skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well.. After learning how to create music I've come to appreciate certain artists more and others less. Sometimes I missed the ability to listen to music without analysing it. Other times I've wished I could hear my own music, like someone who didn't write it would. These days I listen mostly by feeling the music. Now it doesn't matter much whether it's my or another artists music. As long as it 'feels' right.
As someone who believes in this approach, this article doesn't give the right advice or level of detail about how you do this right as part of a management team. You can't just repeat "year of the hound" over and over again and expect the team to rally around it. You have to build a narrative, a story, get everyone to understand it, and then continue to bring people's work back to align against that.

So you start by identifying a problem or goal (or a few), and write it down, and walk everyone through why that's important. Then you talk to everyone about what they're working on - does that work ladder up to that problem or goal? How? Then on a regular basis, you talk about how the team is progressing against those problems/goals. Send out emails celebrating wins and specifically explain why they are important to those goals. Then if you hit a goal, you have a party, and you genuinely thank everyone involved in hitting that goal, and recognize them (even if it's everyone).

And by the same token, if people want to get distracted, you bring it back to those core goals - "hey, it sounds great that we've got this cool opportunity to expand into eastern europe if we internationalize the product, but how does that get us closer to our goal of getting 50% of our current enterprise customers fully rolled out with all critical feature requests addressed?"

You have to be able to tell a story, build a narrative, take criticism and debate, organically bring people's work back to the story, and so on. It's not EASY, but it's incredibly powerful when done well (and I am not saying I am great at this, I've seen people who do it beautifully, but I do it better than many people I have worked for).
Continental philosophy is making a comeback! The kids love Žižek
Why are you taking a sabbatical if you don't have a plan?
People have more than enough food. Where there is a famine you find a government behind it.
Thanks for the link summaries.

I fail to understand the down votes.
To have variable typos result in errors with `set -u`, then expand an array that is defined but may be empty, I need write it as `${ARRAY[@]+"${ARRAY[@]}"`. (Further explanation: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7577052/bash-empty-array...) But maybe bash arrays are too new a feature, and should be avoided, so let's look at something simpler, like command-line arguments.

Parsing command-line arguments is easy, but parsing them correctly is ridiculously hard. `getopts` doesn't handle long flags, so it's out. `getopt` doesn't handle arguments with spaces in them, unless you have a version with non-standard extensions, so it's out. You're left with manual parsing, and it's a royal pain to make sure you handle every expected case (short/long flags, clusters of short flags, trailing arguments to be passed through to a subprocess, short/long options whose value is in the next argument, long options whose value is after an equals sign, and several others I'm probably forgetting about). And this is just to get the arguments into your script, before you actually do anything with it.

I agree that bash has effective idioms, and learning those idioms can make scripts easier to write. I strongly disagree that bash is "as maintainable as anything else", and scripts beyond a few hundred lines should be rewritten before they can continue growing.
Tech workers warned they were going to quit. The problem is spiralling out
probably a bunch of bots that bought on any news is good news.
Your background?
> The Bay area has particularly nasty water

Bafflingly wrong, at least for the large majority of the Bay Area. It's Sierra runoff with very low TDS, hardness, or alkalinity.

Maybe your particular area has issues, but to generalize that to the bay area is objectively wrong.
Okay, and humor me: why might I have come to that conclusion? Note that I've actually already explained why, so there's no reason for you to "fail to understand." All you have to do is bring yourself to actually write it out, in your own words.
"Negroponte’s vision was an architecture machine that would turn the design process into a dialogue, altering the traditional human-machine dynamics."

https://eliza-pert.medium.com/1973-a1b835e87d1c
A Tribute to Web Surfing
I recommend InVesalius. It’s in Flathub (https://flathub.org/apps/details/br.gov.cti.invesalius)
Sengoku Rance is my favorite example of this — a hentai game whose game mechanics and plot are so engrossing that no one sticks around for the hentai
Car Bonnet Opens While Driving and Causes a Big Crash
Same story as last week. Who would want to destroy Fastmail? As a user this is extremely inconvenient.
The code behind Quake 3's overbounce bug
I. AM. NOT. SUGGESTING. TO. USE. INFECTIONS. TO. GET. IMMUNITY.

