skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use dc all the time, which the article denounced as even worse. dc gets more usage on my machines than most other commands, except for perhaps ls, cd, and vi. Whenever I need to make quick calculations on my computer, it is much more efficient for me to open up a terminal window and type dc than it is for me to use a GUI calculator or to grab my HP-48 graphing calculator. I suppose I could use a Python or Common Lisp REPL, but I love Reverse Polish Notation: less typing!
The profits may be capped but US healthcare is still insanely expensive compared to other first world nations. Articles on the internet seem to say that the US was 4-5 times as expensive in 2019 - but more reliable research from 2010[1] puts that number closer to 2 times as expensive. The issue is that the US's broken healthcare system just costs a lot more per patient than anything else - and a lot of companies take cuts of every dollar that goes into that cost while, in Canada, a lot of types of organizations: PBMs, Payers, Reimbursers - are all just the government, and it doesn't do that work for free, but it's a lot more efficient.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3024588/
Ironically - neither `uname -r` or `cat /proc/version` return an architecture on my laptop, but `arch` works just fine.

$ uname -r
5.8.0-50-generic

$ arch
x86_64

uname -m works though:

$ uname -m
x86_64
It took a while to find that this is a Cortex ARM CPU.
Depends on the business though, right?

In a high-value, low-margin business, reducing chargeback losses to almost zero might be worth the cost of a double-digit conversion drop. In other circumstances, the same numbers can be catastrophic.
> HAMMER's ability to snapshot an arbitrary directory is still something I deeply deeply deeply respect & wish btrfs or zfs had.

AFAICT, this is doable in btrfs by creating a new volume and then snapshotting that.
For a very long time, HP Service Manager didn't really have a functioning web client at all. Customizing and distributing the thick client to end users was just part of the fun that came with managing that platform.

As competitors like ServiceNow came onto the scene, they tried to create a better web client, but at least when I was still close to that product, they never quite got there. My two final HPSM projects were:

1) Building a mobile / blackberry compatible web client from scratch (HTTP/SOAP) so management types could see/approve change requests on the go

2) Migrating to ServiceNow :P

It would not surprise me at all if they had some kind of ActiveX thing going on with their web client...
I'm just going by what I've seen in my career, as well as the words that you're using to describe the process, what others in this thread are saying (on both sides of the issue), plus the countless articles I've read over the years.

The best I can tell you is there is a level of performance where the cost of working in what is essentially an all-day meeting, every day, forever, is far greater than what gains might be obtained by having two people involved to get over whatever issues are better served by being in the pair. It's much, much more effective for me (and most of the people I've ever worked with) to just reach out as-needed for consulting.

The only time I do anything like what you're describing is in a learning context, either as teacher or student. In that case, one of us is sacrificing our time to work with the other person, but it is just that, a sacrifice, in order to serve the long term goals of the group.
FT: Universities in the UK and Europe have a startup problem
Has Microsoft been doing a lot of embracing, extending, and extinguishing lately? I guess Typescript kind of embraces and extends Javascript, but I think every frontend engineer will be doing a happy dance if they manage to extinguish it. Not quite 1990s Microsoft's approach.
OTRS is not really a competitor. It's a crusty open source solution whose only advantage over ServiceNow is that it doesn't cost upwards of $1000/user.

It's not really in the same ballpark. The decision was certainly financially motivated.
Right, and that's a perfectly reasonable choice to make. But that's not what this thread is about. It's about being paid at a similar level as your pay, but being expected to work 60+ hour weeks for several months out of the year.

No thanks.

But hey, each to their own, I guess. If a game dev wants to work more and get paid less because they love building games, that's their choice.
"a few years ago he might have been complaining about the glut of owls and foxes wearing monocles"

foxes with monocles? When was that a fashion? In what context? I am most curious.
While the topic is crypto currency, are there any for cryptography?
> Apparently, pair programming places no value on flow.

