skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Found some that are yellow, not sure how bright we're talking - https://www.ima-usa.com/products/original-u-s-wwii-usaaf-mae...
> slow and expensive du commands

You'd be surprised how cheap these du(1) can be when you're running the same du(1) command over and over. Think of it like running the same SQL query over and over — the first time you do it, the DBMS takes its time doing IO to pull the relevant disk pages into the disk cache; but the Nth≥2 time, the query is entirely over "hot" data. Hot filesystem metadata pages, in this case. (Plus, for the file(s) that were just written by your command, the query is hot because those pages are still in memory from being recently dirty.)

I regularly unpack tarballs containing 10 million+ files; and periodic du(1) over these takes only a few milliseconds of wall-clock time to complete.

(The other bottleneck with du(1), for deep file hierarchies, is printing all the subdirectory sizes. Which is why the `-d 0` — to only print the total.)

You might be worried about something else thrashing the disk cache, but in my experience I've never needed to run an ETL-like job on a system that's also running some other completely orthogonal IO-heavy prod workload. Usually such jobs are for restoring data onto new systems, migrating data between systems, etc.; where if there is any prod workload running on the box, it's one that's touching all the same data you're touching, and so keeping disk-cache coherency.
1. If you’re depending on a single local drive to safely house your data you don’t have to lose an encryption key to lose your data.

2. Apple and Microsoft both provide user-friendly cloud-based recovery options for FileVault and Bitlocker that leverage iCloud and Microsoft accounts, respectively.

2.5. “But what if you don’t want to trust/use cloud services?” See #1. You can’t depend on your single drive anyway. If you can be responsible for safeguarding backups you can be responsible for safeguarding encryption/recovery keys.

3. Organizations and probably most individuals rely on professionally managed storage solutions to house important data. Organizations don’t tell their employees to store important things on their local laptop, it’s Box/Dropbox/Drive/etc.

4. Considering how most computer users are on laptops, removing the drive is not a practical suggestion, even if the laptop has an easily removable drive. That type of knowledge and ability is beyond the vast majority of computer users.

That’s why, to me, the best way to operate is on a full disk encrypted device that’s treated as disposable. At any time it could be stolen, fall on the ground, stop working due to a power surge, get wet, etc. If your workflow involves device replacement causing lost data you’re already in a vulnerable position.
Uh... no? It's not all. This started with you saying that the public had a right to know what happened at the raid. Then you brought up a hypothetical gag order. Am I really "crazy" to have assumed that you were citing the hypothetical gag order as a reason the public had a right to know about the raid?

Maybe you could back out and explain this again?
If the person you responded to founded and runs a $10B company with a net worth of $3B, would it still be victimhood garbage? That’s even more successful than the Stanford example!
It's not a map but a catalogue with coordinates.
Why would you struggle not to judge someone who had developed some of their best relationships from work?

Studies have shown that the best way to develop friendships is repeated, unplanned interaction.

I certainly didn’t make friends with everyone I worked with, but out of that pool, there have been some great ones I wouldn’t have otherwise met. I certainly empathize with the feelings of the parent.

Would you feel the same if the parent commenter had some of their best relationships from school, and seeing the same people in class everyday? Or the military? I don’t think the location of these interactions matters.
Reminds me of the sophon from The Three Body Problem.
Ok, since you're obviously not interested in using HN as intended, I've banned the account.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
For one you can disable the popup ads. Additionally you get paid if you do enable the ads. So it's quite a different system where the user is put first in both cases.
Imagine you go to a supermarket and see the same brand carry two tiers of eggs: "Eggs" and "Salmonella-free Eggs".

Even if you could easily afford the salmonella-free eggs, the mere fact that they are willing to sell salmonella eggs at all says a lot about how many shits they give about food safety.

SSO isn't a premium or differentiator feature, it's table stakes.
In civilised societies, women still give birth, but after they are born both parents are given the possibility to stay at home with their child. This usually takes the form of the birth-giving woman staying at home for the first few months, while the child is dependent on frequent breastfeeding, after which the other parent stays at home with the child for a few months until they are ready to to start kindergarten around the age of twelve months.

In such societies kindergartens are affordable and in the course of little over a year both parents have had a break from work, with full salary compensation, to get to know the new human.
It's not really meant as a competitor to C, and AFAIU, it's meant as a target for a compiler front/middle end, not as a language to write code in manually. Unless you're hacking GHC itself, you're rather unlikely to touch it.
I did have something similar happen. I was "laid off", but my girlfriend kept throwing out the timepunch card with my name on it. Boss used the timepunch card to terminate employees. So, while I didnt recieve a paycheck, my 401k vested because I was never terminated. Came to a nice lump.
Yeah, I'd be leery of it even from friends and family, because nothing blows up like injury to children.

