skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same, but ironically the bonds I made with those people were sometimes due in part to our shared experience of working in a bad environment with horrible management.

Friendship seems very much a function of overall time shared together. School, work, sports, military, what else is there? ... even internet forums and email correspondence have netted me some long-term (IRL) friendships.

When people get busy with commuting, family, house upkeep, demanding jobs, and distance, new friendship is all but impossible. This is probably the #1 topic on r/AskMenOver30

> But for every person I’m friends with or still stay in touch with, there are 100 I do not

probably 1000x the base rate for life generally.
That's interesting. That weight isn't necessarily unhealthy if it's largely muscle from all the training. Did you end up with a low body fat percentage despite the weight?
Bacause git is powerful
I actually still use it all the time. Just a habit from when I started using what was then OS X in '08.
There's some pain in writing generic data structure algorithms for sure. It would have been an interesting experiment though if the Go authors would have tried to improve the tooling around code generation and making it easier to use, as an alternative avenue to generics as code generation might satisfy some of the cases likely to trigger those complains.

Anyway, interesting to see how far they will take the generics in the path to Go 2.
Use this time to switch folks. Get that $300k job NOW.

You can ask for benefits such as permanent wfh, vacation before starting, extra stock, signing bonuses.

You could even tell them upfront that you will not do a take home, if you don't want to. Or if they have to have a take home, ask for compensation or to reduce one coding round.
I always wonder why something like xargs is not a shell built-in. It's such a common pattern, but I dread formulating the correct incantation every time.

I was happy to read that the author comes to the same conclusion and proposes an `each` builtin (albeit only for the Oil shell)! Like that there is no need to learn another mini language as pointed out.
One thing parallel can do better than xargs is collect output.

If you use `xargs -P`, all processes share the same stdout and output may be mixed arbitrarily between them. (If the program being executed uses line buffering, lines usually won't be mixed together from multiple invocations, but they can be if they're long enough).

In contrast, `parallel` by default doesn't mix together output from different commands at all, instead buffering the entire output until the command exits and then printing it.

With `--line-buffer` the unit of atomicity can be weakened from an entire command output to individual lines of output, reducing latency.

Alternately, with `--keep-order`, `parallel` can ensure the outputs are printed in the same order as the corresponding inputs, which makes the output deterministic if the program is deterministic. Without that you'll get results in an arbitrary order.

These aren't technically things that xargs and shell can't do; you could reimplement the same behavior by hand with the shell. But by the same token, there isn't anything xargs can do that the shell can't do alone; you could always use the shell to manually split up the input and invoke subprocesses. It's just a question of how much you want to reimplement by hand.
I tried ZenHub back before GitHub had Projects, but I thought that Projects had feature parity with ZenHub. What’s the advantage of using ZenHub at this point?
This looks like it has a lot of features, but that it's still miles behind Unreal. (I'm not downplaying the amazing technical achievement, and I'm very interested in watching RG3D evolve.)

Is this the most mature Rust game engine? There seem to be a lot of entrants in that race now. This one has the best video demos with technical rendering specifics, AFAICT.

If a coalition of companies were to band together and build an open source engine, what tech should they back, or is there no good starting point?

Amazon was open sourcing Lumberyard, right? Is that more mature? (I'd love to see Rust take off and "win" over C++, but there's a lot of ground to make up... Especially if you're chasing after Unreal.)
I don't know, given Elon's showmanship, is it really that different?
It's worth plowing through.

I hated the syntax at first, and frankly, it took two weeks and about 500 pages of reading before it clicked (as to how to solve practical problems with it).

It's been a pleasure to use ever since. What is does you can't get from any other tool or methodology (with the same amount of effort).

> Are there good alternatives for solving the same / similar kinds of problems?

Not that I've found. It's really worth it to just learn TLA+.
Never thought that client side code is readily available. Thanks for insight.
Thank you for saying this. It's become so much of an annoyance, that I am actively seeking to read people talk about how much it sucks.
I learned C++ when I was 13, Haskell at age 15.
I don't have a CS degree nor do I work as a developer.
I'll tell you a secret. Game theory and economics is mostly voodoo wrapped up in statistical mumbo-jumbo. In other words, if economists could explain what is happening, why are they poor and have to go to work to make living?
Oh I didn't know about resumption.. parallel has so many features packed into its CLI it's kind of ridiculous.

For others that didn't know about it, see the examples here: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_tutorial.html...

Here's another surprising feature: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_tutorial.html...
Probably, but not as a billion dollar unicorn.
Ryokan, a Zen master, lived the simplest kind of life in a little hut at the foot of a mountain. One evening a thief visited the hut only to discover there was nothing to steal.

Ryokan returned and caught him. "You have come a long way to visit me," he told the prowler, "and you should not return empty-handed. Please take my clothes as a gift."

