skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a fine use of goto and not in any way bad design in my opinion.

It makes it very clear that it's _REQUIRED_ to run the cleanup stuff regardless of the skipped block.

It does so without wrapping the entire skipped block in an IF (which also has two side effects: of causing more indentation and making the cleanup stuf look less required, or incidental).

It does so without adding another tiny silly, only-_REALLY_-used-on-place function for cleaning up, which decreases readability and causes more code duplication since there is then a need for not one, but two function calls and/or multiple return paths where not needed.
Google is working on making Chromebooks less sluggish at startup
https://gen.medium.com/the-case-against-philanthropy-c36b83d...
[0] Self-Sustained Replication of an RNA Enzyme, Tracey A. Lincoln and Gerald F. Joyce

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/23766369_Self-Susta...
I suppose it's better than "Use of Weapons".
Complete tangent here but I've noticed a form of impedance matching when I talk to certain people. I think it's a combination of natural cadence and information density or something, but there are some folks that I can effortlessly talk to and others where we constantly struggle with stepping on top of each other and/or seek clarification. It's a pairwise thing without a common cause that I can see. For example, I can see the folks that I struggle to talk with speak effortlessly with others as well. It's really odd.

But anyway to drive the point home I started calling it an impedance mismatch which makes sense to some and not others. :)
Oh they can! It just the detail that’s disputed. Are you wanting good health or bad health?
Many small companies might wish they could be as evil, but simply haven't the scope to achieve it.

But many others just sincerely want to provide value to customers reliably. Often enough that value is not harmful to the larger world, and sometimes is a pure good.
https://remmina.org/

Also 100% FOSS, but more advanced.
Your carpet will change colors are if you wear colored glasses. If everyone had colored eye lenses, we wouldn't be able to agree what color the carpet really is. We would still agree that it's a 500nm wavelength that gets reflected from the carpet, because that number is objective, while our senses aren't. It just so happens that we perceive the numbers in a more or less the sane way. I guess that mushrooms change your perceptual "reference frame", you notice that the two reference frames have equal standing and thus neither is true.
You might think this is how it turns out but that’s not been my experience. I once made the mistake of responding to a Facebook recruiter that I could not work there because I believe it makes the world a worse place and wouldn’t be ethical.

The recruiter instead launched into a whole bit about how they felt the same way, changed their mind, ba ba ba. We went back and forth several times, fairly pleasantly. The guy _still_ contacts me every few months like clockwork.

I’ve stopped responding at this point.
My comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29481910
Probably should be posted here instead.

I am startled by the fact that people do believe there is large scale forced rededication camp anywhere in China.

Look at US spy satellite's capabilities https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/03/commercia...

Of there is such camp, where is the satellite image? Did you see any issued by US information service?

All existing images are from random NGO or news outlets who have all the incentive to ounce on evidence without much verification.

Use your brain to analyze the situation. And see the propaganda and the manufactured consensus...
Slightly off topic, but: Jesus turning water into wine makes a lot more sense when he has access to some kind of potent hallucinogen. It also might explain everything else that went on back in Palestine 2000 years ago.
> For Notepad a frustrated engineer had produced a change-set to fix all of them

Hey, that was me (JeffMill). I was a dev lead for the Windows shell team at the time, and I got frustrated with notepad not getting any attention, so I spent a weekend and made the changes you describe and more, and had one of my reports code review it. I checked the changes in, and that week, some of the members of test team (remember those?) had a cow and my lead pulled out all of the changes.

I'm still at MSFT, now as an architect, so it turned out not to be a career limiting move, but I certainly should have discussed my plans more broadly rather than just "cowboying" those changes in.
As a musician, it's often better for me to share my music on free and non-pay or login walled services like Soundcloud and Audiomack than on Spotify... Yeah, I'm on Spotify, but invested all of last year trying to promote there and gained little traction, whereas my music stats on Audiomack and Soundcloud make leaps and bounds over my Spotify stats. In all honesty, I make a really good rate for Spotify streams and it wouldn't surprise me if that's exactly why I don't get a lot of streams on there despite conducting plentily of promotional work.

People pay for subscriptions on Spotify, Spotify also sells ad space which is profit. All artists never make a full penny per stream like we did on Mp3.com 20 YEARS AGO... It's insanity pretty much. I stopped promoting the services that don't work and only promote the ones that do, and I constantly monitor them each for positive and negative policy changes regularly. I never deleted my mp3 library, and I only buy phones that allow micro SD storage, because I'll be damned if I let a algorithm with an agenda to pick my music for me if I can help it.
Welcome to (shameless plug) Next Generation Shell. It's a modern programming language for DevOps. It is both concise for running external programs (uses small subset of bash syntax) and it is a "real" programming language with data structures and sane error handling among other things.

