skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, when I do programming, I imagine the data inputs to be some "shape" and, in my mind, that shape transforms as I apply operations to it, like `filter`, `map`, `take N`, etc. I just visualize what I want the data to do, then start modifying it.

Another set of analogies I use is that the data, to me, is like clay or a block of wood, and I'm either forming or carving it depending on the context. For example, if I am doing some calculation where I take several bits of data and combine them to get a result then I'll imagine "forming" the data like clay in my mind as I apply mathematical operations to it like `*` or `sin`. If I'm doing stream operations in some "rules engine" where I need to sort through the data, rather than a straightforward equation like the former example, then I imagine "carving" the data like wood with `filter` or `reduce`.

I also get a "feeling" when I look at code or architecture as to better ways to do it, I don't have evidence at the time to support my feeling, but later on they are often correct.

Also, I don't break things down into tasks as such, but I do start a project/task by commenting with TODO at high level and then drill down, much like a functional programmer would do so. For example, if I'm writing a tool to count the number of lines in a file, I would start with something like:

# TODO: initialize the program

# TODO: load the file

# TODO: count the lines

# TODO: output the count

# TODO: finalize the program

Then, as I go along, I add the more-specific steps to replace the "load the file" (or I just remove the TODO prefix and it acts as a organizational sectioning comment), and eventually I'll start taking those comments and turning them into code/functions when they're sufficiently atomic. I kind of imagine this as a combination of clay and wood, I'm building up the comments like clay, but also sort of "carving" the raw comments into code (the block of wood is an empty file, and I'm carving it bit by bit into the form it will eventually become: a file that compiles into a program that does what it should).
> Mostly noise. Like most chit-chatter at most parties. I could show up to the party, get on a soapbox, do my monologue, then leave. But I won't make any friends or impact that way, even if these parties is where the audience is.

Good point. However, making friends/impact is not what everyone wants from twitter.

Some people just want a place to put their thoughts out, and don't really care what anyone else is doing.

Edit: I'd like to apologize for being overly aggressive in my first comment. That was uncalled for. This chain clearly has started a discussion, for which I thank you.
Let me just add to this. Discovering new information (or new "axioms") will not change the truth of your previous conclusions if you did everything correctly, but you may find that the information you believed before was incorrect. In general, I believe it will be better to use a probabilistic model for most real-world cases since it is very difficult to find "axioms" for almost anything.
My website, like many, uses Cloudflare's CDN.

I occasionally spend time going through the analytics section inside the dashboard. I suppose those are data points gathered by your edge servers (?). If true - how is that different from what is launched today?
I am not sure how much to care about this specific instance of surveillance. My assumption at this point is that virtually every single large tech company and ISP have been given NSLs that allow unfiltered and unlimited access to the entirety of these tech company's data. It is my assumption that this access is used to permanently store the entirety of everyone's web history and activity. I also assume that this collection can be searched with very little accountability by government agents.

If you sign up with an email that can be traced to you, or if you ever mention your email in a PM, or post it in a comment, or access an anonymous account in a browser that has been fingerprinted and tied to another account in your real name - my assumption is that this can all be tied back to you. I think anonymous activity on the web is completely dead unless you're using Tor or a VPN with a browser that can't be fingerprinted (nonviable for nearly everyone), and even then there is speculation.
You realise that the bizarre corporate lingo is part of the management skillset right?

Taking more ownership, means your boss wants you to make decisions and lead the direction. Not like a dictator, but by example.

Value is meeting your requirements the fastest, least conflict ridden and safest way possible. Sometimes that’s clean code, other times that’s happy employees and other times it’s getting a finished product out the door regardless of the amount of spaghetti. Often it’ll be a combination of them all, with getting stuff done being the most important in almost every industry. The exception being places where safety matters more, like when you build airplanes, and even there, you only need to look to boring to see what “value” often means in management.
They may be critical to core functionality of the site. Analytics is not core functionality of the site.
I tend to agree that Robinhood treats investing like a game and connects people with investments they aren't really suited for, but "pandemic villain" makes it sound like they took advantage of the pandemic. They just had the right entertainment product at the right time; "villain" implies more intent than was actually there.
pfSense - it only blocks known DNS over HTTPS servers, but generally all “smart” devices that use it use the publicly available servers. I log and periodically check TCP flow metadata, so I could identify new ones later.
The theatrics appear to be a transparent attempt by the author to fluff up a narrative. Those are normal office building doors, and they didn’t give the physical security people an office with windows. Nothing unusual, and only barely relevant because it would be clear that Elon probably has a nice office, with windows, clueing her in that she wasn’t going to meet with him.
DoorDash opens at $182 in market debut
> Can we really knock the founders of Robinhood for making stock trading so seamless and addictive and amping up the gamification to its highest level.

