skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no idea about the odds and didn't bother to look up the timeline but I can give you some anecdata and tell you exactly why I might have theoretically been the 4th lurker-become-excited-commenter for this post, were I to read this first on the computer instead of on my phone (and nearer real time than on a following weekend) and less hesitant to post comments in general:

I find json to be a PITA to parse as a human when looking at getting a bigger picture or keys/values that are strewn away from each other and not just e.g. two values next to each other. Anytime I have to do something with it, I have to search through my history to dig out some jq invocation and then try to tweak it correctly to do what the (most of the time similar but also different enough) task at hand needs. My mind sadly just seems to be unable to sufficiently grok jq.

So when I read here about jless I was stoked and the excitement was strong enough to want to dig out my login credentials and make a comment along the lines of "This is AWESOME! Thank you so much for making life easier!". In the end, when I logged in on the computer and had reflected more, I opted to upvote a comment instead and then saw this thread; so thank you, I guess, for providing me an opportunity or excuse to express my enthusiasm in addition to that.

I consider my discovery of jless
(which sadly I was apparently not able to make on my own while searching the internet for json tools previously - so yay for lurking on HN :-) - but it might also partly be the relative (to my predicament) youth of the tool)
of similar importance to me as macros in vim or back in the days using bluefish for editing HTML as they all save my time being spent on doing tooling to do things and instead allow it to being spent on doing things directly. (BTW thanks to all these devs!)

Just my 2 cents :-)
(and I'm not particularly interested in starting or partaking in any further discussion)
Maybe. Another theory is that Carter and Lord Carnarvon faked the ancient raid to work around an Egyptian law that assigned untouched grave finds entirely to the state, but previously raided tombs would be split with the finder.

In the end they didn’t get to ship that half of the treasure to British Museum and the NYC Met as they’d planned, as the newly independent Egypt asserted its rights more quickly than they’d expected.
If you’re in SV - you’re not uncommon but that’s still uncommon when it comes to the greater US. The COL is main reason people do this practice. People around 30 are supposed to be in relationships, looking to be married soon if not already, having kids soon, and settling down.

Obviously, childless folks are becoming more common but this is mostly due to economic situations and not due to choice.
Occasionally that thought pops up. Then I remember I’m making insane amounts of money, from the comfort of my desk in my house. At 25 I’m making more than my parents ever did, with a fraction of the physical effort.

If I really hated it, I could save up for some time and do something else, because again… I’m pulling insane amounts of money for software work.

Trades like plumbing, electrical work etc are -hard- work. I recognize that I have the privilege of not sacrificing my body and health for my income. My biggest concerns are making sure my posture is correct and that I take enough walks. Such a hard life.

I’ve noticed that some programmers tend to romanticize things like farming or plumbing, and generally speaking not understand the hard physical work those people have to go through. It can be quite patronizing.

Edit: sitting a desk is not “sacrificing your body”. Comparing that to the labor that people in trades do is completely detached from reality. Obviously there are things like standing desks and working out. But in life you have to sit or stand regardless.
In case you want background noise from a D&D scenario
This comment and its top reply are dead on:

https://old.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/sm54ri/a...

No job is going to get you away from unreasonable people with unreasonable expectations, and most trades introduce a bunch of other unpleasant things that you'd have to deal with.

It's all tradeoffs. Someone may legitimately prefer the stresses of a trade to the stresses of working in software, and that's great for them. But it's not an objectively easier path: if it were, plumbers would be much less expensive.
Concentration of funds is a great advantage for borrowing.
The privacy of LN is constantly overstated.
In the beginning Musk went to Russia to buy a rocket and the then head of the Russian Space Agency literally spat in his face. On his way home Musk pulled out his spreadsheet and decided he could build his own rocket. Fast forward to now, the Russian Space Agency has almost no business to transact. Ouch.

Personally I'm hoping for a few more humongous explosions during testing of Starship like we had with the Falcon 9 development, but I'm not holding my breath.
In retrospect, 100% of science looks obvious. This is the nature of discovery. It's a whole lot different from the other side.
It is strange though I suppose it could be considered an independent reimplementation since there is no shared source. There's also DOSEmu and DOSBox, which while not directly bootable, are DOS environments.
The cryptocurrency "exchanges" are not structured similarly to the stock market. There's no separation of broker, matching venue and central counterparty clearing service.
The term "too big to fail" means "gonna get bailed out by the govt". This does not apply to any decentralized system.
I am fairly sure that Bloxed ( https://wowroms.com/en/roms/acorn-archimedes/bloxed-1995stev... ) on the Archimedes was basically a re-run (maybe an explicit port? I haven't dug in to that, I'm too busy squeeing in gamer here rather than in history nerd) of Bloxeed - I definitely remember most of the same special blocks being there - and it makes an absolutely fantastic single machine two-player tetris plus.
The cat is out of the bag, pandora's box is open, thank God with a capital G Bitcoin us unbannable.

