jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Still using VFP9 to this day. Our application originated in ~1986 in dBase II, then we switched to FoxBase, then the various version of FoxPro. Currently in VFP 9. But, we still have to invoke Foxpro for DOS 2.5 (in DosBox) to edit some report layouts, because they were created in the DOS version in the 90s, and the automatic tool to 'transport' them to new versions crashes hard for reasons we were never able to figure out.
The flex is displaying the artwork you own. A CryptoPunk avatar is now the digital equivalent to wearing a Rolex. Setting your avatar to someone else's CryptoPunk is like wearing a fake Rolex, or posting a selfie wearing someone else's watch.
What the author discovered here is the full list of publishers as given by the IAB consent framework [1], which is an attempt at self-regulation by the ad industry and website publishers.

Presenting the user with the full list of advertisers is indeed silly and not compliant IMHO. We also offer an open-source privacy & security tool for websites (Klaro! - https://github.com/kiprotect/klaro) and we have decided against implementing the IAB framework as it's clear that it does not conform to the intent of the GDPR. We also opted against using dark-patterns and making declining more difficult than accepting. Overall this results in slightly less opt-ins (around 50-70 % for most websites) but in any case those dark patterns will have to go sooner or later.

[1] https://iabeurope.eu/transparency-consent-framework/
Cynical hot take is that that's what we say so that we can get more freedom.
You're not obligated, but much like Maven is the build tool for Java, sbt is the build tool for Scala.

You use alternatives at your own peril. This means you won't be able to understand other people's builds, for example.

I know some Scala projects use Maven instead. Whether that's a good idea is debatable!
As soon as it's deprecated I'm gone. I'd consider myself a power user. I have zero confidence new.reddit.com will ever improve to my satisfaction.
https://archive.is/6iyuz
if I might ask, where do you work? and/or in what domain?
Bradbury predicted much bigger TV's in the 1950's.
Thanks for the response.

I'm not being intentionally obtuse, but I still don't understand your specific objecton(s). As I read it, I think it comes down to "a difference in degree is a difference in kind."

I would argue that you can't really know that your winnings never caused a lay-off, for example. Perhaps you beat Frank, the owner of an RV dealership in Eau Claire, so badly that he had to let one of his salesmen go to keep his company alive.

You can raise all sorts of objections at this point about the personal responsibility of Frank. He shouldn't be gambling with money he can't afford to lose! He should understand all of the rules before he sits down! He should have a firmer grasp of the probabilities! He shouldn't be playing with his heart instead of his head!

And those are all objections that market participants can (I believe in good conscience) make about their activities. So, I'm not sure exactly where your objection lies.

Is finance too important to be left to the market? (Let's ignore, for now, the moral hazard of current government interventions... unless that's your objection.) If not, should the markets be limited to qualified investors who have demonstrated some level of knowledge? Should market participants be required to diversify their holdings? Perhaps only a certain percentage of one's net worth can be in play?
I wonder to what extent this is new and to what extent this is just being exposed now by changing social norms. I get the sense that rampant alcohol abuse was much more prevalent a few decades ago than it is now. If everyone was constantly self-medicating with alcohol, that might mask all manner of anxieties, social and otherwise.
Yes, and this is the biggest non-performance reason that wildcards are bad: because over time, the schema should be able to change, often in ways that render select * (and the equally works-only-by-accident code calling it) broken.

This is even more so when joins or views are involved, because the columns returned may change over time; joins particularly. Or, for that matter, migrations; while a CREATE plus ALTER may have resulting in a particular column ordering in 2002-2017, the new DB using the CREATE that rolls up all those changes in 2018 may result in a different column ordering, with subsequent broken code (which will be blamed on the DB by the thoughtless programmer, of course).
What would you consider the most interesting aspects of HTML 5?
I'm a lot more cynical now than I was in the early nineties, so my ideas would focus mainly on forced biological modifications imposed on us by the ruling class. (Think stalkers at the end of Half-Life 2, except replace the Combine with Halliburton.)

