skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know I'll make some people not happy by saying this but the only reason you need so much complex IDE tooling with Java compared to other languages is because the language itself & the tools associated to it are not very well designed. Just about everything requires some insane boilerplate where it should not.

It's not a solution to a problem, it's a problem searching for a solution.
I think it's more like rents for wealthy people went up, because wealthy people took no income hit during covid. So not only did rents continue to rise as usual for them, but they lost competition at the low end from the less wealthy spending beyond their means. I'd expect to see rents bifurcate. Without the huge stimulus, I'd have expected asset prices to have raced up, too, as the stock market failed.

By wealthy, I mean top 10-15% of salaries, not any of the definitions that people in the top 10-15% of salaries cook up to make themselves seem working class.
Yeah but xargs doesn't refuse to run until I have agreed to a EULA stating I will cite it in my next academic paper.
I guess my response was prompted mostly by this:

> Leaving Afghanistan (to fail) has been a long time coming. Obama wanted to do it, Trump wanted to do it, Biden decided to pull/had to pull/tripped over the cord.

I don't think blaming the failure on Obama, Trump, or Biden is fair. Even blaming the failure on the way Bush handled the invasion after it began is unfair, since I think it was doomed to fail from the very moment of conception. I don't think it ever stood a chance of working in the first place.

Anyway, if you'd like to know more, there are interesting parallels between the Taliban's resurgence in the past few days, and the rise of the Saqqawists during the Afghan Civil War in the 1920s. Amanullah Khan's government and armed forces were struggling against a rebellion of tribal forces (the Shinwari) who opposed Amanullah's attempts at reform, particularly wrt the status of women. When Amanullah's forces were preoccupied with fighting the Shinwari, the Saqqawists used that opportunity to attack Kabul, which Amanullah's forces surrendered to the Saqqawists with almost no fight (sound familiar?)
Since the blog author is commenting here, you have this statement part way down your blog:

> That is, grep doesn't support an analogous -0 flag.

However, the GNU grep variant does have an analogous flag:

-z, --null-data

Treat the input as a set of lines, each terminated by a zero byte (the ASCII NUL character) instead of a newline. Like the -Z or --null option, this option can be used with commands like sort -z to process arbitrary file names.
I'm naturally immune asshole. Science tells me I should avoid a treatment which is more likely to cause no benefit to anyone.
Agreed. There definitely seem to be instances where someone possess innate ability that cannot be matched through perseverance alone.
> 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.

Yes. Ever since we deurbanized (suburbanized) and kneecapped our fledgling administrative state we've been incompetent.

> 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.

Yup.

> We haven’t had a balanced budget

Please don't drag that into it. The way we run our fiat currency means there is nearly net 0 dollar. Every surplus is someone else's deficit.

> But the machine marches on, because everywhere else the problems are equal or worse at US scale.

Nope

> China hides its domestic issues much better giving this illusion that the US is crumbling.

China certianly has issues, but also has somewhat better state capacity than us. Yes people fear-think China has the best state capacity and that is not true.

> 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.

Dissapearing Jack Ma is not an indicator of failure, even if you personally don't like it. Income inequality is objectively more worrisome, as it prevents domestic demand, but things including the former (hah!) can be employed to manage the latter.
Hilarious to call people "smoothbrain" while decrying "retard" Clearly it doesn't bother you when someone's intellect is questioned, so what's the issue?
> I think authors [reach for Big Weird Analogies] because.. it’s kind of fun to write these Big Weird Analogies! Like, is there something in a stream processing system that’s like a dam? Maybe! It’s kind of fun to think about! But even though these can be fun to write, they’re not as fun to read – it’s a struggle to extract the actual technical facts you want to know.

Sometimes an analogy is actually perfect, in that both the system you’re lecturing about, and a system the reader already understands intuitively, have exactly the same underlying abstract domain model, just perhaps using different jargon between them.

For example, sound waves vs. electromagnetic waves. A wave is a wave, and if you understand what waves do, it generalizes to other kinds of waves.

Authors reach for the Big Weird Analogy because they often believe they may have stumbled upon a perfectly generalizing underlying abstraction such as “waves.” They’re usually wrong, but I don’t blame them for trying; perfectly-generalizing underlying abstractions are so useful that it’s good to be on the lookout for them.

Sometimes an analogy isn’t perfect, but is close to perfect; in such cases, it is usually helpful to share it anyway, even if it has “holes”, because readers can often find that thinking “on the level of the analogy” helps them to realize additional non-obvious properties of the system they’re learning about. (In the author’s event-streaming analogy: realizing that there are such things as dams on rivers, can make you curious as to whether there’s such a thing as flow-control in message queues. Well, there is!)
Do you support github donations? (If not, I'll sign up for patreon.)

