skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My step son is getting into programming and he told me about a console app he wrote where he stored the data in a flat file. I suggested he look into storing it in json format.

For me, the biggest benefit of a degree is more to show you what you don't know in pretty broad strokes. It's up to you to investigate deeper either on the street or with a more specific curriculum.

Broadening the possibilities of knowledge is pretty big. I've known of several otherwise great self-taught developers who didn't know much about database design because they just never really ran across it.
It's very unclear. As someone in tech that's the first thing I wanted to know. There was mention of their version of Notes being EOL. Maybe just upgrading to a new version of Notes?
They seem to be forever trailing far behind Microsoft's system, though. What version are they targetting now, 2003R2? Windows 7?

It would be very interesting to see what happened, though, if a bunch of companies / government organizations would pool their resources to fund ReactOS development, if only to put the screws on Microsoft when negotiating new licenses. Like IBM mainframe customers putting Amdahl swag on their desks when negotiating with IBM salespeople to get a discount.

If they achieve 100% compatibility, there could also be a significant market for a Windows-compatible system that will support device drivers and software written for old versions of Windows. In my last job, we had a number of customers still running Windows XP on SCADA boxes, because they needed to support some piece of hardware whose vendor had either gone out of business or stopped supporting that hardware, so XP was the last version of Windows with drivers available to support that hardware.

One customer in particular still ran MS-DOS on a few machines for similar reasons - the vendor of their SCADA system had gone out of business ... a long time ago, it seems, and they were very reluctant to migrate to something more recent. It was really weird, because as I remember, some of these machines did not run DOS, but some ancient version of QNX running several virtual DOS machines for visualization stuff.

(Okay, I'm rambling. I should lay off the coffee.)
There are two different statements one can make: "don't make friends at revolve one's life around work" vs. "don't only make friends at and revolve one's life around work". I'm making the latter statement. Edit to add: I think you're also making the latter statement, so I don't think we disagree.
> If you get sick, that's your fault. I'm not wearing a mask again for you.

WTF kind of insane selfishness is this? The vaccine still isn't approved for children, and you won't... wear a tiny piece of cloth or paper over your mouth for a few minutes when shopping? It's such an utterly trivial inconvenience.

I seriously cannot wrap my head around why people act like wearing a mask is such a problem. Are you equally outraged that you're asked to wear shoes and a shirt when entering a store?
The tax code is complex because people do not want to pay tax, and so anything that is ambiguous or underspecified becomes a loophole, the closing of which generally adds complexity to the code.
Got my second dose 10 days ago, AZ first, Pfizer second. I have neither magnetic skin nor better 5G reception. In fact, all I got was a sore arm--didn't even feel bad enough to take a day off work. I have to say, I'm deeply disappointed...
Assuming this is an unusual spike, I think it's good people are self sorting into companies based on whether or not they are embracing WFH. It seems clear from data and the conversation here that there are several different camps of people. If every company went fully remote, wouldn't we just end up with the inverse of the old situation, where there will be some % of people miserably working from home while wishing to be in an office?

Isn't the ideal scenario that we have a mix of companies with different models, so people can choose what works for them?
IME 10% turnover is basically background noise of the unavoidable "my spouse got a better job and its right next to the kid's college" sort. That's practically a near-unicorn-level employer with lots of money and negligible amount of dysfunction.
Verizon shows off 5G-connected robots at Barcelona conference
my work is my life is my art, are you sure you are not at least partly your work, I find it an odd idea that you can detach work from 'life' as if it exists in a separate continuum.
I'm extroverted, actually. We have several slack channels for each of the departments and hierarchies of our org. People say good morning. You can "go down the hall" and ask a question. We still do pair programming. In short, not much has changed from when we were in the office.

Once allowed we'll be going out to lunch again. I always made it a point to go out to lunch with people - people I work with now, people I've worked with in the past, and people I've met through meetups. I like going out at a minimum every other week and prefer once a week.

Maybe it's company culture? We're in multiple states and have multiple locations within the same state - and I need to work with people from all these different locations and so we've solved this "working together remotely" problems ages ago. It's an important part of our corporate culture. WFH just solved the problem of working in a big, noisy area.
A hypotheses formed over beers but never tested outside the bar is like most other beer-centered conversation: of limited value.

Science communication, similarly, can start anywhere, but what you're describing has a very tenuous relationship with people talking on YouTube.

I'm all for people doing science having as much flexibility as they want, up to the point where what they're doing is no longer science. People forming ex post facto hypotheses based on carefully-chosen data, or bypassing any peer-review in favor of YouTube communication, that should raise serious alarms bells for anyone in the sciences.
We have active clusters that have been continually updated since 1.13 or so.

