skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Tell two truths and a lie!"

> "Don't forget to donate!"

Sure, I get what you're saying about those.

And this one is prying in just about any context, work or not:

> "Are you thinking about getting married, having kids?"

But these?

> "What did you do this weekend?"

> "What'd you think of the $SPORT game?"

> "Where are you going for vacation?"

> "Don't forget to vote!"

Those are just normal ways of making conversation! 99% of the time if someone's asking you this, they're not trying to get inside your brain and invade your privacy... they're just trying to talk to you. Honest question: do you prefer to have zero social interaction with your coworkers?

Edit: Also, it's bonkers to me that you think that this "has become" a thing. People have been making idle conversation at work since the dawn of civilization.
Free Solo
speaking of rental property investments -- here is a very detailed apartment landlord wealth-generation story from Berkeley, California

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakireddy_Bali_Reddy
I showered less frequently, but there are many options out there, such as:

Friends and allies, beach and camping showers, gyms, pirate bath.

I did not cook much, and just ate things like nuts, bread, and cheese. But I had a simple wood stove that runs on little sticks. (Look up rocket can stove.)

Generally speaking, for most things, it was just a matter of "stay calm and improvise".
> By which I mean focus on Domain Driven Development, focus strongly on modularity even when, and this is the key part, it's not required because it's in a monolith

Here, here! If I had a dollar for every team I’ve seen adopt micro services as a solution to code modularization I’d have several dollars.

“Hey our code could be cleaner and our git repo seems to be getting big”

“Sweet let’s inject the network in between everything”
Ask HN: Where can I go to see flagged posts?
Is there any site or script that enables one to see [flagged] submissions? The fact users here can use botnets to false flag/remove any submission or post they dislike makes Hacker News positively useless for whistleblowing. I learned from experience anything even tangentially controversial or threatening to a megacorp's buisness is almost guaranteed to be false-flagged and taken down.
I'm very happy they don't allow them. It would probably be flooded with annoying and useless bots like reddit. Sure you can downvote them, but it's still extra effort * a lot of people's attention
Didn't they do the same thing in 2011? But as I recall, it was the Friday before the time change that the announcement came out. I had just recently moved to Chile, and I remember a week of looking at Google to find out what the current time was.
About Russia:

Putin's Kiss - talks about information in Russia through many eyes, especially independent freelancers

Rise and Fall of Russian Oligarchs [1] - Terrific doc about how Russian oligarchs rose from nothing to billionaires

Assassination of Russia [2] - Terrific french doc about 1999 moscow bombings (which later led to the poisoning of alexander litvinenko in london). It's a great doc about how Putin killed hundreds of Russians framing Islamic terrorist from Chechnya.

I think all 3, in different ways, do a lot to explain modern Russia.
Well, comparison to Rumsfeld is just setting the bar too low.

Don't take me as saying that Fog of War is bad or that McNamara is completely missing self reflection. Far from it. On first seeing some 15 years ago I have been impressed as well.

It's only over the years as I kept finding more and more about just how much responsibility for Vietnam does McNamara bear that I found that he's somehow trying to present himself as a technocrat without much in the way of a moral responsibility. Sort of a Nuremberg defense by steering clear of the ethical aspects almost altogether.
At different times, I did part-time remote work, which was more than enough to sustain me, worked as a home assistant for a family member, and did not work at all (living primarily freegan lifestyle then)
Both Type One and Renaissance (mentioned in the article) are HTS stellarator startups. I'm not sure if they've published power plant studies, but they've certainly pitched them.
> Should one live in a high tax high social safety net country while paying tax to a low tax low social safety net country or not paying tax at all?

My friend, if these systems were just about aligning the incentives for workers and benefits and taxes, and otherwise tried to be understanding about human foibles, then people wouldn't point to immigration systems around the world as a Kafkaesque nightmare.

Just to pick an example — chosen for my familiarity, wholly outside of and unrelated to Brexit — the UK's Windrush scandal involved the bureaucracy actively destroying old records of immigration from British overseas possessions (particularly the Caribbean), then deciding years later to go after people who had been living in the country for decades — demanding they supply exhaustive documentation of their legal immigration, and their life and activities in the intervening time. Rest assured that this was a fully adversarial process! They did not offer to help anyone so affected gather these documents, or to make their case.

And later, in another unrelated scandal, the Home Office decided to react to an English-examination cheating scandal by analyzing everyone's examination results with some opaque computerized process, using the results to declare something like 97% of them as invalid cheaters — and sending nastygrams to about 9,700 university students, calling them dirty cheaters and demanding they leave country. Many of them did, and they forcibly removed others. Notably, they did not ask for them to re-sit the exam. They did not care about the lives ruined.

