skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I don't think so. From the article I think there is a trade association that views fraud as a problem and thinks that that a verifiable provenance would help. I don't see an implication that the trade association or its members are particularly concerned about internal diversion or substitution of the product. It seems plausible that they think enabling consumers or merchants to verify cheese authenticity will reduce fraud, and they may see a distributed means of maintaining the records as a good way to achieve that.
Mentor are just that. It's your life, follow it the way you want, whichever way feels right, and don't submit to FOMO.

Every decade or so you'll notice you're changing, you're not the same person. It's okay, it's part of life. Getting children for example will deeply change your perspective in life on what is important and what is frivolous society dreams.

As you're moving into a position of more stability, you might be wondering if this is it. And that's a normal thing to think about. The sudden feeling that a block falls into place demands whether or not this is a good thing after all. Shift your focus towards other things that may spark your interest. Working fast and hard is only a facet of modern life.

Do whatever makes you happy, or head in that direction and don't sweat the details. If however you feel you're headed in the wrong direction, then don't be afraid of bold moves. That's what never settling means; I don't think it means keep chasing your tail like wild pup. If one good thing falls into place, it's an opportunity to shift focus onto something else and try to excel there too.
> I wonder if he’s suffering from some kind of mental or emotional problems.

I highly doubt it. Musk has always been this petty.
Ok now integrate billing with flight booking and timezones… the devil’s stack
Inflation’s main cause is printing trillions of dollars in unbacked currency. The Trump admin and now the Biden admin are very fond of doing so for the sake of short term political advantage.
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That’s why they’re sealed with clay and plastic and constantly monitored for leakage.
> CDOs did not blow up the housing market. The housing market blew up the CDO market.

The two were indistinguishable (CDOs == buckets of over-leveraged mortgages), so I'm not sure what your point is here. No one really knew/cared what was in those CDOs, so people were trading them at face value. I don't think recent home owners are even remotely as leveraged as they were in 2008, so we're not risking a cascading blow-up effect.

House prices went up because of QE + high demand. QT will decrease demand at such high prices, and thus lower prices; we're already seeing this happen due to interest rate hikes. Undoubtedly we'll see some foreclosures, but I don't think it will be a bloodbath.
Agreed on this and it predates Covid, though has gotten worse. Suvs, cheaper sports cars, and above all, pickup trucks, are the models I see most often. It's worse when driving our prius, but happens in any vehicle.

It's as if certain group has learned to drive by driving as fast as possible until they reach a hurdle, then tailgating that hurdle until they go faster or get out of the way. Speed, speed limit and road conditions aren't a consideration; only this asshole that's in my way.
> its function calls are 30x faster (roughly, I measured it just now with a for loop doing 100 million function calls, which took 0.5s in JS, 15s in python)

Your benchmark also measures iterators and boxed integers, which were not in the JavaScript version, so it's not clear how much of the difference is due to function call overhead.

(Of course, it certainly doesn't help Python's performance that there's no simple way to do loops without iterators and integers without boxing. It would be nice if a future version could optimize the abstractions away.)
From Bill Watterson's commencement speech at Kenyon College in 1990. I was lucky to read this when I was graduating and it changed my whole career path. I am now very happy and very boring:

"Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it's to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential-as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth.

You'll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you're doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you'll hear about them.

To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble."
> If the Fed sells mortgage securities that pay low rates at a time when prevailing rates are much higher, it will incur big financial losses that reduce the funds the central bank returns to the Treasury.

Why does this reduce the amount of funds to the treasury? The losses are on the Feds balance sheet. My understanding is that the Treasury is not involved here, but the article hints at them being affected. Is it implying that treasury yields will rocket higher???

> In that scenario, expect officials to face tough questions from Capitol Hill to explain why they've lost billions of dollars on behalf of the American people.

If the Fed takes a loss, doesn't this mean that base money supply increases? Sure it will be drawing liquidity out of the system, but in the long run, it will leave more money in the system compared to where they started with QE.
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Oh sorry, I didn't think someone could be such a devoted Tesla apologist. I see I was wrong.
It's not just a fond memory. I use it in my open source. Other people use it.

It's not obscure.

One thing I actually agree with the author about is that these escape codes are the only relevant thing. Outside of retro computing nobody should care about supporting anything else.

Other programs doing this are not exactly in short supply. Anyone can do "ls --color /bin/ls | hexdump -C" and see the secret sauce.

I blog about various things, partly to help out people who are less experienced. But I don't pretend what I write about is some sort of lost art, that "only a handful of people know".

