skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have tones of PowerShell and it works like a charm, although we have some experienced posh devs

We also test REST backend in PowerShell using Pester and home made Posh rest client.

PowerShell is preferred in this house because

a) you can run it on any Windows OS on the spot and modify it in ad hoc manner, you can even debug it with breakpoints etc easily. Also our Linux machines have it so it is unifying admin interface.

b) its powerful, you can do anything in it with few lines of code (one case: we did 10 million SOAP requests using certificate per day for entire country)

c) many Windows tools use it like SqlServer, IIS etc. which makes management way easier - for example we use [1] to install sql server on all dev/prod machines or use [2] to monitor all our servers or use [3] to send CI metrics to influx (all those are just minor samples, we have bunch of stuff like that)

d) we find it way easier to keep CI/CD vars in PowerShell hashtables then in yaml, so our yaml fiels are one liners and everything works locally.

e) Python, ruby and friends are NOT designed for shell work. Its akward, unfriendly and most of all not there on Windows OTB.

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[1] https://github.com/majkinetor/Install-SqlServer

[2] https://github.com/majkinetor/flea

[3] https://github.com/majkinetor/psinflux
Reproducibility of observed reality. The most simplistic summary I can come up with. Manufacturing to baking to software to economic models all strive to be reproducible but with the so many variables there is no way to have a true constant.

People like constants, cookies always taste the same, video game does not have glitches, car manufacturer always produces a fully fictional vehicle right from the plant. Yet some cars a lemons, cookies burn, quality of ingredients change with the seasons, software crashes.

Science is complex while most people just want to have a reduced cognitive load. Spend no time actually thinking about the complexity but accepting a more simplistic story. Since science can in no way offer a true yes or no people look else where, even when the simplistic reasoning is wrong.

A chief can say baking is easy but knowing which ingredients, when to mix, and how to use the tools is even too complex for a lot of people. Walk into a grocery store of how many different types of microwavable meals exist because it is easier to place something in to a rectangular enclosure for 10 minutes and press 5 buttons.

Only thing I've come to is to remind others is our world is complex and requires complex understanding, aka specialist, but often simplified where doing is easier. You might work on a manufacturing line, bake, or even play games but does not mean you know the science behind those processes. You may think there is no science behind baking until you ask questions, such as how does one build an electric oven? That is all I've come to, reminding people that everything is more complex than what it appears to be.
So the small pay for the large?
Right, but not by the journal.

Peer reviewers also usually hold full-time jobs, they are usually the same people that are authors on other articles.

Is peer review also the assumption or implication of their role?

If not, should it be, since it's just as essential to the production of research articles as authorship?
I loathed typescript at first because of the heavy compilation step, but setting it up to compile only when it was necessary (building for production), and to transpile the rest of the time (running tests, starting a server locally) made a huge difference for our team. A slow compilation step really is a huge cost!
Systems developer here. I made an account to answer this, because the OP is 100% right about this.

A toy language is one which you do not allow to escape the play-room/sandbox, you play with it (because hey, you can, so why not..), but you would not actually use it.

The reason this is important for decentralization efforts, is that the OS should be doing this.

Sure, paint the pretty UI, but expose the entire thing to common OS-level abstractions, please, and then host the scripts, kthxbai ..

(A non-toy language is one you are very comfortable shipping. Javascript is that for a lot of people. Not for systems programmers = it is an application execution environment, not a place for things which must operate, as part of the system, without much user hassle ..)
'Practical Malware Analysis' was required reading for all RE candidates at my previous job.

It's very windows focused but teaches skills that are (somewhat) easily transferable.
To be fair, most of those "primadona devs", as you call them, would much prefer to write well-designed programs cleanly coded, but are given completely unreasonable timeframes and staffing then told to create an MVP then turn it over to offshore.

Very few people enjoy producing junk, but management (and customers) often demand junk today rather than quality tomorrow.
Honestly, what kind of bullshit is this?
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As some of the comments in that video noted. The like to dislike ratio is 1:14, that alone gives me some hope for humanity!