"Have you ever been stripped of agency by intrusive mind-control and body-modification technology and sacrificed any biological dignity you had to serve at the behest of an omnipotent AI god for the benefit of a handful of plutocrats? You will..."
For those of you who don't have Twitter accounts, you can check out the mosaic it created for me at

http://twitter-mosaic.appspot.com/mosaics/dwlz/

Honestly, it could use a lot of work regarding the color detection. If you have any ideas for it, let me know!
That assumes it wasn't undervalued before. I remember seeing one estimate from December-ish that it should have been around $60, though I don't remember how they came up with that.
The UK is pretty good. All filing can be done online, corporation tax rates are pretty low (20%).
Because taking accurate reproductions of small flat objects boils down to three things: zero distortion, even illumination, flat focus plane. Even if you can find a well-corrected macro lens, building the physical setup is a major PITA and you'll still have ugly shadows all over. Scanners have been getting these things right since forever and for next-to-nothing; a 15 year old $300 film scanner easily beats any DSLR film scanning attachment you can find, and not only quality-wise - but especially in terms of ease of operation. If you don't believe me, try "scanning" a document using your camera.
Nobody knows why?

I was under the impression that any observation deteriates a quantum state to a normal state.

A observation in this case is basicly anything that interacts with our world.
Profit, certainly. They have control over the country and its' government; so they can take advantage of the resources.
It's an amusing idea, but I'm not sure how interesting this is without a performance history or measures against similar automated predictions.
We look for large valuable resources in order to help democracy. (I'm only half-joking, I think there are both sinister and non-sinister reasons why this may occur, which is why it makes it hard to discern true motives.)
Nation building. We (supposedly) learned from our first exercise in Afghanistan that you can't help a people fight off their oppressor then leave them to fend for themselves. Things quickly degrade to where they were with the Taliban as the ruling body. Some believe it is in our interest to build up the nation with a favorable government in place.

And no, GWB's administration didn't invent this ideology. Neither did PNAC, or any of the other conspiracy-nut targets. This kind of thing has been going on for thousands of years.
Since switching to using my real name on Hacker News my comments have:

1) Gone down in quantity.

2) Taken longer to write, as I think harder before pressing the "add comment" button.

3) Become more "sterile" for lack of a better word.

4) Frequently been abandoned.

There's two sides to this argument. On one hand, I'm reluctant to express half-formed opinions that could potentially make for interesting discussion, because I don't always want to be judged against those opinions for the rest of my life. On the other, is the wisdom of XKCD 137 (http://xkcd.com/137/).
Person A will give many reasons why person B should switch to A's style, and A shouldn't switch to B's style. There seldom, if ever, any objectivity in those arguments.
Straight from the almost too good to be true department.
If it's paid off entirely each month (which the author does), the interest rate doesn't matter.
Absolutely!

Here's how conversations typically go -- Dev: "Why are you using this? Why don't you use X?" Business: "Are you willing to write interface code to {legacy system}?" Dev: {crickets} Business: "Well, RPA it is then."

To dang's point, apologies for the insinuation, which doesn't seem to be borne out by the submitters' post histories anyway.

A more supported hypothesis is as you said: "This isn't something that a lot of HN-type devs care about or see."

In the same way we don't get many posts about Oracle, VMware, or SAP here, relative to their actual deployments.
A couple of points:

1. "Superbug" is just a modern construct of something that's been happening (albeit at a slower pace) since bacteria - and human pathogens in general - have existed. Garlic (and relatives) have faced this for just as long.

2. Similar to the adaption of bacterium in #1, the biological victims have adapted. That is, after all, while garlic has large amounts of allicin - a wide-spectrum antibiotic - in the first place.
I'd like to see it on those services. Besides, you don't have to subscribe with podcasts. You can easily just search and download a specific episode.
Do you happen to have a link to the demo? I looked around but haven't been able to find it.