There are certainly times where flow can be difficult. However I'll offer a few other thoughts.

Pairing pairs well with TDD. You write a test, I make it pass, I write a test, you make it pass. This is an extremely easy way to get into flow with a pair which doesn't require much communication beyond the code being written.

I often find that the boundary between "flow" and "too deeply invested in current thought process" is pretty blurry. Pairing (and TDD for that matter) allow for an opportunity to _slow down_. Of course, I'm sure there are some masters for whom this is absolutely, totally, a waste of time. For the majority of engineers, I think they can find benefit (though they may find more negatives in other ways).

> I just don't see how it's effective

I'll give you a list of personal reasons that come to mind for why I find pairing effective (this goes beyond "deliver immediate value"). Of course, that doesn't mean they apply to everyone, or even to a majority, or can't be achieved in other ways:

- I am less easily distracted because I am in flow with someone else

- I am forced to consider my thoughts more carefully because I need to explain them to someone else

- I am confident that someone else can continue this work if I am unavailable

- I enjoy the camaraderie and friendships built with my pairs

- I quickly learn new tools, tricks and ideas from others

- I am able to practice my teaching or coaching skills

- I am able to quickly get valuable feedback on ideas as I don't need to bring someone up to speed

- I take more breaks throughout the day

- I am able to provide and receive significantly more interpersonal feedback due to the high touch nature

- I'm likely to discover something I've missed with a different set of eyes

- I'm likely to take fewer shortcuts, or to be called up on them

- I've become a more effective verbal communicator in the rest of my life

Of course, I can also give you a list of reasons why I don't like pairing, to even it out!
If your company's reach is limitless, you need to appeal to everyone. If your company's offering is wide and disparate, you need a visual brand that offers cohesion. If you want to fit in and belong, you need to employ the same visual vocabulary as everyone else.

This trend is a symptom of the system business currently operates within.
Think you might be pleasantly surprised... concepts like “extreme ownership” (care about everything in your stack), “decentralised command” (push decision making to those doing the work), “cover and move” (help each other) actually translate pretty well.

The book is mostly about dealing with people rather than about engineering process, and I think the people aspects of a coding team and any other high performance team probably have a lot in common.
There's a big difference between reading at night or engaging with culture and the ephemeral content of social media newsfeeds.

Yes, it's important for children to engage with culture, to read, to explore music but this shouldn't be used as an argument to justify everything that can be grouped in under 'connectedness'. It's interesting you put reading there first because that is actually a solitary activity. Today it's arguably much more important to teach kids how to engage with their own minds and how to spend time alone and build out their own personality and views than hooking them into Instagram feeds. Which is not social in any genuine sense of the word.
There are no clear lines between summer and winter but sandals stop being appropriate footwear at some point nevertheless.
go ahead and count them if you work at robinhood or stripe

you could also just lie if it's that important to you
This doesn’t change the fact that Samsung always immediately clones whatever Apple does
Could you please not post flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments to HN? It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If there are so many at the junior/intermediate level, shouldn't they be advancing and the senior devs be a larger population? Plus if folks are really sticking to the industry out of passion, they have more of a chance to make it over time.

I've heard about game dev's surplus of workers for at least 10 years for almost identical reasons in most of this thread, and that would make nearly anyone a senior for sure, so that problem should have been "fixed" by now.
Want to filter logs at collection time? Well, too bad - your use case is impure and you should just fix everything immediately, even that over which you have no direct control.

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6432
Oh I’m most certainly a stupid person on the Internet. I have no problem accepting that whatsoever.

To your point though, I don’t think it’s accurate to suggest everyone is as consistently wrong as everyone else when there are groups of people suggesting that the entire concept of science itself is propaganda.