Of course the matter of the .eu domain is absolutely nothing compared to the daily nightmare that is "visas," but the same devotion to rules and insensitivity to the costs of policy runs through the matter. They could have grandfathered in existing domains, at least a little bit longer. I know that if I had a website and I had to move domains, I would want to run web and email forwarding for more than one year. If they wanted to be particular about just having the forwarding, they could have audited the sites to make sure that they were just redirects, and charged for the privilege. They didn't. There's no sane reason that couldn't happen except to preserve The Rules — but these rules simply are not a valuable end in and of themselves, despite the laud and honor they have received in this thread.
That’s a really sad way to look at it, there’s nothing wrong with connecting with the people you spend 8 hours a day with on a human level. I’ve made lasting friendships through the workplace. I have drinks a few times a year with my old team (most of whom have moved on) and it’s always a blast catching up, reminiscing and discussing the industry in a way I wouldn’t in the workplace. I go fishing a few times a year with an old colleague too and don’t really see how either of these things could be dressed up in a negative way.

Edit - I’ve also seen a few engineers you might describe as socially awkward/anxious come out of their shells in such environments. I’ve found introverts who wouldn’t usually contribute much to meetings contribute far more once they feel the team likes them personally.
It's certainly more complicated if you have human children, especially if they're "on the grid" (not everyone's are).

I have very little knowledge in this area, so I won't offer advice. CPS is definitely a risk, and you have to navigate that.
Jenkinsfile runner actions: Run Jenkins pipelines in GitHub Actions
Denver Airport Baggage Handling System - system software fiasco of 1993
I got a similar book on C++ and tried to return it to get a refund as soon as found there's no exiting sample code but OO stuff. I was lucky that the shop didn't get the book back so I had to read it. I think it upgraded me.
Operation Outward – Britain's World War II Offensive Balloons
Do you have any information that explores this topic deeper? Mortgages are a forcing function for retirement savings and help people in retirement that were not able to manage their income.

If home values would not increase, what should happen to everyone that wasn't able to save for retirement and can't rely on home equity?
This screams out to me as "I'm a part time landscaper and my home buying budget is 1 mil.". These types of data points are just bullshit. People making 70k a year are not realistically looking to buy a 350k house even though that's the upper limit of their supposed range. Most houses under 150k that I've seen are mostly in need of repair. In reality there is a slim window of affordability and livability and those homes are being bought up by real estate investors and turned into rentals. The on paper market and the actual market are two different things.
> but because your coworkers won’t share your views on all of your emotional outbursts

in a democratic society that's to be expected and a good thing, I'm not exactly sure why anyone would have a discussion if they already share their views.

Here in Germany politics is generally present in workplaces and nobody finds that odd because it's not like the place where you spend half of your day ought to be a civil society free zone. Covid workplace mandates and rules were highly contentious, where else is a better place to discuss them than at work, where they matter?
I never understood the hatred of Clippy. Certainly seems to be from an age where a whimsical touch was allowed in software, nowadays there just seems to be either stern cynicism or forced chuminess in its place.

Then again I was aged below ten when I first played with Office 97.
Very often it was. It is one of the best places to park. By the lake and by the ocean is great too. You can go for a swim first thing in the morning.
he seems to have done a whole series, which would you recommend?
Better yet, you could allow emails cryptographically signed by chosen entities (*.gov, power company, etc) and reject everything else.
Many years ago, there used to be http://www.tk/. They would let you register free domains (which I think technically were actually subdomains, but I'm really not sure). You could point these to anywhere online and it would maintain your [whatever].tk URL in the address bar. I remember hosting some pages on Geocities and using .tk to make it look "authentic" since it appeared to be self-hosted, which was 1337.

It seems that the service now redirects to a site called Freenom where you can still get .tk names, but they appear to be priced based on the length and whether or not the domain contains known words or phrases (though some free ones are apparently still available if you don't mind having a gibberish name)
There is a style of tie known as a kipper (ie. smoked herring) tie [1]. There is no escape from the numbers! :-)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kipper_tie
I would not describe it quite that way.

Functionally, an Entity is an ID. A Component is Data. A System is a function that operates on a set of Components.

In a sense "that's it". Having the hard separation between data (components) and code (functions) leads to some interesting consequences. For example the ability to more easily multi-thread System updates because each System clearly defines what Component type it needs const or mutable access to.
Those hourly workers are getting screwed by an employer who won't pay them what they're worth. It isn't my responsibility to feel shame and make up for their circumstances with an arbitrary tithe.
I'm not so certain, if only because how many obstacles and problems people imagined for me when I told them the idea, compared with how surprisingly easy it was when I actually went for it.