Like "how do I make bold text in linux terminal" gives as second result this:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/528928/how-to-do-underline-b..., which also links to https://misc.flogisoft.com/bash/tip_colors_and_formatting.

Searching on youtube I immediately got this, for those who prefer in video form:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL21-EnsNjQ

And it manages to do this without the pure arrogance of "i might be one of a handful of people left on earth who actually has the knowledge".

Seriously, this whole article could just have been just:

"Q: How do I output more than just print black&white text to the terminal?
A: ANSI escape codes. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code"

Not "everything you wanted to know about terminals".

Like, "how does Ctrl-C work? What's flow control?". No, this post is entirely about ANSI codes.

What's extra frustrating is that you too are calling this "oldskool crowd". I'm just not that old, and this just isn't forgotten. It's simply another tool that people use when they need to solve the problem of colors, etc.

Just because many people don't know how a malloc()/new becomes a mmap or sbrk doesn't make it "oldskool". It's simply a thing that many people have not learned yet, because they haven't needed to. If and when they need to it's quite documented and many others know it, if they want more hand holding.

Like say I didn't know how garbage collectors worked. I don't go "Oh you older generation of lisp programmers, you need to blog more and teach us younglings, so that we can understand the languages that we use". Sure, blogging etc about GCs is good, but who would be arrogant enough to just write an article about "old gen and new gen" and call it "everything you ever wanted to know about GC" and claim that they are one of the handful of people who understand GCs.
This is an uncompressed block.

For database records or log lines, you should use dictionary trained on likely data. Then short records compress well.

See what facebook does with zstd (they employ its author): https://engineering.fb.com/2018/12/19/core-data/zstandard/
https://archive.ph/by90n
How sustainable are landfills? There's limited land for farming, residences, manufacturing, and everything else we use it for. And trucking trash to deserts to landfill there isn't carbon neutral either. Trash also doesn't breakdown as quickly in covered landfills (for better or worse depending on what one dumps).
This started before the pandemic hit, the pandemic just accelerated the growth of housing prices in those towns, as remote-workers started moving to them.
> how does it make sense to cause a housing crash?

Less housing demand presumably means less home construction and renovation, which eases the strain on supply-chain limited resources. Lower home prices also reduce the amount of equity sellers, or HELOC borrowers, can spend on NFTs or whatever [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_effect
Those microplastics aren't coming from landfills. They're coming from your everyday interactions with plastic and people dumping plastic in rivers and oceans.
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That is specifically called out by the ha team as an unsupported and not recommended type of install. So I think it's a bit of bad form to be complaining that your specific unsupported install isn't well supported (and on a free software, even worse).
I wonder if it's survivorship bias. Same as not every old building has survived the times, only the amazing ones did, maybe just the "amazing" government systems have survived, while the others have long since become forgotten. I put amazing into quotes because SSNs have plenty of problems, but at least they are successful in that they are used everywhere. This in turn creates the impression that government systems used to be better than they are now.
They only work on silicone though.
SPL is a complete no-go for getting ZFS in.
"yes"

"what does it take?"
- total faith in a 3rd party
or
- total faith in a 1st parth solution.

tldr: the only right way is the one which doesnt ruin request cycles
Firefox doesn't have Google on their preinstalled DoH provider list. You can go out of your way to configure it.
What an oddly judgmental piece of advice from a mentor. I'd take it with a pinch of salt and instead think in terms of problems instead of solutions e.g. what do you hope me to achieve by "not being boring"?

I'm in my late 30s and I find that energy ebbs and flows through life and career. Sometimes you are excited and energized and you can channel that for change. Other times you are down for whatever reason. Take care of your self, and learn how you do your best work.
OKR are about the reason you get paid. The main reason they pay you seems to be to put out fires, so something like "Put out fires before things go bad" should be your OKR. If you did a good job putting out fires you get a high score.

So many here say "OKR doesn't match what I really need to do", the answer is then always "then write down what you really need to do/focus on as your OKR". If your manager complains ask him "would you rather I work on this project instead of fixing a fire when a situation happens?", if he says yes then you should stop fixing those fires it isn't your job, if he says no then he should be fine with it being a part of your OKR's.
> It's very unfortunate that the US government at the same time promotes a particular standard, but does not provide a service matching that standard and seems to currently have no plans to do so

id.gov could be a great project for the US Digital Service [4] and 18F [5] who are the ones that delivered login.gov [6].