Compared to general purpose programming languages, it was built for "DevOps"y use cases in mind. See https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs/wiki/Use-Cases

Ability to run external programs is high on the priorities list. In NGS it means having its own short syntax and handling exit codes among other things. NGS throws exceptions on "bad" exit codes. Hint: not for all tools non zero exit code is "bad". Did not see equivalent exit code handling anywhere else.

Compared to bash... It's not fair comparison even. Another era, another reality, other expectations. Small example: When APIs return structured data, well... you better be able to handle it. See https://ilya-sher.org/2018/09/10/jq-is-a-symptom/

Compared to other modern shells, I would say, NGS is programming language first as opposed to shell first.
If you (and other crypto peddlers) can't put your thoughts down in a coherent form that doesn't raise more questions than gives answers, no amount of talking will help.
> However, core services like STS rely on us-east-1 so it's particularly susceptible to disruption.

FYI this example hasn’t been true for a while. STS regional endpoints are generally what you should be using these days. The “global” us-east-1 endpoint still works, and may be the default for some clients, but isn’t a requirement.
I am wondering, what does liberal freedoms mean when the public opinion i.e the measurement of what's good and what's bad is in the hands of the media be it conservative or liberal?
also why would the US be interested in the stability of other countries really? because they're good people and I have to take your word for it? or?

supporting a dictator means no other voices / opinions come out in that country i.e ensuring it's all good there and no secret societies / enemy forces will ever ally in that place.

democracy is a liability for the developed nations unless the local public opinion is soaked into the western ideas.

there is no reason for the US or anyone to have good intentions for any "other" country and even when they have they have no right to intervene in the local politics and good intentions doesn't include supporting dictators

bringing order is not better for the people of that place it's only good for the safety of the US or whomever is supporting that dictator not to mention the enormous power the US holds that can literally in a year or so just assassinate the dictator and put a liberal one.

I think there were wikileaks about hijacking Iran's elections and putting Khomeini seamlessy that without that leak nobody's would have probably even knew about it.

assuming the US is interested in the wellbeing of other nations is really just naive and silly.
the US itself has millions of people in the streets, drug addicts, homeless etc..
they could have started to help these people if they had any good intentions
the money, the power, and the brainwashing machines - the media - all exist and can help these people.

but yet again, things don't work like that and never had been.

the capitalists don't care if a million or 2 or 4 are homeless.
they know the US us under their complete control.
other regions, might not be.
so offering help, humanitarian aids or such. is only a way of changing the public opinion to look good.
supporting a dictator on the other hand is a way to eliminate any possible opposition that might pop up.
Anything and everything will be used for weapons. All, from nuclear reactions ultrafast computers to water pipes and sugar.

The problem with weapons is not that science and technology allow more and more. Say, Pol Pot's regime, or the Rwanda genocide, have shown that large-scale atrocities can be perpetrated using very low-tech means.
"The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity—a hundred other factors." - Asimov, Foundation

We had a generation of short sighted mismanagement where we put a bunch of MBAs in charge of everything. Being able to quantitatively measure things became more important than understanding what the measurements meant. Politicians and executives alike began using polls and survey data not just as a sanity check for their intuition but as a substitution for it. Penny-wise pound-foolishness was in vogue, and in an effort to draw blood from stone, institutions commercial, cultural, and political were gutted. Massive consolidations were made in the name of efficiency while captured regulatory bodies did nothing. Bigger institutions took on bigger projects which required more bureaucracy to maintain. Projects consistently grew too big to fail, and as the tolerance for risk disappeared so too did the appetite for personal initiative. Short term, cheap patches were repeatedly chosen over long term solutions as technical debt was difficult to quantify and thus not real. Infrastructure fell into disrepair, training became more rare, wages stagnated, opportunities dried up. People began to feel the effects of the mismanagement, but it did not end. People lost faith in their institutions, and in one another, as they grew more cynical. As the labor force itself was cannibalized, people lost the time and energy for the simple pleasures of life. Traditional pastimes were left to past times, communities outside of work collapsed, and people fell into despair. Various coping mechanisms were employed - some old like drugs and alcohol, others new like social media, but these were poor substitutes for what was by this point irrecoverable. What can men do in such a hopeless situation?
Is there an up to date version of this?
Hell I'd be happy with: Science = reproducible, Faith = exactly consistent with unfeeling random chance.

