skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I rather like how the story is bookended. After everything that happens, it ends with Gilgamesh reciting an excerpt from the beginning to Ur-Shanabi the boatman:

Go up, Ur-Shanabi, pace out the walls of Uruk.

Study the foundation terrace and examine the brickwork.

Is not its masonry kiln-fired brick?

And did not seven masters lay its foundations?

One square mile of city, one square mile of gardens,

One square mile of clay pits, a half square mile of Ishtar's dwelling.

Three and a half square miles is the measure of Uruk!
Just switched to Fedora because Microsoft declared my CPU incompatible with Windows 11. Works great! Cinnamon is a wonderful desktop manager too.
Look at any moderately sized midwest cities subreddit and you will find countless posts about rapidly rising housing costs.
Amazon’s MLU-Explain: Visual, Interactive Article on the Bias Variance Tradeoff
Since we're mentioning Stephen Mitchell I'd also recommend his translation of The Tao Te Ching.
Ahh, you see, I have an ex-wife and a child I share custody with. I'm in the place that I'm in. Others are probably similarly constrained geographically.

I do WFH -- someday, I may head away from my current place, but I'm not that flexible yet.
The flag you're thinking of is '-C | --cacheonly'. It is very useful for doing stuff like 'dnf [search|rq|list|etc...]', but it is not allowed with upgrade/install type runs.

dnf will do a check when running subcommands like 'install' to see if it _needs_ to update the cache data (as you noted), it won't always do it. There are a few factors that play in, but you can also adjust the cache expiry time in dnf.conf.
>Is there a dearth of skilled labor for building houses?

Yes - https://www.npr.org/2021/07/30/1022642064/planet-money-why-a...

In summary, the US has been underbuilding ever since the housing crisis, and this makes people avoid construction trades. Fixing it will take years.
I'm pretty sure this will hold true in my field where teamwork is required. If you're not nice, people won't want to talk to you, if you're not part of the communication chain, your value as a team member drops. No part of this has anything to do with software.
Debian 11, Fedora 35... These two distros are very influential. Both were recently released and both come by default with pipewire and wayland.

We'll have an Ubuntu LTS next year and it will probably be influenced by these releases. A few new problems because of these changes... a lot of fixes because of these changes.
> Non-Goals

> To keep the scope manageable with such a small team, we will NOT focus on these features for the mvp

(emphasis added)
What I don't get is why they wouldn't just use MongoDB. MongoDB is web-scale.
If you want to read the Old Testament as literature, Robert Alter’s translation is really good. I thought his notes (which are not about theology) really help you tap in to what the authors are doing.
The people in the research are students and we know nothing about their experience in any real work environment, or if they have been in a position where the progress on their tasks/teams depends on the competence level of their co-workers.
> So it was still my job to sit on the floor and in the middle of the room to be the “wireless” portion of the remote

Those were the days

(the archie bunker theme)

:)
On GrapheneOS.org, you can be web installed and choosing between three styles of navigation in minutes! Whatever works best!
Apple used to sell access point/routers. I think you needed a mac to configure them though.

If you can wire all your main devices (desktops, tv boxes, where you use your laptop most) that reduces the wifi needs to actually portable devices, and things go better. Running multiple consumer routers in access point mode, with a wired network behind them can work pretty well as long as your clients can roam reasonably. Buy something on the OpenWRT support list, even if you don't plan to use it.
Where’s your crystal ball that says artificial meat is a larger alternative or it’ll be 1:1? Most people are poor and can farm themselves instead of relying on corporations to feed them.
I appreciate all your hard work and I like Homebrew, but I think updating high-level packages when a descendent dependency is updated is the wrong behavior - at least in this example.

If Postgres has an unversioned dependency to PackageX, the only time I might expect Postgres to be updated automatically is if I update PackageX across a major version boundary, risking breaking changes. Even then, I'm not sure I'd want that behavior by default - I'd at least like to be prompted - since often this still won't break anything, or it will likely cause less damage than updating every package with a dependency to PackageX. And if Postgres breaks after I update PackageX I can easily reason about what just happened. The alternative can be incredibly hard to troubleshoot because so many changes have occurred.

Overall, Homebrew feels far too aggressive here, and I think the result, for people who have some understanding of Homebrew behavior, is that they're afraid to touch anything.
Additionally, and apologies for not linking the study as I simply can't find it anywhere but remember it in brief, if older people are exposed to younger people on a more regular basis it was found that their capacity for learning new things was substantially higher.

Of course the major questions from this were, 1. Are older people with the capacity to learn more interested in spending time with younger people, and 2. Are younger people more likely to distance themselves from older people without the capacity to learn. Both are probably true, but it would be interesting to see how much these factors skew the results.