Of course, the poorer people have no choice and make it work, but I'm certain they get "caught" now and then.
It's pretty absurd that the quickest way to find their (and honestly a lot of companies') github is by googling "companyname github".
Given that every grandparent I know who is in their 50s or 60s are also still working full-time in the US midwest, grandparents aren't always an easy win. My mother would love to spend more time with my son but her job and her health make that an impossibility unfortunately.
Really, error handling has been my big beef with CS education for like 40 years. There is none.

Error handling has been left to engineers, and when left to they own devices engineers will almost always make the wrong choice from a user point of view.

Engineering need to think of error messages this way: the error message is there to help people (which might be fellow engineers, support, and/or and your consultants) identify the error quickly so that they can manage the user's expectations, fix the error, and/or both.

Unfortunately, many engineering paradigms make this an impossible task.

Layering and encapsulation means that you have little idea what's happening downstream or how the downstream stuff actually works, but the lower-level you are the less likely the error will mean anything to the end-user.

Then, it's a question of who's responsible for handling the error? If you're on the backend, where does it go? Does the user care that the backend microservice can't connect to the database? Heck, the UI probably has no idea what's happening back there.

However, for accurate troubleshooting detail is needed.

For many orgs, leaving transaction IDs in your log files is the primary way that you figure out errors, especially in big distributed systems. That doesn't really help end-users, and requires developer discipline, something many engineering teams find challenging.

Ideally error objects would aggregate error codes up the stack, so that if an error occurs you can at least present technical people with the errors that were thrown..and they can search through the source code trying to find that unique error code. But designing that is difficult; conceptually you don't want a list of 500 error codes being thrown upwards, one from each function in the call chain. But sometimes you do.

Anyway, error handling design really should be part of the initial architecture, but it usually isn't because architecture guys don't really understand support.
government subsidized?
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Git is a (distributed) database. https://github.blog/2022-08-29-gits-database-internals-i-pac...
You seem to have a problem understanding what I mean, so I will try clarify:

> there's some widespread belief that a DAW should be a tool for musicians

This means "usable by musicians who find themselves intimidated or confused by the interface on a modern full-service DAW such as ProTools or Logic". This means tools like those appearing for mobile devices that are just basically easy to use recording devices. You can see this plea daily on KVR, Gearspace and other similar places.

This does NOT mean: "musicians should not use DAWs".

> The musicians you know can't be very professional if they haven't ever encountered a situation where they learned anything about audio.

Classical performers: no need to learn about audio.
Folk performers: no need to learn about audio.
Live acoustic music performers generally: no need to learn about audio.

The set of musicians I was referring to includes two Grammy winners, who, just like many amateur and other professional musicians, have chosen to focus their attention on their music rather than the process of recording (or PA'ing) it.

> Except all of the buttons and faders and everything else still look the same.

Where was the last mixing console you saw that did stretch-to-fit-tempo? That ran arbitrary plugins? That allowed arbitrary anywhere-to-anywhere routing? That needed, somehow, to fit in information about editing state alongside the mixer interface? That could do clip launching? That had any editing component at all?

I work with one of the older mixing console companies, and we're constantly bumping against the boundaries of stuff that DAWs do that consoles do not, things that consoles do better than DAWs ever have, things that consoles do that DAWs do not, and so forth. I would say this sort of thing comes up in almost every weekly meeting. The same was true back in 2008/2009 when I worked with (for?) another old mixing console company and they were trying to understand how to reconcile their established products with the reality of DAW-based priduction.

> Every company developing DAWs is primarily engineered by musicians.

I could name several major DAWs whose lead and sub-lead developers are not musicians (or at least, do not consider themselves to be musicians). I could name a few others where the lead and sub-lead developers were not musicians or audio engineers when they began working on their software, but have become so over time.

I don't presume to know your background, and I certainly did not say that "couldn't possibly know anything". I just said that several things in your post I know to be factually incorrect.
Yea, but when I say "Medium-Sized" I definitely don't mean "before round (B)".
https://www.momtestbook.com/
US had tariffs on foreign made sneakers, when the Nike scandal hit.

EU has tariffs on foreign made clothes - yet multiple examples of child labor were discovered in multiple clothes retailer supply chains.

This argument has been proven to be false - empirically.
>What actually happens is deadweight loss. People buy less goods, suppliers make less money.

Literal gibberish.