The Great Reset is basically a blatant power grab and a way of reducing the overwhelming majority of humanity back to serfdom.
You are right, it's the gold DRM free master, not the sources. But Frogwares still didn't deliver those two builds.
>My other option would be just to give up and get an apple keyboard. When you were using it, did you miss the keyboard being split - any RSI or comfort issues?

Yep, I started using an ergonomic keyboard because I was having RSI issues with a regular layout so try to avoid using one for any great length of time these days!
There is a quote about progress depending on the old folks who cling to an old way to see the world, to die. (But I can't find it.) But with regards to programming: Where do you think is the negativity about progress coming from? A feeling that skills once learned with difficulty are becoming obsolete?
Markdown + middleman. We use it for docs and landing pages in addition to the blog.
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I think when you don't have a competitor, being slow is okay. People will use your product but otherwise performance matters. Eventhough it never matters as much as your feature set.
The whole of Internet will know when you spoil the air :P
Technically MSFT disabled the RDP server feature in Home edition, meaning you can't use Windows Home as RDP host (I am not sure the proper terminology for this). The software still in there, you only can use RDP client in Win Home, not the server aspect. It is just disabled without official way of enabling it (w/o upgrading to Pro). However there is way to get it enabled in Windows Home, it need rdpwrap by stascrop. Just download the file and run it. It will get the server aspect running.

Rdpwrap by stascrop (GitHub) https://github.com/stascorp/rdpwrap/releases
It's not clear to me how much day-to-day use of Wireguard being a Fly customer requires, but I can't help but wonder if you guys should collaborate with Tailscale to make all of the micro-VMs appear on a Tailscale network, and authorize access between humans and the VMs that way.

(I admit that I haven't looked much into mesh networking / edge servers, so I don't know what the problems are. I always preferred Internet -> Identity Aware Proxy type thing -> mTLS mesh that is useless to humans. And, I don't ssh to stuff much anymore... I have my software collect debugging information and send it to something I can access through a browser or API, and control that software through an API. So everything is editing config files, basically, not SSHing places ;)
Netflix is literally using react and is praised in this thread for their ui performance. JS is not the problem, what you do with it is.
Negative yielding debt is literally a waste of time. Money is worth less as you move into the future. Fiat is literally a black hole.
How is Bitcoin's admission exponential? Isn't it a stepped linear emission?
Sure. There are several that I've personally had to deal with: baptism (by creed? by birth?), the nature of hell/eternal fate of the wicked, nature of Christ, even the support of slavery, etc.

The one that I see that's really in play right now actually has to do with the nature of hell/fate of the wicked.

You've probably heard the fate of the wicked is that whoever does not believe will go to hell: a place of eternal conscious torment (ECT). Proponents of this position will lean heavily on various scriptures:

* "It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell, 'where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.'" Mark 9:47-48
* "..lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever." (Rev 20:10).

There are a couple of examples. And they are used. A lot. However, the last couple of hundred years (at least, that we know of, perhaps further back, though it wasn't discussed as much) is the idea of annihilationism: That the fate of the wicked is not ECT but rather is simply to finally die again forever.

The doctrine of final judgement (for our purposes here is clearly defined in Matthew 25:31-46) declares that all of the dead will be raised and will be judged. So, if you were dead, you will be raised and then the final judgement will be made and the two sides (the left and the right) will go to their inheritance: either Christ's kingdom or eternal fire.

But the idea that eternal fire _means_ eternal conscious torment for the wicked makes some specific assumptions that many people assume but are not supported:

* Why is it assumed that all who are raised are now immortal?
* Why does the nature of the fire (i.e. that it is eternal) mean that it must burn eternally rather than simply describe its provenance and its effectiveness.

For me (and for many others), we do not find the "evidence" of ECT compelling and can actually point to a number of other areas where ECT makes no sense. The biggest example is everyone's favorite verse: John 3:16 (For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whoever believes in him shall not PERISH but have ETERNAL LIFE). EMPHASIS MINE. In what world does "Perish" mean "be alive but tortured forever"?

