skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that premature abstraction is bad. Except when using a mature off-the-shelf tool, e.g. Keycloak. Sometimes if you know that you need to implement a standard and are not willing to put in the effort for an in-house solution, that level of complexity just comes with the territory, and you can choose to only use a subset of the mature tool's functionality.

I also have a lot of experience starting with very lo-fi and manual scripting prototypes to validate user needs and run a process like release management or db admin, which would then need to be wrapped in some light abstractions to hide some of the messy details to share with non-maintainers.

Problem is, I've noticed that more junior developers tend to look at a complex prototype that hits all the user cases, and see it as being complicated. Then they go shopping for some shiny toy that can only support a fraction of the necessary cases, and then I have to spend an inordinate amount of time explaining why it's not sufficient and that all the past work should be leverages with a little bit of abstraction if they don't like the number of steps in the prototype.

So, not-generic can also end up failing from a team dynamic perspective. Unless everyone can understand the complexity, somebody is going to come along and massively oversimplify the problem, which is a siren song. Queue the tech debt and rewrite circle of life.
Oooh - where?
With all the billion dollar mergers and acquisitions going on these days, I can't help but wonder if any of the companies that exist today will manage to grow/merge their way into becoming Weyland-Yutani-style megacorporations? Is there some black-hole like critical mass a company can reach, where surrounding smaller companies just stop being able to escape its gravitational pull?
It should also be noted reducing agricultural land use is a great way to mitigate climate change: https://www.wri.org/blog/2019/08/7-things-know-about-ipcc-sp...
Bertrand Russell was an amazing logician and mathematician. Albert Einstein was an incredible physicist. I would trust none of them to handle economics.

When it comes to the socialist movement, whatever upsides it might have, its history regarding handling of economics isn't stellar either.

Also, I didn't say anything resembling "this is the current system, hence it's proven". All I said is that the free market has been studied and analyzed for ages, and we know a lot about it, including that it generates decent outcomes in many cases.

Re: economics and crashes - I fail to see how the existence of crashes - which is predicted by many economic theories, be they mainstream or not - invalidates anything.
...the people with the strongest investment in that line of thinking are those with the biggest desire to manipulate the public Do you have any evidence of this? It seems to be a position that is extremely vulnerable to confirmation bias.
"Smart pointers go brr"

It's not really random, but it's quite hard to follow.
I read the book about Lockheed’s Skunkworks recently, and it touched on this a bit. The big difference between a satellite and a spy plane like the U-2 and the SR-71 was that you can launch a spy plane on short notice and get the intel you need. Satellites aren’t nearly as agile. But things may have changed, perhaps we have enough satellites in enough places that we don’t have as big a problem as we once did.
The whole point is that it's much easier to NOT forget defer (which goes right after the resource acquisition line), than to forget to free the resource (which happens much further down the function).

So it's immediately better compared to the current C situation.

As for compared to RAII? Well, thats one failure mode for defer (forgetting it), whereas there are dozens of ways to mess RAII...
> I pay for a node in the network, and get paid incrementally every time someone accesses the network via my node? The payment being slightly higher based on the speed/bandwidth of the node I've provided.

Thats exactly what new-age dVPNs like Orchid and Mysterium do. You can share your "residential IP" and bandwith with other dVPN users in exchange for crypto micro-payments.

Also see Golem, Elastos, and other such Web3 initiatives.
Engineers shouldn’t deploy to prod directly, but sometimes it’s necessary to SSH into an instance for logs, stack dumps, etc. Source: worked for 2 big to very big tech cos.
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I agree and tend to create my code in this style. The bonus to this style of programming is that testing functions in isolation comes almost for free.
But you should also keep in mind that organizations (or factions within organizations) will use these channels for their own purposes, to test public opinion before an official announcement, as propaganda channel or to undermine elected officials who are politically in charge.
I've done factory work before and it is single handedly the worst torture on the planet. Imagine being bored when you were in pre-college level school. Now leave yourself in that state but for 12 hours. That's factory work.
Peter Gibbons : Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh heh - and, uh, after that I just sorta space out for about an hour.

Bob Porter : Da-uh? Space out?

Peter Gibbons : Yeah, I just stare at my desk; but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch, too. I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.
Yes, as a macro and extensions (like __cleanup__) combo.
> Is satire to be suppressed because it makes exagerrated or nonsensical claims? Where do we draw the line, and who gets to decide when satire crosses the line to become incendiary?

Deciding what to publish is itself a system to disseminate information.

Free press and free speech doesn't mean you can force other people to publish your speech. It just means that government is not allowed to suppress it.

>What would be the end goal of your proposed system that filters speech that you consider "noise"? To prevent a tyrant from taking power by spreading false information? The truth is that once we live in a society where free speech is suppressed then we are already living under a tyranny.

