skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counterpoint: open source software, of which there are many great works without anyone being forced or pressured into making it. There are many more ways of getting motivation than applying "some pressure". Indeed, people are inherently curious and motivated, but it can easily be suppressed by environmental factors. In particular "stick and carrot"-type reward systems.

For a (much more) elaborate expansion on this, see the book Drive by Daniel H. Pink.
I use PostgreSQL in a container in my home lab. The backup is uploaded to GCP every morning 0200 with a 90 day retention policy.

PostgreSQL handles my finances, my database of quotes & collection of notes.
Reason people have difficulty categorising Computing is because it is a combination of Maths, Arts, Physics, Chemistry and Electronics.
haven't heard of Notion ???
The 38th biggest high school in the US is Cypress Bay, with 3980 students (presumably over four years).

1000 kids / class year is quite unusual!

https://highschoolguide.org/624/top-100-largest-high-schools...
While that is true, surgicals do provide some protection. They cut your risk down significantly when worn correctly, though proper N95 (and other similar standards meant for airborne contaminants) will reduce risk a lot more.
2 months later when something happens to the kid this entire thing will get replayed in the media and everyone that didn't do anything will be made out to be a villain.
ugggh explains why the domain was not taken
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/keming
Everybody on HN seems to talk about what they use to "take notes". I personally use Trello as an organization tool for things such as my to-do list, checklists (packing for a trip this weekend, for instance), random thoughts and ideas, lists of music and movies people suggest, transcriptions of phone conversations, etc. Is this the same use case as when people talk about Evernote/Apple Notes/OneNote/org-mode, and if so am I a total weirdo for using a Kanban tool for this purpose? I've used it this way for almost a decade and the abstraction of boards of stacks of cards is very flexible and intuitive to me.
In the end, it boils down to the insight that functions compose better then classes, interfaces and objects. Also, OO and relational databases don't like each other. On the one hand you have trees as basic weapon for composition while on the other hand you have something where a tree is taboo.
Pretty sure OneNote does this, I don’t know how the bulk move experience would be though.
It looks like ACM has open-accessed this paper.
How was the work/life balance though? Did you find you were able to have downtime and rest or were you constantly worrying about unfinished work and looming deadlines?
In the 3rd world or maybe in the "cardboard" homes in the US, Maybe. But under a proper shelf, wardrobe, desk or box, books last for long.

I still have a comic book compilation (hard cover) from the 70's right here. The condition it's perfect for its age.
I know what you mean. I have a memory of watching a suborbital Mercury Redstone go up, on a B&W TV at age 4 and some months.

I still get a visceral thrill when one of those damn things reluctantly lifts itself up off the ground but then decides to let'er rip and pour on the speed and leap into the air like a frantic beast.
I guess that means per bet. Whether that's good or not depends on the variance though ...
What percentage of the US population meets this criteria?

Because with a population of 800k, San Francisco makes up 0.25% of the 332 million people in the US.

I am sure there are additional areas where people making 100k are not middle class.

I am also sure that there are many more areas where this is not the case.
Not in my experience dealing with customers who had AWS email them saying 'Hey, we found one of your keys on GitHub'.
I am curious how he plans to enforce that on the European sites, most likely will need to fire everyone on this side of the pound.
No, I don't live in or have visited Israel, but it's obvious why Israel would have such precautions compared to many other parts of the world.
This is definitely sarcasm. It is sarcasm, yes?
Microsoft Pluton support rolls out for all 2022 Razer Blade 14 laptops
same reasons here that contributed towards deciding leaving Amazon despite it being a dream job entering the industry (i did have a significant "pull factor" to another job that accelerated the timing). when you realize you wouldn't be happy even with the best case, it's time to go. However, i've heard many reports of talented, smart people doing fulfilling, challenging work at Amazon and its probably the luck of the draw on what team you get staffed on. So the case could be made that you couldve simply tried for a transfer.

i suspect that, if you work on a "slow and kludgy product", the responsible thing to do would have been to write a memo laying out why it sucks and what needs to be done. I've seen a rare few folks actually get heard and get the mandate to do what needed to be done. but I know it can feel overwhelming for most and ultimately its the responsibility of the GM/PM to know whether this is true or just the whining of an underling with no context.

also kudos for having the guts/integrity to do this before thanksgiving. make it count!
I don't disagree that most versions/instances of Chrome are updated regularly, but implying that this is universal is questionable.

Chrome is only updated if the user lets it happen. I can't count the number of times I've watched some co-worker share their screen on a conference call and the Chrome update button is lit up, but apparently that's not a trigger to these people (I update pretty much as soon as I notice the indication since Google has done a remarkably good join of updating in place in a way that most SaaS things and web sites just reopen without trouble).

