skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A somewhat related approach that I’ve found incredibly useful in my career is repeating what -others- have told you back to them, a lot.

It’s honestly amazing to me how much mileage I’ve gotten out of simply saying, “I heard you say X about Y. Does that sound right to you?” a couple of times during discussions just to make sure that everyone is clear that we’re all discussing the same thing.

It seems like “common sense” to clarify your understanding of someone else’s communication but I haven’t run into very many people who actually take the time to do it.
It certainly triggers my trypophobia!
I do the same thing, but slightly differently. https://github.com/francislavoie/laravel-websockets-example/...
> Video game stories are those things I have to quickly click through to get to the next bit of action.

I don't think you're in the opposite camp as he is. Your point above is essentially his Observation 2.

> the vast majority of players just tune out the story. As long as you let them skip past it, it's fine.
> every command you run in a script is basically a fork

Not for built-in commands.

> Yeah “fork is slow” is the sort of microbenchmark that is mostly irrelevant for shell scripts

Maybe if you're on a Linux kernel, but not everywhere else.
"We are seeing continued DDoS attacks against our infrastructure and are working with our network provider on mitigation strategies. Our team are working hard to provide stability."

https://www.fastmailstatus.com
They are waiting for the US to get into the market, then they'll accept it

You'll see

Just like the weed, now that the US is leading the market, they are pushing for a global legalization

Rigged society, civilization for the bad people!
Personally, I think it's important to take a few months to allow yourself to get unburnt. You will have different ideas of how to spend your time from that vantage point, than from this one. Whereas if you keep pushing yourself to be productive right out of the gate, you're just going to keep maintaining the same context, just without income.
I haven't been tinkering with audio/ browser for a while. I'm surprised latency got down this much.

The lessons seems very well done. Personally I use Renoise Tracker to create music, but it's a little hard to explain to new-comers. So whenever a new comers asks me for a proper introduction, I'll have 'm look a these lessons.
It will probably not happen as long as there is a commercial incentive to not do that. What you will get is a subset of features that can be common in a shared interface.

At this time a GPU manufacturer will conform to whatever workloads will run on the device, instead of creating a shared API and letting someone else choose how to use it.

Even if you just compare CUDA and OpenCL which makes use of the GPU in non-graphics workloads. In theory this was a chance to create a universal interface but in practise it turns out what you can make more money if your special sauce is better than the sauce of others, even if it's not better in all scenarios.

It seems the true agnostic interface will be on engine level where a compute library or graphics engine will be running on top of a bunch of non-agnostic interfaces and the real interface you'll be working with is the interface of the engine.
Can confirm. Quite a few pieces of expensive music software allow you to transfer ownership of licenses. I just bought a used Maschine+ hardware unit and the seller included a printout with confirmation of ownership for the software component along with the required serial numbers for the new owner (me).
Same for me. I get notifications, but neither the mobile app not the website works.
I've done a variety of different jobs in my time, and standard dev work (in a corporate environment with managers and pretend-agile and JIRA etc) is by miles the most stressful, confusing, complicated, bullshit-ridden job I've ever had in terms of day-to-day experience. It's also the most well paid – that's what evens it out. It's not that all jobs/industries are equally frustrating (which is obviously untrue, to anyone who has worked in more than one industry).

The 'objective comforts' you get at some places, if you mean stuff like pingpong and free beers and lunchtime yoga, are sticking plasters that don't actually get much take-up. The only real 'objective comfort' is the high pay, which makes the rest of your life more comfortable, but doesn't make the day-to-day experience of the job any less frustrating, hence developers 'burning out' so often.
I do kinda get a kick out of connecting my keep (homebrew analog micro modular) to a volca modular slave and midi out to a... you get the picture.
Same. It only takes one mistake of that magnitude to lose me as a customer forever.
Yeah, try subshells on MSYS2 and see how performance goes.
I think the shift to platformization was the biggest death knell. Up to around 2007 or so it was common for people and companies to have their own websites or blogs. Then everyone jumped into someone else platform, and today we've been riding on third party platforms for so long that people don't even bother with visiting or making independent websites at all. Some people don't even search the internet, they just search facebook.com.
Check out r/financialindipendence on Reddit. The people over there have the same goals and discuss strategies etc
From the wikipedia article:

> In a 2015 study, researchers discovered that familiarity can overpower rationality and that repetitively hearing that a certain fact is wrong can affect the hearer's beliefs.[4] Researchers attributed the illusory truth effect's impact on participants who knew the correct answer to begin with, but were persuaded to believe otherwise through the repetition of a falsehood, to "processing fluency".

> The illusory truth effect plays a significant role in such fields as election campaigns, advertising, news media, and political propaganda.

From the article:

> When selling a company, a product, or an idea to customers, employees, investors, candidates, repeating a consistent message several times embosses the message upon the individual’s memory. It establishes clarity: Redpoint is a leading venture capital firm.

It's not that hard, seriously. This is a staple of propaganda repackaged into low quality blogspam.

Let's take `Redpoint is a leading venture capital firm.`. What does that even mean? Leading what? In what? It's a pointless meaningless phrase. But if you hear it often enough it becomes 'truth' in whatever the context you're in at that point.

Basically one of the major ways in which we manufacture, package and sell bullshit.
Investing in technology can bite you if you invest at the wrong time:

* https://www.pwlcapital.com/investing-technological-revolutio...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_Revolutions_and_...

AMZN dropped 90% after the Dot Com Bubble burst. TSLA in the last five years:

> In the past 5 years, there were drawdowns of 30%, 50%, -60% and -35%. This stock was down 60% in 2020! It’s up a cool 1000%+ since then.

> And the crazy thing is there were plenty of Tesla shareholders who did hold on for the entire ride. They were true believers in the face of relentless negativity about the company and its founder.

> Kudos to them.

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2021/10/the-10-most-dangero...

Do you have the mental fortitude to hang on during those times? How do you know when you're wrong?

> The first has to do with stock picking. Mr. Housel points out that most public companies are duds, a few do well, and a handful become extraordinary winners that drive the vast majority of the stock market’s returns. He cites data from the Russell 3000 Index that shows, since 1980, forty percent of all Russell 3000 stock components lost at least 70% of their value and never recovered.

* https://boomerandecho.com/weekend-reading-the-psychology-of-...

* Housel's book: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/41881472-the-psycholo...

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2014/09/stocks-dont-come-ba...

FAANG may be great stocks—right now. But there are plenty of stocks that used to be great as well:

> Exxon Mobil replaced by a software stock after 92 years in the Dow is a ‘sign of the times’

* https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/25/exxon-mobil-replaced-by-a-so...

When do you know when a stock you've pick that used to be good stops being good? IBM, AT&T, and GM were in the Top 10 of companies on the S&P 500 for decades: how are they doing now? How do you know when to jump ship?

* https://www.dimensional.com/us-en/insights/large-and-in-char...

AAPL didn't do very well in the 1990s: when would have dropped them? When should you have picked them up? (After the (in)famous Microsoft investment perhaps?)

Further, just because investing in a company on its way up may be give you good returns, does that still apply once it is at the top?

> But as massive as these behemoths became, that has not necessarily made them good long-term investments. For each decade starting 1930, 1940, 1950, and so on through 2010, the 10 largest companies at the start of the decade have made up, on average, 23.6% of the U.S. stock market. But, in the decade that followed, the average annual return of those 10 largest companies has trailed the market by an annualized 1.51% on average.

* https://www.pwlcapital.com/are-the-largest-large-cap-growth-...

Investing in the "top companies" was a fad in the past—and returns weren't necessary that good over the long-term:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nifty_Fifty

Owning the best stocks is hard:

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2021/03/owning-the-best-sto...
Thank you! I am not from US so no 401k.

