skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I unfortunately work with coldfusion/cmfl on a daily basis at my company.
I am moving the servers over to Lucee from Coldfusion 10 and trying to have any new systems built on C#/.net.
The most difficult part is getting other people on board. My manager is fine with what I am doing. He saids he is too old to learn a new language so myself and the other programmer will have to support anything I built in .net

Let me tell you folks. Writing spaghetti code with no separation of concerns and no version control is not exclusive to php
My Go Lang Journey – Variable and Constants Declaration in Go
Quake 2 had an interesting model format. It was essentially a set of OBJ mesh keyframes that get linearly interpolated between, for the smoother animation you see in Quake 2 character models when compared to Quake 1. MD2 was what it was called. One of the first things I wrote as a 3D game developer was an OBJ loader, and then an MD2 loader.

Carmack's code is something I've always admired. The system he figured out for a client/server networking model in Quakeworld for Quake 1 is still essentially the way most multiplayer games work now, as far as I know.
Something nobody ever mentions is Apple is the new Intel: they will tend to be at least one process node ahead of the competition.

The reason for this is they have the scale to book all of TSMC's processing capacity for a new node. The AMDs of the world have to wait a year to receive the scraps while Apple move to the next TSMC node.
Edit: I want to preface this by saying that I'm not writing off modern medicine, nor post-modern medicine, nor saying that you should avoid doctors altogether. Just that it's a powerful and thus dangerous tool, and that you should ideally find a doctor you trust and then maintain contact with them, probably by visiting them regularly, now that I think about it, and maybe occasionally giving them a nice gift. :)

I advise the exact opposite, to visit doctors as little as possible, unless you experience pain which does not go away after a day or two.

In my experience, doctors will find something to do with you, and it will rarely work out to your advantage, unless it is emergency medicine.

My personal experiences: One doctor told me I need to get circumcised because I had minor irritation on my glans due to a scratch, which I told them about.

Another doctor insisted, without even looking at my X-rays, IIRC, that the cast on my broken hand was not sufficient, and that I needed him to take the cast off and perform surgery, or I would not be able to use my hand properly again.

If I had listened to these doctors instead of thinking for myself, I'd be without my precious foreskin and undergone unnecessary surgery, which would've delayed my getting better.
It was hired by the lab. The agent contacted me via Linked In.

I won't say hard words about the agent even though I'm tempted. It was not the first or the last time something like that happened.

As much as I hate gov butting in in general... I can see recruitment companies self-regulating just as well as advertising/tech companies.
The source of the WOW Signal could have been identified
I thought this was going to be an article about working at a tech company. How they sell you the idea of a career of fulfilling and noble work. Then the people at the top (who got in early) make all the money on the fruits of your labor. All while you can't get a promotion even though you're doing the job above you (no future).
Musk had about $140 million when he ~started~ bought (sorry) Tesla. That's a pretty far cry from a billion. On top of that, there was no guarantee that electric cars would ever be embraced, especially by Americans, who traditionally, love ICE muscle cars.
Mass-energy-information equivalence principle
The new XPS 15 I am writing this on works fine on Ubuntu. So did the Thinkpad I used before it and the XPS 13 before that. I spent 0 time debugging. I am not sure how the Windows experience would compare, but I am fairly happy, with maybe the exception of battery life, which from what I gather kinda sucks on the XPS.
That's why I make a point of not following people who broadcast glamorized versions of their lives.
While learning a language or gaining some technical understanding is probably never a bad thing, it sounds like you need to work out a better way to communicate your ideas. This would be equally useful when discussing your project with other non-developers. Try putting together a narrative story board or moving Star Wars figures around on a table... whatever works for you, really. it might help to understand the basic tools in a developer’s kit (objects, functions, etc.), but leave the programming to them. They should be able to tell you where there are problems and where you may need to compromise or deviate from your plan. A film director does not necessarily know everything about acting, lighting, cameras or whatever but is still able to explain how the scene should look in the end. just remember to be patient.
>owner would make it incompatible two seconds after they would smell competition

We're talking about Apple, right? The company that made an entire software platform called Bootcamp, specifically to enable a competitor's OS to run on their hardware? A company who custom-developed drivers specifically to be compatible with a competitor's OS on their own hardware? You're talking about that Apple? The one who said they would be open to allowing Windows to run on M1 if Microsoft developed a compatible version of Windows?

I just want to make sure we're talking about the same company, because you seem to think we're talking about a company who runs in the face of competition, where the Apple I know confronts it head-on and goes out of their way to be compatible with the competitors.
It’s how Yale and Harvard denied Asian applicants: give them a low social rating.
Tesla was built by someone else and was purchased by a young man who grew up rich and insisted that as part of the transaction that his title be founder.
How about recvmmsg? I never saw that before Linux, and haven't been able to find a reference to anything similar on say AIX or Solaris.
blockchain is more like a Pump and Dump scam. You can run it just once. Ponzi schemes require several iterations of the scam to be successful.
DIY Perks is a channel what I love. I suggest to check other videos.
I remember watching some Amiga demos as a teenager and being absolutely blown away. This was roughly 1990 or so.