It looks like the demo lived at the time at https://www.unrealengine.com/html5 - and the site doesn't seem to work through Wayback Machine.
You'll want to consider international users. I'm in France and, I'm sure, you're based Stateside. Will it work for a user such as me? I assume not... but if it will, tell the user, and give international dialing numbers.
One thing puzzles me: If LESS is essentially a template language specialized for CSS, why not reuse the template engine that you use in your application anyway?

That way, you'd also have the benefit of defining often-used attribute values (e.g. colors) in a variable, and you could also group often-used combinations of attributes together in a variable or sub template.
The website with its light gray text on white background is very hard to read.
Consider joining the contrast rebellion http://contrastrebellion.com/
When ruling on aspects of a case that fall outside of their subject matter jurisdiction (eg. copyright rather than patents), the Federal Circuit is supposed to follow the local circuit's precedent, ie. rule how they think the Ninth Circuit would have ruled on those issues. And my understanding is that the Federal Circuit's rulings on eg. the copyright aspects of a case like this do not overturn Ninth Circuit copyright precedent and do not establish new copyright precedent anywhere, not even the Federal Circuit (since in future cases they will again be required to apply the relevant local circuit's copyright precedents as they exist at that time).

The Federal Circuit's copyright decision is binding on the parties to the case at hand, but the precedent for future cases is non-binding at best.

This was one of the arguments that the FSF and SFLC put forth in their amicus brief recommending that the Supreme Court not take up Google's appeal of the API copyright question:

> The court below predicted, on the basis of no compelling evidence, that the Ninth Circuit would depart from settled existing law in a novel direction which, as amici supporting the petition have said at length, would be destructive alike of commercial certainty and freedom to implement, thus inhibiting the progress of science and the useful arts. Neither the Ninth Circuit nor any other regional Court of Appeals is likely to defer to this improbable supposition, so the error is largely self-limiting. Such erroneous predictions of other courts’ holdings are not a suitable employment of this Court’s scarce resources in review by certiorari.
Activist employees are the worst. Instead of focusing on their job duties, these workers clearly were focused on their campaign to make Amazon, their employer, look bad publicly. When one tactic (climate justice) wasn't getting them enough attention, they switched their tactics to pandemic safety. It's the switch of agendas here that is telling as to their true motives.

They both got what they deserved, and Amazon's only mistake was not putting them on a PIP and firing them for performance reasons, which would have been a lot more defensible than a policy violation. I'm sure in all their time spent organizing their job duties suffered demonstrably. Can you imagine the collateral damage they caused to their department in all of this? Imagine just trying to do your job and having to deal with these two on your team.
Note that the paper was rejected for publication in ICLR 2021:

https://openreview.net/forum?id=PdauS7wZBfC
Didn’t we have lots of people complaining that the Trump admin was giving away tax money by lowering the Corp tax rate down to 23%? I can only imagine the wild heckling of any present of future admin if they were so bold as to lower it to 0%. Krugman would probably have a fit.
Service dogs aren't dogs, they are medical devices. A car used in ride share isn't a private space any longer, it's quasi-public. The law (at least in the USA) is very clear, you can not restrict access of medical devices (whether service dogs or wheelchairs) in businesses.
on the other hand: you said you would rather not be resilient at all.. so how would you prefer to react to the exact same trauma you experienced previously? assuming that you cannot choose to not have that trauma at all.
I'm not arguing that US is universally free-market today, rather that it was less free-market 50 years ago.
I would call it 'Liquidity'. And there are instruments where you are locked in for certain period of time e.g. 10 year treasury bonds. Luckily, there is an after market for treasury bonds where you can sell them after buying well before the 10 years are over.

And what you are proposing is that we should only allow Investing and restrict/remove trading. The problem with this approach is that you lose your ability to find 'market value' for your investment on an everyday basis. Let's say we force everyone to hold stock for at least a month. What if I had bought BP stock just before the gulf oil spill news came out? I will be stuck and would have to incur a huge loss by the time I am allowed to sell my stock. Also, there are thousands of investors and they may need to liquidate their position at any time based on their own circumstances.