:)

I'm only considering already acquired immunity from past infections. And I've given an example on how that's relevant. It's probably another example of polarization that you're assuming almost by default that I'm an enemy anti-vaxxer (I'm not). Oh well, nothing else to do that to keep talking, and hoping civilized conversation helps.
"The dish... was added to their menu in 1972 but never patented by the family."

A patent on a dessert recipe? The BBC might want to brush up on intellectual property rights.
Its certain correlated with disability. Those who are chronically ill wont be getting out into the sun as much and tend to have low Vitamin D. It is a well known proxy for overall health.
> not sure that video games are actually good vehicles for plots. Video games are interactive, but all good plots require careful pacing and timing in order to be successful.

Video games are a great medium for plots! You just have to allow the plot to fail, and let the player take it on tangents. Games that go "uhh you died that's not canon let's rewind" are just shitty games.
Well Put

Just by playing, you gain too little data - you'd have to re-invent the world's expertise on your own.

One must study the vast amounts of data generated by other players, now embodied as knowledge.

Not unlike many other fields. Reading and coaching count a lot.
You can get a house in economically healthy cities and suburbs for $100k...

... as long your definition of economically healthy doesn't mean "top-tier school district in a trendy metro area", and your definition of house isn't "4bd/2ba recent construction"

Hastily searched example:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/14021-Lakota-Ave-Clevelan...
One way to answer this would be to find the largest (in terms of LoC) Bash script you can find and try to add a feature or fix a bug.
Maybe it's because I've been on Windows for too long, but people are always complaining about how terrible Windows 10 (and soon to be 11 is) as an experience (See recent slowdown with AMD processors). That and a little bit too much time watching all the cool things people did with 1mhz processors with no L1 cache or graphics, on 80s computers. As someone who wasn't around during that time, it's easy to get the feeling that a 1.5ghz quad core cpus +.5ghz gpu should absolutely slay any program, but in my experience using the RPI4 as a primary computer it hasn't felt that way.

> For software that was written in a performance insensitive way (i.e. not games) you perhaps could achieve a 100 times performance increase by a full rewrite avoiding various overheads. However, you would not really need an OS change for that, the main performance-relevant changes would be in the app itself and you can get almost all of that by running the optimized app on a standard OS - but you would need a rewrite of all the actual software.

I think this is insightful. I agree that not everything would be 100x, but I feel like at the level of an RPI 4 even a 5-10% improvement that bumps a game into 30 or 60fps territory would be noticeable. And even a 2x improvement in regular apps would have impact.
Still getting mail over IMAP just fine here.

Edit: Spoke too soon. Getting errors now.
It's interesting to watch languages evolve around this issue. I can't help but contrast this and other debates by native speakers with the obnoxious spread of "LatinX", a term which makes no sense if you speak Spanish (I prefer Latine as a gender-neutral term).
Cars Do Not Exist
I think it is unfortunate that whole stack gets zero attention.
Honestly, I can't wait for the crash. All the people I know who made it big on cryptocurrencies are the same people who got in very early so they could buy drugs on the dark web with it - the idiot risk takers. It has been quite annoying watching all these morons think they are visionary geniuses just because they happened to have some leftover BTC after using most of it to buy felony quantities of illegal drugs.

I mean I have worked my ass off my entire life to get good grades, go to a good school, get a good job, etc. And quite frankly, now I wish I had just become a drug dealer in HS and put all the earnings in crypto.
> Especially value investing.

Value investing had a long stretch of lower returns than other strategies:

* https://theirrelevantinvestor.com/2018/01/24/whats-wrong-wit...