The separation of money and state will bring us better stability, less war, eliminate people like Chavez and Putin from the world, etc etc etc.
> plumber/electrician/brickie

None of those. But I would like to be carpenter or machinist.

I do often dream of moving back to Romania, to a hamlet in the mountains and building a wooden house like Mr. Chickadee ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TcARfChhbE ).

But I'd never do it because I'm greedy and don't take risks.
I'm not sure I understand the question. Wheel Analytics augments traditional methods, for which I have great respect (and hundreds of wheelbuilds of experience). Care is taken to preserve traditional ways of working, for example the UI is controlled by foot pedal.

Its benefits reside chiefly in the process and I argue better process leads to better wheels. Wheel quality depends on knowledge, time allowed, and concern. By capturing and presenting wheel information this way, you can get the most from your knowledge and skill. By working faster, you can do a better job in the same amount of time.
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1492684063097778182?s=21
I'm a software engineer who does his own plumbing and his own electrical. Example projects:

* rewire 1920's three story house with romex instead of knob & tube
* install 6.6kW ground mount PV arrays and connect to grid
* replumb two kitchens and three bathrooms
* install water softener (all copper, dozens of required brazed joints)

I love doing that stuff (carpentry and cabinet building too). But ... a couple of times I've made the mistake of agreeing to help others on projects like the one's I've done for myself. Mistake? Well, absolutely. Doing work like this for other people is completely and utterly different from working on your own projects. Despite loving the work itself, I would never, ever want to do this for other people, even for good income.
The original creator (Stephen Hillenburg) left after the third season. As I understand it, he wanted to end the series there, but of course Nickelodeon couldn't resist milking the cash cow.
When taxi drivers give out investment advice...
When I retire, I want to have a little coffee truck or stand and just go around making random coffees.
It will with the demented Biden and his bloodthirsty string-pullers!
Yes - they could've just kept churning out more NFTs for him to "stake" and catch him off-guard when he used his main wallet by accident or maybe even give him legitimate returns (that they bankroll) to convince him to use his main wallet intentionally to get higher returns.
He's also launched a podcast-- https://www.youtube.com/c/DavidSinclairPodcast/videos

I find the first 3 episodes to be absolutely stellar and was engrossed the whole hour. Pretty good takeaways.

The more recent ones are a little contentious and, as he himself admits, a little pseudosciency. He even says that these supplements are marginally helpful, and perhaps the most beneficial things is literally to just walk after a meal. Partially as a result, and partially because the recent episodes's concepts weren't explained well, I found myself distracted.

Random-- he makes a comment how the FDA often prematurely bans things e.g. peptides, which greatly hampers researchers' access to these materials.
In fleeting moments of madness, maybe. But aside from that, of course not! We're so unbelievably lucky to be able to do things that we're good at, most of us enjoy (to some extent), and also be paid eye-watering amounts of money.

It's pretty easy to forget how low the median income really is when one's social group is exclusively tech or other professional occupations (lawyers, doctors, etc). Meeting somebody who's doing physical labour 40-60 hours a week only to make 25k USD or whatever puts things into perspective really quick.
if you can find a way to turn methane into something useful (ie sellable) that will probably work better than taxes, because it applies regardless of jurisdiction and because taxes can always be cheated (e.g underreport your emissions) whereas corporations will always earnestly chase profits
Gosh, I didn't know about that. What a short-sighted programme – and all with the very limited purpose to perhaps maybe catch one guy :-/
Thank you for the morning laugh. And yes, I do agree.
I took a job making gears in a job shop. I learned quite a lot of interesting things. However, the pay and commute were both horrible. I caught Covid in March 2020, and have been dealing with Long Covid ever since.

Now I find myself needing to jump back into programming, and my strongly preferred language is Pascal. It's going to be an interesting ride.

If you do this yourself, make sure you have planned for contingencies like long term disability, should you be injured on the job, or get sick. Having a large nest egg of tech worker pay is a very good idea to secure before making the leap.
Not a bad analogy.
> "decentralised digital gold"

You're saying like that is not a huge deal. Central banks will hold Bitcoin in the future, it's inevitable.
Meetings, while sometimes necessary, are a tax on productivity. They are the worst kind: they feel like real work but often aren’t, and they often generate visibility for the organizer in a way unrelated to how useful they they are.

Anything that can be a task (or diff, or Figma, or CAD artifact, or deck, or whatever) should be: tasks have a chain of custody, they have a clear owner/POC, they can change hands, the can have artifacts attached, they are searchable and durable, leaders can consult them asynchronously so that 1-on-1 meetings are: “how can I solve or help you solve this thing that seems to be in the way?” and not “so, whatcha working on? how’s that novel coming Bryan?”