Let's not imply things in a vacuum that don't have second-order effects.
Where does this magical margin come from?
Oh look, it's wages for that same worker who would be buying these goods!
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I should point out that the Samsung CPU speed thing was designed to save battery power, I guess the assumption being you only need full power when playing a game and when playing a game you’re touching the screen. Well intentioned but not much good for our app which integrated with a Bluetooth MIDI keyboard so users didn’t touch the screen at all!
You seem to confuse giving birth with raising children. Being a woman is not a prerequisite to rearing children.
Where does the social support come from if everyone is working?
There are different sum- and product-like operations for different types of things: For sets (and topological spaces), the sum operation is the disjoint union and the product is the Cartesian product. For vector spaces, the sum operation is the Cartesian product and the product operation is the tensor product.

If you think of finite dimensional vector spaces as functions on finite sets, then these all match up. i.e. if V (vector space) is the functions on S (set) and W (vector space) is the functions on T (set), then the functions on S⊔T are V⊕W because you just list the values of the functions on S and then on T. Further, you can see that functions on S×T are V⊗W since the natural basis for V⊗W consists of vectors e_s⊗e_t that pick out elements (s,t) ∈ S×T.
They do. Press F12 ;)
Because Metallica clearly hasn't made enough money by now. They're practically starving artists
"monopoly" is a red herring here. if they were under 10%, you might have a case (though there are many factors besides market share that need to be considered, like supplier power).

the issue that we the people, and by extension our antitrust regulators, care about is market distortion, and 15% is well within the range at which a competitor can unduly distort a market in their favor by sheer size alone. markets exist for the benefit of society as a whole, not just giant corporations.
Don't forget the haptic feedback that has not been replicated by any controller yet. The thwock that travels from push button to flipper hit is such a specific sensation that even describing it textually is difficult.

Virtual machines may be infinitely move variable and compact than any physical table, but nothing beats the real thing.
As a developer, I feel more productive after trying my workout and morning routine. this seems strange, working hours are less because of the time spent doing sports. but the results of my work are faster and less often wrong
> Not all presumptions are magical thinking, my presumptions are testable, and are not a form of wishful thinking.

a) How would one test these two propositions:

- a fundamentalist wouldn't budge on his dogma and would lack the intellectual curiosity (in a way that covers all instances)

- I'm interested in how things work, and I'm not married to my arguably subjective opinions

b) Did you test them, and if so: how?

> They also pass the smell test that is Occam's razor.

Occam's Razor is not even intended to determine truth.

> Despite what you claim I'm not a cheerleader for an ideology, I just want to know how things work.

I'd find this more convincing if you were able to try to answer my numerous unanswered questions.

> I don't mind being surprised. I was very surprised by the thermodynamics of prediction, I always imagined biology, especially life to be it's own separate thing, I was surprised that it's not that special.

Ok this is interesting: at that point in time (prior to your increase in knowledge), did you believe that biology WAS NOT special?

> There is such a thing as truth, regardless of the source, even if there is always a deeper truth.

a) Is the truth always accessible?

b) Have there be any instances where consensus opinion on Truth turned out to be incorrect?

c) Have there been any instances where your belief of Truth turned out to be incorrect?

> Newton's theory of gravity is true, and if you only care about skiing down a mountain slope it will serve you well, but if you would like to build a satellite you would need Einstein's theory of relativity, even quantum physics.

In this case, what is the data type of "True" - is it a binary (True/False)?

> To draw a circle around consciousness, to understand it's boundaries you may not need a new physics at all beyond a generalized form of thermodynamics....

"May not" tends to imply uncertainty - are you uncertain on this topic?

> ...but of course for the details you need a lot of specialized knowledge, but those details are all found within the established boundaries.

If one does not have a perfect understanding, how would one necessarily know where details reside?

> It's like watching Pluto with a telescope, and later flying a spacecraft to it, the spacecraft is going to reveal a lot of details, but we already figured out a lot, even before the telescope.

If this is possible, does it logically follow that all(!) other problems resolve this easily, using the same technique?
I like texting as I can do it during other activities where I am physically required to be present and nominally pretend to pay attention, but actually am not, like in meetings.

I can also stop and start as I please.

A phone call requires my synchronous attention.
I had to read in a ways to find out what the Jones Act is. It says that maritime cargo traffic in internal US waterways has to be carried by US-flagged vessels. Repealing it means e.g. that Panama-flagged vessels could carry the cargo instead. The article starts out saying that the importance of repealing it has been propounded by the Cato Institute and by Lawrence H. Summers. So that says what the Act is, and who wants to repeal it. I figured at that point that my curiosity was satisfied.
I started working after I graduated in 2012 and was severely burned out in ~2016 for about a year.