"Shadow of the Beast" was also a game I remember buying and being totally amazed by it...
Client side rendered won't be faster all things being equal since they'll have to make at least an extra round trip request after the initial (html/js/css) requests for data from the API, but it should definitely be much cheaper since you can lean on the client's compute rather than solely your own servers.

Given the popularity of facebook/reddit/twitter/gmail etc. it seems users think client-side rendering is fast enough, and what each of those sites have in common is the impracticability of precaching every single user's version of the application anyways.
If you think OTM options are underpriced you're in for a rude awakening. Sure, you can make lots of money with OTMOs, but don't expect to do this regularly.
I sent you an email, did you receive it?
Lol they highlighted running Linux in the first announcement of the ISA switch, they see no threat in Linux at all. Their business model would need to change dramatically for that to happen. They’re a hardware company that makes the hardware more attractive with software, service and device integration. Their software restrictions are part of the value proposition, but anyone fully ejecting from that would be on their own. Linux becoming attractive on their hardware would almost certainly be unsupported, but I seriously doubt it would be undermined.
Exciting.
I definitely looked at Nest 6months or so ago as well. I think I might remember it crashing then.
Cool to hear it's had an overhaul.

Definitely excited that things are continuing to progress.

I really wish I had capacity to try it out for a new project.
But that would require two units of capacity, both having time for a new project, and having time to do it on a new platform.

Still, I can dream.
Pros for choosing it were:

- In europe (easier to go there)
- Low cost of living
- Low corporate tax rate
- Good social life

Cons:

- There are many annoyances with doing business here regarding corporate law and taxation. Moving our company from France to here is a nightmare. (Although most of the troubles, but not all, are related to France)
- There is political risk if things become unstable whenever we want to move elsewhere
- Not much of a crypto/ML scene
- Personally, I don't feel very good here, regular headaches. Don't know that is the cause (this we couldn't have known before)
- A bit polluted (not horrible, but not amazing either)

We also got bad luck with Covid, restrictions (most businesses closed & curfew) started 4 days after we moved here. But we could have anticipated this, seeing that Hungary has high covid rates.
> Server chips, maybe - but we can already see with Azure that competitive x86 chips from AMD have killed Microsoft's plans to deploy arm64 on their cloud service.

I have heard a theory that ARM Servers have a difficult time because there aren't really many developer machines that run ARM. With Apple changing that, there is a chance that the next round of ARM server chips will have better success.
She also got dementia. There is some evidence that lack of sleep contributes to the development of Alzheimer's and dementia.
At a small company you would ideally have engineering involved before any contracts were signed.

At a large company you generally pass the sale off to a integration team who isn't commission based. And that team will quickly find out if the customer was badly lied to, And you will have time to cancel the commission.
As a consultant with a reputation for actually getting real results and delighting my clients, firms like McKinsey whose reputation is built on fake hype make me sick.

Why would you hire a bunch of generalists who are probably less informed in your sector than your own staff and lack any track record of building great companies? What a waste! Go hire someone who's proven themselves instead. Maybe a champion from your competitor, a hero from the open source community, a promising young startup who's running circles around you.

Some quotes from the article:

- Despite its lack of corrections experience, McKinsey won the contract.

- As they formulated a reform plan, the consultants did not solicit the views of inmates, clinic staff or others with direct insights into drivers of violence.

- The city’s bill from McKinsey would include $5.5 million for data analytics... These tools, however, proved I'll-suited

- Officials discovered coding errors in spreadsheets used to collect violence data from Restart units. The flaws were significant.

If you're going to hire a big firm like this because you think they bring reputation and prestige, at least tie a portion of their remuneration to performance outcomes.
This variable is a constant between both types of brakes. How is this relevant when comparing brakes? They both need it, one puts energy into a battery, the other one just heats up air due to the friction created by the system.
>it shouldn't be the community's (or a crowd-funded dev's) responsibility to provide software support for hardware produced by one of the largest companies out there

You must be thinking of a different Open Source community than I am, because the Open Source community I know thrives off of providing community support for software on major vendor's hardware.
But the phrase "I’m aware of pass and tried it before I came to this setup, but I want to put more info than just a password string in my files, so that’s why pass doesn’t fit my need." is simply incorrect.

