skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
7-Zip is the first of the three programs I install on Windows before anything else (the other two being VLC and Sumatra PDF; I wish Sumatra were available on Linux, but evince is not bad as a replacement).
This is what PG states:

> It's too much to hope that writing could ever be pure ideas. You might not even want it to be. But for most writers, most of the time, that's the goal to aim for. The gap between most writing and pure ideas is not filled with poetry.

I think that's virtually meaningless unless you define what is meant by "an idea". The Bible, Qu'ran, the story of Gilgamesh, Homer's Illias,... are all ideas, just the same as famous essays by Hemingway or Benjamin Franklin. Even Proust's In Search of Lost Time with it's epic long sentences is a multitude of ideas regarding involuntary memory, separation anxiety and much more.

Everything PG writes after that hinges on a single imperative: That if you intend for your writing to be read, you must write simple.

The trouble is that his argument doesn't challenge that. There's no reflection on the fact that this is by far an universal principle, or that it, paradoxically, defines the relationship with the reader as if the latter always wants simple, digestible reading at every turn.

Hemingway is famous for his terse and simple writing, attributed to his schooling as a journalist. But he also had a critics who simply despised his literary writing for its terse and uncompromising style. And then there's William Faulkner who had this baroque style with long, endless sentences which dug their heels into Big Emotions, trying to convey them in the most sinuous way possible. Faulkner, just like Hemingway having won the Nobel Prize, found himself the butt of criticism on his writing as well.

Sure, these musings pertain to great literators. PG's point could be relegated to articles and essays instead. Or, unspoken yet more to the point, writing as this ephemeral, intangible idea that disolves and dissappear like vapor clouds the second it is published in the digital realm. Unlike words which are printed in respectable paper journals and glossy magazines.

No, the writing style of PG's essay was also part of this expose. Leveraged by the author to drive a point home. I'm still not sure what that point was exactly. PG being PG, chances are he just wanted nothing more then to make a so-called thought-provoking statement. In that regard, simple writing doesn't automatically make for good writing. The idea, the essence, you're trying to sell still needs to be solid and worth telling. That's where PG's essay, ironically, falls flat.

PG's essay doesn't spark a debate because he writes about an idea, it sparks discussion because of quite the opposite: writing about anything except about writing or why one writes. Now, one can fault PG for not providing context, but as with anything in this digital world, PG publishes on his own websites and assumes that the reader had written his other writings as well to understand what he's trying to get at. That's fine. It just doesn't make for compelling reading if one has to pieces together.
I sure wish this post had included a few code snippets, just to make it extra-clear what using Backblaze through Terraform might look like.
Oh Simon Griffee - ofc. Love your stuff.

Everyone check out https://www.simongriffee.com/ - my fave is the photo section. Your blog is great as well.
Bot can help you solve coding problems
I've built a bot which can help you to solve leetcode problems. I've started with https://leetcode.com/problems/pancake-sorting/. It could be better for the learning process, because the bot is not giving you exact answers. You solve the problem together - step by step.

https://bot.chib.me/courses/pancake-sorting/
Yeah definitely! On average, our users use Superpowered 10 times per day. It's an ingrained part of their workflows.

It's not only a single button to join a meeting, but it's also the ability to peek at your calendar without opening a tab. That might sound minor, but it's worth it for people who do it 10+ times a day.

I wouldn't say we're worried about another tool building one-click join. Other tools exist that do. We're branching out of the calendar space to bring work platforms like Slack and GitHub together into a unified platform. Our focus is on work platforms, theres is not.
Caveats: I have not worked for any companies of consequence in a long time, the following is based on a brief moment of time when I rose from schmuck to near–C level at an F100 company.

Find out how you are going to be measured, find out what success and failure are viewed as, regardless of whether or not you believe those are the correct metrics. Set in place the routines and disciplines in yourself and your staff to ensure that you are accurately recognized for your successes. In parallel, if you do believe that the metrics you’re being measured by are wrong, figure out how to change them within the organization.

I utterly failed to make the transition from individual contributor to corporate manager for a long time after it happened and it impacted my team (I kept trying to code when I should have delegated it to them) and wrecked my reputation across the corporation.

tl;dr: Figure out what success is perceived as and manage to that. If you want to change what success is perceived as, change that in the background while exceeding what the current metric is.
Does this fix the issue of 7zip not supporting unix file permissions? I recall that was the main issue everyone hated the 7zip linux port.
The redflag for me is 60 interviews in 30 days. smh
You've also crossed into bannable territory. That's not cool, regardless of how bad another comment is. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here (all of them, please—you broke several).
> My biggest fear is around the medical expenses as we grow older and my current thought process is that we will move out of US once the kids go to college.

