skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Photos were taken with a smartphone camera at the ocular of a modified stereo microscope

Still incredible! We as people tend to underestimate just how "magical" our mobile phones are.
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How does it help to make everyone on the team play ball to not use C style coding or the quality of third party libraries?

If the answer is code review, it will never work.
You hope that nation-states will be obsolete within your lifetime? Seems to me that's a strange wish given the overwhelming evidence that we would then be faced with a global corporate feudalism from which there would be no retreat. Nowhere to run, no place to hide where people can live as they wish in a way they find congenial. The latter might be unlikely given that local laws could be easily rendered pointless if a powerful central authority elsewhere deemed them unacceptable. Only my view but I'd call that a dystopia.

You say 'democracy, given its cultish appeals (e.g. "but don't you know other systems are worse!?") is simply barbaric'. Does your "quote" rebut itself as you seem to suggest? What is your non-barbaric alternative to democracy?
I guess I can relate to the general feeling, but I would say that it's not computers I don't like, it's the internet. And if you look at the bulleted list in the original blog post, you see that most of the things listed there are internet related - probably, as one might argue, because computers == internet these days.

But that's why I say I share the feeling: what drew me to computers when I was little was the tinkering with this fascinating machine that did as you told it (so you better told it the right things or else it would end up in a mess without mercy). It was a time were you felt you could still reach a point were you're actually in control, computers were still simple enough that one person could pretty much understand all of it.

This is no longer the case today. The complexity of the modern IT landscape is just intimidating. You couldn't possibly feel like you could one day be in control or on top of things anymore. Everything's changing, everything's growing at too fast a pace to keep up.

Therefore, if what drew you to computing in the first place was a personal connection and interaction between yourself and the machine, it's no wonder that that magic has gone now.
We have Wikipedia, a user generated encyclopedia. We have countless musicians, artists, and amateur film makers just a few clicks away. We have archives of history from the edge of wax audio recording and papers from the 1800s. Want your old internet back? It's as simple as not creating an account for anything, not bookmarking portal sites, and running an ad blocker.
It asked me if intelligent alien life would know about pi. I answered "yes", and the survey told me that 84% had also answered "yes". Am I understanding that right -- that 16% of respondents think that pi could be avoided?

OK, I get that this is a wildly crazily speculative discussion but how does anyone imagine intelligent life that doesn't have a concept of pi in some form? Pi is everywhere in math and science.
Thats a fairly irrelevant objection. Both the NYT, Huxley and the GP are referring to the system still in place in the US and Europe today (and so were Churchill in the "worst system, except for all the others that has been tried" quote), whether correctly identified as 'democracy' or not.
Good suggestions. My CSS skills are a bit impoverished so I tried to keep it simple to start. It's amazing how many people stick it out and answer all 60 questions. I hope my server can keep up....
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> Gosh, what we could have done in those days with UTF-8 and Unicode.

Make ASCII art way too easy? (like tennis with the net down ;-)
Russians have a question: "why do they not love us?".

Instead of admitting that this was wrong and horrible, and understand the part of Russians in it, some (I like to keep this option open that some do not) start to find utterly stupid excuses for it.

Maybe you try to be a different person? A better person, one that could be loved and cherished by your neighbours?

Saying that others did it too or that we also suffered does not cut it.

See, that you suffered because of a tyrant of your is your own fault, that you also together with your tyrant terrorised your neighbours is your fault. Until you keep justifying it, you will not find respect.
never did. whats the point?
Guess the idea is future css releases. But well i most likely wont use it ether.
just to confirm, you completed BOTH MIT algorithm courses and BOTH algorithm books, in the span of 2-months, including completing all the exercises/algorithms?

that seems like an incredibly short amount of time given the content. But if true, congrats! and please let me know your secret!
Non-contact interfaces would be a godsend in the kitchen.
At least not in creating the illusion of choice for the individual.
I don't think the Internet has brought much of actual progress at all.
Game developers, specially AAA studios, are well known for writing messy code, regardless of the language.

