent was interesting though. Thanks for sharing.

1. https://www.uscourts.gov/statistics-reports/us-bankruptcy-co...
2. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sissonlawoffice.com/blog/fi...

Quote: “ Radio Shack made the news in 2017 when it filed for Chapter 22. That second Chapter 11 came only two years after it underwent a restructuring in 2015. Instead of opting to continue the business, its owner, General Wireless Operations, chose to liquidate all the remaining retail outlets.” ....seems pretty rare to me.
No, but their latest podcast covers some of it (from about mid way):

https://www.newscientist.com/podcasts/

And it turn mentions the following paper:

https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1...

Now... in the past the New Scientist complained about paywalled scientific papers, so now they create a paywalled article from a freely accessible paper? - the irony...!

'Set science free from publishers' paywalls'

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21937-set-science-fre...
Yes! Wow! Thank you so much!!

This brought back waves of nostalgia I haven’t felt for like a decade.
One assumes you already work 40 hrs/wk. People rarely hire for 2-3 hrs/wk for software devs. You have to do 10 hrs minimum in most cases.

That brings you up to 50 hrs/wk at least. Are you going to have the energy to share home and childcare work on top of that?

Honestly you can double your salary right now by leaving NYC. Your company isn't paying you NYC-adjusted wages anyway. I made (annualized) $80k as a summer intern there in college years ago. You should get more as a software dev with a degree.

Places like Nashville, Atlanta, Tampa Bay, and Research Triangle all have lower cost of living than NYC (you could pay the same rent and actually have a yard) and lots of software jobs if you don't want to go remote.

Remote jobs should become easier to find as well, in case you want to move somewhere that doesn't have a big tech presence.
> I'm not sure if in former times the press was just as opinionated and noone noticed.

Everyone noticed. It's one of the most frequently discussed things about the British (though not uniquely theirs) press for centuries, both in terms of explicit comment and implicit cultural reference (e.g., such as it being a recurring background element of fiction.)
The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy
How do you think the west should get rid of your corruption then?
In the Jungle, the Unjust Jungle, a Small Victory (2006)
"You get requirements from demoing."

I really like that - what an insightful observation, neatly condensed into a few words.
Whenever I think of Guy I think of that one Guy from Galaxy Quest. I don't know if he even had a last name though.
Sorry to make the assumption that you didn't read the article, but it really sounds like you didn't and are just making a comment about the headline. I would recommend reading the article.
First Ukrainian astronaut, launched into space, the blue and yellow flag (2019)
In most companies you will be penalized for outliers, high risk projects often come with their share of detractors.
I think playing Chess as kid did wonders for me in life and as an adult.

Speaking only for myself, I am a competitive person and generally play to win any board game (as opposed to say golf which I suck at and play for pure leisure)

A couple notable things Chess did for me:

1) taught me to think about multi-layered cause and effect (something I use daily in my life as a manager) - ie how to create and execute a strategy

2) boosted my Confidence in making a decision and owning the outcome (something I believe a lot of people struggle with).

3) Taught me to be aware of my state of mind. I lost countless games I “should not have” for endless reasons I felt were preventable. Today I am hyper aware of my state of mind and will deploy fixes to get me to a better state depending on the issue (need more rest, stop the distractions, white board it out)

4) inspired me. Nothing like playing against a great player and seeing the beauty of a strategy unfold all the while your pieces and strategy slowly disintegrate into a blazing flame of glory. I saw the possibilities of what I could accomplish with study and practice

5) I could add a lot to this list...

Now did any of the above improve my GPA or SAT scores? Not directly but I do think it’s undoubtedly helped my career. No question in my mind that I am teaching my son chess just like my father did for me.
> After it happened twice, well, might as well go into devops.

My observation of the devops world is that the rotation of technologies and frameworks there is faster than in backend development.
I’ve landed on the same approach, in WorkFlowy. I’ll tag lines #todo for tasks, or a project-specific hashtag, so it’s really easy to see everything I’ve written about a subject. Only two months in but it’s great and very low-friction. Using RocketBook to merge in handwritten notes I make in the mornings and evenings sometimes.
Amazon “Brushing” Scam
"Determine" isn't synonymous with "dictate". No cabalistic intrigue required.
Agreed. Somewhat interesting article, terrible title.