15%-30% seems huge to me. Isn't the risks big compared to buying an index fund?
A ransomware intrusion into a modern large tech company like Roblox would be unusual and impressive.
No it does not. I don't run database in kubernetes because I don't trust myself to be able to recover from disasters.

How database-as-a-service vendor run their services is none of my business as long as they deliver the performances I need and working backup/recovery procedures.
Thanks, that does help
Can you be more direct about your point instead of posing this question? I’m not sure what you’re getting at. If your point is that some people inherit wealth, then I see no problem with that both because the vast majority of the rich are self made and because it is completely valid for someone to work hard to leave their descendants with a better situation.
I would absolutely prefer to have 3 months notice that 2 weeks if my brother was on death row in Singapore (and I was outside Singapore), especially as as the article describes it's difficult for them to even manage to get there in that time.
And, Kompute (kompute.cc) is a portable substitute for CUDA, given Vulkan 1.1.

I wonder now whether the Vulkan API is an adequate interface to securely expose GPU capabilities to multiple VMs, i.e. without those VMs being able to see other VMs' memory. If not, what would need to happen to get there?
> writing shell scripts in Python to be cumbersome because whatever flavor of os.system() I end up using just doesn't work well syntactically.

This is exactly how I felt. Bash can't handle structured data well. Python (being general purpose programming language) can't handle calling external programs well because it's not the "focus" of the language. My shameless plug solution is a "real" programming language that can do both well (along with proper handling of exit codes and more goodies for "devops"y scripting).

https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs

More about this feeling when you don't have a well fitting language for "devops"y scripting - https://ilya-sher.org/2017/10/10/why-i-have-no-favorite-prog...
Tangentially related: what's state-of-the-art for data protection & access control for small organizations? One runs into the "someone's gotta be trusted with the master keys" problem there so early & often that all the "big" solutions feel silly. Do small shops just farm this out via SaaS and hope their provider's doing the right thing?

(the answer back in the day, and perhaps still, was just "they don't really worry about it at all, and hope nothing goes wrong")
Very true, hence my mention of hearing aids.
It's not "you first". There are perfectly good replacements available, we just need governments to invest heavily on replacing them instead of using that money to maintain the status quo.
Pragmatically, many developers can just use the APIs provided by Unreal Engine, Unity, Godot, Qt, or whatever and let them figure out how to support various GPUs.
Why parrot the incorrect denigration of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine in this post?

Misinformation and all… c19ivermectin.com
> Yet, I'm worried that if I just quit. I'll just be a slob, sleep until noon

Maybe that is what you need if you are burnt out.
The statement is broadly that this is not intended as a treatment but offers a useful way of deciding how likely a patient is to not respond to initial therapy.

I don't think a sensible person is suggesting a massive dose of vitamin d on a arrival is a cure.

As for the consequence of is the deficiency linked to poor otherwise health that is interesting to disentangle.

This does offer a very good explanation to the idiotic statements of "covid is racist". I.e. if it is linked to vit-d deficiency it offers a way to reduce deaths in minorities.
These early concerns suggested that covid would hit Africa for instance really badly, and it is yet to do so.
Reorganizing these roles to Redmond would make a great deal of sense financially, although I wonder how many of these roles will move, and how many will disappear.
Beautiful dashboards for your smart home with InfluxDB, Grafana
Show HN: Fleet FN – Serverless Function for Large Scale APIs
> Personally, when I feel I want to use a ... non-trivial thing ... in bash, it's time to reach for another language.

Then you must not be writing any bash at all. Functions are useful for almost anything beyond a one-liner script.

Typical functions used in innumerable non-trivial scripts:

* print_usage()

* die() (see: https://stackoverflow.com/q/7868818/1593077)

:-)
100% agree.

This is not only useful for improving communication but for making other parties satisfied they are being heard.