Don't use silly slippery slope arguments. The US already has limits on speech that directly cause harm to others.
It's like martial arts IMHO - it's fine (maybe even beneficial) as a hobby but if you go around beating up unwilling people it's obviously evil.

I see it as psychological chess.
Whats the point of even having it in data dog? Typically we pay a ton for services like Newrelic for monitoring, the APM, and insights. Like you, we have tons of logs, so I wouldn't want to pay Newrelic or Newrelic-similar prices for a service you can just use ELK for yourself much cheaper. So basically I don't really see why you signed on to data dog at all
That is part of the new norm of UX. When it is “slow” use an activity wheel.
Let me introduce you to my friend burnout.

Even doing what you love and assumed you were intrinsically motived to do you can have a change of heart.

Lots of passionate but overworked game-developers get burned out/disillusioned and go off to employers that don't demand both body and soul for the price of doing the work of their dreams.

edit: I realize the article focusses more on freedom, which might be seen as a separate issue to Games-Industry crunch, but some newly independent game developers will be surprised to learn that how their evil manager used to mistreat them can't hold a candle to what they'll do to themselves...

It's not all doom and gloom, but it's not always all roses either. And with this being a more-than-usually rough year for many people, the downsides are more at the front of my mind right now than the (many and tremendous) upsides.
Dateline today, 2020-12-13:

"Sweden's neighbours offer them emergency help as its hospitals fill up with coronavirus patients"

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/sweden-offered-urgent-corona...
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Or for running homebrew, which is what I did. There's no openttd on the switch store.
Love rescue time
I know. If it were still a thing, I'd probably play it today. /C++
The U-2 doesn’t fly nearly as high or as fast if I recall. But maybe we don’t need that any more.
This is just absolutely wrong.

I don't close the door when I use the restroom because I fear physical harm. I just don't want someone walking in while I'm using the commode.
This thing is the size of Jamaica with a draft of 200m (and so a height of more than that). It would take multiple nuclear weapons to do it any real kind of damage.
..wot no Dizzy?
My personal favorite is the Axe Effect commercials:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKNTCP-ctGw

It's hard to imagine a world where these tactics ever go away. When dealing with cognitive biases I feel like it's loophole city.
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The solution is to use the Rico law to prosecute everyone involved all at once as a gang instead of one person at a time. It worked successfully on the 5 mob families of New York.
That's unfortunate. I liked the elegance of such a brutish potential solution.

I know this definitely sounds dumb and juvenile, but I genuinely wish more problems could be solved with bombs.
It’s interesting you say that, because that’s what I tell people on my team, and I mean it.
The worst part about the concept of having "nothing to hide" is in the US you get tried by a jury for certain criminal cases. If you have something that a lawyer can't paint as illegal but clearly is not, it doesn't matter what your rights are. The jury is sending you to prison. Even if you didn't commit a crime.
Also tragedy of the commons: Why invest in training when you can expect employees to get poached by the company next door in only 1-2 years?
Those appear to be the value of their holdings as USD trade at that moment in time. Check the date on the far left.
Have you been reading this article word for word? More than likely you are skimming it. That’s part of the reason I bolded the first sentence of each point and placed the test link below on a separate line.

We attract like-minded people to our businesses. Consequently, if you do read every word of every article, then you will attract people with similar predispositions to your business.
I would expect this from the Play Store. But Apple makes a big deal about the fact that their App Store is curated from low quality apps.

And these are the worst kind. These are actively harmful to people's psychology.
I'm in management. While the job description always says spend a significant amount of time coding, I tend to eschew that if I can get away with it. I'm only writing code if I need to get in the trenches or things are in a such a good place that I have big blocks of free time.

My workday is 10-4:30. Of that I'm probably doing 3-4 hours of productive work a day (code review, architecture, planning, 1-1s, meetings). I don't have any useless meetings, but the real killer is the 30-60 minutes between meetings where you don't have enough time to do anything productive.

Unicorn startup in Canada.
Not for multiple consecutive years as measured in LinkedIn tenure years you don’t (assuming weekends get impacted too since you’re pushing 8am to 11pm daily at the edge).
I dont think you emphasized the "white male dominated" part enough
In this case you're choosing to be unproductive. If you're able to spend time on HN and reply during a meeting you could just as easily be fixing the root cause of development tools failing.

Protect your time, block out your calendar, and fix the root causes that create the unproductive meetings.
Nothing to hide is a very relative concept. How many times it happens that something a famous person says or writes is completely decontextualized and thus the message that passes from their words is not what they wanted to convey?

