skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It changed over the years.

From, like, 92-00 I was sinking way more money than I could properly afford into them, and often hated the experience. Losing felt absolutely horrible, but winning felt fantastic. Most of my friends would gamble too, but I took it that much further. I'd put enough money for the drinks I wanted in one pocket, and the other pocket was my gambling funds. It was very fatalistic, I knew that I was virtually guaranteed to go home drunk, skint, and angry with myself. Often I'd swear blind en route that if I emptied my pockets today, then that was it, this shit had to stop - and of course, those would be the days when I'd take out a jackpot or two, buy a big round of celebratory drinks, etc. But I got into pretty significant debt over the whole time, taking out credit cards and maxing each one out (on cash withdrawals!!) within a couple of months.

From 00-03 I paid off my debts, was still gambling a lot but could afford it. I don't recall much negative emotion, it was mostly just "this is what I do when I'm in the pub". I'd win some, lose some, it didn't really matter. I liked "knowing" that "hey, it's turned red, that means it's about to pay". If I wasn't playing, I'd watch those who were and enjoy spotting where they were turning down obvious money, not collecting the "good" features, etc, and hope I could jump on after they're done and take their cash. This was the peak of the period I referred to in the previous post, when colleagues would ask how on earth I knew what was going on, and could I help them spend their £1-3 as a bit of fun.

My gf at the time wasn't such a fan and, in fact, bet me that I couldn't go a year without playing - which was a stroke of genius. Obviously I took the bet, and won. For the last few weeks leading up to the anniversary I was kinda salivating at the idea of spending a couple of hours posting money into a fruity again, and when I did ... meh. Nothing. I lost, I didn't care, and the hold was basically broken.

Since then, it certainly helps that, at least in London, fruit machines have all but disappeared from most pubs, and as jackpots have gone up the fun has gone out of them anyway because they seem to pay out respectable wins much more seldom. I'll still throw £20 or £40 in one if I'm in a pub on me lonesome and waiting for a train, say, and I enjoy playing online but it doesn't consume me and, in fact, I tend to make a profit most months - I find it very easy to limit both my downside and the upside. Back in the day, quite often a win would just mean I could play longer, whereas these days I'm like "cool, I'm £50 up, I'll take that and get on with something else".
Wait, is that last one two ESP32 boards with LoRa and a screen for less than $20? If so, that's amazing, but it's too cheap and I don't see the ESP32.
As someone who has released dozens of apps in the App Store as well as someone who actually watched the video I am quite convinced that the reviewer always timed the moment the content was loaded, not when the empty state of the first screen was first loaded.
> Catholic church (or more likely scholars inside the church) ...

What's the difference?
There is a BYTE magazine interview where he talks about it:

https://apple2history.org/museum/articles/byte8501/#diskdriv...
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I refuse to travel with checked bags unless it's absolutely necessary. My suitcase bears heavy scars from rough handling, and considering how underpaid and overworked luggage haulers are, I don't really trust that to become less of a problem in the future.
> CSS Grid is also an option in such cases for slightly more advanced layouts, though with less support.

"Younger" is probably a better way to put it than "less": all modern browsers support the Grid, but only in very recent versions (Firefox 3 versions back , Chrome 5 versions back, Safari 2 versions back-ish) while Flexbox has much older (and debugged) support going back multiple years.
Looks promising, but my initial searching for Dart lang didn't return any results in News and Social, and unrelated images in the Images search.
Lessons from history for the future of work
What magic are you talking of when you know data is the most precious element to do anything meaningful and it's hoarded through a handful of megacorps. Why don't we hear of any small teams "outisde" the mega corps doing real progress on AI. There was an article recently where even professors in universities admit they cannot compete with megacorps since they offer much higher wages than academia.

edit: more sick, the said young researchers are financed by society than get sucked to private corps where their work is locked behind IPs.

Even in the case there is a small company having any progress they would get swallowed up right away.

Yes Keras and Sickit-learn are open source and available to everyone but it's like telling me, look you have access to pen and paper but you need to pay if you want to read the books, the metaphor here being access to data is equivalent to middle age's access to books...
This is a common misunderstanding. IOTA never deployed a vulnerable hashfunction. They had precautionary measures in place and thus had Curl there to test it out, which worked out brilliantly. Keep in mind that IOTA asked the team to attack Curl, not the other way around. This was planned.