Something like "Custom Lighting With Controllable LED Strips" would be better.
I have the same frustration. The real split seems to be on local files / encryption. I ran into a couple that had encryption stapled on as an afterthought and handle the encryption/decryption in storage, which misses the point. Some use keepass for secure notes, also a clunky hack. The closest I found was Tiddlywiki, which can encrypt local files (but only if it's a single html file). I don't like Tiddlywiki, but that's what I'm using.
Matrix inversion requires taking the reciprocal of a determinant. I don't have the D3D binary to disassemble it, but chances are that they used the RCPSS/RCPPS instructions to get an approximate reciprocal. The precision of the approximation is specified. Both Intel and AMD satisfy the specification, but with different results.
It’s a really long post but in the first paragraph you’re already making a mistake of not adding any undergraduate fees because in the US other undergraduate degrees would also have those; however we are making a comparison with France, not other degrees in the US.
> The point of his analogy was not to create sympathy for the inexperienced friend but rather to demonstrate one can both go wildly off course and simultaneously want to be saved. In fact to so desperately want to be saved that it becomes the very thing which puts one off course.

The point of "not wanting to be saved" is, no matter how much you try, you can not save them, and you must move on with your life. Perhaps they will learn, perhaps not.

Or simply, stop wasting your time, when you know you can't bring the change they need.
> Interesting to consider tho...there must be some sort of power threshold. Above which all our questions can be merely "interpolated" from data.

I have memorized a random 128 bit string, please tell me which it is.

Some questions cannot be interpolated and require novel data-gathering to answer.
MIT OCW: Statistics for Applications (2016)
Or he actually did, which makes it even worse. Either way this went wrong.
Hard Brexit was what people elected the current government to do after the previous one dragged feet on soft Brexit for years.
> The opinion of the article is that the catchphrase has become an excuse to build poor observability and in-prod testing tools, and we should be better about that.

Is that a problem that actually exists though? I've certainly never encountered it, as the types of teams the are strict about good pre-release testing are also the types of teams that are big on observability.
A Young Developer's Thoughts on Logging
I'm liking PARA with Notion right now. I make pretty heavy use of linked databases to keep track of things day to day and I can get a high level view of what I've got going on/completed for reviews/1:1s/when people ask what I did 2 quarters ago. I can throw a bunch of varied data formats into Notion too, which is great.

This is all only for work-life however, normal-life doesn't fit into this approach or more specifially I don't want to ruin life outside work with this approach(believe me I tried, it's a great way to feel like a constant failure). I have yet to find anything useful for non-work insights. Nothing fits, but maybe it doesn't matter?
This can also work on mobile if you SSH into a cloud VM for example.
Not just the title. The article is heavily biased. Framing protestors as “vigilantes” implies wrongdoing, and using words like “protestors facing off with police” with no other context implies that protestors and police are equal or comparable in force. It’s not even close.
I suffer with you here, as I mostly play to enjoy a story interactively. That makes gaming a really frustrating experience, as players in general seem to value action and farming over a good story... there are, of course, exceptions to this though: one of my all-time favourites is The Last Of Us 1 (haven’t bought the new one yet), which had incredible writing. Another was Witcher 3, maybe not for the main story line but all the detailed stories hidden in the woods of the game.
Then there’s God Of War, A Plague Tale: Innocence, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Unravel, all of which I can heavily recommend.
Absolutely.

If you're a tech company, looking to grow by building new products or significantly expanding existing ones, then your developers are assets and you treasure them.

If you're looking to grow in other ways (e.g. by acquisition) then you can put all your products in maintenance mode, and your developers are a cost that you want to cut as much as possible.

Developers as a whole are not a commoditised resource, but certainly can be treated that way depending on the company and its business plan.
This is a lot like what I've been using for over 5 years now. Key points for me are:

* Plain text only, no graphics, formatting, outlining, tagging, categories, etc. These are all distractions to actually getting your point down and don't really add any value, don't get sucked into them.

* Ability to do simple text search and go to specific date. Big lifesaver for any problem that looks like "So exactly what did I do on this one specific day 3 months ago?"

Paper is nice for avoiding distracting formatting details. But losing out on free text search is too much of a drag.
there are no meaningful "different kinds of tracking" in this context. The word is well known and used. Arguing that there is a theoretical subset of a more general definition of the word, for which the ethical criticism of the actual common market reality that the word references in this context, may not apply, is semantically possible, but just "playing word games"
the Dishonored series for one.

Not sure if "worldbuilding" and "writing" are the same, or whether resources invested in the former leads to shortcuts in narrative, etc.

