skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love getting rid of stuff. I've just packed up my apartment again, and my wife and I have under 5m3 of stuff, and that includes a couple of larger pieces of furniture, 7-8 framed pieces of art, a decently-sized toolbox, and a big TV. Most of the time we're away from our homebase anyway, so living out of two suitcases. It really means that our treasured items are treasured, as most have undergone several iterations of this slimming process.

It's not for everyone, and I'm not trying to make some larger moral point, but for me it always feels so cathartic to strip down the stuff and just be left with items that you actually really like
The domain for the Python Requests library is expired
These are low profile mechanical keys. Looks like the same or similar to G815/G915. Which can be wired btw.
Yes because Kubernetes is simple…
I was really wanting to stop working for a bit and do some travel and vacation, but then covid happened, and now it could be sought getting working again:/

There's still tons of things to automate, so I don't think there's going to be a lack of jobs, but the easy money won't be around for a while
Wow, I didn't know that BUSD is also issued by Paxos, thank you.
I had such a collection. It spent a decade in storage during a transient period of my life, and I emptied my storage when I got a house. I made a decision that I was going to empty every single box, whether or not I'd go on to repack them. I saved a miniscule fraction of the computer stuff, in the face of the evidence that I had not needed it for an entire decade and had no plans to open a computing museum.
Symbiotic relationships take things from the other party, but they are repaid in kind.

We can't live without eating things, and in our turn we are eaten. That's life. 'Extract' can have a connotation similar to 'exploit' and if you hear anyone talking about 'extractive' in reference to the environment, that's usually the connotation the speaker is after. But 'exploit' and 'extract' can also mean something closer to 'leverage', which I think is generally the sense one associates with a symbiotic relationship.

My read on this is that humans get a bad rap because so much of recorded history and popular culture is colonial, and the most efficient conquerors also conquered the land, not just the people. Annual plants transport well, and transplant well. A civilization that survives on walnuts or figs or dates or fish can take land from another tribe and thrive immediately, because neighboring tribes have pretty similar diets and agriculture. But conquering another civilization? More efficient if you can bring your agriculture with you, destroy theirs, and replace it with yours. Even if you leave, that scar will last for generations.

Conquest is less effective if you have to assimilate first. Which is not to say that it doesn't work (eg, the Americas) but your competition might get there first. The people with attachment to place were better stewards, but that attachment makes you vulnerable in other ways.
Don't overlook survivorship bias. There was plenty of cheap junk being sold 50 years ago.
Palantir Technologies CEO sees 20%-30% risk of nuclear war
I can't remember the last time I've witnessed a motorist abusing a bicyclist. I'm sure it happens, because of course there are exceptions. By and large most people seem to share the road just fine.

The one time I thought I might see some actual mayhem was after I waited in a long line of cars on a relatively narrow uphill street that were waiting for an opportunity to safely pass a slow moving bike. It went pretty well. But about halfway up that hill we got stopped at a light, and that bicyclist rode right up the line of cars to the front, and made everyone pass him again. LOL. Nobody actually did anything aggressive, but you could feel the unhappiness there. He was a dick. Most riders are not, just like most motorists are not.
That’s awful. I would fire people like that on the spot if the goal is to ship and grow.
Wrong link; you probably meant to post

https://www.theverge.com/2016/5/4/11589948/moog-app-synthesi... ("Moog's new app gives you a $10,000 synth for $30")
This is a pretty reasonable synopsis. Read my other comment in this thread for related info.

"Z architecture" isn't all that different from the Linux for MVS integration, so it's not all that bonkers. Trying to understand mainframes in terms of Unix/Linux is totally bonkers, though.
My school required everyone to install a process scanner with root privileges in order to join WiFi. I showed people how to install the school's spyware in a virtual machine isolated from the host.
AFAIK the overwhelming majority of creators on OF make way way less than minimum wage.
Not really…

my parents got divorced and my mom abandoned everything and everyone
Doesn't sound very hard. Walk through and grab the stuff you like, and then have an open inspection to sell off all the stuff you don't want at a price just worth making it for your time.

