skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also read Cal Newport and am pursuing the ability to perform deep work. In the meantime, I notice that the marginal return of deep work in a big enough company is questionable, especially for high-level ICs. A high-level IC spends most of the time in discussion and meetings, and people expect such person to make quick decisions or to assert influence within a single meeting. Therefore, the most influential ICs are those who have strong intuition and strong communication skills. Deep work can still pay off, but one needs to go really deep on both big pictures and on technical depth. I mean Wernher von Braun deep or Jeff Dean deep, which very few people possess. Maybe this is not about deep work, but about how challenging it is to be an IC.
If true, I hate that story. Think of the better art assets that were needlessly left behind. How is it that said block of memory had never been identified by any profiling?
You can also combine file system snapshots to get versioning which would allow you to pull the db file out of the latest snapshot (right after taking it) and send it somewhere
That doesn't replace all the PKIX bits from OpenSSL.
A handful of services automatically show diffs. reddit only really deletes stuff, it doesn't care about changing them.
Request to register business in Indigenous language denied by B.C. government
writing react apps in a proper way is hard, very hard. plenty of companies out there big and small can't do it. once you've a professional react dev, you easily recognize the react apps due to the subtle bugs. makes me miss my old team, where our big react app was actually performant.
Micro-hubs are the future of office working
I think the parent does make a good point that it is getting harder to keep your hands on your own ephemera, especially in usable/meaningful forms (i.e. I'd say a GDPR dump of context-free comments isn't that meaningful).

The example that comes to mind personally is chat logs: I have a fairly complete record of IRC conversations. It's not like I read them daily, but it is often nice to be able to refer back to, especially if I'm shooting the shit with friends or something and we can't remember who was actually the best at AoEII LAN. These logs were produced by my client(s) by default.

That same friend group later migrated to Skype. I have no Skype logs at all, and there's a several-year gap in chat history before we ended up back on IRC. Could I have come up with some kind of logging solution? Probably, but I didn't, and now I'm sad about that and wish that the Skype client had been more aligned with my interests as a user, but I guess that's what I get for using proprietary software in the first place.

So yes, sure, you can technically screenshot everything if you try hard enough, but the location/accessibility of digital ephemera has definitely moved away from end-users, toward corporations, as centralization advanced and clients regressed from user-agents to informers.
There's a difference between "The server is not responding right now. We're loosing customers.", and "Low resources during product development". Actually the latter may be a case of enforcing premature optimization.
So no, it's not the same idea.
Interesting idea, like append the video to itself but reversed for a clean loop? I like this idea :)
This is why I insist on data and root partitions on all the machines I administer. Go ahead and kill the data partition, at least the root partition will keep the system up and running.
I do not smoke and I cannot stand cigarette smoke, but pipe smells so good. Not sure how it's smoke smells on clothes though.
Yeah i was being flippant. That said, it really is eye opening looking at hit lists. Also, i have deep respect for country, but even that genre is heavily influenced by trap and dance music these days. Wild.
Wouldn't this mean you should look somewhere else where your quality of life would be much better? I mean I know people like to be in this place or that, but life often isn't fair. I like some nothern cities but it literally wrecks my skin (cold weather in place like the north east and upper midwest). Dries and cracks it and makes me miserable and gross. I never found a solution so I moved to the sun belt and have lived in various cities here for the past 20 years, I would rather live in the northeast but it's not possible with the weather there 4 months or so out of the year.
Maybe I'm just remembering poorly, but Wave seemed super buggy and laggy to me at the time.
AFAIU all the buzz is about good manners.
If you announce smth with pomp, it's good to not forget about those who has contributed to the achievements
Thanks. This is actually a really good suggestion I can try out.

Edit:- btw, SMS isn't effective anymore. Nobody uses SMS now anywhere I've traveled. It's either Whatsapp or Telegram (in the UK mostly).
Reminds of this David Crawshaw (CTO at Tailscale) presentation on full-text search with SQLite which probably requires 10 lines or less: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/RqubKSF3wig
That's where the services for the homeless are. Why bother walking all over the city when the drop-in shelter is right there with your social housing waitlist ticket?
I was an outer-circle member of the community of people who did the Google Reader shutdown protest in DC in 2011: https://dcist.com/story/11/10/26/click-click-google-reader-p...