This is amazing and is something I'm interested in using for my startup. I'd be glad to pitch in!
And night, and the whole week.

I can edit, compile and install my kernel and all its drivers in a few command lines from shell, why more and more projects, most way simpler than a kernel, ask me to install for example VSC just to build them? Give me a Makefile and possibly enough instructions to integrate its options into the favorite IDE, but making the IDE a requirement, especially for small projects or those one simply wants to build and install, adds only more complexity.
This is accurate. The only reason America (and dollar) holds up is because the primary competitors are worse.

China - too much government control, communist and not of the people

EU - aging and brexited, too many factions

UK - Strong institutions but inconsequential small island nation

Japan - aging

Aus/Canada - too small population to do anything

Russia - untrustworthy

India - still too poor but perhaps the only democratic country with a large enough population to counter the US dominance. But India and US appear to be very friendly to each other.
2/2 places I interviewed at in the past month asked me for a take home assignment, one of which would skip it if I had any open source code to show them. I have 3 more in the pipeline and I doubt more than one will require leetcoding.

As the sibling said, you can post in the HN who's hiring and who's looking to get hired threads.
Xargs ftw!
It’s not damning per se. That depends on the sampling (or otherwise it would be a tiny, tiny insurer). I’ve done studies where I sampled an insurance population to get equal group size on a few key parameters because we then did follow up questionnaires and I needed to account for non response. No point in random sampling then because all I probably would get was data on the largest groups in the population. As it turned out people loved the subject of our questionnaire (effect of preventive measures by home owners on incidence of a whole range of common claims) and we got about a 70% response rate (that’s crazy high for cold questionnaires to customers) so the study ended up quite overpowered.

Not knowing the sampling, not documenting, not having the emails or at least a zip containing the work (over 4 authors)… that’s a different ballpark.
>build an open source engine

Not sure on "coalition of companies" but godot[0] is probably close.

[0]https://godotengine.org/
There is something important here that will be hard for me to articulate. The main point is that if you read through this list it’s not all nonsense you should avoid because “pseudoscience“. To put it in other words - it’s not confirmed not working facts, they are more of anecdotally confirmed working facts, which have not bad chance of becoming scientifically confirmed facts. The list is highly subjective snapshot of rituals occupying spectrum of real facttnes level. Just because item X is nonsense descent imply that item Y is also nonsense.

All that to say that evaluation of this list should be more thorough as opposed to total acceptance or total rejection.

I have similar problem when discussing Rudolf Steiner schools/“sects”(?) - they are really good people doing really good things compared to status quo - I love buying food from their shops because I know they have incomparable quality to what I can get at nearby shops (meat, eggs, veggies etc), they grow them in harmony (no depleting monocultures, pesticides etc). At the same time I know Steiner is pseudoscience labelled - I’m aware of it but it doesn’t subtract enough from good parts.

What I’m trying to say it’s not all bad period, it’s more nuanced.
I think you'll find most European nations have in fact communist-style central price setting for basic food. Nothing comfortable, it's like (one type of) bread and one basic jam that's regulated. Stores have to offer it, they have to ask a specific (very low) price. I hear in france you get cheese too.

Which means as long as you're happy with very basic food, you can eat for, I believe in the Netherlands it's 37 euro per month. And yes, you can buy it in any supermarket (I believe the exact rule is that if they sell bread, they have to have this option available at the government mandated price).

Of course, in practice there are mostly cheaper options available, so we even have all the parts of communist/government intervention: it mostly misses the point.
> handing over all business organizing to github as a platform.

GitHub is not the only issue tracker. Git itself is the easiest to migrate off of GitHub, issues is probably close next.
Agreed. Afghanistan is one of the few things at this point that pretty much everyone in the US agrees about: the need to get out. The bad optics will be forgotten in a month or so if not less.

COVID, on the other hand is apocalyptic in the original greek sense of the word (revealing something that was hidden under the surface): It's revealed huge problems in the US not the least of which is an epistemic gap that seems unbridgeable.
Intermittent fasting offers a great alternative that is completely free! The problem Fe Business perspective is of course that there's nothing to sell. No pills no magic nutrition plan or foods or exercise regime. And best of all...no calorie counting!

If you're fasting and feel hungry while carrying body fat it means your metabolism is broken. Insulins levels are high and thus prevent the use of stored body fat for energy. It's possible to reverse this condition but it can take time up to 6 months approx.