The same thing can happen to anyone of us if our private life is looked with the eyes of another person.
Well we gotta call it something, kinda like communism and democracy. It means a lot of things to different people, but those things still vaguely refer to similar ideas. I tend not to support stringent definitions on things ("The US is a republic, not a democracy") because basically it ends up being word games.

If you look at economics, the idea is that people are rational agents. At least the orthodox idea which people are not told to question. From there you get all sorts of efficiency ideas that are the support for that government intervention idea of free markets. It goes free thinking -> efficient decisions -> government shouldn't intervene.

So of course if people aren't so free thinking, doesn't that change something?

The issue with advertising is that we have indeed agreed that certain interventions are legit. Externalities are another one of those things they mention in economics, and you'll find all sorts of models for how to deal with them. There are in fact loads of regulations, all grounded in the idea that even rational agents sometimes cause things to happen that we don't want, and should be fixed by intervention. Typically to do with information problems.

So then if actually we think government should intervene in some situations, why not in this one? Maybe it's just a matter of time, as evidence builds up. I suppose there's already controls for things like addictive gambling.
Clean, Reddit-style, comments on all web pages(like Spotify podcasts)
It's not just about the directly related. This is a signal that every populist will make use of.
I don't think that's going to happen, they will just quietly kill Dirt Rally. That game is just way too difficult for a mainstream audience so it makes a poor platform to milk microtransactions.

The rest of the Dirt series (same name, very different game) might continue to exist to complement their NFS car game lineup.

Most likely though is that EA only wanted the licenses to F1 and WRC series.
After almost a decade I'm still unable to answer this question properly and I think it's related to the fact that this is creative work, so it can't be meaningfully described this way.

Anyway, a certain Christopher de Cinque hit the nail on the head on this matter in an interview:

http://mousertime.blogspot.com/2010/07/closure-in-moscow-int...

FTA:

How does Closure in Moscow normally write a song?

We don't write any songs ourselves so to speak. They are beamed to our conscious minds from the higher dimensional realms of our subconscious. Like a text message from god: "hey guyz, thought u might lyk this song idea. Luv God lol x". When I try to wrote lyrics it doesn't work... But the ones that come out like a bolt from the blue, autonomously, that's the good stuff.
Exactly. E.g. Diesel engines have a much lower maximum rpm limit (4.5-5.5k rpms) so they need to deliver that amount of power by delivering more torque at lower RPMs when compared to comparably powered petrol engines.

And electric car motors can draw almost maximum Amperes at very low rpms, hence the insane numbers of torque for electric cars
Martin Luther King was quite sexist himself. So feminist literature would antithesis to some of his convictions.
> Niemals do this too

You probably misspelt "Animals", but "niemals" is German for "never" or "no way". Gave me a chuckle in context.

On topic: there's probably more to it in humans, because animals don't have cultural phenomena like shame about their sexual organs, making embarrassing noises or smelling bad.

I would say the parallel with defecating in private is valid, as it can lead to the same perceived loss of social status as "not earning enough" or "having an unacceptable opinion".
This approach is one of my biggest annoyances because it's not the same. You're asking for them to give you something but they're not getting anything in return. When people use Facebook/Google etc. they get a service that they end up valuing very highly in return. That common argument of "Give me your phone and PIN" is so pointless because people wouldn't even give that stuff to Facebook if it didn't give them anything back.

We've got to find a better set of arguments that we can use to convince people. I'm very strongly into privacy rights and I'm not convinced by this argument. Why would someone who doesn't care be convinced?
Thank you for being open-minded enough to understand. In life there are many self-imposed halo effects on the people you love. I believe this is one of them. Honestly I've had too many deep stare-downs in the world of addiction, sickness, and loneliness - I choose to forget many of them. There has been a Molly (though we never married) in my past, too. But 20+ years forward the effect she had on me has eroded and left behind a truth of who she really was that's raw and unforgiving. But I want to remember the "Molly" of my life that was fun and carefree. And maybe I'm casting my own experiences here on the author, most likely I am. Things like this are hard to put into words.
Not a programmer, but I divide my day in something like:
First hour: Morning greetings, follow up from previous workday, getting my area organized for whatever I have for the day, check HN and news.
Next 3-4 hours before lunch: Tackle the most difficult problem or whatever task I really don't want to do but must. The goal is to have the task initial steps completed (planning/thinking) so I can work on it throughout the week.
Next 3 hours: Continue working on the tedious task above or whatever work needs to be completed.
Last 1-3 hours: Finishing up tasks that can be completed before day's end.