I'm sure the next time they restart/reboot it will get updated, but if there was some hideous Chrome-related bug which is from a release a month ago, you might want to think about that. It's also entirely possible to turn off updates if you or some misguided IT person is really so inclined.
What would you go with instead for collaborative notebooks?

I ask because normally I tend pretty strongly towards the "NO just let the DSes/analysts work how they want to", which in this case would be running Jupyter locally. However DBr's notebooks seem genuinely useful.

Is your issue "but I don't need Spark" or "i wanna code in a python project, not a notebook?", or something else?

Imo if DBr cut their wedding to Spark and provided a Python-only nb environment they'd have a killer offering on their hands.
And Elon is the guy tech people admire? C'mon, he's not a Davinci or Linus or Jobs or Gates. He's just a clown with money
How about a side-by-side comparison?

Far too often, these articles of X is bad, use my homebrew Y instead, without showing comparison to X doesn't help illustrate 'why Y instead'.

You know... <cheeky>For science.</cheeky>
I don't understand or like Gates' IP fixation. Of the many criticisms I've seen leveled against him, the covid vaccine IP thing seems like the most genuinely bad. But it seems like a huge leap from that to everything his foundation has done is worthless. I say this as a former Gates loather from his MS days.

I am fairly confident that stopping people dying of preventable diseases is an actual thing that happens in the real world. There's certainly prestige and feel-good involved in saving lives, but are you sure that makes saving lives bad? What's an acceptable exchange rate? If somebody saves a thousand lives and feels only slightly good about it, would that be acceptable? How many people would you have to watch die of preventable diseases, before you'd start to think it was OK for somebody to feel good about preventing them, or even enjoy a bit of prestige?

> every single study about effectiveness of fighting poverty came to the simple conclusion that you only need to give money to the poors

Givewell's current list[0] of top "high-impact, cost-effective" charities has two Malaria charities, vitamin A supplements and cash incentives for vaccinations. GiveDirectly (which "gives money to the poors") was in the list until a couple of years ago.

[0] https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities
It's been many years, so I forget the details, but I seem to recall the OneNote was able to import files that were exported in Evernote's standard export format.
It can help with the commitment aspect to make that commitment with another person. If that isn't an issue for you then this is just distraction. By preference, at least for small things, I'll cheat myself before I'll cheat a stranger.
I thought having smtpd was useful but I guess people must be using better maintained alternatives.

Anyone care to comment on what they are using for receiving emails in Python?

Update: smtplib is still on, so that makes sense.
The entire interview at Amazon is based around culture fit. The tech bar is the same across levels. The ability for you to execute in the culture is the whole point of the interview.
This is called "picking up pennies in front of a steamroller". You will make your $1 for many, many days, then the day comes where you continue doubling down and you lose a substantial amount of capital in the process.

Very similar to systematically trading options, i.e. selling covered calls, ...

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_(betting_system)

Source (FWIW, but it really isn't needed for this case): I worked at the most prestigious hedge fund/market maker in the US running their strategies on the servers colocated in all the major exchanges, so I know a couple things about arbitrage strategies. If a similar approach were to even remotely work, I would have most certainly seen it.

No need to reply (to me at least): I won't be convinced by any further argument that your trading system circumvents this basic paradox :-)
Where is the sci-fi story about how some nutty gazillionnaire decides to 3-D print an N-1 but with a difference - it works.
The weapons, perched over a crowded Palestinian refugee camp and in a flashpoint West Bank city, use artificial intelligence to track targets.

AI + guns, what could go wrong?! Towards the end of the article, they make it sound like it's for the good of the oppressed. I guess we have a good contender for a future Nobel peace prize award.

It also said the technology allows soldiers to target "less sensitive" areas of the body to minimize harm and avoid shooting bystanders.

"In this way, the system reduces the likelihood of inaccurate fire," it said.
Spain has had an actual terrorism problem in recent years, so they are likely to have better standards. Other EU countries don't really have that problem and so will have less strict standards. there are different standards for flying into Spain than other countries (or at least there were last time I flew to Spain, but that has been a long time)
I enjoyed "Steep Learning Curve": if the curve is steep, that means that you are learning quickly and easily.
>Even as a software engineer with a decent stint in the top 5% bracket of UK salaries (£70,000)

I don't know why you guys aren't striking. Interns where I work start at $72k (£60k), with full benefits (the kind across-the-pond'ers think that Americans don't get, which exceed in beneficial-ness their own) and earn WELL over $100k (£84k) the second they graduate and sign on.

Which is more than enough to live comfortably, own a single-family home, and have an annual international vacation
I am honestly okay with development stalling, as I don't really have that many features I needed.

Except one: speed. Evernote is dog slow, whereas Apple Notes is fast. This is what killed my reason for subscribing to Evernote. Though it has far fewer features, I can press CMD+N and start jotting down my ideas/things I have to remember.

