skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you mind elaborating on why all of these test cases doesn’t make you a better overall programmer?

I think this would be a great thing to help in coming up with requirements and writing code that doesn’t crash because of edge cases or malformed inputs?
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Sharing this with you, which was on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27319457
Sync for some reason hasn't been working for a decade.
It never gets fixed - very weird for a trillion dollar company.

Take a photo on you iPhone and it take days for i to show up in the photos app, it instantly shows up in iCloud accessed through the browser.

Same thing in various other directions, delete on web, and it takes days to disappear from other places. Makes zero sense.

Often if i just took some pictures i have to send them via airdrop instead of just opening Photos. Come on Apple!
I work less with a family. Having to watch the kid means I can't put in extra hours.
The article to which the title refers appears to describe the counterculture, as you consider it, accurately.
The definition of what a unikernel is needs to be narrowed down, a lot of these projects in the space (not all the ones listed above) have material differences that are not clear:

- some run only one language

- some require recompilation

- some essentially swap out libraries, others do something closer to dropping your already mostly static binary in a minimal disk image

- some build pid1 processes, others VMs images

Anyway, here are some additional entries in the space:

- https://ssrg-vt.github.io/hermitux/

- http://osv.io/

- https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit (more embedded/minimal VM than unikernel)

- https://nabla-containers.github.io/ (runs on Solo5)

I am going through using Linuxkit to build AMIs for cloud providers now from containers. I wouldn’t necessarily class linuxkit as a unikernel project because it doesn’t have the hallmark blurring of user and kernel space or kernel-as-a-library but you can customize the kernel so it’s an adjacent idea, and I think it’s the one most likely to be in actual use at non-hyperscalers.

[EDIT] Added OSv since it's on one of the linked lists but is a pretty large active player in the field.
There are very rapidly diminishing returns to that. As soon as you add just one more floor, you lose a lot of space to stairs. Then you need a stronger foundation, pipes have to push water up farther so those systems need to be reinforced and the walls need to be stronger. Add a third floor and the costs go up a lot more. Once you are into the really big buildings, say skyscrapers, it's not unusual that 40% of the area is taken up by elevators, HVAC systems, supporting infrastructure.

Looking at industry data, e.g. https://ccorpinsights.com/costs-per-square-foot/ we can see that construction costs per livable square foot go from $300 for single story to $600 for midrise to $800 for highrise.
Most problems that programmers are trying to "solve" seem rather banal to me. They aren't inherently difficult in a way that generics really does much to help. Honestly I think abstraction is often the route that smart - or wanting to be perceived as smart - programmers take to keep themselves entertained. Ultimately it is overkill and wastes time in my opinion.
cough ever heard of "phossy jaw" which effected match girls in the 19th century

And plenty of kids and women worked in cotton mills with horrendous accident rates when compared to today.

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire is another example here.
we try to send something as close as just keystrokes in games too, to prevent cheating among other reasons. sometimes we have to send actual state though
this is some fun shit, would watch a tv show like that lmao
I'll be honest, the mortgage tax deduction doesn't deduct that much either as a proportion of income if you make a multi six figures income, much like the standard deduction.

For example, if you have a $1mm house, your interest on a $800k mortgage @ %2.7 APR is a ~$30k/yr interest deduction, which is in the same range as the standard deduction, representing around $15k/yr paid in less taxes. For those kinds of people, it's easier to just make $30k/yr more per year too. These people often live in states with an income tax, so they can't deduct their property tax anymore either, since it gets dwarfed by their state tax bill.

On a dollar aggregate, they of course get the most benefit from the deduction, because most middle & lower income americans don't pay a lot of taxes to get much of an aggregated benefit. But as a percentage of their own income, its not actually that much!
I don't really understand what you are suggesting. If everyone would stop using mainstream frameworks, the result would be endless bespoke ones. As long as programmers want to simplify, innovate and accelerate their work, they're going to leverage and implement abstractions if there is room for it.

I have worked on plenty of projects using their own, homegrown bespoke frameworks, and it ain't pretty. On top of that it is absolutely wasted knowledge that won't translate to any other code base. If you want to argue that it's all incompetence, I guess that's fine. To me it's about familiarity.
That's because men wok in high risk industries.
The only thing proven is slightly milder winters. Agriculture output has done nothing but increase every year. Forest fires on the decline.
We've been getting warmer since the last ice age for sure, more so the last forty years but not at a dire rate. Sea level rise has varied between 1.5 and 3mm per year since useful records started, again, that rate of change is easy to handle. Humans have and will adapt with very little hardship. The panicked masses fed by headline grabbing media and climate 'modeling' that fails basic back testing are just as bad as the outright deniers.
W^X – Write xor Execute – Never Both – executable space protection
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Does it run on 386SX with 2MB of RAM?