I will read what you’ve linked though, as it seems genuinely really interesting.
I just ignore those since dev.to is blocked on the network here at work...
"circulation refers to just physical cash and coins" so it's not a useful metric. The supply of US dollars is vastly higher than crypto.
In the tiny bubble of radius ~130 light-years that we've managed to send radio waves to, maybe. The radius of the observable universe is about 46.5 billion light-years, who knows what else is in there. The ratio between these two numbers is about 1 in 358 million.

Saying that we're alone because we haven't heard back after emitting radio waves for only 130 years is like being at a point in space, looking half an inch around us (1.3 cm) in all directions and declaring that Occam's Razor says there's probably nothing within a radius of 2,900 miles (4,650 km).

Does that seem reasonable? :-)
> Also, I'm miffed about how hard it is to mitmproxy apps on iOS to see what they are sending to servers.

Did you ever try with Fiddler? You can allow local connections through your PC and proxy through, download a Fiddler root cert, and it should work.
How about Pi-KVM (https://pikvm.org/)? Secure, flexible and extendible.
Is it still "PR" when the person writing it has genuinely drank the cool-aid? My point wasn't about China releasing a bullshit study as propaganda. My point was the lab hypothesis reeks of similar "motivated science" but we can't see it in our own cultural context as easily as we can see it in others.

Anyway we could look at the "cosmic dice rate" for all the labs we do know about. But the funny thing about that is we can ask and reasonably answer the question about low-probability but ultra-high risk research without ever needing to investigate this particular outbreaks origin story. Conversely, even if tomorrow some one dug up smoking gun evidence that it evolved naturally in the wild and had nothing to do with any lab, the question about lab risks and future pandemics would still be worth asking. Could you imagine anyone saying "well I used to be in favor of reviewing our risk factors, but now that I know coronavirus was all natural I no longer give any shits about the safety risks of this research."?

If you care about future pandemics, there's a million better ways to spend your energy than trying to figure out if there was or wasn't a coverup in a (formerly) obscure lab in a (formerly) obscure city over a year ago in a country that isn't known for transparency. Anyone who actively contributes to the "debate" is being counterproductive. In my view, the main practical use of the lab origin theory is as an inadvertent shibboleth to identify who's hooked on tribalism / motivated reasoning / spurious logic.

>The truth absent political tribalism is the thing that can persuade people.

This sounds like the sort of thing I would have said before "post-factual" entered our lexicon. Behind every cynic is a disappointed idealist.
'Folk naivete’ definitely seemed to be a cliche style employed to disarm the consumer thinking of themselves as 'individual'.
Hence why I said 0.0.0.0 as a root DNS created and operated by EU
Underrated movie. I just rewatched it last week and it was much more well done than I remember. Maybe because I'm watching as an adult, not a teen.
I mean, you can have more than one copy of the website. Maybe a government can send one satellite-destroying missile, but probably not thousands of them.

Think about how many people have the Linux kernel Git repo cloned on their workstation. It would be essentially impossible for any government to destroy all copies.
> There's a lot to suggest that Sesame Street is not the harmless quirky kids' show it's made out to be.

If there's anything to suggest it, it's not in this article. The author seems to be angry that a children's television program was not designed as a vehicle for encouraging socialist revolution.
Maybe off topic, but I appreciate the information, that's pretty surprising to me. The numbers do seem to check out, and once you actually say it makes sense.

Thanks :)
Truly the year of desktop Linux is soon here!
Not a chance. That is fascist and evil to deprive people of social interaction by government decree.
Dc is something I use almost daily.
I wonder what kind of ethics are involved in this kind of study. The recent linux kernel/UMN affair [1] has made me more aware of what can or should be considered human research.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/855479/
Bedtime? Where in the world is it bedtime at this moment?

This policy is only workable if your country uses a little-used language and takes up only a single timezone.

Dumb idea. Unnecessary complexity in a website.
Because as synthetic benchmark numbers go they are pretty pedestrian. 256 CPU threads? Red Hat claims to support up to 8192 CPU threads in RHEL8. Same for any of the other specific number they call out Linux's synthetic benchmark numbers are much higher.
Levels of Customer Awareness
I think it's more ultitarian than that. Companies have traditionally got what they need by using these conventions.

