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> There’s a certain base level of complexity that can be hard to abstract away

100% and a conclusion I came to far too long into my tenure in the bioinformatics workflow domain. It is also why I soured a bit on some of the GA4GH efforts in the same space (WES & TES in particular).

I still very much agree w/ the goals & ideals (respectively), but in my experience the middle ground between "I don't care, just give me the defaults" and "please do not abstract away any of the complexity, I need that" is quite small. And that zone would be the sweet spot for these efforts.
Thank you for sharing. How are you doing nowadays? I hope things are better.

What do you feel is the best alternative to my advice? My problem is, although everything you say is true, there doesn’t seem to be a good “do X instead” option.
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> inciting even bolder ideas

Even if it would have lasted, which I doubt, I also doubt it would have successfully inspired much, and certainly not any time before real engineering came about as a consequence of understanding physics and thus having a theory guiding and supporting work, rather than a cookbook of rules. (Like, the surviving ancient marvels notwithstanding, you can really only go so far in structures without an understanding of beam theory, stresses, even the square-cube law which wasn't articulated until Galileo.) When the architects and builders of the past (I think it's a stretch to call them engineers) veered too far from established practice, things tended to frequently collapse. A Roman example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insula_(building)
>So i think it's perfectly reasonable to also giga-vax.

As always, 4chan has already done the work. (<https://i.redd.it/08qwj2r4kyw61.jpg>)
Do they have every single medicine memorized, or just the ones they most commonly use? Sure, I tend to remember the parts of libraries and apis I use often, but I'd still argue my editor having a reminder just a keystroke away is very beneficial.
Timelines are hard to nail down. So why does Tesla's leadership keep announcing targets that are repeatedly missed? Especially as "self-driving" was supposed to be ready by 2018.

Meanwhile, it's 2021, and the CEO is saying "it's harder than I thought", while again promising that you can put your safety in the hands of a beta software "soon".

"Haha, FSD 9 beta is shipping soon, I swear! Generalized self-driving is a hard problem, as it requires solving a large part of real-world AI. I didn’t expect it to be so hard, but the difficulty is obvious in retrospect. Nothing has more degrees of freedom than reality." [0]

[0] https://electrek.co/2021/07/05/elon-musk-admits-self-driving...
Regarding especially Eclipse, project and build management in an IDE can be good. Typical Java projects that use Maven and are built "officially" with scripts and CI systems without an IDE can be worked on by Eclipse quite cleanly by

- Checking sources out of version control
- "Importing" them in the Eclipse workspace as projects from existing code in an arbitrary location
- Configuring what Maven installation, and with what configuration files, is to be used to build your projects
- Defining a grimoire of Maven command lines (build and test locally, build and deploy somewhere else, package for release, etc.) as run/debug configurations

The impact is limited to harmless project metadata files (containing nothing important that isn't mirrored from Maven POM files) and repeating in the closed world of Eclipse options configurations, paths etc. that are probably already in scripts, CI pipeline definitions and so on.
Ugh no. That framing is a big part of the problem.

Pre-vaccine, about 80% of adults end up with it[0]. It’s just that it’s usually (grossly) asymptomatic, so the prevalence is less obvious. However, not seeing a wart doesn’t necessarily say much about cancer risk.

So it’s not everyone paying for “sluts”; it’s everyone paying for everyone so that no one pays a lot when they lose the cancer lottery.

[0] Literally in bold here https://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/stats.htm
This is in my experience the most common performance antipattern. What makes it even worse is the fact that people quite often do this on the name of performance. Which rarely is a good idea.
> That segment of video was kind of maddening to watch because that’s an entirely mundane, unchallenging drive for any remotely decent, sober driver.

I vehemently disagree with this. Notice how at 38:24 how it slows down for the pedestrians, most importantly the child, even though it had clear right-of-way? Why? Because children do stupid shit. That's why school speed zones exist, and why they had to double fines in school zones: because these "remotely decent" human beings are incapable of correctly assessing their skill, and regulating their behavior. People are concerned about how AI determines who to kill in a lose-lose situation, but humans routinely send the trolley towards other humans for the sake of their own time.

How many people do you know who actually adhere to the speed limit, who actually maintain safe following distance, and who actually practice defensive driving?

Barely competent and trivial situations are already far beyond human capability.
Electric Cardboard cutter. I get most of the stuff delivered, which results in a giant amount of time wasted cutting cardboard for recycling
Not even in this case I'd return. I prefer to be able to cook my own food, have lunch at home with my partner when she is here, not having to deal with the noises and all the chit chat around me all day, etc.
i don't know if xargs cant, but i use gnu parallel to split an input pipe into N parallel pipes processing slices of the input stream.