Of course it is the cluster of Theseus since every single bit of compute has been entirely replaced :)
> is there research supporting better outcomes?

Sadly it's all empirical.
Not sure if you’re sarcastic or not, but my company (enterprise size) has migrated from self hosted Exchange + network file shares + GitLab + Jenkins + Artifactory + 1000 other things to Office 365 + Azure and it’s been great.

Probably took a lot more effort than what I notice as an end user…but I do get the impression that Microsoft is pretty good in enterprise productivity…
Asshole Driven Development
Are You Still There?
> I simply pointed out that no one has perfect information. What you read about China might be a mix of many true and false (maybe exaggerated) information.

Unless you are drawing an equivalency between the CCP censored and created information on one hand, and the New York Times and Jonathan Spence on the other, I don't see what the point is.

'No information is perfect'? A similar claim is, 'no composer writes flawless music', but that tells us nothing about anything; it fails even to distinguish between Bach and me.
England opens up a narrow quarantine exemption for business travelers
Meltano is a open source platform for automating ELT pipelines.
I wasn't talking about IBM to be clear. It shouldn't be too hard to connect the dots :) Corporations are morbidly fascinating!
Physics-based RC toy cars are the latest user-made thing in VRChat
Yes, I have the equivalent of a masters degree, and my family is middle-class, but supportive and financially sound, which I think is fairly typical on HN.

I also correlate skill with familial wealth, but more weakly than with degrees. It is clearly easier to learn some skill if you live comfortably. Not that long ago, many families couldn't afford a computer, try learning programming without a computer. If you are very motivated, you can do a lot, I have a lot of respect for those who do, but again, they are the exception, not the rule. I mean, the rich have personal tutors, the poor have local drug dealers, you do you think is more likely to end up the most qualified for a job in a reputable company? The worst part is that the rich may also end up better at finding drugs...
(maybe off topic; these questions are highly subjective)
I wanted to get your opinion on this situation.
In the group I work in, almost all the high impact projects are assigned to foreign educated coworkers partly due to their faster execution pace.
Do you think foreign educated engineers in your group/company execute at a faster pace than engineers educated in the US?
I've wondered if the highly competitive educational paths foreign educated coworkers have had to take is a "filter" so those who eventually "make it" to the US are a very unique subset.
Basically, do you think there are issues (for non-foreign educated engineers) with project assignment and performance ranking because of this at your company?
My high school had one they left abandoned in an unused science classroom. Yours truly found many excuses for hanging out in there. When they found out I was actually using it, they left me alone.

This one was standalone, so a later model. Also the screen was bluish-white as opposed to the orange ones that I see photos of. All of the software was on floppies and much of it of the educational/industrial ilk. How to Not Kill Yourself With Chemicals, and So, You're a Sociopath. That sort of thing.

It was awesome.
A reviewer in my team is fond of changing some of the code in the PR and running the tests. The expectation is that if the code is changed randomly a test should always fail. This helps catch untested code paths.

It’s somewhat similar to the practice of automated code fuzzing, only manual and scoped to changes in a particular PR.
How are you going to prove it was the AI that generated the GPL licensed function ad verbatim from another project, rather than you just opening that project and copying the function yourself?
I personally feel quite comfortable working on something and pinging a peer if I've having an issue figuring out a good way to do something or I want to vet the approach.

then they don't need to spend all afternoon watching me get tea and pick my nose and we still get to have the interesting discussions.
If it is public, its no longer your code. Its ai training material.
It wasn't just the '80s. Things persisted into the mid '90s as well.

- Pirate FTP sites were in plain sight with folders named with unprintable ASCII characters
- My college-provided Telnet client for Windows included a backdoor FTP server with a plaintext user name and easily brute-forced password (unsalted hash that turned out to be a birthday of a school admin)
- Admins had to resolve our network issues by connecting to network via modem, from our computers. Of course terminal program had keylogging enabled...
- Open SMTP relay was widespread and everywhere. Spoofing and forging was as easy as a little Telnet and HELO
I second this. My current job is the first place I've worked where the convention is to use NamedTuples for most things I've seen dicts used for on past projects and I quite like the pattern. It both makes the code more readable and avoids a number of subtle bugs that can crop up.
Ah, I confused this a bit with another remote thread. My intended point is that you can get that TC full-time remote from at least F and G now. They scale down salary based on the market, but not that much, for a 6+ position I think you’d definitely still be at that TC.
Of course not! I would hope every student practices science as part of a general childhood education.

