skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah that one I struggle with too. I don't have a degree/can't call myself an engineer but my contract/pay is for Sr. SWE which I also don't consider myself a Sr. so idk... Generally go with SWD.

Granted in my job it's so strict/refined... tech designs, unit/visual regression testing/QA/TA that sort of thing... it's not like I can just write code on the fly/release it out there without it going through the tests and several people.

I'm definitely not the caliber of a developer that thinks of tasks in Log N or something. Least path algos and what not I'm a typical dev and I'm alright with that ultimately I am a tinkerer and end goal is FIRE.
I agree that internet makes it easy to self-publish short stories. And sure, if you are using it as promotion it makes sense. But I was specifically referring to short-stories as a viable commercial enterprise.
Bezos in that spacesuit and cowboy hat ...completely made my morning LOL.
I worked on engineering productivity research and measurement at Google for two years until about a month ago. (Opinions my own.) Compared to my former colleagues, I'm an infant in this area, so take this with a heaping of salt.

In general, I think the author's cynicism about productivity research is justified, but I think it could have been directed more productively. (NB: the following comments say nothing about areas of software engineering research outside of productivity.)

Commercial software engineering is a creative endeavor; it is not a science, nor is it a manufacturing process. It does not have natural, universal laws. What makes a team 'productive' varies massively based on constraints imposed by business model, product, customer expectations, leadership values, and of course the individuals of which it consists.

I do not believe in the possibility of a "General Theory of Productivity." I'm highly skeptical of attempts to quantify the precise relationship between error discovery stage and cost in a way that is generalizable, although I think it might be possible given a large group of engineers using a highly homogenous process, tools, and accounting. Google is pretty close to this (common dev infrastructure across tens of thousands of engineers), and even across Google this kind of generalization would be extremely difficult.

There is no universal physics of software engineering. As a result, academic research into productivity can be difficult to generalize (which is why, I think, you often see researchers twisting themselves into knots). Instead, my rec is to focus on a few key metrics that are aligned with your business' or team's goals (search for DORA for a good starting set) and to reflect often on what you feel makes your team work well and what doesn't.
In Virgil, casts are written "type.!(expr)". Casts between numbers check ranges and roundability (for float<->int conversion). Reinterpreting the bits is written "type.view(expr)" and ignores signs, looks at the raw float bits, etc.

edit: a cast will throw an exception if it fails, in case that was not clear from context.
As a ton of engineers have transitioned to kube already. Like years ago, you have just made ramping up new engineers to your custom setup a pain point for scaling. But you probably already knew that. =)
On Naming Malaysian Chinese Characters
I write stories set in Malaysia, or about Malaysia, and one of my biggest problems is that I struggle to find good names for my characters. Unlike every other self-respecting novelist, I can't just search for baby names on Google; Chinese names are not traditionally chosen on a 'what-sounds-nice' basis. When choosing a name for a newborn, conscientious Chinese parents would consult with a fortune teller or a temple elder, who would then consider the baby's disposition, their birth date, the number of strokes in the character to check if the name is auspicious or not.

I don't have easy access to a fortune teller or temple elder, so instead I would think of the people I knew at school, names of relatives, friends, or acquaintances. And then I would judiciously cross-reference these names to Google Translate and Wiktionary to figure out the various meanings and the context of the name, as I can't really speak or write any of the Chinese languages, despite growing up Malaysian Chinese. (For reference, that was exactly how I chose the names of my two children). It is a huge handicap not to have a dictionary on baby names — in other words, a codified and formalised written record of names, along with their meanings, their implications, and their popularity. There is no "Top 1000 Names of 2021 of Malaysian Chinese babies." Let alone some popularity graph, or an in-depth examination of each name along with its meaning.
They did, but it was fairly uncommon for you to pick something and get exactly that. It was more of an inspiration, a starting off point. You find some stuff you like and then you talk to the artist and get them to sketch out something based off that but tailored to you.

It also provided evidence that the artist had some idea of what they were doing. Really good shops would have pictures from the day of, and then from 10 years later right next to each other so you could ensure the work wouldn't fade or bleed excessively.

Now, did some people flip through the book and ask for that exact tattoo? Sure. Some people put amazingly little effort into something that they'll carry forever.
What incenses me is that here in Wisconsin, they can declare farms that have been in our families for over a hundred years "blighted", and take them for a non-existent Foxconn plant with nary a peep. But if they need land for a high speed rail they can't do the same? If the people against high speed rail want to lie, OK, I get it. But why not come up with something consistent with the reality that the people are observing?

At this point, they don't even pretend to respect the intelligence of the people.
It's not unheard of. After spending a year in a meditation center I have been in contact with several people that burned out. My teachers forced me to take more time off to avoid this.