Curl is meant to be a lightweight crypto for IOT, a field of very active research. None of this is controversial to anyone that isn't looking for things to latch negativity onto.
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All of the gov.uk guidance (not sure about the research) is excellently written up. This is a great start: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/government-design-principles
Can't think of where that particular finding is written up, but you can find a lot of our research and guidance on our blogs and site:

https://designnotes.blog.gov.uk/

https://insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk/

https://www.gov.uk/service-manual
While you are at it, here is how your little blog looks to those of us who browse with javascript off for security reasons:

https://pixady.com/image/0jab/

Even though all the text content is present (this image is disabling CSS and scrolling down a little):

http://pixady.com/image/0jad/

Requiring javascript for rendering what basic HTML already renders is not a very inviting or inclusive way to go with the blog.
Look you may not want to admit it, but you make your money from praying on and promoting addiction. You are a drug dealer and directly ruin people's lives.

Denial has a strong psychological basis, but if you want to look back on your life without massive regrets leave the industry.
>trick more vulnerable people into giving you their money

I don't really have an issue with casinos as such, I'm sure it can be fun for a holiday. What I do mind is all the smaller gaming kiosks that started popping up when Denmark opened up it's gambling/betting marked (because EU required it that it not be a government monopoly).

There's so many small crappy looking kiosks that now offers gambling on slot machines, but it's not people like myself that pops in on a Friday afternoon on the way home from work to spend the equivalent of $10 - $20 to relax. It's societies weakest members that banging on the door to be the first at the slots and won't leave until their asked to leave at the end of the evening. The people sitting at the slots are the people who can afford it the least. It's absolutely terrible that this is legal.
A bank I worked for last year rolled out monitoring software to all their IT staff. It recorded the window title of the application with focus on a regular schedule and kept this in a log somewhere. They said the results would only be used in aggregate, but that was treated with skepticism.

Also, the app does pop up with alerts every so often suggesting you take a yoga break so it is adding a lot of value. /Sarcasm
> Even if you claim that the outcomes are the same, you cannot claim that the paths are identical

I didn't claim the paths are identical, and don't believe they are. I said the reasons are much the same. They both deny human nature. One relies on a level of altruism that doesn't exist. The other relies on a level of "rational self interest" that doesn't exist. Both rely on a level of honesty that doesn't exist. Similar reasons, less similar paths, almost identical outcomes.

> that's just lazy argumentation

No, lazy argumentation is presenting no argument but a link to someone else who says "Time forbids the treatment of that phase of the subject here" when addressing the matter at hand. There is no way to that anarchist (what we would now call libertarian) utopia but the same kind of revolution that led to communism's notable real-world failures. Furthermore, there is no way to maintain such a system and keep it from devolving into oligarchy other than to have a robust government to keep the four monopolies from re-forming. This "anarchy" in practice ends up looking a lot like modern socialism.
Bullshit. IOTA has been analyzed by numerous, not to mention the 1+ billion dollar bounty on its head which has lead to serious inspection. SPECTRE on the other hand is a pseudo-DAG which only exist on paper, with known vulnerabilities.

I prefer proven science over hypothesis any day.
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The https://lite.qwant.com/ seems to work without Javascript.
Do you just use development boards with these? And which ones?
Sorry, "this comment" referred to itself, I did not post the parent comment. The conversation should not be hidden, just this barely useful meta comment.
How much clothing do you seriously need for a 3-day vacation? Anything less than a week is firmly in carry-on only territory, even with a few shirts, an extra pair of pants and a spare pair of shoes.

For longer trips (especially business trips), it's very likely you're going to be staying in a place with a good laundry service.

It really pays off to optimize packing a bit (for instance rolling instead of folding, and to simply take a long hard look at what you actually need, all in the name of avoiding checked luggage hassles.