Do we knock instagram for mental health issues for youth? Yes.

Do we knock tobacco companies for making cheap/addictive products that are detrimental to health? Yes.

Do we knock MLM companies for predatory behaviors? Yes.

So, tell me, why can't we say the same for Robinhood?
Any examples where it was a problem?
As long as mcu's with less ram/flash will be sold for less(which is standard business strategy to optimize revenue), in high volume designs people will use c/c++ to optimize.

As for low volume designs, if reliability is important, rust would be a good candidate.
Barring fraud, lavish expenditures that you describe would be counted as compensation not investment and thus the picture changes dramatically.
So you're saying we shouldn't trade leveraged options on margin based on what side of the yard a dog does it's business on? /s
Photonic Quantum Computer Displays “Supremacy” over Supercomputers
That is interesting. I see one-off articles every couple months about traders discovering "loopholes" of one kind or another and exploiting. The question I've struggled with is: How can someone systematically approach trying to find loopholes like this vs. just randomly stumbling upon them?
I guess call me new fashioned, but I've never really understood how to use debian packages well. I recall vaguely looking into the dpkg and build commands many years ago, it felt kind of inscrutable and clunky and I didn't find good resources that made it easy to learn so I just gave up on it and kept using the shell script to install the thing I needed with its dependencies.

By contrast, docker build and docker run are super simple to get started with (at least at a high level, figuring out the right order of flags and options to mount volumes and expose ports can get a little cumbersome). And the docker registry is super simple to browse. It's so easy to get up and running with, and the model it promises of isolation and self-contained dependencies makes a lot of sense which I think is why it has taken off so much. Despite the fact, which I think is what you're pointing out, that there often end up being a lot of pitfalls lurking just around the corner.
Admiral's paywall is so glitchy on mobile, when I don't have an ad blocker installed but it frequently thinks I do, that I've learned recoil in disgust from any brand that uses your service.
> We're talking about election fraud allegations which are the subject of ongoing court cases for god's sake.

Does a case really count as "ongoing" if it gets dismissed pretty much as soon as the judge finishes reading the plaintiff's complaint?
You can't vouch for stories. You'd have to contact the mods by email.
Apple Turned Blind Eye to Supplier Breaches of Chinese Labor Laws
> At that scale, hiring your own quality support and running open systems is a drop in the bucket.

"support" doesn't mean reading man pages, it means diagnosing and fixing some intermittent bug in Intel's 10G NIC driver.
>If you have an urgent question, like for instance thinking you owe three-quarters of a million dollars, too bad: Robinhood’s chief feedback option is email, with response times of up to a week.

This is true for most offerings in which you, the user, is the product. You spend time or money and if something goes wrong good luck trying to get it resolved, much less speak with a human that can actually resolve it.

You can lose your gmail account without warning or reason and essentially the keys to your entire online life. Or in the case of this poor soul, experience an unintended side effect of a poorly designed UI in a financial trading app that makes things seem much worse than they actually are.

And in these dire situations, corporations make it as difficult as possible to reach a human to resolve it.

We should all be ashamed that this is what scalability usually means.
I see. I understood "they" to be "fedora", so I thought you said "fedora forks fedora" i.e. "fork fedora to be the new fedora version". So, I thought you meant "fork RHEL to be the new fedora version". I see that's backwards now.

EDIT: "Fedora is like next major version" also adds to the confusion. If Fedora is like the next major version of RHEL, it makes sense that Fedora forks RHEL and not the other way around.
Genuine question - Has any major tech innovation/ product come out European industry (mainland EU) over the last couple of decades ? (not Academia)

Their biggest tech companies are Spotify and Skype. That's pretty underwhelming given that Spotify's biggest innovations are in product development and Skype became a subsidiary of an American company within 2 years of its existence.

Additionally, the 2 companies that seem to have industry tech talent: UK and Sweden, are not part of this deal.
They are a private company, but I ask you why have they lost all their election fraud court cases? Why didn't they do something about it for 4 years and wait until after the election to cry fraud?
Analytics plays a key role in maximising profits, which is not vital. For all other feedback, the user can just be asked about their opinion.
Like Google itself.
Xevious was the second shooter I ever played.