A focused voice or video chat with the minimum number of participants, decent audio gear, a clear agenda with clear resulting action items, and everyone deeply contextualized via durable, discoverable subject matter media is a net win. Personal charisma loses some of its effect, being prepared becomes the name of the game: this is a good thing.

Yes it’s higher friction, yes it raises the stakes on getting the agenda, participant list, and actions items really tight. Yes it forces leaders to read diffs (or whatever work product artifacts) and understand them. in order to be part of the process or run a sane performance cycle. Yes it cranks up the volume on the question: “do we really need a meeting here?”.

As a manager who ruthlessly suppressed fluffy meetings by running a tight ship on tasks and diffs and knowing the subject matter deeply: forced remote work is the best thing that ever happened to knowledge work.

Sucks to be a manager who can’t code, but we’re better off without them.
So no engineers are satisfied because they can’t master the entire domain of engineering?

Of course you can attain mastery over certain sections of computer science/engineering.
All you had to do was follow the damn pointer, CJSON!
The sources for MS-DOS have been floating around the net basically forever. The original first few releases are even on Microsoft's github. It largely is already in ASM. Some of the user programs are written in C.

To me, it would be far more interesting to see what modern compilers and development tooling could do towards producing DOS programs and operating system extensions. The tooling from back in the day was very baroque. You had to rely on different mutually incomparable dos extenders to get around all the limitations. (Just try to find the documentation to Phar Lap 386 in 2022.)
Finding the hard working partner is something mostly reserved for women though in US culture. It’s rare to find a woman in the US who will buck gender norms and be the breadwinner of the house while you frolic. We expect the inverse in the US as far as gender norms go. (And the stats back this up)
Ask HN: Does your software evolve out of your design, or is it the other way?
Do you first develop design/architecture for your software and then start coding, or do you code and refactor as you go along and the design then evolves for it?
I’d be more worried about being poisoned. Who is giving away free sandwiches? Ya’ll far too trusting. Zero trust is the only way to go.
Plumbers need to stay up to date, too (and they make great money).

I know several.
What if Stairway To Heaven came out today?
Actually, I agree with OP. Grandparent's phrasing:

> All of this is completely wrong.

Is not only needlessly argumentative but also wrong itself. The 3rd point they include as "completely wrong" is not wrong, and they end up just rephrasing it later in their correction.
The exchanges are deeply implicated in the Tether fiasco.

They will most likely just collude and attempt a simultaneous "rug pull" on the entire crypto market once the SEC announces plans to audit "stablecoins".

Trillions in "crypto wealth" will just evaporate into the electronic ether from whence it came
Is that screen shot actually from the 49ers, of the BlackByteBlog: it says $58 million...?

And surely the NFL is checking in with other teams, the NFL has a huge tech footprint - they drive semi-trucks of broadcast equipment and tons of gear to every game.

I met the (one of) producers on a plane once he he told me a bit abouit it - how many trailers they had in each "team" and how many teams they had... I think that this channel (cant recall which channel) had ~5 teams that would be deployed to various games on any given game day.

Their production quality in the NFL is amazing.

If anyone has direct experience with one of these broadcasts it woudl be nice to hear from you...
I don't know yet, I'm in search for one. But I've heard they exist.
The title isn't really accurate. It wasn't a bug to create ETH, it was a bug to steal ETH from the Optimism contract.
It worked for PT Barnum.
I wouldn’t use PayPal as any kind of a reference point. They compete with themselves to be the worst.
I have written many such comments on HN myself and seen many such comments from others. The motivation is generally universal. Software is an immature industry with many beginner experts that believe themselves to be experts but cry about how hard life is when standards are set and/or enforced.

Fortunately, I have a part time director level job as a soldier for my backup plan.
It's worth noting that if the internet splits up into large pieces, the blockchain splits, and the coins will suddenly lose a lot of their value. That's because there's no telling which fork of the blockchain wins when there's a merge later. Double-spending galore!
This is a logical fallacy. This is like arguing that because the government could hypothetically put you under 24/7 physical observation and listen to your every conversation by being in the same room and looking over your shoulder, ever using encryption technology is useless.
It extends, arguably, from the "Right to Property".

> (1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. (2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his or her property.

This right has a history of controversy and various interpretations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_property
The question you’ll wrack yourself over with though is - is it really possible for you to have ever had a similar experience?

I find social circumstances tend to go much better for my ex’s than they ever did for me. Pretty privilege is a real thing and it’s nearly impossible to make up for. You’ll find exceptions but they’re just that - exceptions.
No specific reason. I just pick Grid and continue with it.
I think any addictive substances need to have severely limited marketing not just for "the children" but for the public health of society as a whole. This includes tobacco, vape, marijuana, alcohol and any other products containing addictive chemicals that correlate with public health costs.