The thief was bewildered. He took the clothes and slunk away.

Ryoken sat naked, watching the moon. "Poor fellow," he mused, "I wish I could have given him this beautiful moon."
Seems like the prevailing opinion is that the website needs a “Why Janet?” blurb because I looked at this and thought, “Why would I ever use this over Racket?”.
Oh, sure, I don’t mean “why does this app exist”; I mean “why isn’t its underlying data model merged/synchronized with that of the other OS note-taking app.” Why can’t I see my computer’s Sticky Notes on my iPhone in Notes under “Sticky Notes - [Computer name]”? Why can’t I add a sticky note to my computer by putting it in such a folder?
> Presumably, if the (...)

In this case, the "customer" is a sovereign state that has the ability to set its own laws.

Why does anyone think that "right to repair" applies in this case?
Agreed re Afganistan

But re COVID people were already forgetting how stupid we were simply because we bought more vaccines. Now the Delta paranoia is putting other things back in the spotlight, but I suspect that won't last either.
The one confusing thing to me about this is that you're not supposed to append copyright years to a notice when the contents have not changed, yet this script got copyrighted all the way to 1989.
> it was much faster to use than any windows based program.

In retail and later as a software engineer I've seen that expert systems need keyboard shortcuts. Ideally the fewest possible for the hottest paths. Yet for onboarding you need the most obvious and relatable UI. Windows apps can be both if well designed. Console and terminal based apps generally cannot pack as much into the UI and most folks don't know them before joining.
I really like my model 3 sr+, but the entire wing of tesla that develops and sells "Full Self Driving" needs to be investigated by the FTC for unfair consumer practices, if not downright fraud. The number of times Tesla has revised their timeline, capability claims, and underlying hardware requirements has gone beyond the shifting vagaries of product development into bad faith marketing.

I'm fully aware of what FSD actually is today vs. Tesla's claims, so I didn't give Tesla an extra dime (nor do I use autopilot on my fully capable car since I believe it's a dangerous driver). Not everyone who buys a Tesla and pays for FSD has the benefit of knowing how close to scam it is.

One thing that would help would be making it illegal to sell features largely software driven before they actually exist (or at least make 100% of money spent on such features 100% refundable no questions asked by law). Tesla is raking in cash from people who don't know better plunking down $10,000 for a feature that doesn't exist (and might be 10+ years away) with the threat of it costing more in the future if they don't buy now.

The only way I've been able to reconcile the cognitive dissonance of giving money to a company that nearly defrauded people on some of their upcoming claims is to think of tesla as 2 distinct companies. One company manufactures and sells a very usable everyday electric vehicle and maintains an excellent network of chargers that let me roam the continent at will. The other company is a hype-machine designed to boost the stock price by announcing more and more features and models far beyond the capabilities of the manufacturing company. Right now Tesla has produced 5 different model of car over its lifespan (roadster and S, 3, X, Y for a childish joke). They have 4 announced and un-produced products (roadster, semi, plaid+ [now cancelled], and cybertruck), some of which have been announced for many years now. Does that seem like a sustainable company? Then add in the FSD debacle and accompanying hardware promises and it feels awfully pyramid-schemy. Luckily for the manufacturing company, the value of their factory, charging network and produced engineering is so high if the hype company fails the manufacturing can keep going. What I tell people is the tangible stuff you can buy from tesla is pretty good and there are lots of other excellent EVs from other companies already out and coming soon. If you want a tesla, buy one they currently manufacture and don't give them a penny or a thought for anything 'coming soon'.
I see your points.

However, I don't think anybody would even try to bring anything from the old job if it's not worth it (technically/professionally) Nd valid in general.
It's literally cheaper for them to buy new services, aquire the low-cost users through those, and wash out the support-dependent ones.

The Whatsapp purchase worked out to about $30/user, though proably factored in both further growth and the potential competitive risk.
I always think of xargs as the inverse of echo. echo converts arguments to text streams, and xargs converts text streams to arguments.
I'd like to see a demo of it! I will try rewriting it with the $0 Dispatch Pattern and ssh :)
Any sufficiently advanced vim config would contain ad-hoc, poorly specified, bug-ridden implementation of a half of Intellij IDEA :)
I'm with you there!

TBH I don't mind going to the office from time to time. It is indeed nice to see colleagues face to face. What I'm against is organizations forcing people to be present in the office every X out of fear that people won't feel "connected" to the organization.
Gradually so since you can use Any wherever you feel like :)
I fully agree with you!
Links to studies?
> in varying levels of directness/corporate-speak, let me know what an "incredibly difficult decision" it has been

It's not just corporate-speak, it's every politician and public figure speak. Modern virtue culture forces it.

