skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The American Hacker Camp
Start with C. Shannon and A. Turing for the CS, and E. Dijkstra and N. Wirth for software engineering (and also to understand the difference between CS, SE, and programming. Spoiler: CS is mathematics. SE is engineering. Programming is a craft.)
Where I live the worst of this is that one is often expected to be the head of a team as well as lead developer. Sitting in meetings with people talking about personal matters was not the reason I became a developer.

The purpose of having autonomous teams with agile development is to speed up development by defining responsibility between different roles in the team and to give the team a sense of ownership that will enable quick decisions and shorter time to production. Scrum for instance also emphasis the need for protecting the developers from the outside. But in this agile post apocalypse it seems like the result have become the opposite.
Is there a tool that does what Karthik's software does, but with SGML?
Curious. It's almost like the climate is a complex system that requires more than 2 variables to model.
I get paid to write code, I couldn't care less if it's deployed or not.

If they pay me to write it, and it doesn't get used, that's their waste of money / time, not mine.
Vsauce has a great video on this topic

https://youtu.be/fCn8zs912OE
It solves the problem of decentralised liquidity. An order book with traditional market makers is inherently centralised, here we have incredibly simple algorithms for trading between two assets with no intermediary, and the complicated, HFT market makers of traditional finance are replaced by passive liquidity providers.

Not sure why you mention backtesting, or how that would really apply.
If everybody used things that are "already better", then nobody would ever start something new.

Even more, if everybody had to have the goal to arrive "something better" at some time in the future, most projects wouldn't get started. It's super valid to do something for your own edification and learning purposes.

Another good motivation is to explore new ways to try to write the same (or even less functional) thing but in a better way.
For some reason I find myself being able to remember many dreams for a few weeks, and almost none for a few more weeks/months.

I don't change anything in my life that I can think of in those periods which might be affecting my creativity, sleep quality, thinking etc.

Would love to know the reason though.
So you've identified a feedback loop. Milankovich cycles warm the Earth, which cause a release of CO2, which further warms the Earth. Now imaging what an Earth warming would be like that is _caused_ by increased CO2 emission, rather than just being fed back by it.
> There’s also the mystery of that whole area where the scrolls were discovered that were for the last part of the century closed off from further archeological studies and excavation

Why is that surprising? Given the topic, some enduring Philistinism is only to be expected.
I get what you're saying and agree in theory, but there are a couple of issues that I take with a couple of those assertions...

EVs aren't good for the environment, but they're better and will get better for the environment at scale. Recycling/chemistry will improve, petroleum bi-products dependencies reduced, so on.

We would still need most of the same infrastructure for buses, trucks, delivery vehicles, although all that extra torque and battery weight is going to make this a lot more expensive to maintain. But we're talking about increasing that torque and weight moving buses, trucks, etc to electric anyways.

I'm sure charging stations will be orders of magnitude better for the environment than gas stations (run-off, refueling trucks, idle-waiting, etc). We'll need this for all the buses, trucks, etc anyways.

Maybe most importantly in my eyes will be time-sharing vehicles, although not restricted to EVs. There is a chance that in the future that we'll get by with fewer cars on the road by sharing them. Most cars sit around doing nothing for most of the year. Imagine how much concrete, plastic, metal, money... might be saved by just doubling a vehicle's utilization. Imagine 3X, 4X,...

Unfortunately/fortunately, the car has become an integral part of our ecomony and way of life. I think we're decades, if not a century away from being able to replace them.
Well (as opposed to all the HN posts about Rust and GoLang), this is a topic I actually know a smidgen about while running a solar water pump venture out of East Africa. AMA.
Applies to many things, Stephen King on writing: "You have to be willing to kill your darlings."
Did that increase previously occur over 250 years or over thousands/tens of thousands?
It's still baffling to me how short avg tenure for SWE is, in general.
I feel that after a year, maybe, is when I finally start getting the lay of the land, meet some people, start understanding more of the domain and can start causing impact worthy of my paycheck.
I'm now at 3.3 years at my current gig and I'm feeling like I have superpowers, if that makes sense. I think it takes time to be in a position to really do a good job and see some earlier decisions paying off (or not) and it's speeding up my learning and responsibilities a lot!!
> Producers seek the profit maximizing price, not the highest price (those aren’t the same).

Is this true when you only have fixed amount of the commodity? Wouldn’t players try to optimize the total NPV of all resources sold into the future?
And did you “fix” him by ridiculing him in a comment on HN?
The thing is, for 20+ years you didn’t have to study. Only within the last decade or so have things become so competitive. There’s been a fundamental shift in supply and demand.
Ryanair forces South African customers to prove ID with Afrikaans test
>What if these are just a symptom of a despicable human behavior called "hoarding"?