I think mindset is still the biggest factor.

For example, there are all sorts of things you can get picked on for at school, and I think the most important bit is teaching them to navigate the process itself.
By "local presence" I meant "markets itself to customers in that country." Especially in the digital age, a company can be "homed" in one country — have all its offices and employees there — but make a product/service that is only marketed (or even legal!) in another country.

First example that comes to mind: many of those shady crypto companies that did "ICOs" in 2017, were based in the US; but the US has regulations that block non-accredited US customers from investing in things like this. So these companies generally just ignored the US market — even blocking US visitors on their website — and instead marketed to people in every other country.
It gets particularly confusing because the standard Unity paradigm is still one of entities and components, as I believe was first promoted by Dungeon Siege at GDC 2002[0]. But it's not quite the same as what is called an ECS.

[0] https://www.gamedevs.org/uploads/data-driven-game-object-sys...
It's not the router that decides which IP version to use but the operating system and AFAIK all default to IPv6 if they have an address. And yes many ISPs have activated IPv6 by default that's the reason we see 80% IPv6 usage here. It's not because 80% of the users have actively activated it. Most of them have no idea what an IP even is.
Obviously not your own PCB fab.

In some of our prototyping, we were "manufacturing" as in placing our own components on the boards we ordered, and cooking them in a toaster oven converted for PCBs assembly.

We now get our next gen stuff manufactured by a local "manufacturer" who takes our PCBs (which come from China), and puts our components on them. We supply all the "non-passives", simply to make sure the stock is available. They've got all the passives for us.

This is our first intro to building hardware, we're a bunch of software engineers, but I've commented on how the "hardware is hard" we feel is a misnomer.

It's another point of failure, but as long as you're planning ahead, it seems manageable. My tune may change when we get into production on the scale of many thousands. But we're only at 250 units per batch atm.
68 acres is a nothingburger.

I live in Environmentally Conscious California, and there's a 40,000 acre fire burning ~10 miles from my house. THAT's a wildfire.
Footprint: Remembering the Twin Towers (2018)
Fantastic interview. Don’t listen to haters who paint Ammous as some solitary contrarian.

He’s coming from a 150 year long tradition going through the great Ludwig von Mises back to Menger and the Marginal Revolution. Keynesianism was the wrong turn. It’s a failed school that’s now in its death throes, which is becoming more obvious by the day.
Wow, you sound pleasant to work with.. Humans are social creatures and civilization is built on interpersonal relationships. Working remotely, I relish the brief bit of casual water cooler talk as people one-by-one join a meeting. What are we going to do, stare at each other blankly through the webcam? Not only does that touch of human connection ground me and give energy for the day, I've learned all sorts of interesting and valuable things from older colleagues! Going through a new and significant stage of your life like buying a house or having a kid? Here's some people you already know and trust who've already done that, who are happy to share their experiences! Do you have to take their advice? No! They're not family, there's no expectation of commitment. I find especially that because coworkers aren't who you'd normally be friends with, their knowledge and experiences are outside of my personal filter bubble. Do I go hunting? Nope! But hearing about my coworker taking his son and the son getting his first buck was great. That's a view of parenting I'd never see normally.
Point well made. Clearly, though, some things _are_ unfair and worth fighting against.
How to Regenerate Brain Power
The story of the past 10 years at my FAANG has been one of making our key-value databases look as much like relational databases as possible, complete with SQL query engines (at least two of them, because what would a FAANG be without multiple slightly incompatible ways of doing things?). Honestly it's been a huge boon. Should we have abandoned SQL entirely, and come up with a new language? Maybe. But given that the primary initial motivation for this work was to allow analysts to creation millions of reports without bothering eng, it had to be a language that analysts understand. That's SQL.
An objectivist audiophile would say that room correction is among the three or four grossly consequential parts of the audio chain. They are, in serial order:

0. Source material

1. Room correction DSP

2. Speakers (including subwoofers and crossover configuration)

3. Room acoustics (including positioning of speakers and listeners)

4. The human (ears, experience, expectations, ego, etc.)

All of the above are more consequential than anything else, assuming the core components are not total garbage, underspecified or malfunctioning. This includes the DAC and amplification.

Of the above list, I would place room correction at the bottom. (That still places it well above many things subjectivist audiophiles obsess over!) It is the cherry on top of a great system, not the means to achieving greatness. And it lets you get away with some things (most notably, mismatched speakers) to a greater extent than otherwise. But despite the name it can’t fix most real acoustic problems.