This was of course also done in the West, where older parents live separately to their children on average. It would be interesting to see whether, if this study was done across multiple nations, the result continues to ring true.
I started using Linux professionally on the cusp of the change (RHEL 6 to 7). I've never had any trouble with the init system but journald isn't really my jam, nor is any of the other creeping overcomplexity brought about by systemd's component interdependencies.

In other words: I'm not a fan on ideological grounds but from a practical standpoint it seems to work just fine.
Not that these two things are opposed to each other, you know. We should try to achieve both, at least to a reasonable level. At the very least, it's much better to have both qualities in a reasonable amount than to be excellent in one and completely lack the other.

I've found that there is a sweet spot in the middle of both competencies, where you can teach the least experienced members of the team and people appreciate you for that. It's something that must not be overdone, but there are plenty of opportunities (like, say, during code reviews), and in my experience most people appreciate it as long as the explanations are brief and clear. Think something like "doing things this way can be problematic, because of X and Y. I recommend using this alternate structure, which doesn't have these problems, although it still has the minor inconvenience of Z".
If you'll read more carefully, you'll note that I didn't say that making tractors is "hard." I said that it's the core business. You get what you pay for. CEOs that pay themselves fantastically high wages, while skimping on their workers, get low-quality results and short-term personal gain at cost to the long-term survival of the company. They demand loyalty from the workers (who often love the company they work for, despite the bullshit from up top), but they're only looking out for number one.

I'm not saying that all CEOs are like this, and I've known some incredibly dedicated founder/CEOs who truly bust their asses for the company. But charcircuit's insistence that it's the CEOs who actually make the business work ignores the other 99.9% of the people at the company doing back-breaking work, work the actual overtime, and don't get first-class (or private) flights to go play golf on the company dime. The fact that these people can be replaced is irrelevant. Treat them as disposable, and the company suffers. Underpay them and the economy suffers.
Mad Men is a story about people working for a company that is exclusively focused of human emotions (and manipulating them). I don’t think any “lessons” it may teach about workplace politics are any more generalizable than any other single industry.
This happened in some European cities, and now, a mortage or a rent are equally expensive even to high wage people, like engineers and surgeons.
It is apparent in the rental listings for single family homes in decent neighborhoods though. A large percentage of listings are from landlords like Invitation Homes, Key Homes, etc.
The document states this is a non-goal for the MVP, not a non-goal for the final product.
Databricks Sets Official Data Warehousing Performance Record
I cancelled my Starlink pre-order yesterday. I had been stuck on old satellite internet at the house (HughesNet) and was really excited about Starlink. I signed up for the beta as soon as I was eligible but didn’t get in, then pre-ordered on the first day I was eligible but the ETA for the order kept getting pushed back. Also they said that the pre-order saved your spot in line and I’m certain I pre-ordered before my neighbor but they just got their dish.

In the meantime I happened to see an ad for T-Mobile’s 5G home internet offering and surprisingly they said I was in range. It’s cheap ($50/mo, half the price of Starlink) and there’s no contract so I gave it a shot and it’s been great the past month. Speeds and ping comparable to what I’ve seen people getting on Starlink.
It charges up to 4 batteries at the same time (or discharges, or prepares them for long term storage etc).
Bugatti and Rimac: Blistering speedster and EV hypercar startup join forces
I am unreachable and maybe you should be too
I was saying that the benefits of automating are often misaccounted for.

In the examples above a 5 minute manual task run once a week, for instance, wasnt just a cost of 5 mins x 1 week.

Automating potentially saved debugging time, time spent analyzing why the playbook went wrong, etc.

Those benefits wouldnt typically be measured but theyre very real.
> then forces me to practically beg for a 5% raise each year

I hear you.

thanks for the reply
I've done it, and so have many other hams.

They work really well. I was at a high point of the local terrain and had an easy time getting into a repeater more than 100 miles away with a handheld transceiver.
They simply overpaid. My neighbor received an offer of $150k over the z-estimate in Tucson. He felt that it would be stupid not to sell and wasn't even thinking about selling before the offer came in, so he sold. He paid a slight premium to buy his new house out in the boonies, but the gain offset the rise in price. They are currently listing his old house at the zestimate... I doubt they find a buyer even at that price unless its someone from out of state that has no clue.

I don't think it takes a rocket scientist to see the hockey stick graph on Zillow's price div to see this isn't a great time buy. It makes me giggle to think about what they were thinking. Some houses have tripled in "value" in a year. It's artificial and it will revert to the mean. Income in this city simply doesn't support the price level we are at for renting or buying. People are moving into apartments or out into the sticks to wait it out.
Responding here given that you are calling out the 'fallacy' of others.