I bet you if UE5 would get rewritten in Rust, it would just look as messy.
To impress your business friends.
Should this ship in Tcl 9.0, you won't have to learn it. What's neat about the types shown in the diagram is that you could say that Tcl (byte)code already implicitly has them. This comes from the research being done by two members of the Tcl core team, DKF and KBK, in order to make it possible to compile existing Tcl code with LLVM. The idea is that if your compiler can prove certain variables are a certain type narrower than STRING, it can apply optimizations to them for a major performance boost, especially to numerical code (2x-25x).
Thanks. I'll take any feed back good or bad. The Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show is happening right now where I'm at. All these boats are at the Bahia Mar marina on showcase right now. All the information is from their website and that wasn't available.
My answers are strongly dependent on rather loose interpretations of words like "sleep", "money", "private" "property", "taxation" and so on. I think it's probably better to start with more general questions: for example, the answer "no" to "do they defect with each other on Prisoners' Dilemmas" basically rules out the need for taxation.
> OP is getting older. And, like me you move from nights of Gentoo tinckering to Arch, to 30 min Ubuntu LTS installs and hoping the default config files are what you need. And, in the future I see myself buying a Synology.

Feeling this. Except I hate crappy things. There is just a threshold of brokenness I am willing to accept. Consumer products are designed for shinyness and to break and be obsolescent. So most of the time when I have a problem, I learn the right way to do it (TM) look at the ready made solutions and conclude: Oh dear, I have to do this myself again or pay a shitload of money, haven't I?

I think my father passed this on to me. It may have something to do with craftsmanship. There is a German term called "Handwerkerehre" [0] (honor of a craftsman), which is culturally quite significant and encapsulates that you have to feel insulted by poor attitude and quality of work. He was a construction engineer and we always used to have professional grade equipment around the house. Either do it right or do not bother at all.

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handwerkerehre
There's no guarantee that intelligent life would use a mathematic system that enforced the idea of constants. While Pi must likely exist to intelligent societies, it may not exist in the same form.
I don't have a phone (mobile or not). I especially do not want to carry a pocket computer around with me, but that's just because it would make me feel so powerless to have a device that can track me, that I can't hack, and I don't have certainty of what it can or can't do.

Am I just old? I'm in my mid 30s. According to Douglas Adams, that's kind of the age at which new things are just perceived as being against the natural order of things. Kids these days are being raised thinking that talking to Alexa and having it bring back accurate results is completely normal and natural.

Are there young people out there who think modern pocket computing is just plain wrong? Do they have any second thoughts about putting their entire life online under the control of 3rd parties?
All of those apart from dishwashing and some of the shopping are benefits/entertainment, surely?

I think it's useful for people to make a distinction between "I'm doing this by choice as entertainment" vs "I'm doing this as a default activity that's sort of addictive, and not really enjoying it". TV, social media, and, er, Hackernews can fall into the latter category if you're not mindful.
Yeah, if you're into sail this is not the convention for you. Annapolis just had their boat show which is oriented towards sailing. Strictly Sail Miami is in February.
requirements in any real life scenario change every day, useless
How similar is this to Opera 12's built-in httpd?
I'm teaching it. It feels increasingly out of date. Tool support has stagnated for years on Linux. Modern features like lambdas are not really supported.
No, read "lobbyists, politicians and bureaucrats". Making you afraid of mere advertisers (demanding evermore protection from - you guessed it! - lobbyists, politicians and bureaucrats, with the help of their soldiers and policemen) is a great act of mind-manipulation that harks back to the aristocratic and academic disdain for trade.
> In any case it is exciting to see high-level languages with memory safety proving you can have something much better than C without going full-on virtual machine, runtime, and JIT.

Check Modula-2, Oberon, Component Pascal, Modula-3, Eiffel, Ada, Delphi...