I really recommend to watch a pod cast with Dr. Benjamin Bikman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfSJFPu50_A

It's incredible how fasting just works. I've lost 10kg of bf and 10cm from my waistline without counting a single calorie or feeling hungry at all over the course of 6 months. And I haven't lost strength either and my workouts are as intense as before. After i started fasting it took me a about 6 weeks to start seeing visible changes.
Just like the majority of users choose to use Windows back in the day? They didn't had to. Linux was always a choice.
I see Internal error
[YSE-oMP1SSyd4ptIjUFctwAAAPA] 2021-08-21 17:57:56: Fatal exception of type "Error"
I haven't had to travel yet. May I ask what battery pack you have? Also do you use a heated tube and/or humidifier? That takes a lot more power.
Support comes in many shapes. Sometimes it is about sitting together and sharing things. Sometimes, when you can't get up from the bed, someone helping with unavoidable chores speaks louder than words.
Inside The Diverse and Growing Asian Population in the U.S.
> If he's dealing with an idiot sandwich, yeah, he does what needs to be done, but he is never wantonly or arbitrarily abusive, and it makes satisfying watching to boot!

I am so very sick of this false rationalization.

There is nothing about having high standards that requires abusive behavior to enforce them. That is straight up bullshit.

Ramsey is indeed playing up the abuse for the sake of attracting viewers, however it's not purely an act. He was trained under Marco Pierre White, arguably the first modern celebrity chef, who was infamous for straight up violence in his kitchens. Kitchens are dangerous enough. There is zero excuse for throwing pots at peoples heads or starting straight up fist fights.

Listen to people who've worked in Ramsey's restaurants and it's clear the example he sets results in abusive behavior top to bottom.

By way of contrast, there's a Canadian chef named Laura Caulder that was traditionally trained by someone very high up in the French culinary world. She had a show for a number of years on Canadian tv, including a special episode where she went back to her alma mater to help out with a very high profile dinner (think ambassadors and royals sort of thing). Her mentor was fascinating to watch, because she was completely unyielding on holding the very highest standards, but without a shred of abusive behavior. She simply stated things as they were, demanded better, and that was that.

There's nothing about Ramsey's antics that are necessary for achieving greatness, and it's depressing that people find abusive behavior satisfying to watch.
We need some new language over this because some science is 'settled' or at least 'strongly indicative'.

I wonder if 'Social Sciences' and 'Psychology' - sine we know so little about it and don't necessarily have a foundation from which to work on ... if they should be called 'Social Philosophy' that happens to use applied scientific methods.

And when the news talks about published papers and scientific results, we can agree on a language like simply the term 'Unverified' or 'Not Fully Verified' to effectively mean 'Not peer reviewed or duplicated'.

That way, when the first Ivermectin trial comes out we can say 'Unverified Ivermectin Study' and that 'Verification' is in progress etc..
> And, by the way, the unvaxxed are the only ones dying of COVID now. At worst, vaxxed folk come into the ICU for a day or two; never need a ventilator.

Strictly speaking that's not 100% true, there have been covid deaths of fully vaccinated people. I personally know of one here in CA.

Of course, these are few and far between, nearly all the deaths are unvaccinated people, so the rest of your points stand.
Already filled it out, thank you!
You are assuming that every / most employee wants to be remote. This is not the case, and these companies are obviously selecting for a team that wants to work together in person.
Sure, if performance matters use xargs. I find this is easier to read and think about.
Thank you! Unfortunately, GitHub donations is not supported in my country, so Patreon is the only option for me.
an offline GPS device would solve most of my problems of not having a phone with me at all times... but all cars broadcast your location anyways. https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-exec-gps-2014-1
Yeah, classical Microsoft where externals have easier time talking across divisions than internal employees, only interested on their own silos.

I know of cases where externals where tasked with fetching information due to that culture.
Having studied TLA+ a little bit, I'm curious - is there something flawed in the parent comment's argument?
Quite literally. I don’t know the resolution of geographic pay my employer uses (I suspect it’s by metropolitan area, but could easily be down to zip code), but I do have access to the regional differences of my employees (several large offices globally, and many remote employees). Same for my wife’s employer (several large offices, very few fully remote employees).

Wife’s company makes explicit comp adjustments if an employer moved. Mine does not, but it does impact future adjustments.
They say 3272 degrees Fahrenheit, which is 1800 degrees Celsius. This does appear to be achievable using the ceramic matrix composite (CMC) technology, more precisely the continuous fiber reinforced ceramic matrix composite [1].

[1] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/678/1/0...
Good! And don’t take me the wrong way, good on you for changing your opinion. But my point is to actively have empathy, and actively try to think about other people beforehand, rather than only after any damage has potentially been done.

Regardless, not everyone will even learn even when confronted with new data, so again, good on you for doing that.
I think this derives from the fact that a fair amount of programmers are told what language they will write in and are forced to adhere to the languages semantics even if they liked other language semantics.