Hopefully that will change, because it sure is boring.
Looks great, nice job.
Tesla's Autopilot may not have been available at time of driverless Texas crash
It was a cutesy art trend. This is the first artist I noticed doing it:

https://berkleyillustration.com/

It spread from there and became ubiquitous, at least in the Pacific Northwest.
Aside from being instructed to sleep, which is a little juvenile, there’s something charming about the idea of a website being “closed” for the day. It has the feel of a living, dynamic thing. Definitely not suitable for all types of websites but it’s a neat idea for personal a page. I don’t think I’d ever use a third-party to implement something like this either.

I like the clean margins and typography there.
Yes, I was mostly just being nice to OpenDoc.
In particular: arch, uname, and bc are all examples of commands I actually use still today.

They're a bit more useless if you're running Ubuntu/rhel/fedora on standard desktop hardware, but unix is everywhere. And even on desktop in popular distros on standard architectures, removing arch and uname from distros would probably break a lot of install scripts.
I don't feel dumber, I feel sad that this showed up on Red Hat's web site.

I use bc multiple times every day, and uname -a occasionally.
I don't know about that. I remember thinking "the marines worship a psychic vampire" after reading one of the 40k rulebooks. You can get your grimdark on pretty hard with just those. Which makes sense as the game is the main product, not the fluff. There'd be no point in hiding all the good stuff in fiction that I suspect most players don't read anyway.

Edit: on the matter of satire I don't absolutely disagree with you. I don't think the Astartes are presented as heroic good guys, but I also don't find lots of satirical intent in the fluff. What it's always reminded me of is UK comic books of the '90s (I think) like 2000AD with Judge Dredd and all that, so more cynicism and black humour than satire. And also a bit of the Mad Max kind of heavy metal aesthetic sensibilities (yes, I know) found in various science fiction graphical works of art I've caught sight of here and there. There was an entire comics magazine called Heavy Metal that had nothing to do with the music genre but which I think was pretty much 100% the 40K aesthetic.

And the fluff has changed quite a bit over the years, as have the minis. I've seen older genestealers and they look nothing like today's slick plastic models.

And then there was a whole race called the Squats, i.e. space Dwarfs, that got lost in space and time (their entire line was discontinued). I think -but that was before my time- the reason was that they didn't fit in with the grimdark theme.

Last thing: in 40K I had Tau. I loved the models, especially the Kroot; exactly because they were such a departure from the grimdark Astartes and their enemies and fri... other enemies. I distinctly remember reading that they were supposed to be like the foil of all the other races, straight up good guys who genuinely fought for the Common Good, honest to gods. But the people who make those decisions in GW decided they didn't like that and gave them a dark secret, although at the point I stopped buying the rulebooks it was only hinted at and never really made clear. I had an idea of modifying some Tau with Chaos and Tyranid bits but I never got around to it. Anyway yeah, they were supposed to be the actual good guys, but that got zilched so that everyone could be bad.
How is that possible when Apple's clone is based on whatever Samsung already announced/releaseD?
Rokinon and Samyang are the same company. For some of their lenses, you can actually buy the same lens with either branding.
Does anyone know the margins on these lenses? I'm guessing theyre low volume high markup. I get that they're precision instruments but a few grand for some polished glass seems high.
I disagree. I came to the SV in 1999. The valley was all "corporate" already and that didn't stop engineers from being engineers. If anything, during last two decades, the overall SV became less "corporate" with "new" generation of startups becoming more and more successful.
Kindle let's you highlight or comment on any section of the book. Highlights are somewhat shared across readers in the sense that I will sometimes see a passage that the Kindle says has been highlighted "315 times" or some such number.