As a young child, I had an Atari, and the first shooter I ever played was Galaga. Played for hours. To this day one of my favorites.

One day I got the Xevious cartridge. I was in awe. A scrolling background that looked like a map, instead of a starfield? Objects in the game that you couldn't kill? Shooting bullets AND dropping bombs? Wow.

This was all capped off when you reach a mothership. Wow, a giant enemy that takes up what seemed like 1/4 of the screen! I was genuinely terrified when I first saw that thing.
Yes, and valued at over 6 billion so they seem to do ok
It doesn't. The map in the infobox sums it up pretty well. Poland is both Eastern Europe and Central Europe, but there's no point in using the latter term when describing something that doesn't apply to all of Central Europe.
Hacking is mostly playing around and using things in ways the designer didn't imagine at the time.

This is a good hack. It brings a smile to the face and warms the heart (if a good hack is what you were looking for). And I think that was the point anyway, not to come up with a professional architectural pattern.
re: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25357867
Thank Christ.

And don't come back.
I recommend you to take a look at Thich Nhat Hanh, a Zen Buddhist monk who has lots of books and he praises mindfulness all the time. At least some Youtube videos may help you.
> The crux of the matter is that neither Amazon or Walmart or any other online or offline supermarket restricts anyone from buying a product directly from the producer / manufacture or from elsewhere.

That’s not true either. Just because you aren’t away of it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. Trust me, the retail world has lots of dark corners that you learn when you have to deal with it directly.
RFC 2119 – Must, Must Not, Should, Should Not, May
Journalist or, more likely, EU press release office not very knowledgeable on the semiconductor industry choosing to mention the three largest countries by population in the headline, and the rest in a list embedded in the article. Journalist at Reuters probably just took the official press release and edited the grammar/wording a bit. I agree that the selection should probably be Germany, France, Netherlands, Italy if looking at the relative importance in semiconductors, but probably choosing by country population is a standard thing they do to avoid complaints.
> I think most of this is tax driven.

Disagree. Research has consistently shown that American multinationals consistently apply better corporate management practices than their European counterparts.[1] This is especially true in IT-intensive industries.[2] This is true even when comparing American multinationals operating in Europe.

Any sufficiently large company in a globally integrated, competitive industry, is going to reap potentially large efficiency gains by replacing European management with American management.

[1]https://nbloom.people.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj4746/...
[2]https://nbloom.people.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj4746/...
On reading this, I feel Bioleninism is a concept which everyone should read upon. A brilliant concept which starts making a lot of sense given the times we live in.
A short story of my foray into freight brokering. I hope you like it :)
VSC dev here. Correct, perf is a priority for us and it's no black magic. A simple one is to keep your bundles small. VSC's main bundle is less than 9MB, Cloud UI seems to be 15.
AWS has a hosted version of Kubernetes and Envoy now, and those are both CNCF projects. Other CNCF projects like NATS and Argo have equivalents on AWS today.

Even if they're complex and not one-button click to drop in, the cloud providers seem keen on running managed versions of these projects.

What projects come to mind as being "immune" to this problem, out of curiosity?
I'm working on something in the social networking space, and I'm curious about your views and where you are coming from.

If you don't mind me asking: What type of people do you follow - people you met irl or online, or friend of friends, or famous people? And how do you want to interact with them?
4 of the last 10 Governors of Illinois have gone to prison.
The article gave a couple of (in)famous examples...
"Thompson had written Unix for the PDP-7 in assembler in 1969 ... primarily for his own amusement."

As one does.
Maybe CERN will revitalize Scientific Linux.
How near is your near future? Isn't China planning to achieve major progress until 2025? They aren't bound by patents in the same way as western companies. Why should they not be able to reproduce the knowledge? For nuclear energy, solar cells, moon rockets and high speed trains, they have already been successful.
Mother Teresa chose to fly to Dar es Salaam not to help the poor, but to "attended the consecretion Monday of seven nuns of her Missionaries of Charity order".

https://apnews.com/article/56dc5fdab8fcf949ee6dc4a4f4e9947b

You are as quick to forgive her of any responsibility for her voluntary actions of self-promotion and religious indoctrination, as wolfretcrap was to condemn the poor for the responsibility of their mere existence on the environment.

https://apnews.com/article/56dc5fdab8fcf949ee6dc4a4f4e9947b

She even had the nerve to make the self-aggrandizing claim that it was a miracle of God that she survived (another notch in her campaign for sainthood), but failed to mention that God decided to kill those five people (horribly decapitating some of them with the propellers), including two children, while sparing her. Thanks, God!