Meditation is wonderful, but it's powerful. Something powerful can be misused to hurt yourself, otherwise it wouldn't have much of an effect. A saw that can't cut your fingers will not be very practical.

Having a proper environnement helps a lot to limit this, and the right people with you, but it's not bulletproof.

I feel my practice is too taxing sometimes and slow down. One should not create an idea of what the path looks like and force a way into it until some kind of landmark is reached. Espacially with our lifestyles, going steadily, but gently, is important.

I have several friends, including myself, that reverted to using intoxicants, material comfort or distractions for a while because we couldn't handle more. Then after some time, went back to a more strict practice. Or didn't and accepted to stay at that level.

It's hard, pace yourself. Other practitionners should not judge you, we all have struggles.
> as this contradicts the purely empiricist approach of mechanically practicing mindfulness with the expectation that this leads to enlightenment.

This isn't really an empiricist approach. Empiricists look at what works, and (from what you're saying) this doesn't. I'm not sure what to call it, but that's the wrong word.
If other companies are making lots profit doing something then it isn't a terrible idea. A terrible idea is trying to build something that will never make lots of money, like the pet dating sites or so.
Taiwan Seeks to Replicate Its Semiconductor Success – In Space
This just sent me down such a hole reading about Fr Seraphim Rose, thanks.
You used to be automatically opted into overdraft. Also, you could still get hit with an overdraft fee even if they rejected the charge. Banks also used to structure transactions to force overdrafts if they could. It was really bad.
France Opens Probe into Pegasus Spyware
I know for me personally, I tend to tip a percentage, regardless of the cost of the meal. If I go to a fancy steakhouse and the service is crap, chances are the server is still gonna get $20 out of me.

I came from a food service background though and realize people have bad days, but it does put me in a bit of a conundrum on how to handle truly terrible service. Fortunately for my wallet, I don't frequent those upscale establishments so it's not a problem I think about often.
You might want to look at MicroXML <https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/microxml/raw-file/tip/spec/microxml.h...> then. No XML declaration, no DTDs, no PIs, no CDATA sections, no cruft.
It's interesting that Amazon (who spends a fortune on trucking) has created their own cargo airline and starting buying metal because it works out better for them than paying a trucking company. They make money on fast turnaround and big distribution warehouses close to population centers, then they truck the last mile with their own vans.

Historically, the cheapest ways to ship anything are by sea, by rail, and by truck, in that order. Airplanes are still inordinately more expensive but folks are willing to pay for that quick delivery that trucks and rail simply can't do.
What is the equivalent or better tool for python? I like the idea, but JS seems the wrong language for me, also I want to use lots of Python libs.
VzLinux Is the RHEL-Based Operating System You’ve Never Heard Of
In my own small projects, I always add -Wconversion to build configuration. I think the false positive is affordable when you start from small piece of code.
How much Covid misinformation is on Facebook? Its execs don’t want to know
Huawei’s OLED Chip Expected in 2022, but Will China Buy It?
Are you able to wear glasses to improve 20/100? That's my issue is that I'm stuck at 20/40 because glasses don't work for my condition.

Also I should mention that 20/40 with my condition is a bit different because my vision is affected with distortion, halos, ghosting - think astigmatism but in every kind of random direction all at once. Basically, I can read the lines but its not really functional vision.
> That may be true for NASA and maybe the wealthiest and most connected universities and research centers.

I work at a well funded university, and it's not true for us, either. In fact I haven't met a single astronomer who is optimistic that somehow we'll magically get enough money to replace even a small fraction of the great telescopes we currently have on the ground.
I don't think so. Once a function is compiled, it basically becomes a black box with a type signature so unless sleeping in a function affects its signature, that information is erased. If you pass in some kind of a sleep token that has to be used to sleep, then yeah I think you could enforce it by only being able to get that token in a non-atomic context and making it leak proof.

The Cortex-M crate does something similar, but for proving that you are in an atomic context. Another function that expects a CriticalSection type is then assured that it's running without interrupts enabled. The type itself is zero sized so it's completely optimized away.

https://github.com/rust-embedded/cortex-m/blob/master/src/in...
I think Co-star is fascinating for this reason because it's not so much the science of belief but the charisma of truth. People like it mostly because it's kind of sassy. For the most part, sun-moon-rising offers a quick and dirty way to assess relationship compatibility in a dating-app world where rejecting everyone and accepting everyone is tedious and exhausting. It's also a particular love language of understanding and explaining what it is you look for and being aware of how people explain themselves, for those that use it.