[4]: https://www.usds.gov/

[5]: https://18f.gsa.gov/

[6]: https://digital.gov/2017/08/28/government-launches-login-gov...
I'm aware of all of that but none of that answers the question.
Also, don't assume that all entrepreneurs are edgy risk-takers. Many entrepreneurs find a niche that they can fill, using innovation to reduce their risk to a manageable level.
People love to "what if" landfills. Best to not bother arguing with them. We have tons of problems with emissions, plastics pollution, industrial dumping. However landfills ain't one of them, but people won't give up. I've learned to not bother discussing anything with them if they don't know a few basics of how modern landfills are run (at least in western nations).
I don't want to seem condescending, so I have to ask you to please bear with me: what led you to believe that those big ideas are achievable? Sheer youthful exuberance? The forgivable hubris of one who outshines most of their peers intellectually while still in a small-pond environment? Perhaps in our youths, we were not informed that world-changing ideas require not just the eurekan spark, nor the 99-percent perspiration of genius, and nothing so easily roadmapped as the once insightful, now trite 10,000 hours... but instead, the near-zealotry required to fight a sort of tide. It's the tide of a world which has naturally evolved against constantly reshaping itself in the image of each incoming wave of fresh youth with ideas that are reminiscent of "if I ran this place..." It's not entirely dissimilar from your body, which cannot tell a good mutation from bad, and so we're left with the onees who slip or muscle past our defenses, tiny fragment by fragment over eons.

You still believe, and have proof, that just about any one human can achieve incredible things. You know this because you have some hero who forewent significant parts of their lives in exchange for the mere lottery ticket of succeeding in the thing you admire them for. Many just like them failed at that same shot, and we are left without much reverence for the invisible graveyard of the almost-Jobs, almost-Gandhis, almost-Curies, et. al.

If the world was set up with immense reward in mind for those who change it for (let's not quibble on definitions, but:) the better, maybe human superstructures would have a lower baked-in resistance to change. Maybe. But the meager quantity of right-tail prizes available mean that most would hardly sacrifice a little comfort, let alone the sum totality of their possible lives they could live, for what? A lance lofted at a windmill.

If you wanted to give up everything and chase your big ideas, which at a young age, or even long from now, or tomorrow, you could. You could, seriously. And because you're on this forum you're probablistically understand risk scenarios enough to gauge the odds of success in exchange for your massive sacrifice.

I think about this all the time, too. Your average person will hardly give up the tiniest comfort, but how could we judge them or ourselves for it? It's not nature's fault nor ours that this same selfishness is how we killed to eat for all these millennia.

Anyone with too firm of an answer to this whole riddle fancies themselves a hegemon.
Hi, author here. Yes this was just a bit of silly/pointless fun, though people overanalysing it here is just as delightful.
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I'd suggest that regulation is typically the issue, and it is in the case too. Investing in real estate is not for everyone, and not just based on the merit of one as a landlord. Some states are complete nonstarters unless you can pay for influence.

The only legitimate role of the state is to defend the inalienable rights of the individual. They should not be interfering in contracts. This type of meddling overreach is usually the issue, but is always an issue. There are many consequences, both intended, and unintended, and recognized, and unrecognized.
Canned tomatoes? Yikes. If you’re trying to beat premise sauces at least get some local fresh tomatoes and have a go and making it from scratch. The acidic flavour of canned tomatoes is horrible in my opinion compared to fresh tomatoes.
Primarily non-tech people talk to it. It’s a bridge between our engineering team and everyone else. You can message it asking to look up some data or perform an action. Basically, things that everyone would have to wait for an engineer to do. It also sends us notifications and reports about topics that different teams are interested in. It’s been referred to as another team member who is super smart and its avatar is a cat.
There's no equivalent for Safari. There are a number of Safari content blockers, but the API is strictly limited. It's somewhat similar to declarativeNetRequest in Chrome manifest v3.
> Unionism is still the biggest designation in Stormont.

By two seats, so by a 2.2% lead. 37 Unionist, 35 Nationalist, and 17 Alliance, and 1 Other.
This one.

I did unimaginable things for one company, only to understand the value years later.
That article referenced in the tweet is from Oct-2021. Now they're actually freezing hiring engineers. Guess the problem worked itself out.

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-is-freezing-hiring-...
That's too bad. If the government wants to incentivize investment in certain geographical areas, they may offer tax breaks for businesses there. I guess those Dutch companies won't move there, since that would avoid taxes. Or if the government wants to encourage companies to provide certain benefits to employees (eg. if this was the US then tax exempt pension plans), then those companies won't take advantage of it.

