skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot to be said for slowing down, taking time off from the churn to just think. Reading the comments in here, this does not jive with the HN crowd.

Funnily, I have found slowing down, taking time off from the computer screen, thinking while gardening or doing the dishes or whatever, then putting down ideas on paper, makes me a better programmer, and lets me achieve much better technical solutions than if I were to spend my whole day inside of an IDE. YMMV I guess...
This is a place that starts the day by sounding a gong so they at least wear the cult-y-ness on their sleeve.

I think this is one of those things that is going to work for some and not work for others.

I quit very quickly after being subcontracted into Pivotal. I need quiet focussed periods of inner monologue to turn over problems. I can't talk and think.

Other people think by talking. I suppose artificially limiting the types of people who work for you is a choice of some kind
They were also probably buying 80% of the cars produced worldwide.
No, concienciousness is more indicative than IQ, then the rest of the factors follow IQ. Openness is highly correlated with IQ as well.
The article equates the holiday with "doing nothing". Just on top of head, animals still needed daily care. They needed food, milking, being taken outside, made mess that that day as much as normally. You would still have to take eggs away of chickens. And that is just stuff I vaguely remember my grandma talking about. The holiday, including Christmas, was not "do nothing whole day" affair.

People still needed food during holidays, which means food preparation that day also more work before holidays. Holidays themselves had to be prepared. The special holiday cloth had to be decorated and sewn. All that is work. Work/leisure trade off for organizing "bride ales" and such is an additional work. Just like the Christmas today are basically a lot of work, cleaning, cooking, gifts shopping and stress before celebration in exchange of two days of rest.

It is also odd to equate The ancien règime in France with like a lot of leisure, since it led to quite a lot of social issues - poverty, famine and such.
There is a bunch of item pools that has been developed for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits#Me...
It feels inhumane to me. Maybe for a little bit would be ok though.
" Bad things definitely happen, but it's more hopeful and humane than something like Malazan or Song of Ice and Fire."

Ok, I agree on the positive outlook in her books in general (and I have not read the other books you mentioned), but I remember, that some books ended in a very dark way, leaving also me in a very dark mood. I felt a lot with poor young Fitz and the books affected me a lot in my teenage years.

But I never finished them, the last I read was Fools Fate quite some time ago ...

"The final trilogy brings so many elements together, and the ending is shatteringly powerful."

So this sounds very interesting and after a short research, this means I have to continue with Dragon Keeper, Dragon Haven, City of Dragons, Blood of Dragons, Fool's Assassin, Fool's Quest and then finally Assassin's Fate.

Well, if I treat my own animal not too bad and my baby animals give me some rest - I might one day finish them, too.
That was FUD[1] spread by Chris Roberts who has been called out for it. He claimed he was able to issue climb commands from the IFE to the CAN bus.

Apart from this being technologically impossible, if he would have really done it he would have been charged for endangering an aircraft and prosecuted. (So the only explanation why he isn't in prison is that it didn't happen). The technical reason is Data diodes are common in aviation to separate IFE and CAN bus or position data. (e.g in the ARINC)

[1] https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/a-pen-testers-...
But then you need a lot of capital to start with.
Judging actions is like saying dooming children is good, or bad.
The series did deteriorate, but I liked book 4. It's a romance. I recommend it to all young fools, or those who can fondly remember being such.
Alexey Gusey had a fair criticism of Matthew Walker's 'Why We Sleep':

https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/

He sort goes a bit ad hominem on some parts but he has a lot of fair points.
> "most other developed" nations where waiting months for a specialist is accepted as normal

Which are these developed nations? Because to give my annecdotal perspective it isn't the case in Belgium or others that i know of (With minor exceptions like recently where orthodontists couldn't handle anyone but the most urgent due to covid measures and now have a backlog of patients.)

>and semiprivate rooms normally with no more than 2 people to a room, though 4 to a room has become more popular in some regions.