It can also make a system sound worse if it’s not used properly.
I had worked at a bank as an IT professional and it works wonders, until the browser tries to be smart and attempts a Google search
These are definitely being done, but in many cases, the well-done ones cost more than a trailer home. Look up some of the van life channels on You Tube; most of them have early videos detailing the cost outlays required. It's a lot easier to get a loan of $90k for something that technically qualifies as a home vs. a loan of $150k+ for what the bank considers a recreational vehicle.
I like to use eth0.me for this purpose. Short and memorable.
> Yes, they are responsible, because the chose to design the product that way,

Are you going to blame every stabbing that's occurred on knife manufacturers? It's silly to think that people have enough agency to voluntary part with their own money yet somehow lack any to know and decide on what they're purchasing. No one's stopping anyone from buying a Jolla/Sailfish phone if their heart desires.

> and they chose to misrepresent it, and they chose to forbid competitors to interact in their privileged space.

I agree with you that Tim Cook has misrepresented his claimed stance on treating all developers equally. I can't speak for the others. Even so, that doesn't make Apple a monopoly. And forbidding competitors on its own store is well within the company's rights.

> I still fail to see how engineering your own cryptographic monopoly and abusing it is different from abusing any other sort of monopoly.

Cryptography is intellectual property. Proprietary computational cryptography existed years before the transistor. Just ask the NSA.

It's not abuse to keep one's mouth shut on the specifications or refuse to integrate into an interoperable standard. That is one's right as a property holder.
Marvellous language
Did you even bother to look before making this knee-jerk reaction post?

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https://www.opindia.com/2020/03/delhi-riots-chand-bagh-drain...

https://www.opindia.com/2020/02/four-bodies-recovered-drains...

https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/floating-graveyar...

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/delhi-situation-peacef...

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https://www.npr.org/2020/03/07/812193930/delhi-riots-afterma...

https://www.business-standard.com/about/what-is-delhi-riots-...
This is like asking a philosopher what the meaning of life is. There's a lot to learn, a lot of variables, a lot unknown, and a lot to discover. You can't go wrong with "Practical Deep Learning for Coders".

https://course.fast.ai/
I got a job programming for a research group at a college when I was 40 and worked there for 20 years. The work was an education in itself. I built a Beowulf cluster, electronically herded cows, designed wireless sensor systems, built opportunistic sensing systems, worked on security systems, medical systems, and a lot more and was exposed to a lot more peripherally (sociology, psychology, medicine, robotics). I didn't work on a degree but if I'd wanted to they made it easy to do and other people around me did. In the years before I left a fellow in his 60's applied for the PhD program and I worked with him for some years. He got his PhD based on work designing secure wireless transfer protocols/systems using near field RF. What made it possible was our boss was willing to accommodate his life (daughter in school, family life, etc.) instead of demanding servitude like most advisors demand of their grad students. In part, age gets you some respect, though not all advisors will be willing to do that, so you would need to find a good advisor. If you work for them first for a year to two before starting a PhD that gives you chance to figure out if you are mutually compatible (and to get to know others in the department in case you are not.) Be warned though that academic work is very different from industry work. You may never finish most projects only building proof-of-concepts, and in some ways it's like being in a startup where you have to do some of everything (work with students, purchasing, web research, hacking hardware, grant writing, building slide decks, figuring how to do things no one else has ever tried to do with systems that were never intended for it.) Often paths are abandoned if they don't work out quickly. Student code can be atrocious and you may have to use and modify it after the student leaves. People come and go, projects come and go, funding comes and goes, nothing is permanent. As a grad student you'll probably have to do some teaching and lesson grading as well.
I read this like "DoD tried to do quite a complicated semantic layer over tables project but failed because the RDF cluster of technologies is horrible. It would have been easier to code from scratch with SQL and python".

I think you are pretty familiar with those technologies. Do you think they have any value?
Check out https://human.software, a visual language replacement (no code)
Preference has nothing to do with legibility.
This was written in 2010. There was a sea change that took place around the time that Trump was elected after which it became far more fraught to discuss political topics. But the way it is now is not how it's always been. Things really did feel different ten years ago. Discussing politics with strangers was much more doable. For example, I remember watching the 2012 presidential debate between Obama and Romney with my neighbors who I didn't know very well at all. I felt completely comfortable doing this. And the outcome of the debate didn't feel like some sort of life or death moment for the country.

Also, it seems possible to me that the author might have been referring to company politics.
Increasing differentiability (within reason and identifiability) is the point of fonts that are trying to increase legibility. g has the potential of being confused with 9, y, 0, etc. for folks with non-optimal sight.
I do too. Nim is an antithesis to Zig in a lot of ways: memory safe, intentionally flexible syntax via UFCS, and extremely powerful macros.

They do both fit in that better-than-C niche in different ways.