I do this too and it gives people an opportunity to clarify their views, which everyone appreciates, and often leads to them explaining broader motivations which helps develop trust.
Am I missing something? Why is decommissioning nuclear power plants the problem here? There are plenty of nuclear power plants that has been decommissioned. So this is nothing new.
I like to think this thing I wrote isn't so bad and is fairly readable, even if you don't know anything about shell programming:

https://github.com/GavinRay97/hasura-ci-cd-action/blob/a9731...

This is out of necessity. I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, so I have to go out of my way to write things such that when I come back to them in months or years, I still understand what they do.

For this same reason, is also why I never use shorthand flags for scripts.

I have no clue what IE: "-s -y -o" might do (or even worse, "-syo", dear god my eyes! Also -- is that one special command, or a series of individual commands?!).

But "--silent --assume-yes --output-file" is pretty easy to grok immediately.
I didn't say that the "gang" was "good guys". My point was that the film's pitting of the main villain against a group of (extremely minor) villains in a single, throw away scene is unrelated to the upthread assertion under discussion that action movies pit individual heroes against a conspiracy so they can have the heroes defeat individual members of the conspiracy over the course of the movie.

Whether or not we call the group a conspiracy, the scene doesn't make the broader case.
I'm confused too, but look at this photo in the article http://randomfootage.homestead.com/pumpkinTangerine1.jpg

It looks like there is an empty slot at 11-12 in the clock, and also an empty slot at 7 in the clock. Each one looks partially split in two, so I can imagine that they are the missing 2 parts of the structure of the flower.
Easily preventable with a 100 page ToS to agree to before allowing usage!
I agree with a lot of his points, and with the general thesis of the article. But, I disagree with this:

> The default video game plot is, 'See that guy over there? That guy is bad. Kill that guy.' If your plot is anything different, you're 99% of the way to having a better story.

I don't think the structure of the story needs to be more complex than that to be good. It can be, but neither complexity, nor novelty, nor non-linearity are what makes stories good. The stuff he dismisses as being of limited value (good dialog and interesting worlds) are extremely important. I'd add characterization to that. But those things are, to lots of people, all equally as important as structure in making a story meaningful.
There's `shellcheck`, as part of Syntastic, for vim. I find it quite useful. You could call it a Bash linter.
You can configure udev to blacklist the device. https://projectgus.com/2014/09/blacklisting-a-single-usb-dev...
20 year old. And hardly a failure, considering that most of the stuff he announced was created and tested there first. He s just copying concepts.
The life blood of any independent site is advertising. Who would advertise on such a site?
Subreddits are honestly pretty terrible for niche interests compared to a traditional forum. In a normal forum, if your thread about 1998 Honda Civics gets a single post to it a month, so be it, but people are at least posting in a relevant thread and reading up on the discussion that's already been started potentially years ago earlier in the thread. On reddit, you have to post a new submission all the time for a topic to stay in play even in a given niche interest subreddit. You can't post comments on threads that are too old, and new comments don't bump up these old threads anyway. It leads to the same old ground being covered all the time (sometimes you can imagine exactly what the top comment will be), and fragments discussion.
> If you make a movie out of e.g. any of the Call of Duty games, you'd mostly end up with a generic action movie without having to change the script.

This is kind of a funny comparison, because the first Call of Duty game was practically a string of set-piece action scenes, and sometimes plot lines, that were very obviously lifted from popular WWII war movies from the prior few years. IMO—and I doubt this is an uncommon sentiment among people who played it—those were also easily the best parts of the game.
Sorry. "elegant" here triggered.

https://ilya-sher.org/2021/03/19/running-elegant-bash-on-sim...
I work with large-scale neuroscience imaging, and this is exactly how we compress 3D image stacks (i.e. 3d volumes) captured with confocal microscopes. Since adjacent frames are usually quite similar, there's a ton of redundancy that H.265 can exploit, and the compression ratios are amazing. For multi-channel volumetric imaging, we use ffmpeg to encode each channel as a movie and then combine all the channels into a single HDF5 file.
There is also Harlan [1], which created a bit of buzz a couple of years ago. Sadly it is not maintained anymore...