Anyway, the point is that many people start with the end in mind. They start with ECT and work their way backwards. Scripture has the advantage over the natural sciences in that (at least for protestants) we believe the canon is closed and therefore no new information can be made available. We have what we have to work with.
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In fact there are many apps that are available in Google Play and externally (as APKs, and via other app stores).
I got half way through a physics phd and the only time anyone quoted Khun was as what happens when you read science books without understanding mathematics.
Right.

Peer review is also essential to the production of research articles. And is done largely by the same people who are writing articles; but they are incentivized non-monetarily to write articles, but not as much to review.

To restate my point perhaps more clearly: If reviewing were rewarded/expected as part of one's role at a university, department, or grant agency similarly to authorship, that would do far more to incentivize it than paying a relatively modest amount for a review.
I'm a bit of a language geek but I've always been confused by IDE lag, so I figure there's something I don't know.

From a UX perspective, I can see doing simple syntax highlighting on the UI thread...so long as it is something with small, bounded execution time. I don't quite get why completions and other stuff lags the UI thread, as it seems obvious that looking that information up is expensive. I can't tell if that is what's happening, or there's something more going on, such as coordinating the communication between UI/worker threads becomes costly.

I've seen it in a bunch of IDEs though, especially those in managed languages. You're typing, it goes to show a completion, and then....you wait.
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Lab-grown black hole behaves just like Stephen Hawking said it would
Which means a comeback of Soviet-style blocks. Given that red-green-red coalition is basically a comeback of DDR socialist party, this feels like DDR strikes back in Berlin.
How do you disable the easing?
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Right. And at the very least, when he called Apple the customer service people should have been able to tell him what was wrong with his account.
> You don't have to be tolerant of bad ideas [...] but you do have to protect the rights of all human beings to express them

Is there no limit to this? Knowing how horrible human beings can be to each other, is there really no point at which we draw the line and say, no further? Because there very much are numerous examples of where we do so according to the law.

As uncomfortable as it may be, the conversation about who should be silenced must continue. For as long as we face the prospect of fellow humans encouraging their peers to harm other fellow humans for bad reasons, there is no sane alternative. It's probably something we'll have to deal with until/unless the dubious promises of transhumanism become real.
Pay for security rather than progressive social welfare policy?

I take it you've never heard of the NYPD or LAPD? "But they're not private security." Boy, I guess you got me there.
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"Thousands of years ago one of your ancient ancestors was enjoying the spoils of a recent hunting trip when suddenly a saber toothed tiger jumped out of the bush. Your cave man relative had a choice, fight off the tiger or drop the food and run. They ran….and they ran fast. The human brain is an amazing thing, it has evolved over the eons to help us survive. Most of those eons involved surviving physical threats where flight over fight was often the smart choice.

The financial 'threats' we face in the 21st century are diametrically opposed to the physical threats of ancient times. Stock market crashes, unlike hungry saber toothed tigers, often present opportunities as opposed to imminent death. My very simple example here downplays the complex neurobiology of the human brain that drives us to make poor financial decisions, but the end result is the same: humans are hardwired to be poor investors."
I've heard of people writing custom assembly to get more performance... what level of assembly expertise is required to achieve that? And, what does that look like?

Do you let the compiler emit assembly code and then start editing it to make it faster? Or, does it start from scratch? Are there known areas that the compiler has troubles with?
> There are plenty of offline password managers that will do you equal or better service than this

That's cool, I didn't know that and I'm eager to hear of replacements. I regularly use 5+ devices, currently all via 1password and have about 3 family members including myself using 1password (so in total maybe 10 devices or something like that). None of us want to host a server by ourselves (as both time and security is of a concern there). What do you suggest we use in my household? Would have to work on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, iPhone, web and unix terminals. It should be able to store passwords, photos, credit cards and also have browser extensions for Safari, Firefox and Chrome for making it easy to fill out. + if it has a password generator as well, but not required.

Many thanks!
Lots of these highly qualified researches are forced to leave science right now, the reasons all too often not being their qualification. There would be a large pool of good researchers to draw from for this.
What percentage of assets are negative yielding?