For personal projects, I dedicate as much time as needed as long as it doesn't hinder my family or fitness time.
Sure. But defer just changes the problem from forgetting to write free to forgetting to write defer. So we’re not really talking about provably correct solutions... just things that can work. And I think a context or just manually freeing can work nicely.
I worry that those startups #1-3 burn a good chunk of their money on customer acquisition, not on solving technological problems (though scale creates its own problems too). That money would be unnecessarily wasted. I also doubt a huge staff is needed to figure out the tech part.

But I understand your point: startups can be viewed as economy's distributed R&D. Speculative investment makes a lot of sense - it could be that without startups #1-3, #4 wouldn't exist because it couldn't afford the risk of developing an innovative product. But my main gripe is how VC-backed startups repay the investment - they're being pressured into user-hostile and sometimes antisocial business models. It's so common that these business model became accepted as standard these days! So perhaps a way forward isn't to reduce venture funding, but curtail the socially destructive business models directly.
Go for it! CDPATH is an underrated tool.

You can do a simpler version and just set

CDPATH=/path/to/cjd

but then you'd have to tab through the e.g. "30-39" index directories first.

Or you could change the path in the find command to

/path/to/cjd/*/*

and go to the final xx.yy directories directly, but it hardly saves you any keystrokes when you use tab completition.
> can benifit from adapting a straight forward functional style of programming.

Isn't Kotlin largely scratching this itch?
Down because email attachments are base64 encoded files written in plaintext into the body. So if those are not working, email itself is not working.
How does the EU accomplish it?
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I do the same thing with the timer app. I've only worked more than 8 hours when there was a tight deadline. I was surprised by how exhausted I felt on those days. On a normal productive day I get 6 hours, on a day where I feel shitty I get 4 hours. I was actually surprised by the amount of work I get done with only 4 hours of focus per day - no complaints from my boss or anyone else
I guess my question is, with perhaps my bad assumption - People know Reuters is not always correct.

Why believe this story?

Under what conditions do they not believe. Under what conditions do they believe.

Again, perhaps a bad assumption, eating a credit card each week would not make sense to most people. Why believe it's true? When does media override personal beliefs?
I agree that these techniques are primarily for environment lock-down and constitute anti-competitive behavior.

There can be an advantages to security in theory, but I don't think it is worth it to accept the downsides.

For me the decision is made that I leave Windows development behind completely and I already found a new home on Linux. I still use Windows for some media consumption, but its place there is also threatened and slowly coming to an end.

As for signing, we could have just used traditional certificates instead of these awful signing practices, but this is overall bad security in my opinion, that "accidentally" makes them a middle man for any software deployment.
> I don't think this is the same kind of thing as trying to keep one's political opinions or salary private.

Not only that, but the community isn't better served by someone shitting in public. You can make the argument that if everyone's salary was public information the community as a whole would be better off. Yet we still have people at all points on the income spectrum hiding their salary for various reasons.
What about the Apple sign in requirement for all iOS apps that have a social login? Is that not a much bigger fish to fry?

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#sig...
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Anycast, gslb behavior, standard records, short logging, probably UltraDNS or maybe Dyn if you don't mind that Oracle purchased them. I don't know what you mean by cost effective. All the commercial providers can get expensive depending on how heavily requested your DNS records are. You would need to negotiate pricing. As for log retention, regardless of vendor that is something you would have to get them to put in writing in a mutually signed / counter-signed contract reviewed by your lawyers. Companies can say anything but it means nothing until it is in legal documents.
But bluetooth earpieces made it look like people were talking to themselves. For me, if I'm not by myself, I'll often have my phone in my hand while talking on bluetooth.
This idea was inspired by Joe Rogan's post last week(https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/k9ah72/joe_shoute...) where he mentioned he wished spotify had comments, and reddit was less ideal.

So I made a chrome extension that adds reddit-style comments to every website for free instantly, and doesn't require buy-in from the site owner. You can even collaborate on private internal websites.

After you install the chrome extension, push the circle icon to open the comments for any page.

It's possible to give site owners admin tools like moderation and the ability to sticky posts.

Feel free to send suggestions that might help you use it, and I'll update it quickly.
I didn't want to mention nukes as to the potential fallout that close to this precious wildlife will probably do way more harm than the actual iceberg.
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I work for at least 9 hours from Monday to Friday, including a non optional 1 hour break at lunchtime (which wildly differs among coworkers in the same timezone, creating 2-hour communication blackouts). Out of those 9 hours, I code for 2 to 4 hours on a productive day. I spend the rest of my workday in meetings, reading tech literature, and browsing codebases.

When I'm working on a personal project, I can do actual coding for more than 5 hours a day. The difference is huge.
Never heard of this initiative but kudos for bringing it up.
I run a popular news site[0] and merely aggregating ~150 sources costs me upwards of $1k/m just to crawl the basics.

[0] https://upstract.com/
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