[1] https://github.com/eholk/harlan
> I'm pretty sure that Fifty Shades of Grey wasn't successful for its story, but for discussing sex and specifically BDSM in a more open way than what was previously seen in "mainstream" movies.

And because it feeded from the Twilight-Hype, on which it was a juicy twist. For itself it probably would never have become such a success.

> but you could say exactly the same thing about Minecraft, DOOM

Can we? Minecraft feeds mainly on its powerful sandboxing and modability, which other games still can't really match today, while also still getting regular updates. And doom as a franchise continued to move forward and created new games. They don't remain successful just because their first versions were awesome at the time, but because they continued to output awesome successors.

This is very different from classics which are usually frozen in time and stay classics despite getting no updates at all.
I think it's more than superficial. Word definitions are done the same and you concatevatively build up your DSL in the same manner. Nothing keeps any other Forth from having a GC, it's just that many are thin layers over the hardware and are used in applications where a GC is unnecessary.

In general, I kinda get what you're saying though in that JS and C share a syntax and are very different. However, 8th still is stack based and has all the hallmark Forth words like "dup", "rot", "pick"... etc that clearly mark it as part of that language family.
Nobody here is saying you're personally responsible for slow software, or that you're personally pushing for software to be slow. But I'm saying that rationalisations about slow software are partially to blame. Preconceived assumptions keep being proven as incorrect, but developers keep repeating them.

I also never assumed anywhere you work at Microsoft or that you blamed Casey for anything, I'm just using his case as an example. The gist of that sentence is that software can't be made faster if the only way to get that to happen is via public shaming, like Casey did.

About having to wait for users asking for speed increases: I feel like this is a bit of a strawman in itself, because even when users complain, it's rare that product managers follow trough.

But even discounting that: users not asking doesn't mean that software can't be better made faster, that it won't be a competitive advantage, or that users even know it's possible.

Both features and optimisations should not be driven by user votes or managers hunch. Teams should see the data, analyse usage, the market, predict outcomes, predict how difficult. And implementation should be iterative. Software made by continuously slapping spaghetti against the wall is the #1 cause of teams too busy.

Also, about the cost of optimisation: it's (more often than not) nowhere near as big as people assume. It was demonstrated by Casey and in other cases. And no, it's also not something only super programmers can do.
> Long gone are days where people / governments make decisions based on any objective facts and pragmatic cost/ benefit/ risk analysis.

There are governments choosing to build nuclear right now, despite its general unpopularity in many circles so I don't know that such days are "long gone".

And how could anyone sell another nuclear plant to France when the Flamanville 3rd reactor is 5X++ over budget and 8 years behind schedule? It is hard to win any rational cost/benefit/risk analysis when you have to fight a well-deserved reputation of being absurdly expensive and very high risk!

Rebranding might help, but there are some places where these bridges are simply burnt and the industry won't be getting back in, which is unfortunate but also kind of deserved in a way.
Maybe investing in the Vancouver real estate market.
Oops yeah, you're right, brain fart on my part.
Two day outage of a product the size of Roblox is unusual too. I hope they publish a postmortem - my guess is some kind of database issue to have stayed down this long.
Golang – Standard Library Context Package
Yep. Now is that related to overall wealth of people with low vit-d. Or is it linked to other factors like genetic heritage?

The extreme low cases of vit-d in developed nations tends to have a genetic component or other health thing. But the genetic link I think has been disentangled from overall affluence. I.e. certain people if they take vit-d supplements can improve their overall health.
Yes it is. But if it doesn't work it probably never will. This is the best chance we have.
https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-11-29/aws-ec2-virtual...

Virtualized in Hardware: Hardware support for virtualization, and near bare-metal speeds. I'd expect between 0.1% and 1.5% overhead.