You laptop and other flight essentials can go in your "personal item", which is generally specified as a handbag or slim laptop bag. Most airlines don't advertise that you're allowed to take an additional personal item, but take a look at how many handbags and so on are allowed in addition to cabin luggage, the next time you travel.
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What percentage of websites would you think are cared for by a sysadmin at least as competent as yourself, who dedicated at least as much time as you did?
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WebAssembly
Regarding the topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10487713

Web Assembly (WASM)....

Lets first remember that this is "bytecode" which is not the native code of any given computer instruction set architecture. In a way, it is still really a source code because there is still a translation step.

In the OLD days, we had assembly language which itself is just an ASCII based mneumonic representation of the underlying instruction set architecture. There is even closer to 'bare metal' approach in machine language programming via the Machine Language Monitor (ML Monitor). This hexadecimal based representation. In fact, even the hexadecimal representation is an abstraction to a small step above the pure binary. When you enter hexadecimal digits, it is entered as keyboard keycode scan values. This then is translated into nybbles (4-bit units). So in essence this hexcode blob can be saved out into ASCII text files or it can be taken into the binary values.

If we were really coding in absolute bare metal, there would be three buttons. 0, 1, which will load a small buffer of binary digits of the keyboard and the enter button to submit the binary string into the larger memory.
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Too busy design wise at the moment and lacking back end details but the results seem decent at first glance.

No one can deny competition in search is desperately needed. Without that Google inevitably becomes more emboldened and seeks to further normalize and expand their creepy behavior.

An approach for a new engine should be both privacy which is a strong message that will resonate and also the technical details so people don't just assume its consuming another backend. That's what will make it interesting.
Together, Brazil and South Africa have 150 million internet users[1]. At least in Brazil (with which I'm familiar) the connectivity inside the country is quite decent (read "usable"), but most international connections use slow and older networks. This project, together with the one connecting Brazil to Spain[2], will certainly be very beneficial to users in there.

[1]: http://www.itu.int/net4/ITU-D/idi/2016

[2]: https://www.reuters.com/article/spain-brazil-telecoms/spain-...
This would be very painful for any programmer.

A programmer who really has the level of ability to understand the architecture of a computer hardware as intimately and as in depth as machine language programmers would have, the same kind of person can potentially write the code of WASM directly. This requires a special discipline and perhaps tenacity to bear it. After all, there is a reason not everyone is in programming in machine language or assembly language.

WebAssembly is kind of like a virtual assembly language of a sort that can be represented in a semi-human readible textual format, similar to a disassembly listing of native machine code to the 'mneumonic' format of opcodes vs. the hexadecimal representation.

For a number of us who has literally worked in machine language level (mostly on older processors such as 6502/6510 & other 65xx based processors found in Apple II, Commodore 64, NES, Super Nintendo (65c816 cpu), Motorola 68K series processors found in Commodore Amiga and early pre-PowerPC Apple Macintosh line of computers, 8088/8086/80186/80286/80386... series of Intel processors found in IBM PC and Compatibles running MS-DOS and previous versions of Windows (1.x, 2.x, 3.x, 95, 98, NT,....)), well..... most of them are familiar with working this way so the idea isn't so alien. If you understand the language... even in the byte code format which it is technically a language, you'll understand how it works and how the code works regardless of how it is presented to it. Even in native machine code if you understand the underlying ISA (instruction set architecture) and the machine language and architecture.

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There's a weight limit for carry-on, generally somewhere between 7 and 10kg. Don't see it as a limitation, see it as a challenge to optimize your packing.
That article seems somewhat out of date now.

For a more up to date approach I'd suggest Drew Neil's Modern Vim book (still in beta)[1] and using async language server plugins[2]

[1] https://pragprog.com/book/modvim/modern-vim

[2] https://langserver.org/
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It's amazing how much it's actually possible to optimize luggage packing, without going to ridiculous extremes.

"But what if I want to wear this shirt, maybe?" seems to be a very common question, but I guess people just need to learn to decide.
I have so many websites but never got much traffic on any one of them, so i forgot all domain name of the website i created long back.
However, lets remember that for the most part, most websites are in fact proprietary and it is not really intended to be "open source" because the work is copyright. When you have software that runs through the browser, is it not really the intent of that kind of software such as video games to be proprietary by companies with employees that needs to be paid so they can have food on the table and pay the bills as well as the business owners. There are some individuals with the "FREE as in free beer" when taken to the logical extreme doesn't work in the real world where not everything is free.