Perhaps gather the common items like kitchen stuff and dump it at an op shop / charity.
AWS employees are contributors to Terraform.
> Of course I could be dealing with a bias because as a novice programmer I worked on simpler programs and now I work on more complex / powerful programs.

The software techniques you've listed are among the reasons why it's even possible to build more complex and powerful programs. Forward progress in software is always resisted by the contemporary programmers of the day who are deeply fond of their chosen anachronism and don't like it when they perceive the feeling that it is threatened by a newcomer. This is an ancient law of software that few seem to accept, but c is to assembly as python is to c and javascript is to python. Software developers tend to be thoughtful people, these tools exist for a reason.
Yeah, sorry I didn't explain tagged template literals, just linked to an example.

You could make one called, say, rx for regex. Then

rx`${a}|${b}`

would evaluate to exactly the same result as a tree constructor call like

regex_or(a, b)

given corresponding definitions of rx and of regex_or. There's never any question of whether a and b are escaped right. So it brings the composability advantage of the library functions you prefer, to people who want to write these concrete-syntax regular expressions that started the whole thread.
> but more importantly it takes just doing fantastic work when the opportunities present themselves.

It has taken me a decade to realize this is the key to success. Just do your very best work, as often as possible, and let the rest figure itself out.

I accidentally created a data warehouse that became the necessary backbone to launch a massive new org (100M+ revenue). I was building it for a relatively small near realtime Elasticsearch cluster to generate data reports for an application. But I thought, gee, if I suck in a bunch of other data from other sources and clean it, I might find a use some day. Little did I know that someone else would piggy back on it to build a POC for a giant business expansion.
The Mystery of Monkeypox’s Global Spread
I stumbled across some digital photos from about 25 years ago while going through my "library". The experience felt very similar to finding some old analogue photos in a box, though unlike with physical photos you'd be unlikely to find them while looking for something that wasn't photos.
By Act of Parliament 1603: One Mulberry Tree – Terence Eden’s Blog
You might already know, but the New Alchemy Institute journals and quarterlies have been made available in PDF form: https://newalchemists.net/publications/new-alchemy-1971-1991...

I am mystified why their "living machines" are not more popular.
> Is demoralizing to find out I spent 4 years in school just to get into a really harsh job market.

Came out of college in 2000. I was told it was a gold rush from many grads I knew who were hitting the market in 98'. Startups doing startup things, VC money flowing for IDEAS, didn't even need a business plan of any kind, just have a solid idea and watch the millions get tossed your way.

Then the bottom fell out less than a year after I got out. Everything evaporated. All the cool kids were having "hanging parties" where entire companies were getting laid off in a single day. As fast as the VC money showed up, it turned into sand and disappeared.

I had the same reaction - WTF do I do now? It was so devastating to everyone around me.

Here's what happened:

- lot of friends went back to college to get advanced degrees

- some went back to college to do something totally different

- some got together and started new companies, in the ashes of the recession no less

- some just collected unemployment while waiting the recession out and waiting for companies to start hiring again

- some found gigs at big corporations and started at the ground floor. They wanted stability in the desert of constantly shifting sands. Less pay, but stable.

Here's the point. You have to seize your opportunities when they show up. You should see this, and any "negative" situation as a chance to see what's out there, make a plan and go for it. Things will eventually come back around, but I wouldn't sit around waiting for something else. Start your own company, find out what you really want to be doing and do THAT.

I found out in 2000, that when everybody was standing around holding pitty parties for themselves, there was a huge group of people that were already dusting themselves off and planning the next charge into the next big thing.

Here's an ENTIRE LIST of companies that were founded in 2000:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_companies_es...

The best advice I can give you is to do some digging. Got to networking events, see what everybody is doing. Make connections at companies, talk to people, see who's hiring, let people know you're out there looking for something that's a good fit. Right now? There's roles out there, but you're going to have to do some digging and leg work. The market conditions warrant you doing some legwork, instead of waiting for those companies to come knocking.