Changing jobs really helped me. Gave me new perspective on what matters and what didn't matter (and I had inflated some things needlessly in my head).

One thing that really helped me was that I was trying to be a hero in the past - I realized that systems built on the back of heroes is not healthy because eventually the hero has to leave and the system decays rapidly. Rather, it's much better to have a system that works well when it's operated by average people doing a reasonably good job. That really took the pressure off of me when it came to my own mind.

That advice may or may not apply to you - it sounds like you've done some thinking but I would try to isolate the problems into a couple different categories: is the people? is it the domain of the work (e.g. are you making games, or e-commerce, or saas, etc)? the type of work (you mentioned you don't like coding)?

Lastly, remember that it's a big world out there. You don't have to pick between 'coding' or 'manager'. You can always move to a beach in Indonesia and be a fisherman or something. The world is wide open.
Thank you for that super nice comment. Just trying to do something new and creative :)

If enough people ask to open source that is possible.

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There are countless times where I would have found this incredibly helpful. Just 10 minutes ago, I wanted this exact tool.

Thanks!
Reminds me of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferent_and_epicycle
pv predates youtube itself
My only major complaint is that in the "images" section you see a lot of repeated images. I know that taking all the results and doing some kind of difference check on them/finding the highest quality version is not a simple or particularly computationally quick operation - but it would drastically improve the usefulness given the small size of the window.
It's been amazing to me that developed countries have bemoaned birth rates... and then done nothing effective about it.

You know what says "This country values parents who choose to have children?" Actual replacement of lost income potential and career progression.

Yes, in the US there are tax credits, SNAP, etc. None of these even come close to replacing the life income changes.

If we were serious about it, we'd have something approaching equivalent income replacement, GI Bill-style college funding, and child care cost support in every state*.

Having children should be an income neutral choice, not a burden.

* Side note: On all of these programs, I'd be in favor of supply-side support, rather than demand side reimbursement, given how inflationary reimbursement has been in the education market.
I'm in a weird loop where I am so burned out/depressed that I struggle to get anything completed, thus I procrastinate a lot, and since I procrastinate a lot, I have "make-up" my lost time. In order to make up for lost time, I have to work extra. Working extra fuels the burn out even more, and then the next iteration of the loop begins.

I do not have the money for a sabbatical, and I sadly work in the lowest-stress programming job possible (which is reflected in the relatively low income: 6 YOE @ x < 80k). I feel like I am suffocating and can't get out.
Why do so many people try to do the hard math when it comes to this? The reality is by the time I am able to go out on a weekday it's like 8pm. Very few of my peers, friends or not, want to go out late on a weekday after already having a long day.

If you're able to do better than that, then you are in an uncommon bracket.
Why three Availability Zones are better than two
Except that we're currently discussing an article about researchers who achieved gain-of-function in a laboratory recombinant of a pandemic virus? Their chimera has the immune escape of omicron, with most of the mortality of the Wuhan wild type. The decrease in mortality compared to the Wuhan wild type is both statistically insignificant and irrelevant regardless; the correct comparison is against natural omicron, since that's the only natural virus with the omicron spike's immune escape properties.

A subsequent BU press release denies that the research involved gain of function, with bizarre arguments including the fact that since it's never been tested in humans (good?) we can't know it's actually more lethal in humans. This is obviously wrong, as many people have pointed out. For example, here's Marc Lipsitch at Harvard:

https://twitter.com/mlipsitch/status/1582574061062098946?cxt...

My original quote is from David Relman, a professor of microbiology at Stanford who I wouldn't expect to "think like a computer scientist". Laboratories have been enhancing potential human pandemic pathogens for literally decades now, as measured by reproduction rates in vitro, mortality in their lab animals, and other similar metrics, and publishing in the open literature. For example, here's Relman asking Baric a question back in 2014:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw-nR6-4kQQ&t=2466s

If you were really unware that labs are successfully enhancing potential human pandemic pathogens, then a Google Scholar search for Baric will find many examples.

Anyways, even if you believe (quite falsely) that laboratory gain-of-function on such pathogens is impossible, that doesn't exclude a research-related origin for SARS-CoV-2. That could be a naturally-evolved virus, but one that was sitting harmlessly in a remote cave until the WIV sampled and accidentally released it. The WIV sampled remote areas that no other humans routinely entered, so it's possible in that scenario that the lineage would have died out in bats (or other zoonotic hosts) if the WIV hadn't released it into humans.

Nobody is asserting that genomic evidence shows SARS-CoV-2 to be natural anymore. Even the strongest proponents of zoonotic origin have moved on, to more complicated epidemiological and phylogenetic arguments like Pekar's paper.