Believe me, I've done this math. :)

On a completely unrelated note, check out the Canadian Express Entry system. I have lived in Toronto for a bit over three years now and I never worry about medical bankruptcy any more.
Most people I see using winrar have not paid for it. And they have to deal with the snag screen every time. I think it has to do with inertia.
The money, as always, is made by a combination of the machines which actually do all of the required production, and the treasury, which prints little game tickets you can use to make other people dance for you.
You’re right, the author isn’t just complaining about the exploding offer, but the high-pressure boiler room sales tactics. It just reeks of desperation, good for him for knowing his worth and walking away.
If someone is doing 60 technical interviews in 30 days:

1. When I'm hiring, I wish the resume sites have an indicator when a person is interviewing excessively or indiscriminately, so that my company doesn't waste our time.

2. In the rare situation that I've been interested in working at a particular company, I wish I knew better ways for my interest to stand out from the "shotgun approach" applicants.

I did see one interesting approach by a company that tackles both scenarios: they have a unique and hefty job-application packet requirement, before you even know whether they're interested at all, nor what positions are available. The packet looked like it would take multiple days of interpretation, focused effort, and soul-baring to put together. I suspect, when the company skims the packet from someone who took the hit to put it together and submit it -- besides what value they get from qualitative interpretation of the content of the application -- they can also pretty easily detect many half-hearted efforts by people doing things like the article author's "109+" applications (if those people apply at all). A downside of this particular proof-of-work approach is that the required upfront effort on a cold application for a nebulous opportunity probably is filtering out some people the company would otherwise like to work with.
This is not just in writing, but in any form of communication including presentations or public speaking.

Writing simply and learning how to present things in such a way that anyone can understand has probably been the most valuable skill for my career progression.

I have seen too many cases where technical/domain experts miss this and instead use words that only people who work in the same domain as them would understand. The result is that when they do a presentation at least half the people in the room have no idea what they are speaking about but are too polite to say anything.

I also live in a country where most of the population are not native english speakers and this has allowed me to understand that a lot of people think by using complicated language they sound smarter, which is the furthest possible thing from the truth. In one incident I actually had someone who liked to show everyone how smart he was ask me, if I can help him find a more complicated way/wording to say something in a presentation he was working on so he can sound smarter. My only assumption was that for him people not understanding acted as a giant ego boost. He was PhD, that was also lecturing at one of the local universities. I can only imagine that his students had absolutely no idea what he was talking about most of the time and I am sure he took great pride in it.

In university, back in Canada where I was born I had a similar experience when one of my math teachers started the year off by telling the entire class how he is very proud of his vocabulary. Needless to say on one of the tests he used a word that no one understood. After numerous students asked him the same question he finally got angry and announced to the entire class what the word meant.

Personally I encourage my team to do the following in every work presentation:
1. Pretend you are presenting to a friend or family member who has no idea about the subject matter
2. Any words that would be known by people who are either inexperienced or outside of your expertise should include a definition the first time you use it. It can be written or it can be verbal, but it needs to be there
Desktop. Laptop for working-from-home is called a DESKTOP.
"There is basically no argumentation happening here and most statements are just thrown out as truths."

If you read through Paul's previous essays, you may notice that he falls into this habit frequently.
Amazon stock price dropped over 90% in 18 months after March, 2000. There is no excuse for not doing basic valuation estimates, it can save you from these collapses. You can still love Amazon’s business on 2000, but not overpay for it, just as you can do same with Tesla today.

And the Fed is at zero percent. Name another period where zero percent rates ever existed, and how long did it last? When the money supply has grown 50%+ over the last year how are we avoiding inflation, and if inflation kicks up how are we avoiding higher interest rates?
... for small quantities, yes.

For large quantities, it is 3x, and actually less since there are no charges for ingress/egress.

Further questions/comments over email, please, since this is BBs HN thread and I don't want to butt in.
We are building something along these lines that the DARPA work sits on top of, so if you have a current need, do feel free to reach out (email is in profile).
That was before HN though! You have any idea how many eggplant emoji handles he’s sold since?
Example 1 was interesting. Who was it that was inflexible and may be difficult to work with? The interviewer that wanted to ask about another specific solution or the person who was interviewed who was not interested in another solution?
Wow. Would never have guessed that they sided with the Nazis. Does that make them anti-Semitic?
This is a trailer camp, not a chain link processing center.

Still not good, but not really the same thing.
Can duckduckgo or other search engines be customized to only return sites like this, HN, etc... I'm thinking of being able to set parameters like:

1. No tracking pixels/cookies

2. No javascript

3. Load in <1 second
That's so true! Not long ago, I wrote an Ansible playbook to install my open source software on a DigitalOcean VPS. I devoted so much time to learn Ansible as I had zero experience with it. I think I almost kept on working on that playbook for almost two months. Even after that, I was buggy.