Almost all my passwords in "pass" also have "url" and "login" fields defined. Many have additional fields including the passphrases for authenticators. I've got a pass file with all my credit card and bank information (in case I lose my wallet while traveling) and another with all the bonus programs I belong to.
This is dismissive and unnecessarily condescending. Is it possible to opt out of the public leaderboard entirely? Because if not - perhaps things have changed - the stressful part about AoC is having a publicly viewable permanent score based on arbitrary and unfair criteria. Simply “not looking at it” isn’t enough.

I did AoC a few years ago and realized that I had my GitHub profile associated to “middle-of-the-road” scores on a public list. It isn’t really a problem and I realize I may sound too sensitive: but it is a bit stressful to be ranked in a competition you have no interest in competing in. Think of an ignorant recruiter deciding to look at a “better” programmer higher on the list, etc. And in a community/society that places a huge premium on arbitrary scores like SAT and IQ, there’s a small twinge of unavoidable stress when you see “you completed 75,435th” simply because you decided to do a puzzle on a lunch break. I’d rather just avoid it entirely.

Likewise, there are many people desperately competing for a “top spot” that measures their ability to... drink coffee late at night, mostly. It’s just kind of gross and not something I feel like encouraging. Having an opt-in leaderboard would be fine, but AoC pushes it way too hard. The emphasis should be on fun daily puzzles, not an arbitrary competition based on who is most alert at a given hour.
Legit question: is [1] an instance of this kind of scheme? The guy came out of nowhere boasting how he left his $500K job at amazon and whatnot (first red flag for me) and I've seen his content popup pretty often.

1: https://gumroad.com/l/aws-good-parts
> But the stock market is not a ponzi scheme.

That depends on who you ask. https://www.hughescapital.com/the-stock-market-is-a-ponzi-sc...
And they did all of that in response to community solutions that weren’t as solid as their first party support. They went out of their way to support and extend the viability of their users clear desire for dual booting, at that time of a much more formidable competitor than MS is today.
"You can't manage what you don't measure."

"How else are people going to make decisions? Their personal biases?"

An objective KPI for sociability will be manna from heaven to these people; it was the last thing they were stuck with human intuition on.
I try to get away from all that by hosting a site on gopher. Neocities would be another option, if you need the eye candy.

I hate social media, going so far as to delete both my reddit and Mastodon accounts. But this is tempting. It gives me the feeling I used to get when listening to tunes and surfing last.fm
I think he went with watercooling first to simplify his testing and make sure that his fixes weren't failing due to inadequate cooling power.
Coming of age in 2008 is not 'pain'.

You're literally extending the plight of someone 'graduating in 2008' to 'Jews dying in the holocaust' as though they are on some similar scale which I think helps prove my point.
‘Tis nothing compared to the binary social media movement that I’m about to start!
My kids are at 3am. School routine starts 6am. They absolutely will stay up late every night if given a choice.
There are good ideas that gain traction super quickly. GA is not that. Possibly because there's already an ok solution (dot/cross-products), the benefits of switching are pretty incremental (or negative in terms of net effort for people who use dot/cross products a few times a year).

Category Theory is an example of a unifying theory that caught on. It took time, but my brain was able to assimilate to it quite quickly. With GA none of it sticks for me - I have other tools that suffice (I work on games and have reasonably regular 3D exposure, but the traditional tools of calculus textbooks mostly suffice, and if I need fancy concepts they tend to come from differential geometry).

I remember another big war being to push gauge integrals into Calculus textbooks (as an alternative/augmentation to Riemann integrals that vastly increase the scope of what can be integrated). I assume that went nowhere, but that was a valiant struggle.

My breakthrough with the cross product was coming to understand it as a weird but practical tool rather than representing some fundamentally beautiful geometrical concept. It might be one of the most well known weird mathematical tools. The cross product of two vectors has no real meaning to me intrinsically (I don't think it has or deserves a platonic identity) but it's useful for talking about orientations/picking right-angles/planarity.

I can imagine at some point educators might become convinced about the utility of GA and things flipping, but it feels far from that tipping point still.
>On top of that, there was no guarantee that electric cars would ever be embraced, especially by Americans, who traditionally, love ICE muscle cars.

Generous subsidies for electrics in the US and other countries helped with that.

Like generous government money funnelled through NASA contracts helped Space X repeat what NASA did in the late 60s/early 70s, slightly improved, 40 years later...
In the UK, recruiters actually used to be licensed, but this requirement was largely removed in the 1970s. In researching my other article on recruiting in Japan (https://www.tokyodev.com/2020/10/01/recruiting-in-japan/), I discovered that there was a movement globally to move to ban, or at least license, private recruiting world wide as part of the Treaty of Versailles after World War I. The concern then was more that recruiters could be quite shady, to the point that it was sometimes hard to distinguish them from human traffickers.

Licensing in Japan at least is isn't about ensuring the recruiter has knowledge of the field. Rather, it is to ensure that they meet privacy requirements and are not a fly-by-night business. They include having a minimum amount of assets, have a physical office with a separate room to interview candidates, and appointing a "privacy representative" who has completed a training seminar.