Edit: To clarify, xargs usually wants to spin up a process per task. I have parallel spin up N processes and then continuously feed them.
There are two sides to this and one side consistently seems to get ignored in these threads. If a company in San Francisco decides it will allow its employees to work from anywhere from now on, but pay according to local cost of living, then employees who had been based out of San Francisco and decide to move to San Antonio may have to take a pay cut to do so.

That is the side that is always focused on.

The other side is people who already lived in San Antonio but can't relocate, for one reason or another. Their spouse has a career and doesn't want to leave. Their kids are in school and don't want to leave. They're disabled or have family in the area that depends on them. Those people can suddenly go work for the company in San Francisco that is no longer requiring you to relocate, and might make less than employees based in San Francisco, but more than anyone was offering in San Antonio.

This is the side that never seems to get brought up.

It's not at all clear that, when the dust settles, the balance of those who had to take pay cuts versus those who saw pay raises to work remotely is going to work out with more seeing pay cuts. Short run that will be the case just because most companies had a lot more pre-existing employees in March 2020 than they have hired since. But that won't remain the case forever.
Don't buy the corporate bs, it is all a scheme to increase productivity using tribal psychology: teams, cliques, bro culture, group identify, "us vs. them", etc.

In short, they are using your upbringing/human nature to their advantage. Remote woke some into this reality/facade.

https://m-g-h.medium.com/why-we-are-dispensable-7a577eba4f3e
For some, the commute is a trade-off made and accepted so that they don't have to live in a crowded, noisy city center which is where many offices are.

I lived in a city, had a short commute to work. That was nice. But I hated living there except for that. I moved to an outlying area where I could have a house and a garden and a workshop in the garage. The commute went way up, which sucked, but when I was home I was so much more relaxed and happier it was worth it.
Well, I get linters (errors are highlighted even before the file is saved), jump to function definition and a lot more in
Sublime Text.

I mean, I don't use an IDE, but at the same time, reading the comments, I don't miss much of what it offers.
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If this were the cause then you would expect blue states to have better-functioning government agencies than red states, but as far as I can tell they don't.
> yours doesn't sound very mild.

Yes his symptoms sound mild.

There's a good chance that whatever you think of as severe cold/flu is all clinically mild (unless you've actually had complications and wound up in the hospital).

Actual unvaccinated severe COVID-19 is an order of magnitude worse than what you can imagine as severe.
Nope. I've tried a number of times; most debuggers I've used don't seem worth the complexity over printing etc.
Was the Bot reveal any worse than Asimo from Honda in 2000?
Social networks and Facebook in particular are deteriorated term "friend". For me people I can get "don't worry, everything will be fine" type of support are pals, not friends. Gotta try to figure out the difference between real friends and family, but sounds like they are mostly the same, except we may loosen contact with friends, but remain in tight with family.
You are using your 13 year old thinkpad as an excuse to start a conversation at parties. Not out of necessity
Reducing this cognitive load also helps _me_ follow the explanation as I go!
That's actually an example of making it more confusing. Did the client crash?

Okay, it's obvious to you that the client didn't crash (but should it be obvious? Clients can crash too, you know!), but for anyone who didn't make the right inference, or isn't sure, they now have a dangling node in their mental model and are still validating they understood it right as they read the next sentences.

If you really can't stand such repetition, go with "then the latter crashed".
> Can the study really make this conclusion? Has media had an effect on bullying and harrasment in the cooking industry or is something that is already common in that industry being shown as entertainment?

I do see your point in terms of questioning how they came to this conclusion.

However, to put it a different way; Given the extreme behaviour depicted in these widely watched shows, would you consider that violent/aggressive behaviour in kitchens would likely be overall, A) less normalised, B) the same (no effect), or B) more normalised?

In other words, it may well have already existed in the industry already, but are the shows helping to make this better or worse...
> Shell functions and $1, instead of xargs -I {}

> -n instead of -L (to avoid an ad hoc data language)

Apparently GNU xargs is missing it, but BSD xargs has -J, which is a `-I` which works with `-n`: with `-I` each replstr gets replaced by one of the inputs, with `-J` the replstr gets replaced by the entire batch (as determined by `-n`).
You could have make some time to meet with friends or other social activities, after all, with your own company you had infinite flexibility.

But it looks like you bought that myth about “when you are not working your competitors are, so work ALL the time” instead. And you end up closing the startup anyway.
Read the last century of history of Afghanistan and it becomes clear that the war was lost before it ever began. It was not just the Soviets before America that failed to reform the ways of rural Afghanis. The Soviets came into Afghanistan in large part because the Afghani PDPA was also failing to do the same. Before the PDPA took power from Daoud in the Saur Revolution, Daoud was himself trying and failing to impose progressive reform on the same people. And preceding Daoud was Mohammed Zahir Shah, also a progressive reformer, who failed to make much of any lasting impact despite forty years of good effort. Zahir came to power after his father, Nadir Shah was assassinated; Nadir Shah had himself acquired power in the first place by putting down a rebellion of Afghani tribesmen, but obviously that had no lasting impact either. And that rebellion was itself precipitated by Amanullah Khan's failed efforts to reform Afghanistan.