It really did create a community atmosphere that I've only seen at cocktail/dinner parties, where everyone knows someone but you meet new friends-of-friends and maybe become friends yourselves.
No but the logfile writers are usually running as root AFAIK. And this is what tends to fill up the disk.
You cannot communicate over a distance faster than the speed of light even using quantum phenomenon.
I used to feel similar about a city I lived in for quite a time. In winter it was super depressing. Imagine communist architecture everywhere, short winter days, often foggy.
I got maniac about zen meditation stuff and I decided that I will try to be aware to surroundings to the best I can when I walk and the change was mindblowing. I really started to appreciate the walks in what once was a very depressing landscape, the picture got much more clear and vivid. So much stuff happenning, I enjoyed "tuning to the beat of the city". I also started to notice whatever little pieces of nature were left, like birds signing or naked trees here and there (in winter). Suddenly a walk in a busy city centre could be just as refreshing as a walk in the forest. Maybe even more refreshing (to me). I have noticed that in peaceful places I have more tendency to get stuck in my head, while in busy places, it's easier to focus outward and observe.
Alright well how do I hand the marker to a coworker so they can append to my image? Do I need to set up a projector or something?

Forget the fact that I don't have the space for a whiteboard in my home to begin with...
I've used LVM for this purpose plenty of times. lvm2 at least has not prevented me from extending a full disk. lvm + reserved blocks + a small spacer file are all decent options, even better when used together.
The actions of... pouring ammonia in his tenants' beds, throwing their stuff onto the street in trash bags, cutting holes in their apartments' floors while they were inside, cutting through floor joists under their apartments and physically attacking the building supervisor when he complained, fleeing the country to avoid arrest and sticking his own mother with a half-million-dollar bail forfeit as a result...

... no, no, there's no reason to hold actions like that over someone's head. It's entirely praiseworthy and I'm sure it's really easy to cooperate with such an upstanding character.
Big fan of SQLite here (thank you!), and very interested in Fossil as well.

I never understood why people want to change commit history in Git, so for me it won't be an issue to not have that in Fossil.

Having said that, one point of feedback on the "lying" part: I personally interpret that type of negative phrasing as pointing at a different tool and saying: "Look! They're doing it wrong!"

You make amazing tools, man! There is no need to speak negatively about the behaviour of other players if you're a fantastic player yourself. I'd personally just mention: "Git allows you to change history. Fossil is never going to allow changing history, because that could cause issues X, Y and Z. If you do need to change history for some reason, by all means try something like Git." Keep it factual, and get right back to pointing out what makes Fossil great.

I love how SQLite doesn't downplay any alternatives, it just says: "Look at me. I'm awesome. But if you need to do <unsupported thing>, you probably don't want to use me."
It would be great if the Fossil website had that same awesome attitude.

TL/DR: Random guy X that never created a successful product gave marketing advice to the person who created one of the most successful products of all time. Random guy X is an idiot.
I am very excited to see if this helps. I use GitHub Actions constantly for very large builds with very large logs and I find their log browser infuriatingly useless... like: actively harmful :(. It punished me so much and so often and so consistently for having the gall to think that logs would be useful that I finally became demoralized and gave up trying to use their interface: I just wait until the builds complete (as they sadly refuse to do this during a build) and ask for the "raw log" so I can get the experience they seem to believe I couldn't possibly want: a ridiculously long text file downloaded into my browser, which allows me to use built-in browser features to scroll through and search it :(. I will, I guess, cautiously try to venture into using the logs again to see if they managed to fix things.
Very cool. One feature that seems to be missing is an option to set various text bits to bold.
> Also, if your waking hours are say 0800-2300 then you can easily work late and move your leisure time to the morning without changing your sleep schedule.

Not necessarily. Early birds like me find it difficult to work in the evenings, despite being technically awake. I find it way easier to get up early than to stay up late, which can actually feel like torture sometimes.

As for the split, I've read it's more like 10% for each extreme with the majority in the middle, though I can't find a reference, and I suspect it's very hard to actually know.
The Book Thief and Educated made realise how important is to have the freedom to learn and how improving yourself is never a waste of time.
Crucial Conversations improved my communication skills by 10x.
In terms of tech I really enjoyed The Unicorn Project. Made me realise how awesome our industry is and how easy you can make your work count.
I recently created a web application for curating one big shared public knowledge base.[1] Its contribution system is conceptually based on GitHub's pull requests and StackOverflow reputation.

It's focused on tips for learning resources, so it seems ideal for your cheat sheets. Currently, creating lists of SDKs, tools, etc. is not very well supported, but we are working on it. And I already use it for these things, see for example my list of Flutter libraries.[2]

I guess it's also kind-of similar to Trove, but it is more focused on creating one curated catalog of knowledge rather than personal recommendation lists (although that is also possible now via personal study profiles, e.g., [3]).

[1] https://knowledgepicker.com

[2] https://knowledgepicker.com/t/177/flutter

[3] https://knowledgepicker.com/u/jjones
Marine F-35B Fighter Jet Accidentally Shot Itself with Its Own Gun Pod
And go thermonuclear if you have to.
The efficacy rates are not comparable. My understanding is that, compared to the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, J&J was tested on a more diverse population with respect to age and location, and also tested later, so that it faced more variants of the virus.