Apart from lack of coo-processor (which I understand), I do not understand why nearly ALL modern operating systems(Including Linux since 2.4 I believe) are hard-coding the kernel to not boot under 4/8 MB of RAM, even if it could in theory.

Why there is hard-limit of 4, 8, 64 MB of RAM in many kernels of various operating systems?

Is it fail safe "just to be safe" or because there some internal routines, vector tables that REALLY requires 4MB ram to work?[memory partitions/blocks ?!]

I asked the same question here:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26979499 [Why Linux requires 4MB of RAM no matter of kernel size?]
Nice, didn't know about this.

For some background, I've only become a real user of Twitter this year (I've had an account for ages, but never used it much). Currently there is one topic of interest to me I'd like to follow the community closely. Independently (before reading this article), I've also found the timeline useless as well. Instead I follow a handful to a dozen of people by turning on notification for them in addition to follow. Every day I go to notification tab in my Twitter app, tap on the one for tweets from people I enabled notification for. This is a chronologically sorted list of tweets by these people. This has been the only way Twitter has been useful to me.

It sounds like Lists is basically like that but allows me to follow multiple topics like that. It does however seem to require a different app than the official Twitter app, so I'll have to play around with it some more if there is another topic I care to follow on Twitter about.
I wish I would have read these comments before I visited their site. I had no idea what they actually DID and thought I was missing out on something blatantly obvious. Very amusing thought to frame it as a satire. Why is this communication pitfall so common for software offerings?
That might well be another symptom of overwork. If we worked less through our productive years and invested more time in hobbies and friendships, we would be less likely to feel like we had no purpose after retiring.
It's an open world game, but let's assume you mean local map.

In that case, let's assume that each player waves (/wave). I've done this before with >50 players and took a screenshot and we were all in sync. It's also possible to have 50 players in the same area fighting in real time, e.g., in a battleground. This was back in 2010 when I played ... So I am not sure if it's any fabrication at all, otherwise everyone would die, etc? Given players have health, take damage, get healed, etc.
I've only been to Japan once but aggressively cheerful is definitely a mode of business there. It feels even more forced and paper thin than what you would get in the US and I can't help but feel it boxes you into playing a certain character as customer too.

It's not every business though, to be sure.
I pulled a company back from the brink, they paid everybody happy. Six months later they want to re-engage me, I made it clear beforehand that I would just save their bacon and after that they'd have to find new people to run the place but they point blank insisted that I had to take the job 'because now I had a responsibility towards them' and 'I owed them'. I laughed at them, put my lunch fork down and walked out.

Nobody owns me, you can ask politely and I just might say no, or yes. But to ask a question when you believe there is only one possible answer that is valid is not a proper strategy. The main reason for refusing is that the CEO of that company was a jerk, and I just didn't want to be exposed to his antics again, chances are you'd build something up on one side and on the other side he'd be tearing it down. The good news is they ended up finding someone long term and as far as I know he's still there and they're still in business.

Another one was a customer that started to treat me as their in house IT guy whereas I was doing tech DD for a living, and always arguing about every invoice that I was too expensive. Customers that don't value your contribution you can do without so I fired them ;)
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What is the use-case for SerenityOS?
> kafka-ish topic queues

Initially I was very confused as to why you would want kafkaesque features added.
Not official, I gather from:

https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/blob/master/Documenta...

> Whilst it is possible to run Serenity on physical x86-compatible hardware, it is not yet ready to be used by non-technical users who aren't prepared to report bugs or assist with its development. For this reason, there are currently no pre-built install images so a bare-metal installation requires that you build an installation image from source.

Ed: there's also the FAQ:
https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/blob/master/Documenta...

> Where are the ISO images?

> There are no ISO images. This project does not cater to non-technical users.

And I also found the reason for it being 32 bit, which feels rather quaint..

> Why is the system 32-bit?

> That's what Andreas was most familiar with when starting out. There's some interest in supporting 64-bit systems and that will eventually happen, but it's just another feature.
Using content from a wide variety of asset packs is a problem because it means the resulting game will be visually and thematically incoherent. You can see a lot of this already in their demo videos -- there's visible conflicts between their realistic and cartoony content, detailed vs. lo-fi, shiny vs. gritty, fantasy vs. science fiction... this all makes for a real hodgepodge of content in the game, and it's going to be difficult for them to resolve in the future in a game that's meant to rely heavily on user-generated content.
Fair enough. I might still disagree about the shape of the discourse (which things are emphasized too much or too little). I think interruptions are not as inevitable as people make them out to be.

However, I do agree that it is good to be prepared to handle interruptions well.