And finally, stock market does achieve their goal of allowing company to raise capital. Theoretically, it doesn't matter what happens to the stock price after company has issued their common stock. They got their capital and can do what they want with it. On practical basis, company do care about their stock price for numerous reasons which I won't get into right now.
I'm so glad I'm better than those identifying-as-part-of-a-group people!
Better ending: "... resolved the issue."
> the average variation between two individuals is far, far more than the average variation between the sexes at large

You might want to stop and think about how the world would have to look for the above statement not to be true. I don't think it's as strong as you think it is.
Pulling out of the App store is the new black. If you stick to Apple TOS (in most of the cases) you'll be fine. And when you play in the gray zone that's you get, I know because I've been there too. You decided to build your business on someone else platform, if you don't like it plenty of others to develop for.
FWIW, one could argue that many of these elements are also present in a book like Godel Escher Bach.

- Your book is actually going to be a collection of essays drawn together by a loose thread. - "strange loops"

- Each of your essays is going to revolve around a single idea - pretty much every Achilles and Tortoise chapter

- Illustrate the idea with stories about real people - Godel, Escher, Bach

and so on...

I don't know about the rest of you, but I read Gladwell and Hofstadter because they are entertaining in an brain-stimulating way. When I want raw non-embezzled science, I read scientific papers. In both cases, I'll come to my own conclusions.

I don't get all this passive-agressive "holier-than-thou" attitude towards Gladwell being famous I've been seeing lately. Who cares if he's famous?
I don't think waiting until people decide they can tolerate 16:10 or 16:9 would be a good strategy. Thinkpads were some of the last laptops to offer 4:3 models, and people were buying them for that reason. They already have premium prices and a reputation for quality; I think if anybody was going to do this, Lenovo would already be doing it.
Thanks for that, never heard of that.

Link for anyone interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4_(computer_language).

By the way, I really think that to work (i.e. become usable, maybe even popular), this needs to be built on an existing and popular language. Otherwise it's too steep a learning curve.

Ideally, I'd like to be able to put in code in the text file wherever I want, be able to put the value of expressions in the code, and that's it.
Thanks. Really nice Safari extension.
Sheila Patek on the fastest animal on Earth. One thing a particularily like about this talk is that it seems she doesn't realize how captivating she is:
http://www.ted.com/talks/sheila_patek_clocks_the_fastest_ani...
Couldn’t this involve the IRS as well?
Best solution: replace it with a table with 3 points of contact with the ground. Three points define a plane; it's guaranteed not to wobble.
I remember Linus playing around with a Xeon Phi CPU with a few hundred threads. The task manager was all percent signs.

https://youtu.be/fBxtS9BpVWs?t=200

Looks like Microsoft has already got 1000+ cores on Windows: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-Kernel-Intern...

Can we get Bruce Dawson[0] one of those? I wonder how many more bugs he'll run into.

[0] https://randomascii.wordpress.com/
My crystal ball says remote work will revolutionize lifestyles, we ll see huge changes in health tech (long overdue), and in governance. Nomadism is a 2010s trend and ,even if not scalable, it shows the way. The renationalisation experiments did not bear fruit, i think it s becoming increasingly evident. I think the 20s will be a good time for freedoms
Could you point me in the right direction? I genuinely have no clue what could be that taboo.
Even more cynically: to paraphrase from George Carlin's last comedy special in 2008, public education will never get better because the powers-that-be don't want a well-rounded populace capable of critical thinking.

"It's a big club, and you ain't in it"
They already have! Repeatedly. And lowered the cut paid to drivers.
Same in Canada. Unit prices are useful for comparisons, but it's hard to avoid the big, colorful "ON SALE" tags.
Bootstrapping is a marathon, not a sprint. Bootstrapping is kind of like stacking bricks, except you mught be making each brick too.