The arrogance of Americans to think their invasion would succeed where previous invasions and native reformers had failed is staggering. Even if America were to fight for reform for forty years, as Zahir Shah did, why should anybody believe it would make a lasting difference? 20 years made no lasting difference, and another 20 wouldn't either. You can suppress afghani tribesmen, you can send their children to universities and crush those who openly oppose you, but as soon as you leave (and you will eventually leave) they will go right back to the way they prefer to live. This has been demonstrated again and again.
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> But you can bet you’re missing out on some great work not being produced because of it.

Do you really want to articulate the position "I'm sorry you were abused, but I believe that it's OK because of the end product that I got to enjoy"?
The Hole-Hawg drill is the IDE equivalent. Recently discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28015229
Ehhh, I dunno.

I've yo-yo'd between minimalist setups and full blown IDEs over the years.

Nowadays I'm happy with IntelliJ for Go development and a little bit of Rust. There's something quite freeing from not having to tinker much with configs and just get on with actual work!

Admittedly I do use the terminal feature in IntelliJ quite extensively so I'm not making full use of the features, but meh.
What visa are you guys on in the us? I work at big corp on l1 and would love to be a founder but waiting for green card…
Goodbye subsea cables, hello power transfer vessels?
(1990), or perhaps as late as (2009) if you have the right sense of humour.

Previous discussions:

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3528663 in 2012

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15457281 in 2017
is this supposed to be like https://www.nohello.com/ ?

Or is it just a short editorial by someone anonymous
You want patterns that are well-known to the maintainers, but this is different from “optimizing for the new”: consistent idiomatic use of a library like XState or Ramda in a JavaScript project can cause a high onboarding cost (because the new developers don’t know the library well) without any corresponding ongoing cost.
Time to boot my laptop and open browser: 5-10 seconds

Time to load and login to slack: 120-180 seconds with about 7 clicks

... sometimes I even have to wait a while for it to catch up with my typing like i'm superman or something. At which point I usually revert to copy and pasting messages from VIM... that's how slow slack is on a 2 year old laptop.
Let's try the top 3 metropolitan areas in the US then.

New York-Newark-Jersey City: down 0.2% YOY

Los Angeles area: up 0.8% YOY

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin: up 2.9% YOY

all figures from https://www.bls.gov/regions/subjects/consumer-price-indexes....
> IDE/VSCode/vim for editing

To the point on this one, I sometimes find myself running neovim inside the IntelliJ or VSCode terminal, when I need to edit a config file quickly while running scripts in that terminal, or just to edit a file outside the project directory. Or like you, I primarily use the git CLI, because IDEs often use to me unintuitive mappings of GUI buttons to git actions ("what does Synchronize do for git?"), so then it pops open $EDITOR to write my commit message.
Are you OK with code challenges? Workatastartup (from YC) is a nice option if you haven't tried, also who's hiring/wants to be hired monthly threads here are pure gold on ROI/leads ratio. Post there
When I hear people say "trust the science" the speaker is often a non-scientist who is selectively picking what science fits their agenda and ignoring the rest.

It's the same thing when somebody says "trust me, I'm a XXXXX", it's time to be very skeptical.
> Would some of mankind's greatest musicians, such as Elliott Smith, Kurt Cobain, and Beethoven, have created their music if they weren't dealing with some tough shit?

Would you therefore claim that people should intentionally be subjected to these conditions? I think one can acknowledge that great creativity comes from dark places without celebrating, welcoming, or, worst, inflicting those dark places.
The people that are archetechting the dystopian nightmare are capturing the excess value here, not sure why you think that's somehow a better situation.
GitHub issues + ZenHub is a great combo.
Warmth from the earth and air: could heat pumps replace our gas boilers?
I've seen newspapers handle this[1] by having other phrases for the same referent -- instead of just switching between "the pope" and "he", they'll slip in "the Bishop of Rome" or "the vicar of St. Peter".

Unfortunately, I consider that itself annoying because it then creates the problem of assuming your reader knows which of those are just alternate phrases vs other entities in the story!