You seem to be making quite declarative statements here that are false:

-Buying real estate does not always end badly

-Zillow's core business is not transactions

Zillow's issue was not that they attempted to buy houses, it was that they didn't operate with enough fiscal discipline in doing so. They got too far out over their skis, as the saying goes.

Given your suggestion that someone who signed off on the idea should be fired, is there any record of you stating publicly that the person should be fired for the idea when they first started this endeavor (or at least when you first heard of it)? If not, it seems like you are operating with the fallacy of hindsight bias.
This is a survey of MBA students over the course of less than six months. The definitions are a bit vague, how does one distinguish 'trustworthiness' from 'friendliness'? What is meant by 'technical competence'?

For example, in retail sales, the ability to project 'friendliness' is very helpful in client relations, hence in sales margins. This doesn't translate into 'trustworthiness', i.e. not selling your company's IP t o the competition, etc. However, part of the definition of a 'competent salesperson' is the ability to project friendliness regardless of one's actual opinion of the client.

So, part of the general definition of 'competence' in technical jobs should be the ability to keep interactions professional regardless of circumstances (while not tolerating actually abusive behavior).
You're not making anything alone. You do it in a team. And the team needs to work together well to perform the task. The skills to "work together well" are friendliness and trustworthiness.

The equivalent is having excellent hardware components, but the program that coordinates them all is really poor.
> Firefox performs better for me in general

This is genuinely surprising for me. Would you mind showing me what your JetStream[1] numbers are?

[1] https://browserbench.org/JetStream/
John Huehnergard's A Grammar of Akkadian: https://brill.com/view/title/38184 seems to be well-respected. It's a grammar textbook that goes through the usual topics (nouns, verbs, etc.) Teaches the dialect of the Old Babylonian Empire and should be approachable for someone who has studied another language before.

A History of the Akkadian Language: https://brill.com/view/title/21744 was just published. It's monumental and eclectic. All sorts of topics related to Akkadian. Its internal history, changes, as well as recent history of its deciphering. I've been skimming that, using that as a sort of backgrounder. Some of it's over my head, and I took a few semesters of linguistics once upon a time.

The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary has been fully published and digitized: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Assyrian_Dictionary But it's like the OED and I think at the start you would want a wordbook or wordlist with your reading materials, that matches the dialect/era you're working with. A variety of those floating around.

The Oxford Handbook in Cuneiform Culture - more background reading in https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/978019...

While the written form was pretty fossilized (like Latin or English spelling) it was used for ~3000 years and changed a great deal over time like any language. Old Babylonian seems to be a common starting point. I think probably because it's well-attested, was some of the first material discovered, and because it's the language of (the most complete version of) Gilgamesh, and also Hammurabi's law codes.
Yes it was.

It broke passthrough audio because Pipewire doesn't have that feature yet, so I had to downgrade all the way to ALSA to fix my media center which I have Fedora on.
Weed and Candy
What if instead of running from associations with marijuana, candy makers embraced them?
I am programming an offline web search engine (1+ billion websites indexed) as a browser extension, but wondering if it would actually spark interest from people.
`nix-env` is an imperative command, whilst writing a .nix file is declarative. In particular, the latter can be managed using git, e.g. here's mine: https://github.com/chriswarbo/dotfiles/blob/41c5c4643845f437...

That's actually over-complicated, since I used to use nix-darwin and haven't bothered to un-pick it yet.
Sun didn't miss routers... The part of Stanford University Network that went to do routers used an other name: Cisco.
It's mostly driven by real demand. I just bought a house and the market was absolutely insane. It seems like everyone is trying to buy right now. Every house I looked at had multiple offers the day of the listing. I'm sure speculators have an impact in some markets but that's not what I saw here.

Until supply increases or demand drops these prices aren't going anywhere but up.
To live is to take. If you want to take as little as possible, that's understandable. Many people want to live as much as possible.
The thing is software doesn't have to be a team activity. It goes against the current grain where everyone seems to want to build large teams of sort-of-competent nice guys, but you can have one or two really smart guys, and pay/treat them super well, and you can get an entire product out of them
Jitsi Meet (in common with other WebRTC videoconferencing systems in common use) is only P2P when there are exactly 2 people in the meeting. (And even then it may need to use a server depending on the type of connectivity you have.)

P2P videoconferencing beyond a few participants isn't very practical in the real world, due to the bandwidth requirements rapidly exceeding what a typical user's connection can reliably transmit without unacceptable loss/delay/jitter.
Personally I'd rather have a somewhat arbitrary standard than no standard at all!
Islamic colonisation is real and no less cruel that the European one.