Personally, I think trying to ensure that a recruiter has knowledge of a field would be quite challenging to do via licensing, especially in an area like tech where the field evolves so rapidly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We_Sleep

Some effects are probably exaggerated (as mentioned in the wiki) but it's clear that evolution highly prioritized sleep across many species
I'm looking for a simple solution like this to easily keep encrypted .Md files as a journal.

For passwords keepassxc does everything I need.
True but games also added client side hit prediction which the Quake engine games never did. As late as Quake 3 if you were using a railgun you would have to lead your shots. There was the ZeroPing mod for UT then Valve put client side hit prediction in Counter-Strike.

Was some controversy as people said it makes it easier to write cheats, I remember even Cliffy B from Epic Games wrote this blog post about how terrible it is but that is where games went and IMO its a lot better then 1990s netcode.
> The news industry as a whole needs to come together and demand to be fairly compensated for their contributions.

Society as a whole needs to come together and demand an end to monopoly compensation for shoddy work. End imaginary property laws.
> wasn't used in production for reasons of internal politics

In other words, some insecure shithead's ego got stepped on and he couldn't handle it.

I guess it could have been a woman, but since women are higher in trait agreeableness, I doubt it.
You should just incentivize publishers to use Substack, which actually has the backing and has a good option (publishers can choose to publish for free or by inducing for-profit viewership) and writers don't have to pay. This is a much better option than another no-name entity.
Given the popularity of facebook/reddit/gmail etc. it seems users think client-side rendering is fast enough

No, users are being forced to choose between not using those services, and using something which is clearly getting worse. There are plenty of complaints, yet the self-centered developers just don't care since they know the users will keep eating whatever shit they put out.

(...and in the case of Reddit, the existence and continuing popularity of old.reddit.com is noteworthy.)
I think there's a valid conversation about how this is just a straight up dystopian bad idea. However, I think one thing also worth mentioning is that essentially everything we do on computers looks like this: We take something we know how to do, and we make the computer do it faster. We don't know how to score meetings using body language and facial expressions - or atleast I would be incredibly sceptical of anyone who claimed they could do so without incredibly intimate knowledge of the people involved. Any manager will tell you there are people who are productive when talking, people who are productive when quiet, and people who are unproductive when talking or unproductive when quiet.

What seems likely is this system is going to invite extroverts to your meetings. My gregarious bizdev lead is going to be coming to our standups to boost our scores.

Let's just lay aside the concerns about this being a dystopian nightmare, it's also going to be crap.
We are observing the commoditization of "facts".
Front running is literally scrying and also the reason Robinhood options trading is "free." (Because traders aren't the customer. Front running quant firms are.)

WSB has been duped.
React from First Principles
ABS and good tires compliment each other.
William S Burroughs and the Cult of Rock’n’Roll
perhaps it’s easier if you interpret it as “the aliens could have done it”
Measuring and Preventing Supply Chain Attacks on Package Managers [PDF]
Only for the purpose of giving additional political representation to southern white men. Otherwise, they weren't people at all.
> I've been told by a few wise people to wait to drink until I'm done trekking, by the way.

I'm not sure what distance we are talking about but doing any kind of sport (even light exercise) you should start to drink after at most 1 hour.

If drinking wasn't necessary, long distance runners or athletes of other endurance sports wouldn't drink. You need to stay hydrated or you'll face fatigue, muscle problems and generally perform worse.

Trained athletes will be able to drink much less but that is because their bodies are more efficient, they still need to hydrate for maximum performance. The 1 hour rule isn't set in stone and you can go 3-4 hours without drinking but it has many drawbacks.
> For too long, journalists have given away their stories for free in exchange for distribution by the duopoly.

The news industry does not "give" their stories to Facebook or Google. It allows the placement of links to the stories on those sites. (I use the term "allow" loosely, since in many jurisdictions they do not have the right to restrict in-linking.)

The news industry is free to try to prevent in-linking. The technical capability already exists in the form of robots.txt and the referer header. Although I can tell you right now what will happen. People will read less news, and read more of other stuff that is still distributed on Facebook or Google. They won't stop using Facebook or Google.

Honestly, it would probably be better for the world. People are reading too much news and it is contributing to polarization. Won't help the news industry's bottom line, though. Won't hurt Google or Facebook's.
The deliverables of any software project is obviously incremental in nature (EG, Initial boot with software graphics, 2D graphics, power saving features, 3D graphics etc), so the funding model makes sense
I'd say the combo of "work ethic, risk tolerance, and perseverance against ridiculous odds" involved in Tesla/Apple/etc, is orders of magnitude more commonly found than actual Tesla/Apple/etc level success...