It was a mistake to have Java and .NET go JIT only on their first days, instead of AOT/JIT from day one.

They are finally steering the boat in the right direction, but it will take a couple of years, assuming they don't loose focus.
Sequence and state diagrams are fine, why not using them when you want to communicate certain things?
I don't think i ever did. It feels like an enormous waste of time.
Nope. Whiteboards and maybe a photo of it for posterity :-)
Neither do I. Well, I do like my main computer, I enjoy having lots of ram, cpu power, large monitor. Because I spend a lot of time with it.

But.

I have an iPad for 2 years that I haven't used, almost ever (got it as a present). I don't want a smart fridge. I run without monitoring myself all the time. I don't play on my (otherwise high-end) smartphone, I only use 6-7 apps.

The reason: I realized that these stuff are not _that_ smart yet. When I use their 'smartness', they consume more time than the non-smart things. We use a simple post-it for grocery lists with my wife because opening Trello is much more complicated than just picking up the pen when I realize that we don't have more garlic in the fridge.

I still enjoy hacking things for the sake of hacking, but that activity is not 'sold' as something smart that will save me time. It doesn't save any time, just makes me feel good.
Sounds like extensions that delegate text fields to native editors should be easier to write with better ability to expose a localhost http endpoint.
Fun exercise, but some of the questions could use more context.

For example: "Do they value gold?" - I guess that depends on the amount of gold that you can find on their planet.

I guess it would lose some of its charm if the questions were larger, though.
This guy's hobby is building stuff with stone age technology and sharing videos with us. He goes out to his plot on the weekends, then drives home and goes to work for a week. He doesn't need to hunt to keep food on the table.

If he went hunting instead, he probably wouldn't have time to build huts and farm plots. I doubt he'd have much of an audience if his videos were about stalking rabbits in the bushes with a spear in his hand.

In most parts of the world, hunting with stone age implements would be illegal and at the very least it's (arguably) unethical because it would put the prey animals through unnecessary suffering.

Yeah, hunting was an important part of stone age hunter/gatherer culture but this guy isn't there trying to survive with stone age tools. I'm sure there are hunting videos in youtube if someone enjoys watching that instead.
I'm 24, have never had a phone. But I'm more weary of being able to be interrupted at any time. I'm a big fan of pull communication rather than push communication
I've participated in such structures before. Honestly, very few people have the time to go to 5-hour-long meetings on a weekly basis.
omg I work with a dude now who is brilliant, prolific and super-efficient - he successfully rolls out twice the number of features the next best person does, but he leaves behind 0 comments ("code documents itself"), 0 unit tests ("unit tests are for rookies who are unsure about their code") and 0 documentation. How? How to get across the point that he's forcing all of us into the dead end when it comes to team scaling?
> must must must find a place in the internet world that you can stay at

Why?
Undefined: A worker controlled economy.
The source is at https://github.com/qn7o/jinja2-live-parser.

(I submitted the story but I am not the developer.)
> Now if you are 55 years old (and this guy seems to be)

I don't quite think that's the case. More like 35, by the timeline given. This isn't old-timer grumpyness, it's simply seeing something you grew up with change, while you lose your childhood naivity, and it loses its innocence. Welcome to adulthood. It ain't quite as unilaterelly great as we all pictured growing up ;)
Has ring improved much? I remember a few months back it used 28gb of background data over LTE (which was fine since I'm uncapped) on my phone, and was less stable than sflphone, which would randomly stop registering occasionally.

I can recommend pjsip though, very reliable so long as you read its docs before writing a script to leverage it.
It was a buzzword at the end of 90's - first 00's, the purpose was to make developers and customers speak the same language.
That's helpful. I'm curious to know of a system (like democracy) that is/was enjoyed by its people and if so, it's a success IMO. I incline to the view that democracy is the best form of government, although I cannot corroborate my own statement because my knowledge of politics is poor.
frameBufferStatus was false.
frameBufferStatus.message is undefined.

if (!frameBufferStatus)
throw new Error('ERROR: (fatal): ' + frameBufferStatus.message);

Chrome on Windows 10 + AMD R9/280.
Comrade Huxley probably knew his history, and had in mind how a certain Octavian Augustus kept swearing left and right that the Republic was functioning entirely properly, and he was just the poor ass charged with too many jobs.