Indian muslims are still largely colonised and therefore the partition of India and the massacre of millions of Hindus even as recently as 1971 in Bangladesh.

It is indeed sad to see that Indian muslims today continue to associate themselves with the islamic conquerors who had raped, killed and/or forced their ancestors to convert.

The whitewashing of Islamic tyranny in India is so obvious that even children do not accept it as it is taught in schools.
I think trustworthiness can also apply to the code itself.

There are so many times where I have thought, "I better add this test here, even though I know I will probably only be the person who knows there needs to be a test here."

And I add the test, as I like to think I can be trusted to do the right thing, even though nobody will in all likelihood see it.
They dry out my skin when I eat them in any significant amount. They also have toxins to your body. Sprouting them removes this issue, but they change the way they’re consumed.
Nobody thinks smoking originated in the new world. Smoking TOBACCO originated in the new world, because at that time it was the only place tobacco grew.
Curves and Surfaces
Specifically in regards to cofounders, the math is different. The founders will drive the direction of the culture of the business going forward, so a bad attitude will likely yield poor results in the long run RE: retention etc.

I'm speaking moreso from the perspective of a manager in a larger org. It depends on the context of course, but working with junior or less capable people can turn into a micromanaging by necessity kind of situation.

e.g. need to be very specific about design/implementation details when providing direction. Versus somebody who is highly competent, you can generally just give a high level direction and leave it to them to fill in the blanks.

The goal is never to micromanage, obviously, but if you have a lots of design decisions to make, it can be necessary to have tight control over those decisions to maintain quality. This situation can become draining to manage.

This is where formal processes and agile etc become important. But if you have a team of all highly capable and motivated people, you can have much looser processes and yield better results. Don't need to specify every detail of every task up front.

I'm approaching this as a manager who is more heavily involved in the technical side... but in other situations, it might be the tech lead doing these things.

But I'd for sure take somebody who's friendly and nice to work with over a highly competent but abrasive person. There's a middle ground there...
In the very hot markets only. Anecdote that matches your experience: I sold a house at the beginning of this year (sf east bay), and it was on the market for a few days and closed ~30 days later. More than a dozen offers, most with no contingencies. Top offer was more than 120k over ask.
> people are not entitled to shelter in any place of their choosing

I don't think that's a useful framing, because it's again putting the framing in terms of market dynamics in a vacuum. People don't pick where they're born, they don't pick who their parents are, and they don't pick the socioeconomic status that they're born into or have as children. The majority of people are born somewhere and cannot really afford to leave. For example, 72% of Americans live in or near the city where they were raised (https://www.northamerican.com/infographics/where-they-grew-u...). Most people don't have the agency to pick where they live based on price alone, because other non-market factors become comparatively larger when you have less money. If you can pick where you live based on price and how interesting it sounds, congratulations, that is privileged position. That's not to shame that position or anything, I'm just saying that the problem has to be viewed from the standpoint that most people aren't in that position. People are interdependent with their relatives, their friends, and their neighbors. Moving costs more than simply the price sticker of your new home minus the price sticker of your old home: the social costs are enormous. I think that a basic right of modern societies should be that people should not be priced out of their homes because of the whims of investors. So again, I think the idea that these things should be viewed through the lens of market dynamics alone is inhumane.

> Your proposed solution will increase rent prices for people who can't afford to buy a house while pushing the housing prices down and making them more affordable to middle class.

ok maybe. My point isn't that I have the perfect solution, my point is that there are far more levers to pull than what was being suggested, and that I do not want to live in a society that considers the problem by only looking at markets and pricing.
Robot Teams Win DARPA Subterranean Challenge
Dune notably doesn't seem to have suffered this fate
Why is donating to a cause you believe in extremely poor judgement?

> “You might not realize”

The tone of my post wasn't the friendliest it could have been I agree, but I get really annoyed when people imply that those who believe that marriage is between a man and a woman, which from a Christian perspective is very clear, are evil.
Since 2015 they've been moving logic over to libdnf, which is written in C instead of Python.
In FPA, you need to strategically lower your bid to get "margin." In GSP, that's also true. I have some details here:

https://medium.com/promoted/when-goog-fb-is-bad-for-your-per...
I read Gilgamesh a few times over the years.

Two things I found interesting:

1. Sex is viewed as a civilizing force. It brings Enkidu in to city life after being a wild man living among animals for example.

2. It feels as if there aren't a lot of people around and humanity only has a very small island like footprint in this vast unknown world. It's almost like how we feel about outer space today.
Paul McCartney: Why Beatles Classic Yesterday Is a 'Solo Song'
I'd take a nice incompetent over a highly capable arsehole any day.

At worst, the former is a neutral in his overall contributions, whereas the latter will be a net negative.