There is a lot of plagiarism on the web where people take each other's code. If you are in business where you make money from your site such as Software As A Service model business or online video game service business, if someone copy and pasted your web site and removed all elements of payment for given services, that ripoff will undermine your sales because if given a choice, people will not pay for something they can get for free.

If you're working full-time as a business and/or as an employee of such business, you're livelihood is dependent on successful return on the investment of time. You don't have time to work another job to support your family and there is not a welfare system sufficient to support the world's population. There isn't even enough financial resources to support those in need so undercutting by shortcutting, plagiarizing, stealing and doing nothing unique and innovative or otherwise develop an original work only serves to erode the ability for people to make sufficient meaningful living with sufficient financial resources to raise a family. It isn't coming from the government.

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Video game industry is pushing these tactics to new heights with loot box gamification, even better the target consumers are young, mentally underdeveloped children who are much easier to addict to gambling. It's beyond evil and should be regulated immediately, China/Japan have had regulations about this for years already. America leading the way in letting businesses exploit underage consumers, encouraging addictions to gambling for profit.
Quite a few folks these days seem to make very non-trivial philosophical claims, then claim that philosophy is not worthy of attention in the same breath. It's very odd to see.
They say: "When you use Qwant, no personal information whatsoever is neither captured or transmitted to advertisers.", but then they also say: "We believe we now have designed a simple and efficient offering by working with the Microsoft Bing ad network."

Is it just me, or are these two statements oxymorons?
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One point to note is that intra-brain (and in this case inter-brain) communication is anything but serial.
Let us quickly catch all the pedos on there and then close the leak for good.

Just this once...
In this video, around the 38 minute mark, he shows a video in a slide, and I believe a few "slides" later runs a bridge simulation:

https://vimeo.com/82301919

(I can't watch this with sound right now, so I'm not sure if he mentions using SmallTalk to present here)

But as you can see, you're right: it's not obvious at all. Despite the valid complaints raised in the linked article, the structure imposed by slides is helpful in its simplicity; plus the audience knows how to "read" them, which is also important.

The point however is that he doesn't need special software, SmallTalk is kind of set up to let you do everything PowerPoint does. On top of that he has the ability to integrate scripted stuff to his presentations because, SmallTalk is by definition a live coding environment.

This does require mastery of the language and its Morphic UI Framework[0]. But on the other hand: that is one of the biggest reasons to learn SmallTalk (or Squeak) anyway.

TBH, I'm talking from a purely theoretical perspective. I've tried and failed to dive into Pharo a few times[1]. But its live coding aspects have always fascinated me, and Moose and Mondrian look like pretty interesting tools for dataviz too [2][3][4].

[0] http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/CollectiveNBlueBoo...

[1] http://pharo.org/

[2] https://vimeo.com/97315968

[3] http://www.moosetechnology.org/

[4] http://pharobooks.gforge.inria.fr/PharoByExampleTwo-Eng/late...
Even though they have clauses on their website explaining that your ticket may be resold, it is still not fair.
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> Most actions are blazingly fast compared to a gui text editor. e.g. To delete a whole line just press dd instead of home + shift + end + delete

Ctrl + X works on most 'gui text editors'

> There hasn't been one feature that and IDE has that I used, which can't be achieved in vim (or via a plugin)

How does "find references" work in vim? If i want to find all usages of a method called "getName", does it know how to differentiate between calls on an object of the class I'm searching from, or usages from all classes that have a "getName" method (aka dumb text search)?
there are more such magic of css.
> 1) the cloud is a costed model. you pay a company to look after your stuff, so you dont have to manage it yourself

> 2) the cloud _is_ more expensive, but not compared to hiring your own infrastructure people

If you think "the cloud" means you don't need sysadmins/ops, you're kidding yourself.
Mainframe is scale up vs scale out.

They also aren’t very powerful in reality, just old software that is proven and reliable. Almost all of the non-IBM mainframes are just Xeon boxes these days.

One vendor that I’m familiar with sells a box equivalent to a HP DL580 that would cost about $50-100k for $2-3 million.