It's only "despicable" if an individual does it. But "gains advantage" when you're a company.

See: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/28/business/worldbusiness/28...
It's messed up how the financial press uses negative words to describe good developments, presumably because some speculators may be losing money. Prices didn't "slump" - lumber became more affordable. The housing market isn't going to "shoulder the load" of lower monetary inflation - rather the housing market may regain some sanity as the Fed stops printing so much free money. I say this as someone who is long in real estate (> 1 piece), too. I consider that investment to be a hedge, and if the price of real estate ever were to actually "crash" (>70% drop) I would see it as a fantastic thing for our society to not be held moribund by extractive rents.
I think it's already a thing. See proof of existence.
What you just linked doesn't seem to be about solutions looking for problems. Rather it seems to be about people looking for solutions but being bad at expressing what the problems are.
It is extremely plausible that worst case, average case, and best case have different rankings - it's a little telling that you have no data and your only counter is to say that average should have the same trend.

I am aware that most of the cutting edge clinical trials in my field occur in the US. I have also seen people travel to the US for treatment of rare diseases. And I know that this isn't a surprising thing for the US in general, just look at our universities.

It's actually pretty funny that the only other response I got was someone saying that this is super obvious/true across fields in the US and thus not an interesting statement.
They are open source, not closed source, that's the main reason I said "reinventing the wheel".
xournal++ supports typing text, drawing with stroke recognition, supports touch displays, stylus, mouse, equations and also, pdf files can be used as background.
I repeat: When a better "approach" is available, why go for an inferior approach. I am comparing the ways things are being done, not just comparing final products.
Jump is a prop trading firm so this is just completely wrong, they only trade their own money.
I think people here got the idea that SF is post-apocalyptic by visiting it for conferences, since the area around Moscone is especially bad, you only have to go on a short wander for lunch before you end up in the Tenderloin, etc.

The last time I visited SF (for WWDC), I witnessed more crime first-hand in one week than I had in my entire life before (and since). I also witnessed more homelessness than I've seen in any single city.
I can’t remember the math. But when I was in high school I remember stumbling on this paper or something similar while working on a 3d engine. I programmed my graphing calculator to use it and basically “cheated” my way through a large bit of calculus with some variations on the code for each type of problem. This was 20-something years ago, so I don’t remember the details except that it didn’t work for every real problem, but most textbook ones and it used matrices.
The joke would be funnier if you explained that the same answer was repeatedly given by Yandex when asked why its news service shows only propaganda from a handful of state-controlled sources.
Probably the calming effect which results in a deeper sleep, thus not remembering much from the dreams.

And if one gets used to having deep sleep only under an effect of a substance, then withdrawal, as you said, could be worse.
Shen is an interesting offering in this respect https://shenlanguage.org

Probably doesn't cover the 'optimized native code' part but it obviously could, like many programming languages it is, practically speaking, a one-man show.

Not only is Shen inherently statically-typed (it's not annotations over a dynamic core language) but the type system is based on sequent calculus and is expressive and powerful. It would be nice to see what a Nim-sized community could do with it over five to ten years.
I disagree with your assumption that this approach is better than xournal++ approach.<br>
Do you really believe this is "better way" than xournal++? If if had been a better way than xournal++, I would not have commented about xournal++ in first place.
Yeah I agree, and the most ridiculous part is that they still have architects, team leads, product managers etc who now really do nothing other than riding the gullible software developer
They scrapped half of it going North - the Western leg to Manchester is still happening (although the government is refusing to allow for a proper station configuration at Manchester Piccadilly...)
>need a lot more time to be built and collapse faster than that

I think this is a very good judgement.

It's a lot easier to deplete resources than to allow them to retain their value, or with even more difficulty achieve growth..

Sometimes things really fly off the shelf (viral) but mostly it takes a lot of work with a focused mindset for growth to be initiated to begin with and continue to take place for any length of time.

For a large multi-generational system like that the tremendous strength required to get it flying and keep it going will often have to result in some remarkable upward momentum.

The initiative required can sometimes be lost over one or more generations and the average person may not notice as the upward momentum alone prevents things from faltering immediately.

Until it's too late because the collective talent's focus needed to be retarding collapse as soon as the elusive initiative was lost, but that event did not register against the macro upward momentum still remaining.

So the whole thing comes crashing down while presided over by those who seemed OK at stewarding upward trends, while they were actually not capable of continuing the mindset or making equivalent contributions over one or more generations, and completely out of their element when downward pressure arises that would otherwise be overcome.
Why is that an issue? Every country is guilty of serving propoganda in one way or another.
I use F5Bot [1] to monitor mentions of GitJournal.

I see. This task is probably just an hour or two. I'll try to get to it this week. It'll be a fun small task.