I have no objection to paying for good tools, but they are tools and must support me in what I am trying to accomplish.
My humble suggestion: dress up for walking every time you have to leave your apartment for anything. What made it work for me was taking out the trash. Once the trash is out, and I am out on the street with the right clothes and the right shoes for walking (or even running!) then it is much easier to do it.

It's not always about force of will, it can be about small changes in your environment.
As one of the main designers of the original system (but who had left by the time this architectural change was done), that is an interesting read. Always good to see the things that we missed in 1994/1995, even though we believed we were thinking far, far ahead.
WSL1 when accessing Windows files and Linux files uses direct IO via the NT Kernel. This is "slow" because NTFS has a different CAP theorem tradeoff than POSIX expected file system semantics. (It's direct file access so working with one big file is sometimes faster: the trick is that's what NTFS is better optimized for: bigger, fewer files atomic transactions. POSIX semantics work better for lots of small files and doesn't guarantee atomic transactions in the same way.)

From Windows (such as in Explorer) accessing WSL1 Linux files the safe way passes through a Plan9-derived file server as intermediary. This is surprisingly quick, but not without overhead. (But you can if you need to, do some unsafe operations directly on the files in NTFS.)

WSL2 when accessing Windows files accesses them through a Plan9-derived file server as intermediary. This is surprisingly quick, but not without overhead. WSL2 when accessing Linux files is using a Linux filesystem in a virtual hard disk file (VHD) similar to any other VM technology. Using a Linux file system it naturally exhibits POSIX semantics and is fast in the way Linux operations are expected to exhibit in lots of little files scenarios.

From Windows (such as in Explorer) accessing WSL2 Linux files passes through a Plan9-derived file server as intermediary. This is surprisingly quick, but not without overhead. Some operations Windows can do directly via VHD support in Windows.
They might just be doing division by division. AWS layoffs tomorrow.
The solution is obvious: the kid should have been armed. The neighbor would not have approached him, and he would have been able to defend himself from predators.
All this leaves me wondering is what government has a good police force? Is it possible?
Comment appears to be sarcasm, a form of humour /helpful

ETA: /also s
America is insane. Seriously insane
Wondering why your internal .dev web app has stopped working? (2017)
Seriously, here in Europe books are treated with a lot of care because books were and are relatively expensive, unlike mangas in Japan which were sold like chip bags.

Maybe a lot of them have a folded page or such, but the content it's readable. Try that with IDE disks from a Pentium II.
> Their relative utilitarian take on the matter is what makes them so unique and powerful in the market.

Man this was not my experience at all. Granted I dropped Evernote quite a while ago, but for years they kept adding a kitchen sink of features that I didn't care about, while regressing at the basics like syncing and merging text notes across multiple devices.

They were maybe first company I experienced that blew up a really solid app I liked after raising a truck load of VC money and trying to take over the world.
I have visited nurseries that don't let kids go out to the playground when it rains... in the UK!
I suspect some of my child classmates were Gremlins.
If you predict a recession every year for a decade+, you're not making a prediction. You're just repeating words until the inevitable happens.
Seems like ideal use case for a battery. Use 1/week max, rest of time plugged in. I had one at my house and it was perfect for my small-ish yard.
I don't know that it matters.

I believe if the car is unlocked, then the screen can be used to open the glove box. If the car isn't unlocked, then you broke in and prying open the glove box isn't beyond what you're willing to do.
I don't get your hyperbolic angle that pushing back against Elon Musk is society destroying.

I agree that Twitter was bloated with benefits, but this was the industry's rewarding of their labor aristocrats. It's unfair against anyone who couldn't make it there (like me too) but this is how the industry retained talent so far.

Now these benefits are being taken away. This may be fair to everyone else in the industry, and this is something big tech was already looking to cut during this economic turmoil.

Now this is the real point of contention with Elon Musk. Anyone who's left after morale exhausting job cuts is going to be worked to the bone. They have been enjoying benefits that they don't have anymore, but the wider industry also does not work people this hard.

Is it fair that the best companies should work their people this hard? At the very least this may return results quickly in the short-term to pay off the debt from buying Twitter, but how sustainable is this? Amazon Warehouses are the best in delivering packages quick, but they churn through workers through harsh conditions and they are running out of a labor pool to recruit from. Would Twitter be able to retain talent in the long run? Should the entire industry be run like this?

This then gets to the broader question of the recent societal trend you have been seeing. It's really a collective response to the question of whether society is taking care of the people working for keep it going. The answer for a lot of people is that society has been taking more and more from them. Their wages largely haven't been keeping up with increases in productively. Newer generations are being less economically involved than older ones. A foreign adverse nation does not have to be involved when the nation is already rotting from the inside and people can smell it.
what can help with the commitment aspect is NO distractions though. that's the point of pomodoro.
Frankly, I like the idea that they were accidentally performing steganography.
Leverage is probably the wrong choice of word, but VC's growth expectations make your average loan shark's interest rates look downright reasonable.
The Unexpected Return of the Airport Hotel
Oh god, no! Please no!