Chances are once you get out there and make some connections, you'll find people will start contacting you about roles which won't be on any job board. You'll hear from people about XYZ startup, looking for some solid talent. Or ABC Corp doing some contracting hire through DEF agency.
>I've worked for a place that would only hire MS or PhD grads.

Specialized regions aside, how bad was their code?
My family vacationed on the same beach as Joe in the late 90s, and he was a great dude. Just having a great time, telling stories that my father (and to some extent, I, though I was distracted by swimming as kids are wont to do) loved to hear. Fantastic engineer and dude with a serious love of life.
Sonic in Oakland, CA.
Who had money on Samsung and Red Hat joining forces on next-gen memory software?
I am surprised the article doesn't mention monitoring TBW (TerraBytesWritten). I found it a good indicator for how much data is actually written to the SSD. In my case, I decided to buy cheap consumer SSDs (from WD), because I calculated I have only about 50TBW per year on my VM-drive, a ZFS-Mirror. In reality, it is even less - so far 14TBW in 2022, with 16 VMs. See a blog post here for how I monitor the stats in InfluxDB [1]. WD says the drive has an average lifetime of about 300 to 400 TBW, so I can expect at least another 5 years.

[1]: https://du.nkel.dev/blog/2021-05-05_proxmox_influxdb/#config...
> if you want to push it that far, you have to answer the question of why bicycle riders aren't required to have a driver license, carry insurance, register their bikes, and have license plates.

Because both the scale of destruction and death a cyclist is capable of is nowhere near that of someone driving even a small compact economy car, and the relation between damage caused vs suffered is nowhere as disproportionate?

A driver can plow through a crowd of dozens of people, killing and maiming, and not suffer the slightest injury.

> Because if you think a bike can't cause a serious accident, you haven't driven the roads too much.

Never has a cyclist damaged a building, much less obliterated a storefront or killed people sitting inside said building. Or taken out a traffic light, or telephone pole.

Never has a structural engineer had to evaluate a building or bridge after a cyclist hit it.

Never has a cyclist caused a mass casualty event.

A cyclist causing a death is so unheard of it's literally national news.
Thanks. This is the feeling I have as well.
> But SSDs can write so fast that you can burn out the drive in months (maybe even weeks?)

You can burn out a modern consumer drive in 2 days if you want to. Write perf ~6 gb/s, mtbf 700 tb written on a 1 tb drive. The tlc/qlc cells have very poor endurance imo.
I agree with you.

For this kind of thing it would've been best for them to go to arbitration and the plaintiff writing down a number on what is pretty much a blank check handed to her. That's all she could get out of this, if we're honest, and the amount could be quite generous too. The last thing Tesla/Musk want at the moment is bad PR.

Unless she wants to see Musk behind bars (highly unlikely) I don't see the point of this going to trial.

And sure, lawyers on both sides are rubbing their hands ...
>The "problem" will solve itself and no one will notice it ever was a problem!

Yep, everybody wins. The person selling gets quick cash for minimal hassle, and the person buying gets extremely inexpensive treasures. Win-win
I agree logically, but an important point is that pretty much any pedal assist on the market will have a top speed only marginally faster than a biker's actual top speed - compared with the pure e-dirt-bikes which are exceptionally faster than most biker's top speed.
> The article is ignorant of all of this statement... The "problem" will solve issue and no one will notice it was ever a problem.

I think you've misread the article a little. It's not so much a problem in the sense that there will be an overwhelming wave of junk that piles up on street corners. The problem is that there's a generation which is about to share a collective experience, one which will enforce an already minimalist tendency. The article doesn't spend most of its time going on about waste management. It's about the physical and emotional toil associated with handling an estate. That's why it focuses on stories of individuals struggling.