Whenever I hear someone say they are "deeply troubled" by someone else they don't know making an offensive remark, I have to laugh.
But without (extremely) low interest rates government spending would have to be cut A LOT ... so who decides interest rates again? Oh wait ...

Expecting an increase in rates is like expecting the government to decide it's too big (and not a little bit). Good luck with that. Even very rightist parties in Europe don't even try to make that point any more.
Xiaomi Unseats Samsung as Europe’s Best-Selling Smartphone Brand
This is like the sed|bash anti-pattern mentioned in the original post, and quoted in the appendix on shell injection.

I wouldn't say "never use it", but I would hesitate to ever put it in a script, vs. doing a one-off at the command line.
Same for me, but with Gitlab Issues !
> that are showing up in YouTube videos

This is PR.
Git simply gives you the power to do 'things', if that results in a state you didn't want.. well.. go figure
Yep, I do the same. I also combine with github wiki for larger projects and documentation (often these will reference a bunch of issues).
I'm pretty pessimistic about decentralized (blockchain-based) apps as well, almost all projects have been overtaken by speculators and fraud seems to be rampant, so I would not go near any of those. There really is no need to use blockchain technology to build decentralized infrastructure, most Internet 1.0 protocols are decentralized & federated and none of them relies on cryptocurrencies or a blockchain to function. So, sorry, but for me this whole movement is BS and seems more like a pyramid scheme than a real effort to build something useful.
Lambda is still a VOI not a VOC even after months of monitoring. There might still be other variants after delta but at some point it cannot become infinitely transmissible and virulent. It also won't be able to become more transmissible and virulent while also achieving complete immune escape (complete escape likely isn't even possible from T-cells). Similar to the 1918 pandemic the worst case virus is likely to be at the tail end of the first round of the pandemic, the endemic virus will be less virulent.
The additional reserve dollars allow banks to offer more loans at lower interest rates and buy other assets (mbs) that they normally wouldn't buy.

When banks purchase these assets, cash is handed to entities selling these assets. Since there's A LOT of money to be loaned, banks are bidding against each other on such assets and to hand out loans asap.

This is causing inflation. And yes, it's only hidden because you are rich. Ask someone making $30k a year how they are feeling about the "minor" inflation
Pro tip from an ex-performance guy: Allowing your developers to use machines more powerful than your minimum targeted device is a very good way to produce software that will not run on your maximum targeted device.
For anyone else who looks at the comments first, there is nothing to see here. I was hoping for a link to the original report, but this article just states that some VP didn't want an internally generated report to go out because the top shared content wasn't a good look.
There are a plethora of reasons not to put sales data into github issues. I appreciate the idea of reducing complexity. Focusing things around issue tracking gives a good workflow for opening and closing, and also provids a finite goal, but theres often needs which cannot be met.

I also dont think that its necessary to point out but I would not advise handing over all business organizing to github as a platform.
I wonder how geode performs here.
You might be a little misdirected in your thinking and encourage you to listen to Public Health On Call by John Hopkins.

https://johnshopkinssph.libsyn.com/
Note that the suggested:

rm $(ls | grep foo)

will not work if you have file names that contain spaces.

Shell programming is planted thick with landmines like this.
> Is this the most mature Rust game engine?

It is.

> There seem to be a lot of entrants in that race now.

None of them are anywhere close to rg3d. Amethyst is kind of dead.
> people are more likely to react to complain.

You hit the nail on the head. This is broadly true across virtually everything--at least in most of Western culture (as this is the only one I'm most familiar with).

Anger seems to provoke a more actionable response whereas satisfaction does not (generally speaking). Is someone more apt to call a business over lousy service or great service? Why is it that giving a compliment to someone in customer service sometimes provokes a brief reaction of surprise? I try to do my part as a positive force when I can, but I usually fall short. Besides, is one happy person likely to make that much of a difference over the course of a day? Maybe, maybe not.

FWIW I actually like the idea of generics in Go and have a few use cases where they'd be exceptionally helpful in cutting down the amount of code I have floating around in some libraries. I just don't feel strongly enough about it to jump into a thread to rush to its defense.
This is very much my experience. I have a friend at the office, we had lunch together almost every day, but since WFH started in March 2020 I have barely spoken to him, just a very occasional email. I have physically seen him once. I have also never kept in touch with anyone I worked with at a former employer.
When I first saw this I thought it was a release of the video game “Rust” and thought “there’s no way Rust runs on Rust!”
Bingo.

"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the Experts"
Oh, I don't know. Lacking implosive compression the consequence would have been, not the sort of blast you seem to have in mind, but rather a "demon core"-style radiation accident. That said, it'd still be enthusiastically messy albeit in a more limited fashion, and there'd still be no reason for anyone to assemble the material that way - not least for what grisly example became of the last guy who took so little care.