Everything else can come out of those two principles.
That’s a nice list, but a brief explanation for each package would be very helpful. As a beginner I have no clue what most of them do. I chose Arch because I do not want to fill up my system with software I never use, copy pasting this list would defeat the purpose…
Not recognized in the USA as a DSM disorder. Probably because insurance companies don’t want to pay for treatment for that many affected.
There is massive difference between "business of music started as a way to sell preaching and alcohol" and what you describe. People do like to combine their fun and religion with music, but that does not imply what you say.

And as a nitpick, business of music existed long before ragtime and jazz. Both classical music and folk music (all around the world including in Africa) predates modern music. And they were often paid for performances.

Ragtime and jazz are fairly recent.
I've been working on a website/app which is designed to optimize the recording and sharing of audio files between musicians in private groups. My friends have been joking that it's an anti-social network of sorts. It's not built to facilitate any mass distribution, and has no option for a publicly subscriptable feed. It just smooths over a few of the sticking points in the record, listen, share(sometimes large file), iteration loop that many collaborative musicians find themselves working within.

The project has been a labor of love between friends and I would really love to find a few more users out there!

https://www.audiopile.cloud/
I bought and used a scooter for a week, and on that Friday someone walked in front of me (in the street), causing me to try to avoid them and crash headfirst into a bus and minorly breaking my back. I went to the ER by ambulance. That was like 3 years ago, and I'm still having pain in my back.

It was great for commuting, but the risk was too great for me to continue, personally. Good luck and stay safe!
"I took the initiative in creating the Internet"

That's stupid and inaccurate. It infers the internet would not exist without his efforts. That's clearly not true.

If he had said "I took the initiative to drive development of the internet" then sure. But "creating" it? No.
I am happy with hAP ac2 running OpenWRT.

RouterOS is a bit clunky for a Linux user. They kind of mimick Cisco UX, which is a big mess for everyone except professional network engineers.
> Shouldn't people without children play a role as well? Especially given they have much more time.

That’s exactly the reason people without children have no children: they want to have free time.
beckman466:

On your post

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29474353

> tell me then, why do a bunch of my US
friends not have health insurance? even
the ones who left their jobs during the
pandemic?

I don't know anything about the
circumstances of your friends.

> to be frank, it sounds like your income is
too high for you to actually know what
happens when dealing with this 'patchwork'
(as you call it) shitshow system in real
life, to try to get the care you need to
survive.

Without going into my "income", it turns
out I know something about the US HRSA
system: They run clinics that can do
well providing primary care and then can
refer patients to more advanced care
when needed.

Charges vary but generally are low: At a
clinic, the really poor pay nothing. If
they have a little money, maybe the cost
is $20 a visit. With a little more, the
cost is $75 a visit.

> can you help me understand why you
posted this comment?

I was responding to user

try_again

and their post at

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29472346

with in part:

> If that's a correct guess, as a European
the US work standards frighten me. Health
insurance so tightly coupled to work that
if you get into an accident shortly after
being laid off and don't have (expensive)
private insurance you could be bankrupted
by it.

So, I wanted to add some information to
the issue of "bankrupted by it".

For your

> why state all these downsides and try to
play this sort of 'neutral' card by saying
"I don't know what if anything is
right/wrong"? all of these so called
reasons (or fears/scares) are just
completely irrelevant when we can see that
all other global north nations have single
payer systems.

The "fears/scares" I listed really are
"commonly voiced". Soooo, take this list
as the POLITICAL answer to why the US does
not have single payer, etc., not the
rational, economic, financial, moral,
medical, etc. but just the POLITICAL
answer for the post of user

beckman466

at

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29474353

Or can't give a good, rational answer to

beckman466

using only what is rational, economic,
financial, moral, medical, etc. and
instead must at least include some of the
politics. Here define politics as using
false information, cherry picking
evidence, quotes out of context, lies,
manipulation to fool people!
I'm almost tempted to think that having an explicit policy of forcibly shutting down each region once per month for a few hours (at times that are not publicly announced in advance) would be a worthwhile value-add.

A service that is unable to handle such a failure does not qualify as being ready for deployment. And I'm not just saying that to be a self-righteous pedant, I'm saying it because this kind of failure is statistically likely to happen at some point, so ignoring it is setting yourself up for major (and potentially very expensive) problems if you don't test for it regularly.
You know, I think this also relies on wind (but not completely, as you say.. an animal could set it off, and maybe a seed might stick to its fur!).

But can you imagine during a strong windstorm, how much farther these seeds would go? Especially fall windstorms. The wind is doing 20mph, and then these seeds go flying up in the air...