- [1] https://f5bot.com/
Now we should build a converter for turning vector files from the ePaper device reMarkable.com into this file format via OCR + line drawings. Would be nice for sharing, archiving and further processing.
Wow, so inspiring stories here.

We just bought (2 weeks ago) 7ha farm from southern Finland. We've been dreaming of it for 10 years but finally the time was right and a perfect place came along. We will move there in August. First season we are gonna just settle down and do some small scale homesteading (chickens, goats for milk and vegetables) but our plan is to start farming food for sale as well in the long run. Don't know if I'm ever able to drop from tech - not even sure if I want to - but plan is to do consulting (well, subcontracting) gigs during winters and focus on farming during summers. Let's see how it goes.
Sure. My sister had a defective Subaru that was a similar story. I believe that car had 3 engines due to some issue with that model year.

Those are the exceptions that prove the rule. They are rare and more indicators of process failures than some fundamental engineering problem.
The developed world as a whole is not even close to 2/3 US citizens, so per capita the original statement is still a large difference.
Thanks, it's a bit unexpected. How good is Power Point for math intensive animations? I am not sure I could easily (or at all) recreate most of the demos from mainm repo, but maybe I am missing something. I will have a look, I am intrigued.
TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asemic_writing
More States, More Bugs
What does any of this have to do with criminal law?
The Mike Pall method uses a typed SSA intermediate language, and adds trace guards anywhere it can't guarantee a single type. LuaJIT optimizes fairly well.
I believe almost all modern game consoles live in this space

Nintendo does not sell their consoles at a loss. They make a profit on every console sold. Their hardware is never bleeding edge but they make up for it on the strength of their first party franchises and their innovative controllers/input devices.
The EU doesn’t hate Russian companies. It is believed that Yandex manipulate their search result in a way to support Putin propaganda. You can read the EU decision if you want to understand their reasoning, it’s all public in their journal of records.
This is not an issue for the federal government to solve. States should set up their own systems as needed to solve their own unique needs. This is how the system of government is supposed to work in the US.
You might be correct in that you more accurately describe reality, but it still doesn't make any sense, and you have to do some serious gymnastics with both definitions and language, which just further illustrate what a big problem this is.
What sort of altruist has no qualms about billionaires blatantly influencing the democratic process and a political system where candidates outright take bribes in the millions?

It doesn't matter much what they purport the donations are for, no one in their right mind would admit they lobby senators for power and control. It's always for the children, for the environment, for "our" future etc. Everyone sufficiently rich enough has a tax exempt foundation in their name. There is a long line of mega rich "altruists" controlling politics, an earlier generation of web company founders with people like Gates, Bezos and Zuckerberg is highly active with their charitable foundations and their corporations largely control what the public thinks and what people are allowed to say online. Now a new generation is rising, riding on the wave of decentralization.

And just so you don't get me wrong, decentralization is a good thing and Bitcoin was a great innovation. The likes of Bankman-Fried don't represent the spirit of it, just as the likes of Microsoft represent the polar opposite of what the internet was meant to be: A means of free expression and information flow around the world. A democratizing force. These people are corrupting it.
Same ultimate solution, but no need for any apparatus - lung packing. I learned this incidentally while I was into freediving as a teen.

Just take the deepest breath that you can, and then use your tongue and throat to pack more air into your lungs until you feel fit to burst - it may take 20-30 packs. Hold it for ten seconds, then slowly exhale - if you’ve done it right you’ll feel like a deflating air mattress. Hiccups will be gone. If they aren’t, you didn’t pack enough.
Yep, I am contactable via irc (w/
flakey bitlbee) or xmpp, if you message me, I'll reply but I'm very much not always online.

Call if its an emergency, and its probably not really am emergency for me if you don't have my number
ah. i only check the news on my computer.

good luck!
It feels like a good moment to note that the previous Yandex CEO resigned and moved to Israel, citing that she "can not live in a country that is at war with its neighbours".
Rick and Morty S02E04, totally recommended if you haven't watched and want to get entertained in this topic in a fun way.
Because standards compliant SVG introduces XSS surfaces.
Not that baffling. Paychecks expand by orders of magnitude, when changing companies, and corporations treat their loyal employees like dirt.

It’s a systemic issue that needs to be dealt with in the C-Suite (which means there’s no relief in sight).
Moving senior engineers into management is the smart thing sadly.

My experience with F500 companies, doing anything causes an incredible amount of grief.

The most productive thing for seniors IS stopping coding.

Going to meetings is the only way to deploy ANY code to production.

The problem isn't even software.

The problem is "new software" represents change.
It is extremely weird that you think the best hospitals in the USA are not the same as the best hospitals in other developed countries. Especially given that their medical systems outperform the US system on a general basis.