If "99.999% of Investment is an exercise of patient and emotion", then I think most people would be hard pressed to see 'sub-optimal' results on a strategy for a decade and manage to stick with it.
If your core use case is collaboration, GSuite is the best option IMO.

If you have more of a desktop publishing mindset, the Microsoft suite has way more options.

Personally I have zero need for WordArt or custom page sizes, but rely on the collaboration features in docs to hammer out designs, share analyses, and put together presentations. Nothing I produce is meant to be printed out.
A lot of the time you don't even have the luxury of assuming "bash" is present, you've got only "sh".

Since all valid "sh" syntax is valid "bash", you've got to restrict yourself to only sh-valid code in the event the host doesn't have bash.

I have gotten used to doing this -- these scripts usually wind up being run in Docker containers that don't have "bash" installed for the sake of minimalism.

IE, you can't use [[ $predicate ]], but instead [ $predicate ], etc. Lot of subtle differences.
My first question was: "Why on earth would anyone target Fastmail?" And to answer my own question, it seems a lot of email providers are in the firing line at the moment - https://therecord.media/ddos-attacks-hit-multiple-email-prov...
According to Wikipedia, world governments spent over $35 trillion last year and world hunger hasn't been solved. I don't think $35.006 trillion would make the difference.
Have You Got Mirrors Bro?
Church was the Evil Empire long after medieval - in some countries, like Poland, people are still being denied reproductive rights because of catholic ideology. Islamic extremism is a marginal problem compared to this - there are no places in Europe where people's rights would be limited because of Sharia.
I agree about hypotheticals, and sadly I find that is usually the problem with this topic.

Some people "know" why some thing will definitely work because they ignore problems, and others "know" why something will not work because they don't realize the problems are solvable or even non-existent.

Such as in your example - the three countries you mention are already (at least combined) self-sufficient in renewable energy. (Norway is a net exporter and covers the diesel generators some of the 50 000 people living in Greenland use).

Not only that, but solar is totally feasible in all those countries. The notion that solar can't be used far north or far south is just not true. They even use solar power in Antarctica:

http://www.antarcticstation.org/station/renewable_energies
You are now debugging a distributed system.
Can't access my website hosted there, and my notes synced using webdav pointed to files there also seem to be unavailable. Bummer.

Can't really blame them, though, not much you can do with cannons pointed at you. I'm sure they'll be back up soon.
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Vulkan is the best choice right now, but "money talks" when it comes to what framework developers "should" use.
Sure, but my suspicion is that the main driver for someone doing this is the allure of moving to a different country, especially one with such a reputation of having beautiful scenery and culture.
Thats.. what not going to school & protest are..?
The general advice is to buy an index fund because over a long period of time the market will rise.

But what if I buy before a bear period? I will be stuck there 10 years just to recover my money and another 10 years to make some returns.
IIRC correctly Steam has a (yearly?) hardware survey which their users have the option to take part in, collecting information about parts in the computer and about connected periphery devices, i.e. model names, no. of monitors, resolution, amount of RAM, ...
Has any billion dollar company ever been down for 2 days?

Or is this the highscore?
Their response from a few days ago, including mentions of similar services affected, e.g. Mailbox.org and Posteo: https://fastmail.blog/company/fastmail-fights-off-ransom-cyb...
This is great.

And I hadn't seen the name weitek in.. Well I can't remember!
> Here the idea is to write the algorithms in a way that is more future-proof

More baroque, for sure. More future-proof? Only if this is the one true form of reflected code that gets adopted.

> This way the algorithms will still be useful in 10 years when everyone has moved to API N+1

Actually, this way algorithms are not useful today since nobody writes them this way, and in 10 years, whoever writes this way right now will probably have moved on.