For Mass Effect, the main storyline seemed to be beholden to Video Game "Boss" requirements, but the side stories and character stories allowed whomever was assigned to those, to shine...
Worms has always been a "Turn Based Strategy", both online and offline. I think it would be safe to say that this trait defines the series, and has been upheld through all generations of Worms, including the 3D ones, all the way up to this year's announcement of Worms Rumble, which is real-time (and therefore causing so much hubbub about its departure from the formula).

I haven't played W.M.D., but from what I've seen from the streams, pacing definitely feels different. The delays are a part of it, and they do subjectively seem less forced in Armageddon. For another thing, W.M.D. introduces crafting, giving players at least something to do between turns - in Armageddon you've nothing to do but follow the action and mock your opponents' mistakes :D
When I left Twitter a couple years ago, I "slammed the door on my way out" by deleting all my posts. Of course, we all know social media companies keep deleted posts and metadata but crawlers probably can't see this data (unless they pay?) and it sends a message as well.
This might help if you can edit your html's meta tags on your old domain: https://moz.com/learn/seo/canonicalization
Stuff disappears from the web, from Google's index. Jurisdictions issue diktats that information be removed.

I used to rely on tags on bookmarks to find things, only to discover that the pages I’d bookmarked had disappeared (bit rot, corporate pivot, corporate failure, death of the blogger, etc).

I now save pages I find useful to Evernote. It's not ideal, but at least it's indexed by Evernote (and some images are OCRd so any text in the images also ends up in the search index). I download PDFs and other non-HTML resources. I assume Evernote will disappear some day so I back up my notebooks regularly.

I’ve been online in some format or another since 1987, the only certainty is that the thing I distinctly remember reading a couple of years ago will either disappear from Google’s index (Altavista, Veronica, Archie, etc) or will be removed (think of all of the blogs that used to live at typepad.com or vox.com or LiveJournals).

If it's valuable to you…save it.
I think there underlying question is why can't we afford to hang out, and why can't a business afford to let people hang out on their premises?

The average person seems to have no large stretches of idle time. Neither did the people who built the pyramids, I guess. What are we doing?
Huh? I can’t speak for the Chinese, but the Russians subjugated Soviet bloc states and killed millions. This includes incursions into Afghanistan and the Caucuses, invasion of Ukraine (post Soviet), not to mention funding and supplying rebellions around the world.
well, I had this on a CD. now I'm going to look for it.
No, I know that's the real origin. I'm saying how the name could be interpreted other than deb+ian
Sure, my answer to that is that subjective experiences are learned in a chaotic process, so location of neurons representing the same color might be in different parts of our visual cortices. At the same time we learn patterns that exist in the real world, so our experiences will most probably create similar associations, e.g. associating mint taste with green or strawberries smell with red.

> But where does that 'blue' experience come from?
It is learned by having interactions with blue things and trying to find patterns, common qualities about these, and such association of possible outcomes creates a subjective concept, a qualia of "blueness".

> Sure, I'm just asking why there are different experiences to begin with.
Here I don't have good explanations. Maybe it's matter of different wiring in our brain, maybe it comes from the fact, that you can predict how things are going to look to your left eye by looking on them with your right eye or how things are going to feel touching your face after touching them with your hand - allowing you to create abstractions between such perceptions, that are not transferable across senses.
https://www.verifiedmarketresearch.com/product/note-making-m....

Not sure if it's a trusted source. Let me link it to the article though.
No it is not. There is culture around it that defines what gamer is. I used to play games and I was not gamer.

No gamer would call me gamer or accept me as gamer either. I would be "not a real gamer" in their eyes. And I don't want to be called gamer, because I don't like that culture either.

There are people who play games and there are people who call themselves gamers. Those are two different groups.

Also, I stopped playing games afre living with guy who changed into gamer. Seeng what the obession and irritability after playing does to others around made me understand the dislike and stereotype.
Does anyone know why you don't have to water it? I didn't understand that from the article.
And show me where the body count is 10 million in Yemen caused at the US’s hands.
I’m not sure that’s what that meant. The argument was more akin (and were really diverging from the topic) to Tyler Cowens philanthropy concept. Take two countries, country A and country B, one grows gdp at 2% per annum, the other at 3%. Tyler’s argument is that in, say 200 years, the difference due to compounding is greater than USA and (some poorer country) in 2020. Therefore if we can continue growing GDP it’s generally good for people as living standards are much higher. But I’m not a philosopher, and tbh Tyler is an economist.
It's a sqlite database so you could pull it from there: https://www.swiftforensics.com/2018/02/reading-notes-databas...

I haven't tried it with Notes but with Apple's Podcast app it's a nice sqlite DB you can query.
One of my favourite games of all timed! I have to check this out.