Sometimes you have to build the first thing to get to the second thing.

Before developing hardware, I'd see if there's a lucrative software based problem in this area that could be bootstrapped to generate revenue to fund the next project.

In a way SpaceX is doing their equivalent of this by building Starlink to generate ongoing monthly revenue that conceivably could be directed elsewhere.
Oh. I thought it was a free software, federated implementation of Facebook's "poking" feature.
I had to do some work at a customer datacenter, which was a converted print/mainframe room in a 70s high-rise with lots of windows.

The customer had built a wall blocking all of the windows in the late 80s (this was circa 2000), we had to go in the the area inbetween.... 10-15 years of no interior cleaning and high temps resulted in these weird formations of tar drips. It almost looked like a cave formation. Absolutely vile.

The story from the site staff was that the print and mainframe operators back in the day would essentially sit and continuously smoke, all day, all night. IIRC, we found a half dozen defunct cigarette machines.
It's not proof, but it's absolutely evidence and it's enough evidence to place the burden that the video game industry consists mostly of young people back on the person making the claim.

If there is such evidence, by all means produce it.
+1 this. People don't want to be tracked. Don't track me. I will decline tracking when this comes up.
I think theres a spectrum of techniques and no bright line. If you are temporarily in NY but live in LA, is it location based advertising to show the user an ad targeted to LA? What if you're at a regional airport and the only flights today are to LA? What if the ad network knows you have a flight booked to LA today? What if you have a lot of friends in LA so there's a good chance you will be there soon?

People would call the last one personalized and not "location targeted", but it's pretty hard to see where that flips.
>A lot of work only makes sense at a particular salary. If market salaries are above that, the work just isn't done.

All sorts of narrow specialized skill jobs (e.g. rebuilding electric motors) have gone this way in the west.
You should look up the Mondragon Corporation. It's a worker owned cooperative. Highly democratic institution. I'd postulate that by and large due to the nature of it, and with tens of thousands of similar edifices in concert we could excise a great deal of power (wealth) from the government and corporations, placing it in the hands of the people who earned it.

Entities like this can't get funding though, since it endangers the contemporary business model and leaves little in the way of profit for banksters since by nature company stock is traded only internally, exchanged between employee and the company to prevent external interlopers from gaining a foothold. Governments would also see a great deal of their power dissolved as a product of the internal democratic processes dealing with social issues.

It comes with issues, but with multiplicity, I think the stratification would be greatly remedied. The stratification comes from non-owners participating in the business, they don't have voting rights and they're subject to lower compensation, generally. That's what we're subject to now, generally, in any case. With more companies following this modality, I believe that would be alleviated to a degree where if one was insistent they could always find an opportunity to become a worker-owner.
The cost of a company not preparing for a catastrophe is hugely externalized, resulting in a lopsided risk equation that represents a market failure.

In texas, the cost of that market failure can be measured in preventable deaths, none of which private energy companies needed to account for when managing risk.

In the event of a solar flare knocking out national power for months, the cost could be the collapse of modern civilization.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XetplHcM7aQ
Not quite. Having a blanket "Google doesn't track you" statement doesn't capture the complexity of reality: what if the website you're browsing is using Firebase for their authentication, or Google Pay for payment. I'm certain most users would want the website to function correctly, otherwise it defeats the point of using incognito. In all of these cases, Google will have a record of you, even if those records are not actively joined. Where do you draw the line?
I feel you. I’ll have weeks that are so unproductive and I’ll feel bad about it. But then I’ll list out all the factors contributing to my lack of accomplishment and realize that I have a lot of external factors working against me. It helps me have more grace with myself and focus on the areas I can control.
Note that given the dismissive behaviour of Occidental medical leaders regarding covid, I wonder what's left of trust in the system.

Our bosses were still laughing at us for worrying on Monday evening, and now they're pissing their pants. Idiots.