I'll be very interested to hear what you have to say on the subject of minimizing cognitive load.
I’m sure they believe they can do it. You underestimate the confidence of privileged youth.
There is a selection bias there: Disney chooses naturally smiley people to put there as a public face. You're not seeing a random or representative sample, you're seeing outliers. The specific people you see in this role behave that way normally and not as a performance. That doesn't indicate anything about any broader population or culture.
How about The Mountain of Beverly Hills worth $1Bn and The One (the 105,000 square foot home / airport terminal) which also started at $1Bn??
Yeah, I get a vibe of too nice , too formal from certain scenarios with employees from Asian and Middle Eastern countries. Colleagues in Singapore and Japan come to mind for me and also my interactions with Air Emirates employees. It stresses me out, and I wonder how much pressure they must be under to put on such a cloyingly polite affectation.
They’re not for the user they’re for the FBI and CIA
I find people in cultures that are not constantly smiling and saying over-the-too cheerful things to have a higher dynamic range of displayed emotion.

When everything is "awesome" and "amazing" and worthy of a grin, then nothing is.

Despite being born and raised in the midwest US, I get along better with slavic people than most from the west coast.
Pledge() and Unveil() in SerenityOS got me obsessed with using those syscalls in my software and moving my server to OpenBSD. Who knows, maybe soon I'll be able to host them on Serenity!
The only use-case I've found for which the public newsfeed feature is, in fact, a feature, is gambling pools where not everyone necessarily knows everyone else well enough to have contact info. Keeps the ledger viewable by everyone, keeps everyone honest (they just have to be careful not to mention that it's for gambling, in the memo).

Seeing it used that way was a real "a ha!" moment. I'd love to know what Venmo's activity looks like around the time that people are putting together or paying out office sports brackets and such.
A 'top 20%' earner can put money in equities and gain some leverage but that's it.

A top 5% can have access to some special opportunities, be an insider at a company or have stock options.

A top 0.5% will be CEOs, Bankers, and connected individuals (through family/school networks).

Top 0.1% gets access to giant deals via government, international industrial or political relationships, access to major financing (i.e. SPACs).

As you can see in the charts from the article the 'jump' from each of the tranches is oddly about the same.
Fun experiment, try asking "how are you" a second time. A lot of Americans will respond instinctively, without wondering why you asked again.
Honestly, when the first instinct is to resort to violence and armed conflict, I am content with mocking.
To whom? 500 acres can earn a modest living for a family of four.
Signal is also guilty of the huge-and-useless database of old messages. Turning your chat history into text is not easy.
So they're on safety, explainability, steerability and so-forth. It seems like you could call these "holistic" properties and they have always been hard to add to add to a system - indeed, it seems like in a conventionally constructed system they tend to have to be engineered-in from the start.

The success of deep learning might be something of a curse - it's go enough success that creating a safe system seems to automatically be modifying a neural net to be safe despite it not having the "engineered from the start" quality.
If you’re saving cash you’re legitimately losing money.

The market is so wild that it doesn’t even make sense to make a down payment. Just take the PMI.
This is an unreasonable standard to apply to any cause of death.

Take cocaine overdose, causing a heart attack. Might have had a heart murmur, asthma, obesity, and it's always possible that without those conditions the patient would have survived. Cause of death was still a cocaine overdose.

There's a separate question, which shouldn't be conflated, whether hospitals were over-reporting COVID deaths because of financial incentives. It's possible there was some of that, but while you can move numbers around a bit, you can't hide death itself, and the US had substantially more deaths last year than would have been expected had the pandemic not come along.

Worth noting that by that standard, overwork doesn't cause death in any case. People die of strokes, heart attack, disease, but they don't die of overwork: or smoking, for that matter.

The study of what contributes to mortality has little to do with the study of what causes it, is what I'm saying. COVID is assuredly a case of the latter.
> As someone who tweets, I’d like some sort of kafka-ish topic queues: I would post tweets about JS in the JS queue, and tweets about Italian food in that other queue

Very much this. As it is, if you've been followed mostly for JS, starting to tweet about Italian food feels like standing up at a JS meetup and telling people about Italian. I'd tweet more, on a greater diversity of interests, if that didn't mean hosing people. I'd also like to have tagging of "value vs smalltalk", to distinguish a JS thing worth standing up and bending 50 people's ears on, vs only worth an aside in an after-meetup bar-table JS discussion among local friends.

How might the market be altered to avoid network effects plus we've-thankfully-found-a-viable-niche conservatism from stagnating societal infrastructure progress?
Lab leak was wrongly censored, why should YouTube censor ivermectin for Covid?
The same tactics once used to thwart discussion of the lab leak hypothesis are now being used to stifle discussion of Ivermectin. Morally I'm obligated to address it. While I don't recognize
@twitter's authority on the matter, I do recognize its power. Anything to say,
@jack

https://twitter.com/BretWeinstein/status/1398093137562669064

Youtube policy says not to share videos that:
"that recommends use of Ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19
Claims that Ivermectin or are effective treatments for COVID-19"
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9891785?hl=en

The probability that an ineffective treatment generated results as positive as the 56 studies to date is estimated to be 1 in 2 trillion (p = 0.00000000000041). https://ivmmeta.com/

Why can't this science be discussed publicly?
I don't mean to be pessimistic , but I wonder how you're going to be anything but reactionary to apples changes to the database. I've written a similar (much simpler) version of what you're proposing to sell- the database queries are hysterical.