Neat.
This works well for a junior eng working in a big company where your absence may not be noticed that much. Once you get to senior/principle level working on critical projects (you'll know based on the refreshers/comp). It's really hard to pull these off.

The biggest issue is to maintain balance. Once I am checked out of the job, then moving on the new company is the only way out. So, one becomes a bit desperate especially if the management kinda knows that you're not giving your best anymore.

Holidays/Q4 is one of the best times to interview, since you get breathing space from your work and get more free time to schedule interviews right before holidays and then, post holidays you're ready to kick off your new job.
I don't know Chinese, but YouTube has a "sort by most popular" feature. There is the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEmQdT2ChBA, which Google translates as "Family members of victims of the Wuhan epidemic face 'political stigma' warnings and pressure from the police". It just seems to be her talking in the video, so not really "evidence" per se, but judging from the English comment it seems likely to be the video that got her in trouble.
I've used it to discuss organisational dynamics. Most recently, for a small startup trying to establish a service agreement for a large enterprise customer, and the differences in values, expectations, processes etc that hampered the relationship, which we termed an "impedence mismatch" and all the engineers in the room at least nodded.

Labelling certain problems this way, dispassionately and without rancour, really took heat out of the discussion, which assisted in finding solutions. In such circumstances, differences are bridgeable with understanding, which inevitably provokes jokes about certain people being transformers, being tightly wound etc.
Well, I was a naval officer, so that's how. I was in that environment. No technology can be sailor proof.
Thanks for the feedback. I hope we never cross path professionally! All the best.
It's also worth noting that the waters where depth accuracy is most important to a submarine are also the places where the depth is more likely to change (estuaries, ports, especially new/expanding/busy ports).
You were lucky that iOS and Android devices share endianness and CPU families, and use the same C compiler.

Had this not been the case and even your C code would have been touched.
A brutally effective hash function in Rust
That particular question is a major red flag to me as an interviewee, maybe because most people who ask it are not interested in an honest answer (the most honest being: "you offer money for work, I offer work for money"), but have been told by some HR voodoo master that this almost-ritual incantation reveals deep psychological insights into the interviewee's mind. At best, it only tells you if they prepared by memorizing ideal answers and can lie convincingly.

An infrastructure engineer's top motivation does not have to experience a deep appreciation of the faux philosophy in your founder's ghostwritten business tales book for him/her to be an effective employee. Things like soft skills and technical know-how are a lot more important - things that cannot be easily faked in an interview situation.

The best interviews are those that do not follow a script. Remember: In a job interview, the potential hire is not the only one on trial.
Reminds me of this experiment from Ben Krasnow using thermal paint - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgS0hTKBLXM
Trello is great, and this kind of tools help the ecosystem...shame that when Trello got acquired by Atlassian, the only new improvement to the product was the fact they've acquired Butler for automations (really amazing powerup tool if you ask me), but other than that, Atlassian didn't turn Trello into a competitor to what Airtable and Notion are today, kinda sad - I guess they just wanna keep it running as is?
As far as I know, restoration is insufficient to claim a derivative copyright in a public domain work because it lacks sufficient originality. To the extent you do a good job, your additions to the underlying public domain work are not your creative authorship. They are a restoration of the original author's authorship.

I believe that is why Peter Kuran (Trinity and Beyond) patented a photochemical restoration process for revitalizing the color in films. Because his other restoration work is not protectable.
looks like a good book. i wish it wasn't so expensive on amazon
I guess you could call Verizon and ask their rates
Machine learning isn't the only useful thing to run on "GPU"s (these can't do graphics workloads anymore; they're basically just vector processors).

AMD isn't attempting to complete on f16 perf. They're completing where Nvidia's perf is abysmal: f64.

Having programmed AMDGPUs at a lower level than HIP/Rocm, they are actually much better than Nvidia (and in fact I'm able to do cool things like pcie large bar/p2p even on RDNA1 GPUs) in terms of flexibility. The HIP/CUDA API (nevermind OpenCL) doesn't do them justice, CUDA's enormous ecosystem and vender lock-in notwithstanding.
Can you elaborate on what passive bathymetrics entails?
Cheap is not free. People are putting in the work on Neocities to make sure the platform stays up, reachable, and free of abuse. There's regular stories of open-source maintainers burning out due to the support burden. If you're not paying for the service, then the service owners will raise money some other way or stop offering the service. Today, that way is ads and data mining.
Depends on your audit requirement, halting the operation when audit is unavailable maybe desirable.
Early Stage Silicon Valley Startups
At the project level maybe. At the AWS level, that‘s ridiculous. A lot of services can live with one major outage a year, but not once a month. Completely failing when their region goes down is reasonable.