As someone who lost a parent this last year (and spent three days just removing food from the house), I may be a little biased. But that was my reading.
to be fair, the paper has a funny tone, like an elaborate joke would have... I feel like he may deliver a punch-line at any point before I finish reading the paper and then I'd have to choose whether to burst out laughing or not
I think maybe the better answer is to give that to the cops. And if you're unhappy with enforcement, elect different politicians. A major reason we have a justice system to begin with is so we don't have vigilantes.
You're meant to live through a lot of "once in a life time events" every decade or less. There are many different "once in a life time events", and they are spread out throughout your entire life.
This will be very regional I feel. I have tried to stock my house with used furniture everywhere I've lived. This was very successful when I moved to Cornwall (UK). If you weren't too picky about the styles, there were many options, all at huge discounts over original price. But in contrast to that, in large U.S. urban areas, used furniture shops are not worth your time, with no good deals. I assume this relates, somewhat morbidly, to the difference in death rates vs. new-resident rates.
May you be the luckiest person on earth if the people in front of you only took 30 seconds.
Decent infrared sensors are actually rather expensive. On top of that, the even better ones are under export controls because Russia is so bad at this game that they cannot manufacture their own sensors, thus banning exports actually makes a difference. Many of the intelligent missiles destroying Ukraine have French or other components in them. Same goes for fire control systems in tanks, or goggles used by infantry or pilots.

EDIT: details: https://infraredcameras.com/thermal-camera-export-restrictio...
I've considered trying to augment some geophysics analysis with AI, but is it actually useful? I think not - geophysicists are cheap for the amount of value finding a good deposit, and if you're going to find something new, it's likely to be outside the training set
What creates risks are supervirus labs in places with safety concerns and outsourcing research to them.
This person put their finger on why I can’t watch this Pixar nonsense.
I couldn’t have put my own finger better on my own reasons why.

It’s like reading a takedown of a serial bully and relishing the takedown. Take that, generic automated entertainment !

I suspect that hand animation and non realistic artsy animation styles will make a comeback
Haskell (VR compositor glue), C++ with GTK (linux phone software dev), MIPI interface (I want to develop a driver)
I had ideas for road signs/equipment in my head. Now I've got a reference to read! Thanks! I love when these obscure refs make it to the top.
I graduated around the same time and I ended up getting a job in finance anyways - hard asset investments specifically. So there are actually markets that thrive during times like these and identifying them and reaching out to them is what you might want to consider doing.

I might want to add this was a programming role, not anything crazy like a quant or something like that either, and I didn't even go to school, they hired me on self-taught and that was that.
I'm thinking that if these become widely distributed on land, that it might be more disruptive. E.g., highway overpasses collapsing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Geofoam_bridge_overpass.j...

But, it might still be a net good, even if some earthworks projects must be redone with other materials, if we can get plastics out of the food chain.
Yes, and particularly because some of the, hmm, "good" players out there still haven't developed domestic capabilities. I'm talking about Russia.

This is the kind of stuff that should've been completely sanctioned for decades. It's just completely fucked up to find western IR sensors in guided ammunition used against civilians in Ukraine.

EDIT: details: https://infraredcameras.com/thermal-camera-export-restrictio...
I do agree that social isolation, hopelessness, and the US culture of rugged individualism may play a factor here, but we don't have a monopoly on that. Or mental illness. Or bullying. And on and on.

In this context, the only metric in which the US far surpasses other OECD countries is gun ownership and our idolatry of guns.

EDIT: Plus the constitutional enshrinement of gun ownership, based on a document written in the 17th century.
Basically, Pixar formula sausage is the EDM autotune of animation
Thanks, that's very helpful. I'll have to see if importing a Letsencrypt certificate works?
The book "Inheriting Clutter: How to Calm the Chaos Your Parents Leave Behind" by Julie Hall is a fairly good guide to how to handle this situation. Would recommend reading it before you need it.
It’s even stronger than you suggest, the actual “word processing” bits turned out to be a vestige of a paper world and “collaborative text editing” was actually the killer feature.
one local church in seattle is making a clear impact for the homeless. you can tell by where all the tents are set up
Remote works solves many ills.
Should we ban Photoshop? It's a leap in logic but not very different.
Boring Infrastructure
Funny how you didn’t get the reference to that Pixar joke style.