One day, I just woke up and had an epiphany that a BASH script could do the same! On top of that, the end users would not have to install Ansible in order to run the playbook.
I don't know, but I think such feature would be way less valuable today.
For context, Austen Allred is the co-founder and CEO of Lambda School, so efficiency wins are going to be pretty valuable for him.

Also, as a CEO you are constantly thinking in terms of ROI. It doesn't matter how much software costs if it pays for itself several times over. This spills over into personal purchases too.

(BTW, big fan of what Lambda School is doing Austen.)
Even more absurd is that there are free and more functional alternatives:
https://github.com/leits/MeetingBar
> Seriously, how does anyone accept a job without knowing what the job is?

Well... I have had the opposite experience with the same effect too. The recruiters and team members had told me exactly what I will do, only to come in and discover they had exactly 0 idea what I will do, and that it's all different.

That was extremely disappointing (and moderately damaging).
This is great for desktop wallpapers as well.
I started reading "On Writing Well" by W.Zinsser (one of often recommended classics) lately.

I've only read first few chapters, but one of the core ideas is, apart from writing simply, to write concisely:

- If you can use one word instead of three to convey same idea, use one.

- Iterate on what you wrote, and ruthlessly eliminate words that don't add value.

It's illustrated with a real example where he crosses out a dozen of phrases from a short text: https://ibb.co/k62CkLR

It sounds extreme but I found this framework very useful e.g. when writing code comments, wiki docs, pull request info etc.
I doubt they care. I'd never hard of several of the "special substack successes". Who has time to go out searching the world for journalists who write things they like? I read newspapers in part because I don't want to search the world. I'm aware that no one is perfect. Just like I don't say cultivate the best people on twitter to follow. Who has so much time to waste on that? I'm sorry but all this comes across as people just searching for someone who tells them what they want to hear.
I feel that it's a choice because it's under our control what we do. We chose to believe, we chose to hate, to judge.
Believing everything FB puts in front of you in their feed is just lazy. We have to do better than that.
I have a tip for one-handed joining on a smartphone.

On my work iPhone I just open the calendar event and there's a little red telephone icon titled "Webex Meet". I click on that and the WebEx app just pops up and joins.
IceCube hat a precursor experiment called Amanda, at the same location
So do you think tobacco and alcohol should be made illegal?
Take a look at Zathura.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Iz4zdyRM4
If everyone tried to have Fuck-You Money, nobody would. Why? Paradox of Thrift. The only reason this person can have Fuck-You Money is because other people aren't frugal. One person's savings is another person's lost income.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_thrift
Same experience. Low level warm-body work is plentiful, but pays poorly and doesn't give good experience. Senior level work is in extremely high demand, but employers aren't willing to bring on engineers who only have experience with the latter. I've started shopping around for (and have had limited success with) 100-500 headcount companies who are willing to hire seniors on the greener side.
I'd be more inclined to use it if he doubled up on the domains, for example also providing "clownemoji.kz" as well as (actual clown emoji).kz (so if I were to tell someone my email is "mfkp at clown emoji dot kz", they could either use the clown emoji, or spell it out.
> because I don't want to join this crowd,

I didn't want to join this crowd and valued my freedom much more. I saved up some money in high COL location while paying rent and moved to a low COL (another continent) Not for everyone but is feasible for some.
How much would that affect the ability to recover a partially-corrupted stream, though? I feel like that's part of this too— where the last few seconds might have an increasing amount of the content scrambled, and encryption would render that completely unusable, whereas having it in plaintext would still permit some degree of inference about the fragments you do have.
Not from a single image. The reason for the set up is to obtain many images at different focal distances. That can be done by either moving the camera (of any kind) or by changing the focus for each image.
Routing the Technical Interview
Actually, inflation is not as simple as you have described it. There is a great NPR's Planet Money episode touching the waters of why the inflation does not behave as we think it is [1].

[1] https://www.npr.org/2021/01/20/958854717/modern-monetary-the...
I love the goal, and the idea to use Julia. I hope the emphasis on machine learning and AI is for the purposes of the press release, and it's not forced into the core of the project. If it turns out to be a good fit, great. If not, skip it.
true but its still used heavily on eg usenet binaries, and nzb tools run the 100s of unrar for you not unlike the gui
I searched the wiki page for that quote, since it doesn't mention chemical weapons, and it doesn't appear to exist on the page. Do you mind providing a reference? Weapons — and certain uses of weapons — can be "illegal" without being violations of chemical weapons bans.