Of course, this could just be virtue signaling, in which case I guess Dutch companies will be taking advantage of those legal tax avoiding methods.
This is the dream response for any manager. I am the opposite and cared very little about making more money. I was more interested to reduce my life's operational expenses to get more out of the money I was already making. I got bounced around from manager to manager because of this. Nobody knew how to get me to do anything.
You are right, I misread it.
PCRE2 "wins" ;-)
> Why does this reduce the amount of funds to the treasury?

It's an accounting thing [1]. When the Fed makes a profit, it remits it to the Treasury [2]. (I believe this is an anachronism from the gold standard days, but not sure.)

[1] https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2018/september/fed...

[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/fed-sent-88-5-billion-in-profit...
All I know is I’m glad I don’t work with the OP.

I also narrowed in on key words like “she” and “daughter,” and realized the OP is a man who probably doesn’t have kids. This is the stuff that drives our women engineers out of the workforce.
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I have never used Spotify in my life and I resent the notion that I must do so. I consider them part of the race to the bottom I want no part of.
I love music, particularly original music that’s a bit different. I dislike a €4 billion company having any monopoly on suggestions and this whole playlists thing is just eye rollingly bad: pay for placement on some guys glorified mixtape?
No thanks, I don’t want to discover sycophants that way.
Indeed, I doubt anyone really needs that. And anyways while training a model you'd be lucky to get an hour of battery life even on an M1 Max.
Okay, serious overestimation. All of these prices are so far out of my budget that I don't make any distinction :)
https://archive.ph/ZQ8zK
Is anybody aware of any recent machine learning work in 3d object composition space? In particular, I often waste a lot of time manually finding parameters that work for a particular system and it seems like if I just had a differentiable system for working with things like 3d primitives (spheres, cylinders, etc) I'd be able to explore that space with constraints efficiently.
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Bloomberg published a piece last year called "Anyone Seen Tether’s Billions?" It's definitely worth a read:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-10-07/crypto-my...
The article already mentions zstd but for an IMO simple and accurate overview take a look at the recommendations from https://jolynch.github.io/posts/use_fast_data_algorithms/ .
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I think it's also obligatory to mention the longish magazine article "Mother Earth, Mother Board"

https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/amp
As a counterpoint, I'd wanted to write a book for years, and felt overwhelmed by the production process. asciidoc, docbook, word, it's kind of overwhelming. After I finally put together a good markdown->pandoc->latex->KDP flow, it was a huge relief, and I've printed two books since then (one by me, one by me and some co-authors). It's super-fun to receive an author proof in the mail and it motivates me to write more.
The "big ones" like Unity, Cryengine, Unreal etc. include many many things. They are absolutely huge compared to what a single game using them actually needs.
A game engine is just that: an engine for games to run on to seperate engine and gameplay programming.

If your team decides to create singleplayer game(s), and your own engine as a platform for it, then building full networking and netcode into that would be out of scope. That would still be a game engine nonetheless.

Can the term game engine include networking? Absolutely. Does game engine inherently imply networking? No, I don't think so.
I really like this essay [0] by cryptographer Moxie, specifically this section about starting a new career:

"...simply observe the older people working there.

They are the future you. Do not think that you will be substantially different. Look carefully at how they spend their time at work and outside of work, because this is also almost certainly how your life will look. It sounds obvious, but it’s amazing how often young people imagine a different projection for themselves.

Look at the real people, and you’ll see the honest future for yourself."

I also think money is really nice, but should not be a means unto itself.

I used to bartend in a wealthy area. Lots of folks on this little town would get tipsy and start talking about how much money they have.

One of my barometers for life is to have things I'm more passionate to talk about than wealth accumulation when I'm tipsy in a bar.

[0] https://moxie.org/2013/01/07/career-advice.html
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There was an age (about 25 or so) where this lesson beat me over the head until I finally accepted it. It was very freeing. Ironically, it lead to the most professional and artistic growth I had experienced as a result.

Turns out that focusing on what's right in front of you and ignoring "big ideas" (which are often more practical for aesthetics and performative identity over material reality) actually frees you to pursue what you really want. By trying to worry too much about "big ideas" I was actually being lazy/anxious about doing the actual work to figure out the "interesting ideas" that I actually wanted to pursue, "bigness" be damned.
I try to always work on something that’s contributing to something I care about in the world. I find that motivation is less of an issue if there’s intrinsic value to the work I’m doing.
"Not meant to be taken literally, it refers to any manufacturers of dairy products."