Technically, astrology is based on algorithms observing data of the planets positions. For the most part, to the naked eye, and to human sensibility, the planets seem to behave in harmony, resonance and stability. In reality, the long-term behavior varies chaotically. It's an n-body problem, which is as of this time of writing, unsolved. Generally, that doesn't mean it hasn't been answered, rather it means that solutions satisfying specific conditions cannot be determined by the criteria of uniqueness or existence.

But yeah, if you're going to make short term observations of a chaotic system, a sporadically random system is basically just numerical approximation. You don't need to rationalize irrationality, because you can't.
This is an interesting take, but most of my favorite artists grew up comfortably middle class, because it gave them the time and space to develop their art, compared to people who had to get jobs as teens or watch their little siblings.
Linux user since somewhere around 2001 - 2003 here:

I use a mix of proprietary and free software at any time.

I guess most Linux users are like me: using it mainly because (for me) it provides a superior experience all the way from installation, through painless maintenance, fantastic desktop usability (for me) and extremely much better performance.

The last one is worth emphasizing:

1. the compiles are relevant for me are consistently around 30% faster on Linux

2. starting executables (and this includes git) is so much faster that using anything else afterwards feels just dumb.
Because Starlink finances the development of cheap launch, a demand driver NASA can’t replicate.
I think this basically gets them support from Blender directly. Its like paying for a support contract.
Highest Paying Programming Languages
A YouTube video explaining my thoughts on what languages pay the most and least.
The more complex aptitude ones that require use of theorems and stuff. Questions that are used for competitive exam preps.
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Ther is a constitutional requirement to do so in China.

The difference is that the vast majority of land isn't owned in China but leased by the Central government, so the compensation for the land itself may be very low. Structures built upon it are generally compensated properly, though there surely is sometimes corruption.

Rural land is even less compensated, sometimes you may be assigned new land and compensated for the structure only.
> The underlying language doesn't actually matter as long as you can deliver the toolkit. I do agree that Lisp(y) language(s) may be very well suited, but I don't care.

Languages matter. Lisp offers second-to-none metaprogramming capability and it's metaprogramming, not "libraries", that will bring the boilerplate problem under control. Other languages may be able to do the same, just not as well; Smalltalk and Ruby can "fake it". Metaprogramming lets you put patterns into reusable libraries, not just data and functions.

> I should be able to define a few data models and relationships, processes, and some business rules. The rest absolutely should be generated for me.

So you want CASE tools from the 80s-90s? Or "autogenerate applications from UML" from the 2000s? Because uh, there are reasons why those failed. Among them:

1) Code that's generated by machine still has to be maintained by humans. I work with one of the low/no code tools that promise to do everything for you. Lately I spend my days toiling over its flowcharts rather than configuration files, trying to figure out what broke when it stops working, because it doesn't have nearly the debugging capability that JavaScript has and even crude tools like "debug by printf" are off limits.

2) Systems that run in the real world are subject to real-world constraints. You have to integrate with other, very specific systems, you are subject to performance and scalability constraints that vary by application, etc. These are constraints that require solutions to be engineered.

You're going to still have plenty of work to do after you've defined your data models and business rules, no matter what tools you use. The question really is how much friction the tools impose when completing that work.
I could make a case that Airbed and Breakfast was somewhat of a "terrible idea" at the beginning... now with an $80+ billion market cap... they executed well.
It might be helpful for you to try to think of reasons why your idea is wrong, rather than reasons why it is right.

How many crowdfunding projects have failed to deliver?

Do people who actually do archiving consider torrents to be a durable storage medium, like you seem to think?

Who's responsibility would it be to keep a (perhaps) 100GB+ torrent seeded? Are you just assuming "someone else"?

What do you think the longevity of the BitTorrent protocol will be? What's the chance it will be progressively harder to use over time (e.g. https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/6246151319715840, https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2021/04/15/built-in-ftp-impl...)?

How tech savvy to do think Bronte scholars are? How many Bronte do you think there are? Do you think they're just doing Bronte scholarship all the time?
It's not that we don't care about UI and UX, the problem is that there are less than 10 active developers working principally on this and none of us is working on it full time since most of us is either student or has a full time job. It's the unfortunate fate of most non-corporate backed open source projects.
>that can grow like in js

I thought js "integers" are just floating point numbers?
Yeah, Adobe has been pushing into the stock photo space for a while now.

They sell 3d assets and that portion of the company probably doesn't care what you use them in. Besides if they get you buying assets from them it is another channel to sell on.
Even in the founder matching from YC, such people run around.

They are hungry and foolish, they want to disrupt.

The younger ones just throw some phrases at you, the more experienced try to appear more professional, with Zoom meetings, protocols, and full calendars.