The popular highlight annotations always make me wonder how so many highlights came to collide on a single phrase. Do some people highlight a passage because it's been highlighted by many other people?
Yeah that one was really weird. I mean I personally usually start python or some other repl when I need to calculate something but I have reached for bc/dc sometimes aswell.
And what's with the jab against RPN? The author should probably try some FORTH to learn how nice and minimal code in postfix notation can be. I'm guessing he doesn't like LISP either...
I use bc all the time. Just me I guess.
It doesn't follow that everyone is as consistently wrong as everyone else, and I'm not saying it does. One needs to be extra careful about deriving consequences from this phenomenon too quickly, because it's so hard to see it in the first place. More precisely, it's hard to see in oneself—but to only see it in others is not to see it at all.

I think we should all practice simply seeing it for a while (I'm tempted to say 20 years might be a good minimum), and then maybe we'll be in a position to accurately derive consequences in a way that doesn't just re-establish the original self-deception.

p.s. I took out this bit of my comment above: "Or, if you prefer, we're all crazy/stupid in this way." because after reading your comment I realized it was too baity. Mentioning it that here because I don't want to deprive your post of that context.
That, or: extraordinary claims require extraordinary empathy.

If the story is horrible, you've got to understand what in that is so desirable for the person to believe. Why do they cling to that particular narrative? Something about it, works, for them.

I think there's a lot of people out there absolutely terrified and right on the edge of un-survival. They are genuinely in continuous, ongoing danger, and need a narrative that will give them a target for their terror, one that could maybe be attacked and fought back against.

It is not terribly difficult to take panicked people and persuade them to run away from the exits, or attack the doctors, or otherwise direct their energy and panic towards some goal. The reason to do that is not arbitrary, rather it is to gain power through controlling those people, and it's always worked very well.

You take away that power and control not by arguing with the angry, panicky people, but by persistently removing the threats that generate their panic. The worst enemy of an ousted demagogue is a boring, reasonably trustworthy rival that does things to remedy the material distress of the panicky and angry people. You don't have to argue them into submission, you defuse them by making them comfortable, and that's why we see desperate attempts to maintain the panic and terror.
This is really interesting, and sad. Thanks.

> simplifies solving the crime to a matter of using the exploit and merely observing for gaps in opsec

By this logic, could one get away with a "crime" indefinitely given good enough (perfect?) opsec?
Marketplace Liquidity: A Marketplace's Existential Threat
This is sarcasm right? Hydrogen isn't a source of energy its a storage mechanism that has to be produced using fossil fuels or electricity, and you don't get more energy out of it than it takes to produce it.
I really, really dislike the 'for your own good' impetus that seems to be a common current design trend.

We're already dealing with information-density loss and the Fisher-Pricification of the GUI, and maybe this is the next step in overwrought 'we know what you want to do better than you'.

I have no ire for the creator of this.
But respect boundaries, people. You are not your user's parents.
Is there a specific listing for Dashboard Engineer?
One million people saw my dumbest tweet
Android is a hellscape of proprietary drivers but desktop Linux is basically down to one: Nvidia. It stands out more because it's the last holdout.
Underrated comment.

It's even worse when you consider that the engines are generally already made, you only need developers to do what you could almost call glorified scripting compared to engine development.

I think Unity and Unreal probably have to pay their devs a reasonable salary. But having devs work in Unity or Unreal to produce a game is not really all that hard. That's kind of the point of Unity and Unreal.
Why do they still make Sesame Street episodes? There's 51 seasons of content, but the audience is realistically only going to spend a few years of their lives watching it. Kids these days should probably get a "best of" selection of episodes that aren't ridiculously out of date. Otherwise, most of it is evergreen.
I thought I saw these before.

Getting s trial deal with Royal Marines is a good get.
I think I'm missing some understanding. Does this include companies like Netskope that inject themselves into a systems root trust chain to MITM TLS communication?
I saw the comments but read the "article" anyway. I use 4/5 of those commands. How to downvote a post?