Every bedroom in every hospital i've been to has been double or single though i have no experience on that front in surrounding countries. Most are double with the single ones being for special cases or people willing to dish out or with great insurance.
> More seriously: its a video forum where people like Elon Musk can invite Vladimir Putin to have conversations... Isn't that neat.

That would actually be neat if it would actually be a conversation.

The problem is that people don’t seem to want to have conversations these days so it would turn out more like Jerry Springer and less like Larry King.
"And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
'Cause there's bugger-all down here on Earth! "

Monthy Python
I liked pairing. I was pairing for about three years, 09:30 to 17:00, with an hour for lunch.

It certainly is exhausting. It certainly produces better code. If you pair and rotate, then after a number cycles, everyone in the team knows the codebase.

There is something a bit weird about XP. It looks as if coders are being given control, and they are; but they manage themselves even more sternly than their management would have. That is, coders seem to demand more of themselves than even aggressive managers.

Everyone knowing the codebase is also a way for developers to shoot themselves in the foot; when everyone knows your job, it becomes easier for you to be replaced.

I'm not a master programmer - at best, I was a journeyman. I learned a lot from the people I paired with, about half of whom were better than me. I only paired with two guys that I found really difficult; one was a good programmer, but had quite severe asperger's. The other was a reckless, entitled idiot, and pairing with him amounted to trying to stop him writing any code.

I'm not familiar with those "power-phrases". And I never encountered power games. I guess we all had enough confidence in ourselves and our colleagues that we didn't feel we had to prove anything. We respected one-another. Well, I certainly respected (most of) the other team members.

In a disfunctional team, I guess pairing can only make things worse.

Regarding diluted accountability: I found the oppposite. At the morning SCRUM, you have to give an account of what you did yesterday. You can't make it up, because your pair is at the SCRUM too. And the evidence is in the commit log.

And I didn't find that productivity was low. I'd say that functionality was delivered at about 75% the velocity of solo work, but the code we delivered was much better quality, so maintenance and bug-fixing was massively reduced.

I was working with a team of rather good people; I imagine pairing might be a lot more tedious and unproductive if the majority of the team are dim, incompetent, socially maladapted, or psychopathic. But then the same applies to solo coding.

I don't know what a "Pivot" is.
Also, why would evolution select for an equilibrium? With so many parameters I would expect oscillation.
You don't want the "buy one get one free" to apply directly to the cart subtotal. You want to show the customer which entry is free (or discounted), so they can see that the rebate is applied correctly.

You probably want to check all 'rebate rules' attached to all products in the cart whenever one is added/removed. An active rebate will then modify the price of the cart item, and the sum method can be stupidly simple.
I worked for a couple of years on a company where we had a "pair-up all the time" when working and... We were very aware it wasn't possible to keep up like that 8h/day every single day. Most days we were very happy with 4 hours, really productive (and exhausting) days were around the 6 hours mark.

We made sure to take breaks every 45 min-1h30 (depending how well the session was going), those breaks could be from 10 minutes to an hour, it needed to make us feel refreshed, not talk to people if needed, etc.

I actually miss this setup a lot, it was much easier to not feel stuck, much better to have a peer available all the time to bounce ideas, clear assumptions, discover the codebase, etc., but I couldn't ever do it 8 hours/day.
"WW2 was won with British intelligence, American industry and Soviet blood" - unknown
It's not exactly "public" data, but I have a project to make data more accessible and transparent: https://rugpullindex.com
maybe there's a Maslow's hierarchy of hiring needs to be defined somewhere, so after money, benefits comes work/life balance and then at the top of the pyramid comes working on things I like, and finally respecting the company I work for?
Its very difficult to do, but possible. Requires outside help and a lot of dedication.

Factors that can help on a daily basis actually include routine sleep and diet as well. No carbohydrates in the morning, only fats and proteins.
We will all be monuments afterwards.
The posts listing a concrete model mentioned the EPYC 7571 which has a single thread passmark of 1934. I believe first gen EPYC had an IPC pretty close to Intel.