But republics always were the favorites of savvy aristocrats to keep their collegial rule. If one looks closely at the English state, there's a Republic there since the days of the Magna Carta, whatever way they dress it up. Many a "monarch" terminated with extreme prejudice when getting too big for his britches ;-)
Communication. You get a shared language between people in hopes that when you draw a box it could mean the same thing to people in different orgs and cultures. Can't really design anything large without communication.
Assuming their concept of math & science similar to us. Heck they may even have totally different concept of number. Imagined the thing we mysteriously called dark matter is just elementary subject to them.
Two more examples of datamoshing in music videos:

Kanye West's "Welcome to Heartbreak" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMH0e8kIZtE)

A$AP Mob's "Yamborghini High" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt7gP_IW-1w)
And https://ring.cx/en/about/practical contains more details about the project.

Source repositories located at https://gerrit-ring.savoirfairelinux.com/#/admin/projects/ (Uses gerrit!)
It may be an age thing. I've been coding professionally for maybe 30 years and having been doing more or less the same thing, interacting with machines. I find that, while I too can get momentarily caught up in the chase for a programatic solution or hunt for a bug, if I am truly honest with myself, there is very little intellectual curiosity left that might drive me to learn new language or framework. And yet, I recall having this enthusiasm years ago....

I find too though that when I am left to pursue my own projects at home, on weekends, some of the magic comes back a bit. Perhaps it is just Corporate America that has sucked the life out of my soul when I am at the workplace.
> I really like waking up in a warm bedroom while the rest of the house is allowed be cold.

That sounds pretty cool, what is going on there?
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A common lament of "hippies vs. yuppies" since at least the 60s, I think. :(
Gonna join in. I too would like to know those things!
I agree with the sentiments. I don't agree with the notion of the good-old days however. It only takes 5 minutes on a PC running Windows 3.1 to remind me how much of pain those days were at times - at least in comparison to now.

You see the difference is that I was much more patient and tolerant then. Now, thanks to the Internet - I have become very impatient, anxious and my attention span has dropped almost to zero.

I hate theee things. The way technology has changed me. This is why I have grown more and more disinterested in technology and all its promises. Even though if I were being honest we have never had it better in terms of the range, options and diversity of the field.

I think technology has made me a worse person. More informed but less interested. It's given me more opportunnities at a time when i feel most exhausted and apathetic. Perhaps this is normal considering we are going through the "internet" revolution. A lot of changes. Many of which I don't like within myself and society in general.
I notice that young coders hate to deal with diagrams. Customers are more and more educated in IT, so in most cases there's no need for intermediate language to communicate.
So refreshing to see a themes website that looks different and is way more functional. Thanks for this! I just wanted to point out that (at least for me) the filters are reset when I try to "order" by Featured, Popular or Newest.

Keep up the good work!
While people are free to do as they please, allowing push notifications is more a courtesy to others than a service to one's self.
Totally this. For me, it's about whether the cost is imposed on me, or chosen voluntarily.

So I love videogames, but I hate those designed to suck you in on purpose via cheap psychology tricks. I love books. But I hate ads, infomercials and content with very low quality/size ratio. And I absolutely hate maintenance tasks (dusting, washing dishes, exercise) and wish they could all be automated away.
I put no. I'm not aware that humans knew pi sixty thousand years ago. But surely those early humans were still an intelligent life.