But when it comes to potentially life-saving medicines or therapies, the standard should be a bit more rigorous than sixth-grade classroom experiments.
So just the usual standard of IBM work I suppose?
'top of a mountain' cell transmitters (ie. high power ones) tend to be expensive. The gear can easily cost $50k, and if solar powered, you're probably talking about another $50k for all the panels and batteries to keep a multi-kilowatt load running 24x7.

At that point, the cost of a microwave backhaul, even if you end up needing a few repeaters, is a small percentage of the project cost.

That means even if starlink works out cheaper than the microwave backhaul, you won't see a sudden growth of these kinds of rural transmitters, since the economics for the phone company don't change much.
But the thing is: GS doesn't have a reputation among the general public. 60% of people probably never even heard of them. Another 35% of people have come across them on the news somewhere and probably have negative associations with GS. GS is one of those companies that journalists just love to hate. (GS? Who is GS? ...oh yeah. Now I remember, I saw this thing on the telly. Something about secret world government and stealing food away from the mouths of starving children in Africa for personal gain, I recall). And the other 5% are likely people too smart to fall for bitcoin scams.
> I went to the administrators to say that I cracked the system and would like to be part of the administrators team. I was accepted.

See, this? This is how school computer systems are supposed to work.
Frum is one of those "good" conservatives, at least making a stab at being reasonable rather than giving in to the paranoia and conspiracy thinking that have overtaken much of your list.

Of the ones on your list that I recognize, he's closest to George Will. A quick google suggests that he may be like Wilkerson. I wasn't able to learn anything useful about Peter Hitchens.

He's actually the guy who coined the term "axis of evil". So I'm not sure if you're making a joke or if it's just a coincidence.

RationalWiki has a rather amusing, somewhat satirical take on him:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/David_Frum
Maybe I’m wrong and there’s a better company that offers this, but the reason I use RH is so that I can trade both cryptos and regular securities out of the same account, with 0-day settlement on trades (without opening a margin account) since every RH account is an implicit margin account.

I also like the instant deposits that scale with account size.

RH’s trading hours for securities is more limited than anyone else, but I don’t find myself trading outside of those hours anyways.

I also don’t like their naive tax accounting and don’t expect them to handle wash sales properly, which are two very big negatives, but I haven’t found a better broker for my main use case.
Might be your lucky day. Just further down the thread Jabl posted:

> Recently an old text adventure game 'Castlequest' from 1980 was recovered (https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2021/03/09/castlequest/ ), and there are even some efforts to modernize it (https://gitlab.com/apthorpe/Castlequest).
Tesla just announced a brand new car - a $25K hatchback
That was a time when I was sorely tempted to dump a huge load of manure all over Lennart Poettering.
> The functional parts of code are not copyrightable, only the non functional creative elements.

1. Depends heavily on the jurisdiction (e.g., Software patents are a thing in America but not really in basically all European ones)

2. A change to a copyrightable work, creative or not, would still mean that you created a derived work where you'd hold some additional rights, depending on the original license, but not that it would now be only in your creative possession.
E.g., check §5 of https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html

3. What do you think of when saying "functional parts"? Some basic code structure like an `if () {} else {}` -> sure, but anything algorithmic like can be seen as copyrightable, and whatever (creative or not) transformation you apply, in its basics it is a derived work, that's just a fact and the definition of derived work.

Now, would that matter in courts? That depends not only on 1., but additionally to that also very much on the specific case, and for most trivial like it probably would be ruled out, but if an org would invest enough lawyer power, or suing in a for its case favourable court (OLG Hamburg anyone). Most small stuff would be thrown out as not substantial enough, or die even before reaching any court.

But, that actually scares me a bit when thinking about that in this context, as for me, it seems like when assuming you'd be right, this all would significantly erodes the power of copyleft licenses like (A)GPL.

Especially if a non-transparent (e.g., AI), lets call it, code laundry would be deemed as a lawful way to strip out copyright. As it is non-transparent it wouldn't be immediately clear if creative change or not, to use the criteria for copyright you used. This would break basically the whole FOSS community, and with its all major projects (Linux, coreutils, ansible, git, word press, just to name a few) basically 80% of core infrastructure.
It is relevant because many people in our industry replace hobbies, diversions, and friendships outside the workplace with those within. If they instead merely augment them, that's great. But there can be many temptations to transition through augmentation into replacement.
I don't need Windows 11 - I have had X/11 (aka The X Window System, Version 11) for a while, which supported mice with 16 keys already in the last millennium.
My dear friend first tell me with bunch of jokers as instructor how you are going to teach data science to student. How these jokers are allowed to teach data science without any credentials
The PRC also claims the entirety of China, including the island of Taiwan. It’s not at all surprising that two sides of a civil war would claim the same territory. The one thing both the PRC and the KMT agree on is the definition of China.