But in the end it all was "how fast can you build something?!"
When I'm in DC for a conference at the convention center, part of my breakfast routine is a walk to the Sculpture Garden at the Hirshhorn with a take-out breakfast. I always make a point to listen to the Sunset Song exhibit through at least once.
The structure is the whole point. As I understand it, you can link together nearly arbitrary sequences of amino acids. But a random string of AAs will just result in a jumbled protein that doesn't do anything useful.

Specific structures are useful in all manner of ways, from cleaving a DNA molecule at a specific point, enzymes for breaking apart molecules, etc.

Very, very useful.
PDF is a great way to publish documents. which is what the web originally was.

The web has become a bad remedy to some distributed software problems.
There's a lot of such "nerdsniping" articles here but they have only 1 point.
This is probably one of the most practical ones to read. REST is so much more than "/noun/id" routes.
Adobe could learn a lot from Blender about making 3d user friendly. The 3d tools in Adobe products are -terrible-.
Is suffering the only source of authenticity?
They accepted that regular pay from an owner and investors who are risking money which is... mostly the fruit of earlier workers' labor, rather than a direct result of their own. There's always a degree of exploitation behind profit, and while profitability is improved through more synergistic organizations, it can also be improved by stifling competition, buying favorable policy from corrupt officials, etc. Our economic environment rewards malicious economic conquest just as much or more than the pursuit of efficient value creation. That it's so easy for concentrated capital to squeeze more capital from the masses is the key to crazy wealth inequality, not anyone's lack of industry or entrepreneurship.
That's.... containers. To quote the article:

> A small custom boot service on each instance that is part of our boot image looks at the instance configuration, pulls the right container images, and starts the containers.

> There are lightweight monitoring services on each instance that will respawn a required container if it dies, and self-terminate the instance if it is running a version of any software that is no longer the preferred version for that cluster.

They've built a poor-mans Kubernetes that they won't be able to hire talent for, scales slower and costs more.
Well times changed, Iran is very close to nuclear weapons
Thanks for sharing. Yes, it's KC. I have had my lenses fitted to a degree. I'm wearing the third pair, after trying two others and getting them adjusted.

I would prefer to do something, like back-end as you mentioned, that I could just manage with somewhat functional 20/40 vision with glasses. So that I would not have to depend on the lenses.

I feel like the lenses are a psychological crutch at times, although they're amazing.
Has anyone tried this app? What is your experience with it? I’d love to see more screenshots.
> Think all of their flights have been either crashes or fully orbital.

Certainly applies to the operational launches of all their rocket vehicles, however they've also done suborbital test flights with with Grasshopper, F9R, Starhopper, Starship (and maybe Super Heavy soon as well depending on if they do a sub-orbital with that first).

The important difference is that SpaceX has never considered the Karman line as a target in its own right (somewhat rightly, its only value is for "whelming" space tourism).
>"The PiStorm nestles in an Amiga’s CPU socket, with the stock processor removed

The CPLD acts as ‘glue logic’ between the host Amiga and a Raspberry Pi single-board computer in an unusual fashion. Connected via the Raspberry Pi’s 40-pin general-purpose input/output (GPIO) header, the PiStorm allows the Amiga to treat the Raspberry Pi as a replacement processor and more."

PDS: This is a weird-but-interesting idea!

I wonder if it would be possible to have some kind of an FPGA device on a board connected with a CPLD -- and have that fit into the CPU slot (replacing the old CPU!) of an old 386 or 486 PC...
Consent phishing: the emerging phishing technique that can bypass 2FA
Yes, the famously operational JWST. The telescope that should be used as a benchmark for how to implement an orbital system on time, under budget, and if I may be so bold: easily. /s

1) You're talking about replacing existing capabilities.
2) It's easy to spend someone else's money.

Those terrestrial telescopes are paid for, built, and running. Finding funding for them was really hard the first time around, and do you think constellation operators will spring for the replacement costs?

I'm not saying it's technically impossible to replace all of our terrestrial telescopes because some people want to make a lot of money from the commons of our night sky, but $1.5 billion is just for the launches. It doesn't include design, fabrication, assembly, testing, or contingencies.
There is an official definition of what a seaman/sailor is. Admiralty law is a thing [1][2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaman_status_in_United_States...

[2] https://www.maritimeinjuryguide.org/maritime-lawsuit/qualifi...
The point is that they don’t have to, the level of discipline is unnecessary, viable commercial space travel means it is supposed to become even more unnecessary

So the gatekeeping can go away
It's worth ruminating on the fact that all medicines are also poisons. This is why homeopathy is so safe.
I've been using Acrobat on a FireHD tablet with a dark mode plugin. It works quite well. I can't remember the last time I needed to inhibit the plugin to read something.
Highly doubt it they'd do it