Maybe you imagine an alien life far more advanced than I do.
I've had to admit that I really truly don't care that much about software
I only ever used it for school projects, and only because it was required.
I guess that is the reason why UML failed. Documentation updates took more time than coding.
Can you give some examples for these non-fitting cases? It would be interesting to hear as a non-US citizen since this debate seems so cryptic to me.
Oh, yes yes yes, absolutely, there's a lot of that too. The idea that we have to be online at all times, no interruptions in connectivity. Email can come in at any time. Status updates, likes, upvotes; constant barrage of information. Yuck.

Y'know, our science fiction mostly didn't anticipate this. In William Gibson's fiction, you jacked into the matrix and you jacked out when you were done. Now we never jack out.

Whenever I walk around while my laptop is turned off and all I have is an offline Sansa Clip Zip running Rockbox for some music, I feel like I'm rocking out in Zion, unplugged and free.
One should imagine the days without computers... waiting days for a letter to arrive...
Even if you don't like computers many of the benefits that come with them you might like... so think of them as a necessary evil.
I felt that way years ago.

I liked video games. I wanted to make video games. To do that requires programming a computer. Ok, how do you do that? Let's go down that rabbit hole. 30 years later and I'm still going down the rabbit hole. I've haven't made a video game yet, only bits and pieces and some mods, but at this point, I don't really like video games much anymore. So now what?

I've been doing a lot of hardware, electronics, arduino and general maker stuff. I still like making stuff, but it doesn't have to all be on the computer, and it doesn't have to be a game. I'm more interested in how a HAM radio transmitter works than the latest js framework these days.
Some 10 years ago I took part in two very large projects in two different organizations, and in both cases all our shiny diagrams were scrapped at the end. So sad :)
I should clarify that while the simple existence of the Internet doesn't make getting caught more likely, social media at least increases the chance of someone on the related social graph seeing something, and reporting it.
What a bunch of FUD, the author should grow some balls and come out and say they believe $23k a year means McDonalds should be able to demand 80hr weeks from you.

Not that the major abusers are going to pay any more than they already do, Amazon at their Bellevue, WA warehouse "asks" hourly employees to come in early and work at least an hour off the clock before some shifts, plus since they are in Bellevue, they pay state minimum wage.
Guys, the author here. This is my first open source project and I worked really hard on it for 5 months.

I think it's really cool, and I hope you guys like it. I would appreciate any kind of feedback!
Great write-up. I share your disappointment. I too though technology could be the answer but it looks like tech has simply transformed to suit the needs of this centralized, capitalist, consumerist slave society. As a software engineer myself, i'm also at a loss what to do. Disillusioned with the direction tech is taking, yet refusing to give up my values I've considered trying my hands at politics or writing. But often I feel like the doctrines are so deeply entrenched that some huge catastrophe is the only thing that could turn society around.
Since I am now 30 years into the this career, I now see the young software engineers and wonder to myself what a shit-career they must be embarking on. I don;t know that for sure — I don't know how much I am just projecting, or is Software Engineering just not as fun as it used to be for some of the reasons you cite (too much changing too fast, never a sense of being able to fully control/own the architecture)?

Regardless, it gives me some comfort to know that I've enjoyed a good part of my career up to this point and I'm a lot closer to being on the way out of my career than the way in.
Hams in Space Part 2: The Manned Spaceflights
When did we even know Pi was a surd?

Before then we didn't know Pi.

Do do we currently know Pi? Even that might be arguable?
yes, tbh it reminds me of #IFDEF. not entirely sure how i feel about that: it kinda makes sense but i think the fallback version is better. (unless the css ends up really different, then the ifdef approach makes sense)
The first article was in January about the first sats in space. http://hackaday.com/2016/01/14/hams-in-space-project-oscar/
Maybe it was when the Internet killed the newspaper that it was no longer fun and games.
Yeah but the vast majority of peripherals use usb-b. I solved the problem with the 12" Macbook by not buying it and sticking with my Air. My friend traded his Air in for the Macbook and hates that aspect of it - he has to get the adapter out all the time and tends to lose the things.
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