The idea of Taiwan as separate from China is fairly recent and not widespread within Taiwan, at least so far.
Windows will run Android via WSL, soo don't know if it will run that well (CPU performance wise)
well hell, yep. I don't understand how this comment got in the wrong thread! Thank you for pointing that out.
If you don't think 'rightsholders' will jump on this like a fly on dung then you're naive. Everyone from Netflix to Getty Images to Adobe has been waiting for this.
An NDA is a contract, so how does a politician enter one without receiving some contractual consideration of value. No consideration, no contract, right?

When you leave a company, they typically pay you something to sign it.

How did this work in this case?
AOL

Win32 API and VB6 Subclassing. Open random chatrooms, collect all the screen names. Go to school. Computer dials AOL while parents at work. Tries Screen Names as password. 3 attempts before AOL Hangs up. Redials and tries next set of 3. Come home from school. Fresh Screen Names. Free AOL. Terrorize Hanson Chat Room with <font size = 9999999999999999> Instant Message. Everyone has left the chat
This is so bizarre looking in from the outside. I’ve spent my working life in two European countries, one where if you’re just a regular employee and not doing anything special you just approve and submit your prefilled tax return, and one where you under the same circumstances literally have do to nothing.
The deepwater sound channel conducts low frequency noise very efficiently, like a waveguide. The low frequency active sonar which the navy uses is as loud as a 747 jet engine and it can travel a very long distance through the deepwater sound channel without losing much energy. Mass beachings are still common near wherever the navy is testing it's active sonar and beached whales have been found with ruptured inner ears, though I can't find the reports now.

A lot of the navy's active sonar technology is classified so most of what we civilians know about it is based off of hydrophone measurements, autopsies of dead whales, maps of mass beaching events and whatever information the navy has made publicly available.
A couple things here I don't understand:

> if iter(data) is data:

Wouldn't it be cheaper like `if type(data) is iter:`?

And why convert `data` to a list at all, to check for length 0, given that `_sum(data)` will return the count?
Yes, this is a hard problem.
In theory, yes, but in practice many offices are designed to draw employees into the company being a lifestyle rather than a place to work, in a way that is difficult to accomplish without the office. (This is why there is so much hesitance from these companies to ditch their offices!)
Thank you, very helpful explanation.
My statement was an indictment of stadium deals, not an endorsement.
I live in a developed country where, I estimate, less than 1% of houses have AC.
I wasn't talking about free market, but the state of present economy. Unfortunately, those trillions of dollars aren't being distributed to the people, but instead is concentrated in the hands of the richest.
Discussed at the time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27537112 and already fixed too.
I did get an email from western digital saying turn it off. Granted it was 4 days after reports first went live about this but still. It’s something.
> I always find surprising that Robinhood was able to build such a large business with such mediocre customer support.

Because the interface is much easier to use. Particularly for options, which are dangerously easy to trade with Robinhood compared to their competitors like Think or Swim.
>It’s best to think of the US public sector as comparable to that of a semi-functioning developed country

It's been deliberately sabotaged to be this way. We can easily make different choices.
This is true, but they're also taking on an absolutely monumental task on a shoestring budget. I continue to be amazed at what they are able to accomplish. There aren't many heroes on the internet, but the Internet Archive team qualifies.
Minor nitpick, it was ~1750 BC, so that would be around 3700 years ago.
Thanks!

Those milestone callouts are based on aggregate statistics for that month, so that's a combination of a number of changes.

Most of the large changes that you see in the latter years of the project are the result of translation efforts. For example, this is from October: https://github.com/git/git/commit/c8774d0670b62447ae344d89a3...
I've been working on a scalable open-source version of Google Zanzibar called the Authorizer platform. The implementation varies from that of Authzed by horizontally scaling the query space across more than one node. It uses consistent hashing with bounded loads to assign a specific node to serve the queries for the objects that it's responsible for. It also supports the namespace rewrite specification of the paper and the continuous namespace config monitoring. Much more progress is coming as well! The upcoming v0.2.0 release will have distributed caching to reduce latency on both the client and server side.

Take a look, I'd love feedback and to build it into something valuable for the open-source community.

https://github.com/authorizer-tech/access-controller

https://authorizer-tech.github.io/
IBM squired Lotus many years ago and has maintained the Notes / Domino product line ever since. The basic architecture has never really changed.
I googled. It seems they're at a 40% reduction as of Oct 2020 [0] for Falcon launches of government satellites, and could go lower but there's politics involved - as always in government-funded anything.

Is that correct? If so, then that's not "nowhere close", it's another order of magnitude away, for sure, but the high-volume approach of Spaceship could do that? Or not?

[0] https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/10/05/how-much-cheaper-a...