On the other hand, if I take the all core passmark result divided by cores (since you pay per-core), it's 26659/24 = 1110 vs 27445/32 = 857.

They seem close enough that it's not possible to predict which one is better without actually benchmarking on AWS, since it'll depend on the clock rate they're able to sustain in AWS's setup.

In any case, I don't see any significant cost savings potential for AMD on AWS, which was the point of my original post.
I think you're right, but considering there hasn't been any good open PCR machines (openPCR is functionally dead), this feels more like the early days of web development, where there are no good web frameworks or standards yet.
"We were Pivots, and one of the things that made us Pivots was that we paired."

Red flag for all kinds of weirdness if you're made to take on a company-based identity.
Story of young roland is... Too formulaic. Writing romance is definitely not king's forte.
It is very clearly depression.

I'm leery of the meds, however. They have a tendency to be highly addictive.

Also, the underlying cause might be something else; the depression might be a symptom instead of the root cause.

Chronic fatigue syndrome is a real thing. Inflammation, or perhaps aftereffects of some viral infection.

Or loneliness. We are social animals, the animal is supposed to be part of a group. Yet we've created this society which worships the idea of the individual.
So "the mission paid for in Doge" means that he hopes to use his announcements to pump the price enough to get the large return, right? (Let the price crash after)
Whether it is tricky depends on what platforms you care about.
Yeah, I can't help but think this is probably an oversight rather than anything else - there doesn't seem to be anything personally identifiable in the macOS or Windows hardware info, and both of these are larger platforms than Linux on Steam.
Yes: Their freedom to pollute the environment and to endanger other people's lives. Hey, there are laws against murder and robbery too. "How dare they take away my freedom to relieve others of their life and property!"

Perhaps it's time Americans stopped reacting like conditioned Pavlovian dogs to the mere word "freedom"? Not all "freedoms" are unequivocally good.
Concienciousness and Openness(creativity) can co exist, but they conflict with each other. Two classic historical examples are Picasso and I believe, Hitler.
I remember adding TinyCC to my C++ projects, so I could have some kind of a scripting language into a large C++ project that is fastidious to build.

I a way I'd rather use C than lua. I wish I could easily integrate python as a scripting language, but python is slow and its runtime is heavy. TinyCC, however, is very light.
Few points to add that I do.

1) check out bitwarden + aegis - both seem popular as another tools

2) Reinstall your linux desktop instead of upgrading once in a while ( remove worms). Make sure you have all updates regularly.

3) When you are developing be careful with libraries - for example pin your versioning in python in the event you get a bad repo

4) use adware blocker to block malware in firefox

5) with keepassxc use the extra file - for security - call it random.mp3 and do not keep it in the cloud even encrypted

6) keep your otp passwords separate

7) use u2f for your main email account - yuibkey or other cheap alternative.

8) explore ssh using yuikey

9) use personal firewall on laptop

10) Use drive encryption for your laptop - backups need to be all encrypted as well

11) Bonus - have separate email account only for password resets that is very hardened and you don't log in regularly. Maybe with 2 different 2 factor auth on it.

12) Bonus 2 - have separate phone number for 2 factor sms authentication that people can't know about - (voip or tosser phone)
Of course they aren't fixed! That's the point!!

They are dramatically lower than historical averages. Claiming that makes it hard to service seems counter intuitive!
> Sadly, in the last 10 years, I've barely read anything.

Try audiobooks. It's difficult for me at the moment to set aside time to curl up with a sheaf of paper bound together; but I continue to get my dose of long-form words when working out, washing dishes, mowing the lawn (and, before the pandemic, cycling to the office).
I once heard a story of how a report by historian turned into cannibalism report after bad translation. Apparently he quoted the phrase "they eat each other alive for food", while the true story was that farmers kill each other fighting for land and water.
What's the alternative with Gevent? Passing callbacks everywhere? Is that somehow better than async/await syntax?