I realize this is poor timing to express this opinion since most of America is going to intentionally watch high-production-value advertisements glorifying alcohol in a few hours from now...
You can't catch ecoli from software at least though
I'm checking to see if this Linh Nguyen that some random Discord user referenced me is the Linh in front of me on Zoom. A phone call isn't ideal, but it's still better than nothing. At the very least, there's one more identifying factor though that may help with spotting any scams, but yes, it can be false sense of security if you rely purely on it.

If I'm John Doe and I made some merge requests to your open source project for a couple of weeks, is that alone really enough to potentially meet me in some city far from yours? That's essentially what the author was prepared to do.
The folks at Optimism would certainly hit the pause button on that withdrawal before it escaped, if there aren't already limits and automatic controls in place. It takes 7 days to withdraw L2->L1 via the standard bridge.

(They have administrative controls for now during development, at some point they're supposed to turn it completely permissionless...)
I enjoy solving problems, and software is an interesting place to be. Learning should be fun, not a miserable chore; I typically have one or two software/hardware hobby projects going in fields totally unrelated to my work, just to solve a little problem, and because it feels really good to expand your knowledge.

There are plenty of crappy boring jobs though (I never want to do typical web dev), so try to find something better if you're stuck there.
That's not what I said either. Again, the Reddit thread is about people with a small amount of money winning a large amount of money. A person like Saurik working for a bug bounty and getting paid for it is not nearly the same scenario.
I've considered it.

What grates with CS I feel the combination of never being challenged and not doing anything that furthers humanity. If I fix toilets then at least I'd be squandering my resources on something meaningful.

What frustrates me is I know I could do so much more, I could do good things. In the same time period of roughly a year it's taken a team of like 8 people at work (myself included) to develop a prototype for a stupid crud-application that exists entirely because Conway's law doesn't permit team B from talking to team C without going through my team, that has basic MVP-functionality of being able to process some simple requests and change a few fields in a database; in the same number of days I've developed a fully function search engine the scale of late 1990s google in my spare hours.
So basically a ponzi scheme that is expensive to join with guaranteed diminishing returns in mining.

If I would like to lose my money in style this would be it.
Not going to open UDP ports at the home gateway firewall. Just not worth the associated baggage that UDP brings outside of HTTP/3-QUIC.
Heh, dynamic linking and small executables. Funny how things change.
> I’m a data scientist/software developer and I keep longing for a simpler life.

Reminds me of how Stardew Valley starts off with that premise and within 2 days you are mining for crystals in a dungeon.
I wouldn't do this just bc I've been burned by Asus customer service before. I had a faulty AC68U router (random disconnects; happened regardless of firmware) and they essentially refused to help me. I'd wait 10min on hold to speak to someone and they'd say they can do a repair but no exchange. And when I said I can't be without internet for a week bc I'm WFH, they did absolutely nothing. Never buying Asus again
I find that it's important to periodically understand the big picture. I ask myself, are we doing better as a whole for society and can technology aid in that?

I get inspired by reviewing the following things:
1. Child mortality rate over time:
https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality?country=

2. DeepMind’s protein-folding breakthrough signals a promising decade for the science of proteomics. Most directly, being able to predict protein shapes will enable us to discover drugs more rapidly.

3. The cost to produce PV modules: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-pv-prices

4. Advancement of geothermal as a potential energy source. The next generation of the industry, however, is a bunch of scrappy startups manned by folks leaving the oil and gas industry who think with today’s technology they can crack 3.5¢/kWh without being confined to volcanic regions.

5. Space exploration. The Space Shuttle entered service in 1981 and launched successfully 134 times. The payload cost to low-Earth orbit (LEO) was $65,400/kg. Today’s Falcon 9 is at $2,600/kg.

6. The improvement in adult literacy rates over time. So much more to do here, but a literate population is one that is more likely to contribute to our global productivity and success. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/literacy-rate-adults?tab=...

7. Quantum computing experiments and trails are doubling the number of qubits every couple of years right now. Quantum computing will cause a re-imagining of security and cryptography of digital assets if it becomes production grade. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59320073

I am sure there are many other examples. Even though I am an enterprise software guy working at Dell, the progress we made in the areas of technology that we get to work in have some contributing impact to all of these trends.
I've had burnout plenty of times in my life. The best actions I've ever taken in those periods is to clean my room and go for a walk.

Then I just write one line of code. I give myself permission to quit after that first line---and I definitely have. But there are times when I write the second line and the third. Eventually I've written something useful.

The driving mantra is that I don't feel bad about lethargy. It's ok to do nothing. I'm surprisingly productive when I've given myself permission to be lazy.
What’s the reason of holding USDC, isn’t that same as holding cash in bank?
We already had that with maru OS, then again with Samsung Dex, with Ubuntu Touch, ... . Seems like nobody actually wants that.