Get whatever vaccine you can.

(Disclaimer: I got the J&J vaccine two weeks ago.)
I have my phone in do not disturb mode 24/7. The only exceptions are "VIP" contacts from close family...everything else can wait until next morning 8am when I'm checking personal stuff first thing or until around 8pm when I have my evening distraction session.

So. If I do get an audible notification, it's almost always urgent, bad news.
"nearly"

I was trying to be kind and not say all of the Democratic party and all of the left media. Which is the truth.

How could it be a failure if millions of people per day are being vaccinated today because of what his administration did while the entire Democratic party and news media were focusing on trying to destroy the man, his family and his business. C'mon.

Biden is trying to take credit for this. He didn't do shit. Manufacturing and distributing a complex at this scale isn't something you turn on in a week or two months. It takes a VERY long time. Having done it in almost exactly a year is an absolutely incredible accomplishment and the only one who can take credit for it is Trump. We can be critical of what he did wrong --and there's a long list-- but we also have to be honest and truthful about everything else.
I think the biggest issue can be distilled to "lack of concurrent network access". You start getting into a lot hairy management problems with distributed file systems/copying files around.

Imo part of that is just web applications tend to be not very efficient when compared to something like unix cli utilities so to get performance you end up with potentially massive amounts of horizontal scaling

On the other hand, the lack of performance /usually/ buys you higher productivity so you can make product changes faster (you let a GC manage the memory to save time coding but introduce GC overhead)
What is the benefit of keeping memory empty?
What does IC mean here?
Thanks for trying it out! The ability to upload your own screenshots / images is on our roadmap. For now, you can still include images hosted elsewhere on the web through standard Markdown syntax.

For example, one trove that does this: https://trove.to/wes/trove/interesting-wikipedia-articles
s2n is a good rewrite of just the TLS part.

I concur with everything you wrote.

Re: ASN.1, you really want a compiler for it, not hand-rolled codecs -- I don't care how good your library and macros for hand-rolling ASN.1 DER codecs might be, it's going to yield very difficult to maintain code full of bugs.

ASN.1 is not the biggest part. Certificate validation, revocation status checking, and everything to do with that, and all the many certificate extensions and subject alternative name forms, and... all of that requires a very large body of code, and there's no formal specifications for any of it.
Too poo is also human. That teacher was a massive jerk, but walking around reeking because it is human is not much better.
I agree that there are a lot more women who feel threatened than men, perhaps for good reason.
Yeah that's exactly the reaction I get from those people when you tell them that maybe they don't need that new expensive sofa to replace "that one that is already four year old":
"Why u want me to live in a cave? "
So I guess there are only two ways of living : Either live in a cave, or have two big SUV because you know why moving 1500 kg of plastic and metal anywhere I go when I can move 2500 kg?
I wish I could insert a Louie Ck video snippet saying "I deserve a golden watch"
Not quite the same situation as described in the article, but it is still possible for the kernel to swap memory in and out of disk even without a swap file/partition. Memory used for storing executable binaries is allowed to be moved out of memory, as a copy of it lives on disk. This means you can still encounter memory thrashing (and thus system unresponsiveness) under low memory situations.
or is it? could take some nice performance gains/stability gains for SaaS apps with heavy visualization components.

JS isn't known for being great at encapsulation either, there could be some benefits for exceptionally large front-ends.
Slick tool! Follow-up question: What limits a tool like this to VSCode? Is theming (across editors) standardized/similar enough that the same color variables could be exported to get the same theme in different editors?
An architect once told me that he always plans for a solid gold block hidden away in the cellar.

Once the project invariably goes over budget, he drops the plans for the gold and frees up extra funds.

Edit: I think it was a large marble slab. Same thing.
Job #1 Once You Hit Initial Traction – Stop Owning Anything
This feature is one of those things that proves that the technology industry is bullshit.

There's an entire industry, probably worth hundreds of billions of dollars, built around trying to detect insecure code and force it to be less insecure. Meanwhile, this one old language that nobody uses has a single option you enable to be [more] secure by default. And I'll bet you a billion dollars the reason other languages don't have it is "the design doesn't look very clean".
I think a phone is a huge step forward in fulfilling the bicycle for the mind analogy. The phone makes it really easy to Google things, take notes, send messages, pictures, etc. If you don't like notifications you can reconfigure them.
This question [0] in the TeX Stack Exchange has beautiful typesetted examples, like this LaTeX facsimile of (one page of) a Bible de Genève of 1564 [1], and Byrne's Elements of Euclyd from 1847 [2]

[0] https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1319/777

[1] https://github.com/raphink/geneve_1564/releases/download/201...