Now, if some small community (like C++-reflection-and-audio-buffs) commits to this, then maybe it makes sense for them. But not generally. General reflection (not to mention runtime reflection) is probably the way to go.
You're gonna have to list some pre-Half-Life games that did a better job.
Windows Terminal does telemetry too. Super creepy.
By his logic the simpler option is just to make living more difficult and to ultimately find ways to kill dumb consumers faster? We could just start heavily incentivizing vaping, smoking and alcohol consumption? Pushing contraceptives is also a big one, you might even start chipping at the goals of the elites if you slowed population growth AND reduced consumerism...
I agree. In my opinion, the number one thing that needs to be done is to ensure that email can only be sent encrypted. I have had the following information sent unencrypted over email in recent years:
1. medical/health information.
2. sensitive personal financial information.
3. HR related information.
4. Billing information.
5. payrol information.
I basically refuse to give out email to health care providers or any corporate entity because I can't be sure what they will put in plain text email. I have to carefully explain to them that email is not encrypted and I have to explain what encryption is, some get it some don't.
I am also trying to get friends and family to encrypt because I am also concerned that they will put health/medical etc into the email, so far no takers on encrypting. It takes like 15-30 minutes to do it the first time and 5-10 minutes for each contact (just need to send and verify fingerprint).
Email is great in that it is federated and not centrally controled, the encryption needs to get fixed.
I would suggest somebody create an SMTP server that will only accept encrypted connections and will scan and reject any received email that is plain text; i.e. will not store the plain text and will issue appropriate SMTP code indicating that it is not encrypted.
To be honest, it's a once a year event hence their popularity. A line (queue) comes with the experience. No need for tech / AI assisted solutions? Eyeball the size is the fastest method and people who go to pumpkin patches are happy to pay a premium.
Atlanta Chose Data over a World Series No-Hitter. That’s Baseball’s Big Dilemma
You can't just do favors for family with the corporate treasury because you own some large part of the shares or even because you have voting control. Minority shareholders have rights. It isn't his piggybank.

Do you think a corporate treasury could be used to directly throw a CEO's daughter a wedding celebration?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiduciary#Fiduciary_duties_und...

"The duty of loyalty requires control persons to look to the interests of the company and its other owners and not to their personal interests. In general, they cannot use their positions of trust, confidence and inside knowledge to further their own private interests or approve an action that will provide them with a personal benefit (such as continued employment) that does not primarily benefit the company or its other owners."
There have been a bunch of other studies on vitamin D and COVID-19. Before jumping to conclusions and commenting here I recommend reviewing the existing literature.

https://vitamin-d-covid.shotwell.ca/
for me the main reason why embedded is easier is that the whole world fits into one adequately detailed 400 page pdf.

in 'normal' software you're awash in a sea of poorly or non-documented libraries with a host of weird bugs sitting on top of mountain of dependencies you could never untangle.

while very limiting - that simplicity can be pleasant

and yes, you just know its going to look like ass no matter what - but it works and thats all we care about
I just have a slight question what is a single tenant architecture in this case and how does that work your multiple SaaS customers?
The classic admonition - “all your wealth is ill gotten and all mine is hard-won”.

I’m not filthy rich but I made decent money off crypto because I spent a huge amount of my adolescent life with my face buried in Mises and Keynes and Milton. Money fascinates me, and not in a Scrooge McDuck sort of way. I’ll never understand someone who is fascinated by complex systems like computers but has no interest in economics.