Side note: this story got reposted twice recently so my comment on one of them (with examples of me producing a better explanation than the ones I had to wade through) got neglected: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28241558

[1] Oops, another anti-pattern -- saying "this" or "that" when it's not clear what you mean. Here I should have said "this problem" -- it's a great technique for clarifying your own thoughts as well!
I see this comment on every single post about a difficult thing to do in web, but I never seem to see it in the countless articles that also show up about similar edge-case bugs in non-web development. Odd.
Each write should be fsync'd to the WAL, right?
There was great video on how github does it
How GitHub uses GitHub to plan and track work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTDAlZFhPyM
According to the USA Fact-Check Algorithm, the Government is Science, the religion of love. Seriously, the people who think government cares about them are the same who believe the stripper loves them.
Have you read Hacker News' approach to comments and site guidelines?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

> Which brings us to the most important principle on HN: civility. Since long before the web, the anonymity of online conversation has lured people into being much ruder than they'd be in person. So the principle here is: don't say anything you wouldn't say face to face. This doesn't mean you can't disagree. But disagree without calling names. If you're right, your argument will be more convincing without them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

And so on.
I don't think it is relevant to link to doxxing information, however reprehensible the racist comments made by both parties in the fracas are.
I've tried using VSCode's debugger for Javascript before. And it can be kind of nice, but ultimately on larger projects with their own build tools it can be hard to keep the sourcemaps working in such a way as to not screw up VSCode's debugger, and the gain over Firefox's built in debugger wasn't worth the effort for me to continue to maintain that config.
In a previous workplace, our security operations team (firewall) had several options for project tracking: Nothing, or Gitlab issues.

Generically, we're talking "Kanban board" with swimlanes for the status, tags for categorization, and comments/attachments for discussion tracking.

I'm currently in a position to get some people sync'ed on projects for a client, and I am going to recommend we use Trello.

Kanban is just the right level of organization and visibility without going full agile-daily-standup-sprint overload.
Not github but gitlab EE - we used that at my old job for pretty much everything(and because none of the people on my team could stand the jira-confluence duo).
What is being corrected? Stocks dipped a bit in March 2020, but rebounded by Summer. New heights since then.
Doesn't really help someone looking for a well-supported "baseline" (no extra garbage from the manufacturer) android phone for company fleets.
It’s statically typed! And it has square brackets! In case HN strips out the emoji, this is supposed to be `Smiling Face with Heart-Shaped Eyes`

Edit: Yup I should know better than to try using emoji on here
"If you cure cancers, that's bad for growth if you made more profit on treatments than the cure."

That is simply wrong. If you cure cancers, you save human lives, which is worth a lot of money. You are basically falling for the broken window fallacy - breaking a window is like somebody getting cancer. You think the economy benefits because lots of doctors, nurse, undertakers and whatnot get business out of it. But you are wrong.

"Technically true, but in practice, if your product is not 100% recycled and 100% carbon negative to produce, you'll need to extract more of the earth to sell it."

Another fallacy to think the economy only consists of producing things. Also you have to think longterm - sometimes it can be worth it to replace old things with more efficient things, sometimes not.
Similar observations could be made about jankiness/glitchiness in software. The amount of time burned on fighting misbehaving software has to astronomical, in some cases eclipsing the productivity brought by the features that dev energy was spent on instead of general stability and quality.

Take Photoshop for instance. Just about anybody who spends even a moderate amount of time in it will tell you that even though it's become more capable in the past 15 years, it's also become a lot more frustrating and bug-ridden. Personally speaking, I would be just as if not more productive using something like Photoshop 7/CS1/CS2 than I would be with Photoshop CC.
People have been citing the failing of US state capacity for decades. This isn’t the first prolonged conflict in a foreign land we’ve wasted lives, money, and time on.

We haven’t had a balanced budget, our public projects are delayed and 2-3x over the estimate, the US military has been inept in most conflicts, federal agencies have failed to regulate the powerful and connected.

But the machine marches on, because everywhere else the problems are equal or worse at US scale. China hides its domestic issues much better giving this illusion that the US is crumbling. The hints we get when Jack Ma disappears from public life or the party now speaks of income inequality should tell you under the surface there’s turmoil.
Personally, a lot of my experience is that my manager knows and understands the issue and is doing their best, but at some point there's only so much "managing up" they can do to prevent larger dysfunction in the org from effecting the team.

I had a discussion with my manager about this the other week and they asked me to let them know if I was considering other work so that they could try to fix it - my response was that I didn't think that would help. By the time I'm considering another job it's _because_ I no longer think my manager can or will do anything to fix the issues I have.

People generally don't leave companies when they feel like their manager would have been able to solve their issues with the company.
But who is watching the kids with two working parents?
I suspect you're right, so we can assume that it was never all in one piece or we would have known about it!
I mean honestly, I haven't been working. I'd say I'm averaging 5 hours a week of productive time since March 2020. Nobody's watching, nobody cares. I'm supposed to sit in front of a computer 40 hours a week just to do it?
This is the equivalent of never washing your hands to build up immunity. You're just spending more time and energy to solve a problem that the tool can solve for you.

Are you more independent for it? Sure, I guess. But I'd rather be efficient then get brownie points