I admit to being a bit suspicious that this quote claims anything about "chemical weapons." What the international community has criticized Hamas for, as per the wiki page, is indiscriminately firing rockets at civilian areas — which is illegal. They used white phosphorus in the rockets as well, but even prior to that, as per the wiki page they were filling rockets with TNT and explosive fertilizers, which use their chemical properties (of explosion) to kill people too. So if chemical properties of lighting on fire count as "chemical weapons" (they don't though), I think the chemical properties of TNT would suffice as well.

As per numerous [1] articles [2] and sources [3] the international community does not even consider Israel to have ever revealed owning chemical weapons (although it is suspected that they do); if white phosphorus was considered a chemical weapon, there would be no question: Israel has publicly used it, and publicly admitted to using and owning it [4]. Your claim is just incorrect.

Edit: even the Human Rights Watch article you linked disagrees with you! It criticizes Israel's use of white phosphorous because it violates international law on indiscriminate weapons use — the same laws Hamas broke with its rocket attacks — and specifically says that white phosphorus is not considered a chemical weapon. Quote:

White phosphorus is not considered a chemical weapon and is not banned per se. But like all weapons its use is restricted by the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law: it must be used in a manner that adequately distinguishes between combatants and civilians, and it may never target the latter.

I think this is the end of the discussion. Even the sources you have tried to provide contradict your claim that Israel used "chemical weapons" on Gazans.

1:https://theconversation.com/is-it-time-for-israel-to-reveal-...

2: https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/09/10/exclusive-does-israel-h...

3: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_and_weapons_of_mass_d...

4: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-22310544
Feynman's IQ was reported by himself after he took a school test. I have zero doubt that if a representative sample of the population took a scientifically controlled IQ test (and everyone participated honestly, to the fullest extent of their abilities) that Feynman would have placed near the top if not at the top of the distribution. His incredible memory, ability (and desire) to track lengthy chains of logic and patterns shine through all of his own writings and the writings about him.

"IQ score" is meaningless; "aggregate performance on tests concerning memory, logic, and patterns" is not. Do you really think that Feynman had a middling ability to perform the feats of mental acuity typically represented on an IQ test?

Perhaps I should make myself clear; rather than "IQ", I'll say "performance relative to other humans on arbitrary tests of memory, logic, and patterns". The raw scores on these tests don't mean much, and high performance on these tests does not guarantee success in physics; but prior success in physics almost certainly guarantees high performance on these tests.

Did you read the article? It is quite literally the story of a highly-motivated, creative, perseverant individual who did not have the innate ability to deal with the high-concept logical models presented in his PhD program that his advisor and other students did. Who cares about an "IQ score"? If you subjected him and the other students to a battery of mental processing tests, you'd find that his performance was worse relative to theirs.
Is there any compelling evidence that drug or alcohol prohibitions have done an effective job at protecting society?

What about the evidence that it has done the opposite, by artifically inflating the price of drugs thereby enriching criminals, gangs, and cartels?

In Mexico, we have seen how this can lead to the cartels becoming more powerful than the government.
During a recession, we eat the rich.
thanks for the info on dead links, will try to find and replace these with working demo url. sometimes the project author takes down the live demo url like in the case of fakebooker.
Intel Visa: Through the Rabbit Hole (2019) [pdf]
There's no way I'd pay $120/year for this. It's cute, but... hard to see how this is a YC-level startup.
Caught up? tar has had this for a few billion years at least:

$ tar cazf - file1 file2 | split -b 700m - out.tgz

7zip also natively supports splitting for as long as I can remember.
Your CI pipeline can build an AMI image with integrated Docker image, and a simple systemd script to start it on boot.

Deploy step would just be to upgrade AutoScalingGroup with the new AMI, in a rolling fashion with CloudFormation.

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However, in most cases I'd recommend going with ECS + Fargate, where you can just deploy your Docker image, and don't have to care about the underlying virtual machines.

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If you want to go K8s route, EKS + Fargate, (or if you want to go cheaper, EKS + EC2 Node Groups), are the best way in most cases, but you need to be aware that you will have to keep an eye on upgrading EKS versions, Helm charts, and other resources you add to the cluster.

I'd say Kubernetes is a good tool if you need it, but otherwise I'd start with something that doesn't require any maintenance on the ops side.
Yeah I think your last sentence nails the reverse issue here: The expectation from companies to put in excessive amounts of work which from all candidates when most all of them will get no return on that effort (other than Experience™).

My hope is that most of us are somewhere in the middle: Neither excessively applying to 60+ companies, nor being asked to do several days' worth of labor for a limited opportunity.
If you can use the open source alternative, why pay SO much for superpowered?

https://github.com/leits/MeetingBar