All this proves my point in this discussion that Mother Teresa is a textbook example of someone with an extremely dark personality, who was so good at and focused on self promotion, that she managed to conceal that fact that she's a sociopath, and fool people into thinking she was a saint, and literally bending the rules to grant her sainthood after her death.

The fact that she wasn't personally piloting the private plane she chartered (and that wouldn't have been there otherwise) which killed five people, or that one particular person like Christopher Hitchens who justifiably and correctly criticized her was an anti-theist, or alcoholic, or gay, or a jerk, doesn't detract from the uncontested proven facts, man.
I grew up in the US and now live in France (been here for 8 years now). I assure you, it's not that scary.
Title doesn't say "open source is dead" - it says "Death of an open source business model", I'd say those two are quite different...
Is Robinhood the market maker for fractional share sales, or do they outsource that to someone? Someone has to hold a real share to make it work.

There's a decent amount of regulation around making sure retail investors don't get taken advantage too much when making normal trades, but I could see there being a larger bid/ask spread with fractional shares and market makers taking advantage of that.
YouTube to Delete New False Election Videos – Even Trump’s
Chrome Dev Summit 2020 live
Looks at cluster of over 5000 machines running CentOS.

Doesn't look dead to me.
I usually don't get to hung up on not reading books I meant to get around to reading or not finishing the books that I started. This year for the first time in about four years I actually read something other than technical non-fiction, including science fiction and an autobiography.

Anyway here is my list.

Bullshit Jobs - This is a controversial book (and paper) for obvious reasons. However, it really resonated with me at the time I read it. I think it was the thing that pushed me to find a different job.

Sid Meier's Memoir! - I've had a passing interest in developing games for a long time and having the opportunity to peek into the life and mind of someone who created one of the most iconic games of all time was really valuable to me. Inspirational read.

Starting Forth - Ok, maybe not exactly life changing. I was in search of something else for programming microcontrollers and I found Forth. It breathed new life into my interest in this domain.

The Little Book of Big Change: The No-Willpower Approach to Breaking Any Habit - It remains to be seen if this book was really life changing, but I found it insightful either way. Overall I think the content is valuable but I had to make a conscious effort to look past some of the pseudoscientific aspects like such as the numerous mentions of the "Universal Mind".
At least the new JIRA workflows are faster than the old one...
If you don't like it, you can upload your videos to one of the other 1000's of platforms or sign up for a shared web host and utilize P2P video sharing.
Took me a minute to figure out where that came from, it was in the GGP comment.
I clicked through and found the 35 year old paper is behind a paywall. That doesn't seem reasonable.
Totally agree. Want to add another European project to the list: ESA.
>I mean, either money becomes worthless to have or the stock market goes back up.

It could have just remained low for a long period, and you may have been forced to cash out to stay off the street depending on how much you put up. No one was able to predict it in March.
How many people using adblockers block analytics rather than just ads?
In kind of a similar vein, many years ago Germany decided to become kind of the silicon valley of optics and photonics (e.g., lasers and their ilk). While I don't think they are the dominant player today, they are certainly a force to be reckoned with, and they seem to have a developed a decent pipeline of ideas and people from university and government labs to a private sector that is probably subsidized.

Granted, it's a smaller business than semi, but it suggests to me that a national program to strengthen an industry isn't guaranteed to be a failure.
This is especially frustrating if you consider that Google's own benchmark tool Lighthouse constantly gives you MOTDs like "Company X increased their revenue Y dollars per 100 ms page load speedup."

I am on mobile; what are the Lighthouse scores for Google's own products?
Are you really trying to be objective about this?
That's funny, because your chosen statistic requires you to go back to 1961.
Chicago ain't the world! Here, in Germany, labor unions are not perfect either, but pretty effective. It's a question of culture: if something never can grow up, into a solid state, it will cease to succeed. In the US unions get constantly hated and attacked. It's difficult to develop a healthy personality under such circumstances.
Kinda funny that after all you said you felt the need to add a I am serious here ;)
Right... if this election was fraudulent, then might as well cancel the 2016 elections as well. They also had 4 years to help improve election security, which conservatives waited until after they lost to cry fraud.
While those are fair points about the origin of Silicon Valley, the picture today is pretty different.

And there's a huge difference in values. The American ethos is "you're free to do great things, if you can". The European ethos is "You need the state to protect you from everything and you shouldn't try to be different or independent"