Libraries will still have to be re-written and public interfaces will change. Might as well do it right, and not abandon the concept of functions having meaningful return values.
"The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. Some very powerful stories in there. The first book is pretty short so it is a good way to try it out. Though I think it hooks from the very start. "

I wasn't really hooked. I think it was a interesting read, but I got no motivation to read further. Might have been, because I read a note from King before, that he also did no knew yet, how the tower worked. And he just wrote freely to explore it, too.
So I expected the story to have even bigger holes in the plot than his ordinary books and trouble to get the story lines together in a consistent way in the end, leaving too many logic errors.

But maybe I should give the tower a second try one day.
>people who refused to use deodorant

What is it with people in our field that this is so commonplace? There are few things worse than a room full of IT people with the windows closed. "It's the smell" as Agent Smith said.
I'm assuming it's just a bunch of external EC2 instances but I wish they'd talked more about the hardware/infrastructure they used to run their load testing.
I generally think it's just vocal minority.
I might be subjected to survivors bias (I travel around SEA) but most programmers I meet, while older than me, tend to be quite healthy and happy!

I'm getting closer to the magic 30s and I'm honestly quite optimistic. Had some lower back issues (because of sitting too much) that I took care off with a bit of exercise and I find experimenting with diets fun and effective. Surely it can't all go down-hill in the next 20 years?

There's just so many interesting things to do these days; if for some reason I'm unable to climb mountains anymore I can easily migrate to a different hobbie - there's no reason to attach yourself so much to a single activity. Maybe it's a perception issue? Change isn't all that bad.
Hi, we have no plugin yet as we just started. we are in the payment industry for over 10 years but this is a new era of payments in Europe...
I'm an extrovert, I enjoy music, I don't really enjoy concerts.
I'm a bit late to shameless plugs party :-) but here goes – https://wardrobe.vlad.studio/ – my solution to the tab mess problem. It is somewhere between "I'll just keep all my tabs open" and "I organize my sessions carefully".
Public libraries deserve support.
I gladly pay for books, newspapers, magazines, movies.

But so far I’ve never paid for a newsletter or a podcast.
Folio: A customizable test framework to build your own test frameworks
streams are best used against data with an unknown size (potentially infinite) that isn’t necessarily all held in memory or cannot fit the memory limits.
Melinda Gates Was Meeting with Divorce Lawyers Since 2019 to End Marriage
The philanthropist had discussions with lawyers in October 2019 around when the Microsoft co-founder’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein became public
Yeah, I think that "what's the religion of Israel" - "Islamic" is indistinguishable from entry level trolling, and maybe given the short pause before saying it this guy was thinking "how do I get on the news but in a defensible way I can tell my friends yeah I was trolling bro" or maybe he's really stupid.

But as a stupidity test there must be some false positives in there - so the rule is, in funny TV segments never ascribe to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by maliciousness.

on edit: of course maliciousness used for wordplay purposes, but maybe should be replaced with mischievousness which nowadays is interpreted as meaning less than malicious.
The FAIR data idea is intended to help with this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAIR_data

It's a good idea. People are trying to do it. But it's work for someone and often that work isn't directly appreciated.

Having a start of don't waste the data in someone's filing cabinet or on a personal hard disk is a the biggest step.

The Australian Government also has https://data.gov.au/

Now the organisations that provide all that data just have to figure a good way to quantitively show the value in a realistic manner.
You start lifting to look better, to attract women. You keep lifting for yourself, to get these numbers up. Finally, you lift for no reason whatsoever, because you cannot imagine not doing it. Every one of these steps is great.
And in fact, pytest gives you hooks for these various kinds of value comparisons so that you can generate any error message that you want.
How we Built a Serverless Stonks Checker API with AWS for Wall Street Bets
also a great band
I think I've reread Malazan about ten times now, generally once a year, and each time I get new things out of it.