The force part comes from a desire for business continuity and efficiency. If you're a large scale Go shop there's a fair amount of specialized infrastructure needed including a goproxy to prevent leakage, some apparatus to view documentation, and probably educational resources.

A large scale Java shop needs extensive artifact storage and a place to host generated Java docs.

If you employ both languages your infra cost is now going up for something a business sees as pure overhead rather than the conduit for innovation. In my experience this leads to language supremacy discussions, bickering over scarce funding, etc.

On my team, we're polyglot. Everything, including docs, are generated and self-hosted internally. We make the best of a brisk situation. What lets me sleep okay at night is that developers have a choice to use the best tool (language) for the job, not just the one that a company hired for ten years ago.
> The first statement should usually raise eyebrows, as science is almost never "settled". The first and second laws of thermodynamics are pretty solid. For most other things we can entertain some skepticism.

One of my good friends is a particle physicist and he assures me that he and his peers very much hope the science isn't settled, despite agreeing pretty well with experiment, because the Standard Model is a hideous kludge.

The heuristic I use is judging based on my estimate of the statement's Shannon entropy. And most of the time the "follow the science" crowd's statements contain absolutely no entropy. I've already heard it verbatim from CNN or some other usually low expertise source. Furthermore, it's annoying to have people lecture me about PCR tests when they don't even know what a restriction endonuclease is. Note that high entropy doesn't mean correct, but to me it does mean more interesting. Now there are plenty of people out there who demonstrably do not want me to have access to high entropy sources, because they believe them to be wrong. They're certainly entitled to their beliefs, but I dislike the idea of someone else deciding what I'm allowed to read.

On the subject of Shannon entropy, I've observed that on technical subjects that readers here have expertise in, like programming, the high entropy comments tend to get upvoted. On the other hand any topic where the crowd here believes "the science is settled" you see the exact opposite effect: high entropy comments are consistently massively disapproved of, while clever restatements of the conventional wisdom with minimal entropy get voted to the top.
If remote work is a true option, people have the option to live close to extended family. Children can spend time with grandparents, aunts and uncles. Now, I'll grant you I sound like a hippy but if you read child psychology literature, these styles of multigeneration household/child-rearing is supposed to be good for both the children and the elders.

https://carrothealth.com/crowded-house-the-surprising-benefi...
> How can we know that without long-term studies?

It's unbelievably well tested. Pfizer and Moderna have minimal side effects compared even yo the most mild of COVID cases. You're saying that you're ok with extreme covid symptoms (permeant reduced lung capacity, significant loss of taste and smell, permeant brain fog) but not ok with a vaccine that's proven safe in hundreds of millions of people? That's just bad risk assessment.

And they're still incredibly effective against new strains. They're preventing hospitalization, death, and extreme, permeant symptoms. That is their goal. They're working.

> but if I get the vaccine, that adds to the demand,

Wrong. The supply is already created. It's already been paid for by the federal government. Your individual demand is irrelevant.

> I won't get treatment because I did not get the vaccine. So talking about how I don't care about people is entirely wrong as well. I care about people, so I won't take the hospital bed.

If you're unvaccinated, then you are still hurting others by being a vector for (1) incubating the virus and thus spreading it and (2) being a petri dish for deadly mutation to evolve. And if your resolve on your deathbed changes, as so many doctors and nurses have seen, then you'll take that hospital bed anyways.

And if you did actually already have COVID (and not a cold or any number of other diseases that are mild and share some COVID symptoms), then getting better antibodies would be a good thing. No logic as to why you would not want to increase your immune systems' effectiveness.
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I give up, but I’ll remind you your comment in 5 years :)
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This definitely feels more like a rant about Java than about IDEs.
I've read two of Dan Arielly's books and while occasionally entertaining and occasionally insightful, I could never stop feeling like he was a bullshit artist. His books read as if he read a paper about people liking counterintuitive headlines with sciency-sounding explanations, and he p-hacked his entire career to take advantage of it and become the next Malcolm Gladwell. I kinda expected to see this sort of rebuttal sooner, considering how much of a thorn he was in economists' sides, but not at all surprised to see that it eventually happened.
If anyone from Gitlab is reading: our OSS community would love to use Gitlab for everything, but we don't seem to be able to:

- disable the "packages and registry" menu item for the project (despite disabling it in the permissions)
- odd help texts, such as "enable LFS to upload a design" displayed to non-admins
- can't hide the service desk menu item, despite permissions.

I understand it's not an easy compromise to balance discovery and user-friendlyness, but then we have people in our community who repeat "gitlab is only for devs" because of this.

Example: https://lab.civicrm.org/support
The company started with zero manufacturing capacity. It’s now slated for fourth quarter in the US but earlier for Europe. I wish they would have been able to partner with big pharma much like the Pfizer vaccine.