Still, as you note, it's remarkable to think of the density of the material - a soccer ball's worth that masses about as much as me.
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Here is the youtube channel of someone who is building a hobby tunnel with remote controlled miniature excavators.

https://www.youtube.com/user/LilGiantsConstrCo
I would go so far as to say any place that says 'we are family here' is actively trying to screw you.

Every place I've heard this was a place with no wriggle room on anything- late 3x? Fired. Kid hurt and you need to duck out your shift? Fired. Need that weekend off for a funeral? Better have a death certificate or fired.

They claim they are a family when it suits them only. I've had places spew that rhetoric all through training and once you hit the floor its surprised pikachu.

I actually bought into it when I worked with HEB in South Texas as a night stocker. Until the lies started to show (no, your scheduled hours don't matter, you are off when the last pallet is stocked, no you are part-time now even though you were hired full-time since you're a hard worker and we need you to cover the shifts of the kids who call out every Friday/Saturday, no you can't change departments we need you, no you won't have to work frozen- except you will, without the pay bonus etc ad infinitum).

The only way in which these places are like families is in that they are destructive, lying, backstabbing, political cesspools. I assume there are some families like that. Not what I imagine a family to be like however.
You should look more into comma.ai, they actually just released "Comma Three" few days ago, the first version with custom hardware and not only off the shelf parts. They actually track the driver and warn you to take control (when you're not looking at the road for example).

They seem to be navigating well in terms of liability, namely saying they want to remain Level 2 for the foreseeable future. It's like an upgraded lane assistant/cruise control (of course it seems way better, not trying to sell it short).

From what I've been reading, there's a lot of people that would much prefer this option over giving themselves fully to self driving, or even the current solution that Tesla provides.

Btw I'm no expert on the comma project, I don't own any, I'm pretty sure there's plenty of people here that know way more then I do and probably own comma hardware. I just keep an eye on what George Hotz is up to.
Related, So you want to be a Chef. https://web.archive.org/web/20210123015245/https://ruhlman.c...
There are two people who I've never met but who I would have loved to have had as my teachers, one is Mary Beard and the other is Andrew Wallace-Hadrill. What's amazing is that both of these remarkable teachers are from Cambridge University's Faculty of Classics. The Faculty and its students are indeed very lucky. Whenever they're on TV I'm always glued to my seat.

Beard's Pompeii and Wallace-Hadrill's Life and Death in Herculaneum are two of the best documentaries I've seen in many a year as they bring history to life in exciting ways that I've never seen before, Ancient Roman society is presented with such feeling, exuberance and authority that one can almost imagine being there.

I was thinking how truly exciting history has become in the hands of these consummate professionals in comparison to my own rather dull introduction to the subject many decades ago as school. Not that it was bad or lightweight, one of my history textbooks, A Brief History of Ancient Times — a rather nondescript book with a mustard/yellow colored cover, which incidentally I still have—was by the Univ. of Chicago's influential historian/archaeologist James Henry Breasted†. By the time I had to study it Breasted had been dead for many decades so its style was rather heavy and stodgy which didn't inspire much. Beard and Wallace-Hadrill's enthusiasm changes all that and they make a subject that has a potential to be boring to really sparkle.

Both are really engaging individuals but in some ways, they're very different. Wallace-Hadrill is polite and I'd reckon he'd go out of his way to never offend anyone, Beard calls a spade a spade and if you don't like what she's saying then it's tough titty. With the shambles the world's presently in, it seems to me we need many more people of Beard's caliber and outspokenness to put things into perspective.

† https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Henry_Breasted
Huh, I'd've assumed it the other way around given the infrastructure requirement at the time, but your cost sounds a lot more likely given its provenance than the [now, i realise belatedly, unvalidated] cost I Googled prior.
Oh, somebody made it up. It’s just not proven that he was the one who made it up. It could be someone at the insurance company, or some student paid to type it in. Less likely perhaps, but not impossible.
Afghan panic over digital footprints spurs call for data collection rethink
Arguably any tool will eventually be hacked around to fit needs, unless you are the owner --in which case you just hack on the tool.
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I'd be curious to know how you got into quant finance if you'd be willing to share.
Watch this ‘surreal’ Jupiter eclipse that you probably missed
Thank you. Your comment coalesced a number of things in my mind that I hadn’t grasped properly as a UNIX midwit, especially the braces thing.
For thousands of arguments this sloution is much slower (high CPU usage) than xargs, because either it implements the logic as a shell script (slow) or it runs an external program for each argument (slow).
Why draw the line at vehicles?

You carry in your pocket every day a device that does whatever the next software update tells it, yet you trust it will all your personal information and feel lost if it leaves your side.