It’s a really rather obvious trope; a unique cliche, IMO
Pretty sure this entire thread could be summed up by:

There is a ton of <X> hate in the <Y> world. Cars, bikes, iPhones, Androids, dogs, cats, you name it, everything is a team sport you have to win.
Glad to see this. Zapier is a hot mess
True to form, Cutler had a break with DEC, and they gave him a carte-blanche VAX "skunkworks" with Prism/Mica.

DEC eventually shut this down, which prompted his departure for Microsoft. This is unfortunate for DEC, as they eventually poured the company into their Alpha RISC processor, which did not live as long as DEC hoped. Prism might have been a superior design.

At this time, Microsoft was maintaining a UNIX kernel in their Xenix product, so they knew a good kernel engineer when they met one. Microsoft was the leading UNIX vendor in the early 80's.

Cutler famously disparaged the UNIX kernel (his notable saying was "Get a byte, get a byte, get a byte byte byte" to the tune of the finale of Rossini's William Tell Overture).

Microsoft dumped their Xenix onto SCO about this time.

What is more interesting to me was Cutler's involvement with Azure. He must have had some sway over CBL-Mariner, Microsoft's RPM-based Linux distribution.

Much of Cutler's earlier work is documented in the "Showstoppers" book:

https://www.amazon.com/Show-Stopper-Breakneck-Generation-Mic...

The book doesn't really delve into the Xenix decisions, if I remember correctly.

Without Cutler, Microsoft would likely have ended up on a BSD kernel, as Apple did.
Programmers respond to their incentives. Like most security bugs, this one happened because someone was dumb enough to use C for something connected to the internet. But the reason programmers do that is because of a culture that rewards fast and insecure more than slightly less fast and correct.
> But an investigation by CNN offers new evidence — including two videos of the scene of the shooting —

This is what I hate about MSM. Why not share the video (blur gore if necessary)? Many new media sites make sure to source their claims and provide (external) links to the primary source.
How do you make that work when in most cases there are no obvious warning signs?

Mental health can be a fragile thing, how do you know that your "responsible" gun owner won't go on to commit a mass shooting next year or the year after that?
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I lean towards thinking 15% of people are good 15% are bad and 70% are distributed somewhere in between but mostly follow the herd/social conventions.
The most fascinating collection I think, was the auction of notorious mayor, police chief and brow-beater, rather fist beater Frank Rizzo, of Philadelphia.

No where else was there such a collection of awful italian style Tchohkes, religous paintings, horrid furniture and even his own personal police baton.
Something. like partners in health makes a pretty clear impact, with the Paul Farmer aims to treat people directly, and not as statistics.

Now that he's died, it might not be the same though
When I debug, sometimes I write code which pretty-prints the object to stdout, and then execute that inline ("evaluate expression") when I need to.

It may be kind of hacky but it works well and it's super easy to implement. As a bonus, you usually end up pretty-printing the object in some debug-logger anyways.
> I can't remember the last time I've witnessed a motorist abusing a bicyclist.

It's easy to not witness something when you're not the subject of it. For example complaints of racism, sexism, etc by the victims in the workplace are often met with claims by white men that they 'rarely see it.'
Not just “so much better now!” but “incredibly super fantastically better than anything ever was or could have ever been compared to the horrible disgusting very bad, no good cretinous crud that came before!!!”. They shout so loud I can’t hear what they are saying. They sound silly.

Would be nice if the discussion focused on one particular point in the past, say 25 years in the past, 1997. What has dramatically improved since 1997 as a result of technological advances? It’s a much harder case to make, e.g. the first Prius was released in Japan in 1997, Windows 98 was in beta, Netflix was started…

https://www.computerhope.com/history/1997.htm