They can’t all be negative in real terms.
Windows Hello is opt-in and also has many other providers other than facial recognition
Glyphosate is a lot safer than many organic products. Of course the later is a "chemical" with a "scary" name, while the later has great marketing and has been used for thousands of years.
Funded by billionaire mathematician
and hedge fund founder, where the algorithms make all the decisions

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QNznD9hMEh0

1976 winner of the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Veblen_Prize_in_Geome...
Selling goods does not rely solely on competitive prices. It may also reflect the lack of alternative vendors, or the negative repercussions of defying political pressure -- as eastern European countries who rely on Russia for gas and oil to heat their houses have discovered, and near neighbors to China whos's fishing vessels now routinely cross into their waters have discovered.

Often the ability to sell is motivated by more than just economics.
The issue is that the language of science is mathematics, and mathematics is a cruel mistress. Conventional ethical boards also makes exploration of these decisions impossible. If a government official makes a decision on an event that lie at the end of two gaussians, the black swan happens and a bunch of people died, who is to blame? The people for not realizing the law of large numbers? Statistical software and Monte-Carlo modeling for claiming things have low probabilities? The government official for deferring to scientific reasoning?

You see this everyday right now during the pandemic. Policy making is very different from say, civil engineering, where failure scenarios can be quantified within tightly defined bounds. At the nation state level every decision may affect everybody. Nobody wants to be told their specific circumstances are the "statistical outliers". But science rarely gives good answers. The only time science has been reliable is when a large amount of resources is dedicated to figuring out answers in a single, specific problem. Unfortunately the life sciences don't have the luxury of physics and the formal sciences. There is no concerted level of effort to cure cancer that is comparable to the Apollo program. The military prefers to buy ten more hellfires than to redo life science ethics. If you quantify the ultimate utilitarian value, the damage ten missiles can do to humanity may be the same as a FDA that focus more on progress than covering their own ass. Yet the former is more acceptable than the latter. Science has failed because it no longer gives useful answers. When somebody's grandmother is lying sick in the hospital, they want a cure that is immediately accessible, not yet another feel-good post on Reddit or Facebook about "Scientists claim experimental cure for cancer found! Appearing in your friendly neighborhood pharmacy in ten years".
I did the same, however I wish 1password would keep my extension logged in instead of asking me to type up a convoluted password every time I open the browser.
Why are you so salty? Care to elaborate?
One thing I've learning is code review should never be used just as gate-keeping for the senior developers.

Rather, let everyone (juniors, QA, non-developers) in the team perform reviews of everyones code, even your senior code. Not only is it a great way to spread/communicate knowledge and understanding in the team. But everyone looks at your code with a different eye and background.

You may have written the greatest opus magnum of your programming career. But if the junior or medior can't make sense of it, they will not be able to maintain it when you're gone. So effectively you have failed.
Risk of bidirectional synching, apart from conflicts when you edit from both sides, is that if something catastrophic happens, like you mistakenly delete half of your passwords, it gets synchronized to the other instances.
Microsoft launches Power Fx, a new open-source low-code language
We'd love to; we don't want to build a crappy version of 1/11th of Tailscale ourselves.
I rarely see a site that doesn't redirect it to the appropriate subdomain. Then again I don't often check it unless it's broken
Science has also been used to justify some pretty terrible things.

And that is their point, humans are the corrupting force here. Taking a framework and then using it to justify whatever they want. The scientific method is not uniquely immune to people cherry picking quotes from studies to justify their agendas. And in many ways it is very much the same thing as someone cherry picking scripture to justify the same.
thanks for the engagement and respect - always feels great to take the opposite position against a respectful individual
Seems to be no way to win.

> I hate how Apple lets me update my phone even though performance will be worse on the latest iOS

vs

> I hate how Android vendors don’t ever let me update to a new version of Android
This is clearly not the case based on the singular form of the verb preceding the phrase.
Solution with detailed reasoning for Google Foobar Level 5 problem
Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme.
I'm sorry you didn't buy when it was cheaper.
PowerShell supports both XPath and native object syntax for reading XML.

Unfortunately, by default, writing XML isn't as straightforward. One has to use XmlDocument methods to construct an XML file. The 'Format-XML' cmdlet in the Pscx extension repository [1] does make it possible to use native object syntax to construct XML files, however.

[1] https://github.com/Pscx/Pscx
Which GUI framework will you use?