I've been thinking about using the accessibility I framework to ETL the messages into Kinesis to facilitate event driven architecture. 'archived' Messages and attachments are stored as bsob.

Hell, I've even experimented with some goofy stuff, like FaceTime to VOIP- asterisk is just so flexible
I mean he's basically advocating to use your best judgement but I find far too often test that is too WET (Wantonly Expanded Test).

Test that are DRY increases the confidence that the test tests the correct things by holding everything else constant.

When the tests break, no one wants to scroll through 500 lines of test code looking at every detail to find out what "variant" the test is and if the problem is in the test because of a fatfinger, or the problem is in the code being tested.
A piece of feedback: it would be nice to know what the price is on your site. You say "We make money by charging you a monthly subscription," but there's no pricing.
If you hover over the command it will give a brief summary. The selection of commands and patterns does change slightly for each "level".
I have a sedentary high stress job (not as much as a deployment). I figure I won't live to see 50.
I modified this script to pull my entire db into a text file.

https://github.com/michael-danello/iMessageWrapped

EDIT: It is absurd Apple doesn't provide better message organization and UX/UI.
I've built an iMessage chat.db reader as well. To me the most astounding thing is that chat.db is unencrypted sqlite. Anyone who can see your home folder can read all your private chats or upload the chat.db to be read somewhere else.

It's impressively insecure.
You don't need everyone to have a middle class job if working class jobs pay well enough that children don't grow up in poverty.
Risk. Taking risk, usually with leverage, is almost always required.

I predicted Bitcoin could hit $50k back before it was worth ten bucks. But I was off a failed startup at the time, so I only acquired 120 bitcoins, partially from some mild day trading to bring my dollar cost average to four bucks. I could have gone deep into debt. Risking the family money, but you know what? I didn't. Why? Because I didn't want my parents to lose $100k if I was wrong, and even though I thought it could 5000x, I was only about 20% sure. I'm fully out of crypto now, and I made a good return, but you know what? $300m? I could have been a billionaire, which I don't think would have been good for my soul, but still.

The system that allocates capital selects people that don't make the same decision. Because so many of the gains of modern technology are exponential, the system rewards people that take risk even if there are downside consequences to other people and even if the likelihood of any one person taking such risks succeeding is low.
I'm just amused that the article ends with the quote: "the challenge is substantial and the ramifications are industry-wide." Heheh. RAMifications.
Wow, the speaker story is hilarious. He was running blasting music so people were following him in the street because they liked his music, so he created a kickstarted for this ugly ass speaker that you can strap to yourself. Wow.
I would like to see sources of the models first, similarly to how implementations of RSA could be found on Github prior finding papers describing principles of RSA and verified by everyone interested in the topic of cryptography. If there's a paper claiming that the models consistently predict observable climate numbers in the future, the models have to be published openly in full, as it would be a pre-requisite for verifying reproducibility of the results.
Ah, a classic: Mo' money, mo' problems.
You can use lists from the standard interface, just not quite as conveniently. Also, Tweetdeck is an official Twitter client. I think it used to be a third party app, and they bought it.
Also, if VCs want to throw money at him, well why not. Who cares.
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Isn't part of it the difference in size? How many phone batteries does it take to equal one car battery?
I used to work at a startup, but I left 3 months ago. I just heard that yesterday my old boss had to be taken away in an ambulance, collapsing from complications caused by stress.
I could imagine Steve Wozniak offering to use surnames only as a joke - because that wouldn't work either.
C seems to scale very well for the Linux kernel?
Our of curiosity - to the game devs out there:

The article suggests this game isn’t possible, as described, even with an infinite budget. Is this true?

If the game were 2 dimensional (either top down or side scroller) would it be possible?
I have not used it for a very long time, so I can't comment to how well it works.

That said, this is it:
https://gist.github.com/brianv0/35f36a32366a2c34be8d

(You need an unencrypted backup directory to run it over)

Note: It looks like the flat directory structure of the backup is now 256 dirs prefixed by first two characters of file name. I'm not sure, but a small change to the name "sha_file" may be needed to just path.join that with the first two chars of the sha.
The mortgage deduction on it’s own isn’t such a big deal but it suddenly makes a lot of things tax deductible which aren’t if you take the standard deduction.

The tax code is complex largely to enable such seemingly subtle interactions.