I don't know if it is a weird American bias or what. I'd take a look at the bias there and this belief in American exceptionalism as it doesn't pan out in the data.

Cutting edge clinical trials and those companies are global in nature. I mean just look at the Moderna team and where they conducted those.
All of the priming and vacuum issues they describe is why I swear by submersible pumps. I use a pair of deep well pumps to move water up 70m, each doing a 35m lift, with a relay tank halfway.
I say 'in general' because that has been my experience everywhere I've known over the last 20 years.

"Senior engineer/dev" is a title, this is not the same as being the 'senior member' of the team.

In general (as per above) the title is given to devs with about 5 years of experience. It does mean more responsibility, but mostly in terms of being able to carry out dev. work without 'hand holding'. So I would say that a "senior engineer/dev" is simply a dev. who has reached full capability as a dev. Sure you are expected to help "junior engineers" but that's not the same as having leadership responsibilities. It's more like in a cop movie when the experienced guy is assigned a rookie as partner.

In larger organisations (which is most of my experience) "senior engineers" are not the senior members of technical teams, which are "principal engineers" or above.
That is't my assumption. My assumption is they don't have to be "better than". If they feel they got something out of it, that is enough justification. What is wrong with you?
For Lua documentation, I recommend the Programming in Lua book, from Roberto Ierusalimschy (lead Lua dev). The most recent edition is from 2016, after 5.3 came out, but that's ok because the language hasn't changed much since then.

http://www.lua.org/pil/

Another helpful reference is the reference manual. As far as reference manuals go, Lua's is fairly easy to follow and not as dense. (I still have nightmares from reading the Javascript reference manual)

https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html
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Is it just me or does it look like CORBA?
Correct. The dev teams working on the ‘client’ part of the game (ie, the game) don’t have time to be contributing code to open source projects, but we don’t use much open source code anyway. But other teams within the company will be using Git for server code, and other non-client side work.

I’m not saying that Git is never used in game dev (it absolutely is), I’m saying that not everyone will have to learn it, or ever touch it.
There's a boot & copy to RAM mode in the boot menu, allowing complete removal of the boot medium after the process.
Goodbye Marco (2015)
GRML is a great tool for recovering a system or a disk, or just run basic forensic tasks in its forensic mode to recover stuff.

I always keep the latest GRML96 (32bit + 64bit) on a bootable flash drive.
It seems like you want to create a general rule entirely based on your own personal experience.
No. Both are used. Well, not at the same time.
i call it hedging, not hoarding :)
I stopped because they banned me, I regularly posted, and even tested potential scam, what did I get from it, Amazon accuse me of abusing their returns system after I had probably 30 or 40 A to Z claims over scammers that never delivered something, or I documented in photos them sending other b**** as a way to scam the system oh, and even when I appealed this to Amazon and show them documentation of many if not all of the sellers being banned from Amazon with very very poor service ratings of 0% satisfied or 100% - oh, they would not reinstate my account oh, f** Amazon
> Is work where you look for belonging, identity, and transcendence?

Yes, to some extent. And I think that’s fine.
This looks really nice. I'll try that out. Do you know more similar games? I.e. where the choice of the programming language is done by the player?
Isn't Numpy about making things go fast?

People who expect things to go fast want it all cached up front, for very obvious reasons.

Seems straightforward.
The startup I work for in Scandinavia sells to education customers. As far as I understand, all schools here are either "Microsoft schools" or "Google schools".
You can split your big module into modules inside a sub-package and import stuff in the __init__.py file from the submodules to present a nice interface to the library user.

eg instead of:

namespace.py
class C1:
class C2:

do

namespace/__init__.py
from .c1 import C1
from .c2 import C2

namespace/c1.py
class C1:

namespace/c2.py
class C2:
Why would the world need another Google, European or whatever? I believe we don't need changes to make a new Google possible, we need changes to promote competition of many (much smaller) search engines, service/content aggregators, email services etc.
Well, the EU mandated that search engines manipulate their search results too. So I guess it's indeed that they dislike Yandex/Russia, not that they dislike biased search results.
Oh, got your point. It's an experimentation then. I thought it's an advertisement, so I too started advertising xournal++.
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Second this. Since I migrated my blog to weblorg I finally started blogging.
Yup, can confirm this. Replay as much of the dream as you can once you realize you're actually awake. It's crazy how fast the dream fades from your memory too, every second you lose more and more of it.

Also, the better you get at exercising this, the better chance you have at entering a lucid dream. Best chance for those is also right when you wake up, spend a couple minutes recounting a dream, and then fall back asleep.
> sucking on a straw is a terrible analogy for pumps because people think they are pulling the liquid when they are pushing it up the straw

How is lowering pressure by sucking on a straw a bad analogy for lowering pressure inside a mechanical pump?