[2] https://github.com/jemmybutton/byrne-euclid/releases/downloa...
>But even if that is true, it doesn't mean that there can't be a precise definition of how the feeling of consciousness arises in humans,

You could say this about "American" as well. Trying to pinpoint the formal definition of "American" is likely possible but also completely pointless because it's an arbitrary made up concept. Just like consciousness.

As a user of the word. You don't even know what it means. All you know is that when you look at something, your brain automatically tells you what is conscious and what is not. Your brain does the same thing with "American." Attempting to formalize this category is pointless.

>what properties of our minds make us think that we have this property and that it is important.

The property in your mind that does this is the same property that effects the word "American." It is the recursive nature of consciousness along with the ambiguity of the category that imprints the word with a false sense of importance.

The reality is, consciousness is simply a line of demarcation between calculator and computer or bug and human. Somewhere there is a boundary where we classify something as conscious or not conscious. What's actually going on is a gradient, and the hard boundary is made up by humans. There is little fundamental importance where you place this boundary at all.

For example are humans more conscious than a bug? Is a bug more conscious than a Machine learning AI? Is a machine learning AI more conscious than a calculator. There is very little importance in how you answer these questions. If an AI is more conscious than a calculator... so what? You arbitrarily defined your boundary to be there. You can arbitrarily define it to be anywhere you want, technically.

The search for what "consciousness" means is essentially just looking for where our brains have collectively chosen to draw this line of demarcation. It is searching for an arbitrary property that is essentially made up by the human condition.
what kind of car uses $20 in gas driving 4 miles? even if you're idling most of the time (which actually uses surprisingly little gas compared to moving)
Removing Negative News Articles from the Web
> When I speak of objective readability, I mean that the full readability of a text consists of a subjective component, caused by developed habits and skills, which we talked about above, and an objective one.

> Thus, the subjective component is associated with some private habits that can be changed, and the objective – with the general psychophysical features of a human's vision, which we do not assume is possible to change. Therefore, when talking about optimizing the text of a program, it makes sense to talk only about the objective component of readability, and therefore further in this article, the term readability will always refer to this component of it.

Although this separation may be necessary to set the scope for the rest of the text, a lot of which is about cognitive processes that are "wired" into the human visual system and cannot be changed by learning, the above somehow not ringing true for me as a generality and detracts from the text.

Why it isn't ringing true has less to do with the subjective/objective separation per se and more with the author's relegation of learned skills into the realm of what is "subjective".

When people acquire skills, and that makes some tasks easier compared to untrained people, that difference categorically is not subjectivity. It is not subjectivity because we can reproduce the training effect in person after person, and even measure it with some kind of numbers that we can plot on nice graphs and see things like that similar "learning curves" are consistently reproduced in different people.

When we optimize we cannot discount this "subjectivity". We must assume it. We must assume it because the purpose of optimizing the activity, such as reading code, should be geared toward someone who will be doing it a lot. Someone doing the activity a lot will learn something, whether we like it or not, and that learning will reduce their difficulty.

To use a code optimization analogy, modeling the human as static is like generating code based on the machine not having branch prediction or caching.

I think the subjectivity we should discount is in how we measure readability. If we, say, ask subjects to rate the readability from 1 (very poor) to 5 (very good), that is subjectivity we might not want.

Lastly, if you're going to tell the reader you won't be discussing subjective aspects, then it behooves you to subsequently refrain from wording like "the program text often looks like one poorly structured massive chunk" and "placing the last open brace at the end of the line looks quite natural, and the resulting space only adds a small accent, compensating for the small visual mass of the last block".
I know that's the case, but I looked a bunch of Rust codebases that I had lying around (exa, Firecracker, netlink, Servo), and I see a ton of `unwrap`s, too; not just in test code.
Mars mission: NASA prepares its Ingenuity helicopter for first flight
"NASA has announced the earliest date it hopes its Ingenuity Mars helicopter will be able to make its first attempt at a controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet.

Ingenuity has been attached to the underside of the Perseverance rover since it landed on the planet on 18 February.

On Sunday the rover removed the shield which had protected the helicopter during landing and it is now in transit to an area designated as an 'airfield' where Ingenuity will attempt its first flight."
SoftRAM Hoodwinked the World
> People tapping me on the shoulder to ask a question while I'm wearing headphones? Before they can speak, I politely say that I'm in the middle of something I need to finish and ask if it's urgent. It's rarely urgent, but people quickly learn that it doesn't pay off to interrupt me.

You can often shorten this to, “can you come back in fifteen minutes?” This is less likely for them to try to pick your brain about whether their problem is urgent or not.

Of course it depends on who is asking. If the head of IT is standing there, and you don’t usually hear from IT, then it could be something bad. If your intern looks like they just set the building on fire, also might be important.
A good reason to partition swap before /boot.
Types of ML-Driven Products, and How to Build Them