And what I love the most is that he planned ten books rather than needing to shoehorn in extra books after planning a trilogy.

I absolutely adore the huge cast of characters and the fact that you kinda need to pay attention to get the most out of it.
> and there is only one rule, that you have to achieve.... achievement is performance and excess.

and yet, this is what led to most, if not all human achievements and progress. The modern quality of life that most people have come to enjoy is off the backs of people who _are_ doing their utmost to achieve performance and excess (aka, earn more than their spending).

If everyone lived an idyllic, and idle life, we'd have much less modern life amenities and conveniences; stuff would be more expensive, and less wealth all round.
When I was younger I would systematically read all Linux man pages. I could give much more similar examples. That kind of excitement has vanished, but has been substituted with other things. I try to think longer term. What is limiting me? Is it algorithms? Is it statistics? Domain knowledge? It takes time, but the progress is there. And society is not going to reward you, because it rewards short term, the latest fad. But don't accept your limitations, plan long term.
Yeah, didn't have much energy left at that point.

Still very short: Swift improves on and really doubles down on the algorithmic parts. But that's not where the actual problems are [Stroustroup]:

“C with Classes was explicitly de- signed to allow better program organisation; computation was considered a problem solved by C”

Objective-C is also largely algorithmic, but flexible enough that you could create some decent architectural adapters. Building and using these architectural adapters is where the magic was. As an algorithmic languages it was at best mediocre. Swift not only doubles down on the algorithmics, and yes, it is better at those if you don't consider performance, but also tightens things up so creating those sorts of architectural adapters becomes harder if not impossible.

What Objective-S does is take a look at all those architectural adapters we're building using somewhat rickety metaprogramming and instead of forbidding that goes "hey, we seem to want and need to program with a combination of different architectural styles, let's make that possible using plain old programming, rather than fancy metaprogramming". And in order to make that possible with plain programming, the language has to naturally support different architectural styles.

And of course they really, really went in the wrong direction with the tooling.
Oh yes work/personal commingling is definitely common in my circles unfortunately.
The Tartars have even been incorporated into a new batshit-crazy conspiracy theory which is an Atlantis reboot but with more architecture: https://lossi36.com/2020/08/26/tartaria-an-empire-hidden-by-...
Highly recommend the history of English podcast, which goes deep into the topics https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/
Two people, TWO keyboards, one workstation (with a good monitor). You can't keep switching seats, or shuttling the keyboard back and forth. Remove as much unnecessary friction as possible. And assign someone on the team to be the tea-mug refiller for the day.

And management have to provide a workstation for each worker; you pair at a pairing workstation, but everyone needs their own machine for stuff like email, Slack, and reading the news over lunch.

Bring a notebook, and record the work you are doing with your pair. You will need that information for the next-morning's SCRUM.
It is possible to get around the cyclic properties of convolution via FFT by zero padding your array prior to transforming though.
The weapons seizure so big it covered the rear deck of a 567-foot US warship
You just can’t win. If you right now go out to hire the best candidates (on paper: degree, publications, experience etc) you will overwhelmingly hire white men-because of the usual biases. If you want to diversify, you necessarily have to hire people who look less good on traditional criteria.

I’m not saying it’s good or bad (I frankly don’t know), I’m sure marginalised groups have candidates much stronger than the CV suggests), I just can’t get wound up about both opposites of this dilemma at the same time.
Aggregate does the job just fine in this case. Multiple streams are not needed.

.Aggregate(new PriceAndRows(),
//here result is the PriceAndRows instance and next is a cart row.
(result,next) =>
{
result.Price+=next.Price;
result.Rows.Add(next);
return result;
})

I'm trying to think of a better use case where multiple collectors would be cleaner than LINQ but LINQ has a lot of tools in the toolbox, SelectMany, Aggregate, temporary anonymous types, etc.

However, even in the Java side, the example could be done with reduce alone, I think.