Here’s a rough break for you: I also worked my ass off legitimately. Drug dealers didn’t “get lucky”. What an ugly assertion, honestly. “If only I had been stupider” is a vicious lie to tell yourself.
It's funny you mention RDR2. For me it's the best example of why I hate fixed characters in open world video games. The protagonist in RDR2 is a perfect representation of my uncle. Looks like him, sounds like him, dresses pretty close. Now I like my uncle and all but have no desire to spend 40 hours or so playing him in a video game. I did not last long in single player. Multiplayer was cool but it turned in to the same as the first: a Texas hold-um simulator with a very involved character customization mini game...
> Severe conditions like ARDS are rare

Polio was lethal in less than 1% of cases, and caused severe disability in a small fraction, too. Yet people didn't go into hysterics when asked to make a relatively larger sacrifice (the polio vaccine was far less safe than modern ones) for their country.
I take it you both also boycott Sony Music Group?
The author oversimplified by calling it "essentially a mouse". Pressure sensitivity is arguably the main feature that distinguishes a drawing tablet from just being a pen-shaped mouse. It's understandable that they might want to know what applications it's being used in so they can make sure that it works.

But they really could do that in a less shitty way.
If overwhelmed hospitals was a concern they wouldn't be firing naturally immunized nurses that do not wish to be vaccinated.
Chlorine yes, Chloramine no. You need to know what your water utility is using, and be aware that it can change from time to time. Sometimes they'll use Chlorine most of the time, but periodically use Chloramine to address parts of the network that may not get sufficient Chlorine treatment.

Sodium Metabisulfite (Campden) will reliably remove either, as will reverse osmosis.
Thank you for breaking it down. One objection I might raise in your "given" statements is that the categories we use are not all on equal footing. I think the modern idea of gender identity seems to require dualism—a deeply implausible position—but that's a much longer conversation.

Ultimately I agree that we are making decisions about language. I might break it down differently, as follows.

1. Language about how we identify differences should be useful and effective communicate public facts that are socially salient. Sex is public information and highly salient for courting and reproduction, the basis for most human societies' social organization and primary motivators of behavior.

2. Language about how we identify differences should be self-determined, not based on external facts about the world, and should primarily serve the dignity of the individual. An individual's gender is not society's business, unless they say it is.

If someone has a better formulation of 2, I'd be open. I admit it feels a bit strawman-ish.
This is very cool and a nice use of C++20 new features.
At that point, why not just contribute to Linux?
Maybe! But I find that an awfully self centered view. I imagine humans (boats?) will play a (perhaps significant) aspect in their vision of the world. But I'd be surprised if it was any bigger than e.g. malaria is for humans.
Facebook should forget about the virtual crap and work on a search engine. move the search box to the center of the page and bam, you have hundreds of millions of web searches to milk.
"Many" are not that much many. Refuse to use the full capabilities of a RDBMs is like refuse to use the full capabilities of a NoSQL.

In fact, the ideal is to code all in a rdbms-first language. All this complexity is because codebases are split in multiple mismatched paradigms, langs and stacks.
What made you reject the maybe a priori more likely alternative hypothesis that you just have less potential?
There was indeed a lot of hot air in sustainability thoughts in 2008, and probably still is, but Mackay's treatment is sometimes bordering the absurd.

For instance, the chapter on wind power starts by comparing a back of the envelope calculation on wind power with energy usage by a fossil car.

While there are occasional good points, I would not recommend reading this book unless you actually know something about the things the book is discussing. It's simply too misleading in important places.

In case anyone is wondering about this, there are real studies on the feasibility of 100% renewables by organizations that actually know this stuff and have done the modelling work.
By the way, is the “yet” what is regarded as “editorialized”? There’s hardly any “original title”, apart from frequently changing status updates in the body.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29058685
Wristwatches are often covered by sleeves.
In the UK, several nukes have been taken out of service; none has been "decommissioned", in the sense that the site can be re-used, people can live and work there. The first nuclear power plant in the UK was built in 1956, and the current plan is that decommissioning will be completed by 2104; I will be long gone. Until then, the site will be closed to the public.

Perhaps you know of nuclear power plants elsewhere that have been fully decommissioned. I don't, but there is an infinite number of things I don't know, and I would love to be surprised.
https://www.globalfirepower.com/countries-listing.php

https://www.timesofisrael.com/iaf-to-start-training-for-stri...
This is crazy. We can not afford to not be pragmatical and practical anymore.