Okay maybe it works for you, but I've worked on one of these systems for a financial engine with over 10m SQL LoC. This was a big product that was ~15 years old and used by dozens of companies having bespoke feature flags that changed significant parts of the calculation engine. Everyone except a couple grey beards who'd joined straight out of university left that place after a few years because of how insane it was to work on and we all became way too interested in good architecture design from that experience. My friends from that time who I still keep in touch with are almost entirely working on FP-based environments now.
I watched Goddard's lectures a few years ago, and he talked about different price points for the mill--'tiers' of processors that differed mainly, (iirc,) by the size of the belt. He made some claims about porting binaries from one tier to another without compilation from source, and it struck me as a very optimistic claim, for the reasons you hinted at.

My bread and butter work isn't very close to the metal, but you sound more experienced with this sort of thing. Are you familiar with the mill? Do you think they have a chance of avoiding the weeds that Transmeta got stuck in?
If it's true, it's a hilariously bad decision
> The former seems to do far more good in the world, saving hundreds of young lives

I guess the example is incomplete, the banker also contributes to some system in a way, is the work harmful to others?

And if the work is beneficial, they're still part of a system where, why are they taking such a large salary in the first place?

Now, I'm actually not opposed to this form of EA. Like the other commenter said, donating money is fine, it's choosing to become a banker and trying to become the highest paid banker in history, so that you can then go and donate a larger sum of that income that I find problematic.

The latter form of EA seems wrong to me, because the idea that you'll take more money from people, to then personally decide who else you'll give it back too and how much of it you'll keep for yourself or not, that does not seem altruistic.

Instead I wish that people adopted a moral where making excessively more than others, or owning excessively more things than others was just seen as wrong to begin with. If you don't need more than 100k, then just charge less for your services, or pay your employees and staff more, or heck accept higher tax brackets and give more back to fund social institutions and infrastructure.
A big part of the difference has to be that if you have a small number of developers (esp. n=1) and you can deploy everything at once, then those layers just get in the way of fast change. It seems Amazon were optimising for the ability to distribute data because they had big volume, and hide its form so they could change it without having to change lots of applications.

Of course, there’s some cargo culting around services where people jump to that architecture before they need it, but for most apps YAGNI. it’s cool that their architecture was driven by clear needs “just in time” to allow them to continue to scale
I'm surprised to see Pydantic in here; I've used Pandas and Pydantic both quite a lot, and have found the Pydantic docs to be quite good! Also a much smaller library with a saner API, and thus easier to document well.
Yeah I lived in the midwest and there are roaming bands of ~10 year olds who are legit criminals, ripping off and stealing things from myself and other neighbors and basically living independently outside of school and sleeping at home.

Cops and CPS can't be bothered (note I never personally called them, although I have had to address the children directly to ask them to stop stealing from my house). I still prefer that to a "safe" place where my kids have to risk getting ripped away from their parents for walking to a park.

The key to not dealing with police is moving to a high crime area with a weak police presence. These kind of CPS paranoia stuff is generally not enforced in places that are actually less safe for children. If the area is safe, that's when CPS/police will have the time to focus on you to call it unsafe. That is, kids aren't really safe from CPS of accusing them of being unsafe unless it is actually unsafe, in which case authorities never responded in the first place because CPS and the police are busy visiting an abandoned crack-baby.
> I am very confused about why the rationalists, who first identified the concept of pascal's mugging seem to have a huge number of initiatives which seem to be examples of falling directly into the pascal's mugging trap.

The original rationalists were true rationalist. And the recent ones? I am not so sure.
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>What are these other languages and words?

From what I see from quick search word "symptom" as written here is also present in Czech, Danish, German, Norwegian, Polish and Swedish.

Many other languages has variations (e.g. French's "symptôme" or Latvian's "simptoms").
> I think if we’re using a definition of “middle class” based around at least half the population always falling into it

Nobody uses that definition.

It is however, a defined income level and there is a wealth of data on it. It has shrunk from around 60% of the US population 50 years ago, to around 50% of the population now.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/04/20/how-the-ame...
Liblithium: A lightweight and portable cryptography library
And now you need a parser and a machine :)
You should probably ask those on 7k a year why aren't they striking before asking the guy on 70k a year.

IMO: you need to have great faith in your democratic institutions if you think striking will do anything. As a Millenial, all I have known is austerity. All I have known is strikes earn you fuck all. Hell, you might even be fired for taking a day off to shout in a public square.