skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost every language is less thorny than C because of C's context-sensitivity and the preprocessor. Pascal is a classic language that's useful but easy to compile. Any of Wirth's successor languages are too (occam, etc.). SML is a step up, but still not intractable. Java 1.0 might be fun.
Would anybody be interested for the same thing but for regular currencies? I'm making a new one at https://pointsproject.org and could make local ones
definition provided by OP, qed:

> The value of a currency is the effort required to obtain it.
I've had the same experience. There's a bright line separating people who want to learn from those who want to offload the hard work of learning onto someone else.

The latter almost always ask simple questions serially - it's obvious they're looking for a sequence of steps to follow instead of sussing out the problem on their own. They want to use your problem solving abilities instead of developing and using their own.

The former usually ask pointed and precise questions - and after they get an answer they usually go away. I say this not to be anti-social (even though I am) but to simply note they go quiet because they're actually working the problem.
Is 2600Meetings still active ? I wanted to attend one of the meetings.
I want this but offline/ self hosted, any ideas?
What about websites that are on second-level domains? E.g. amazon.co.uk

Would example.amazon.co.uk then not be able to set HSTS for amazon.co.uk?
They say "Cross-platform support: Excel add-ins run in Office for Windows, Mac, iOS, and Office Online"
I have to recommend Vox Populi for Civ5.

https://www.reddit.com/r/civvoxpopuli/

Community Patch Project & Community Balance Patch. Still under regular development, a lot of (if not all) base game issues are ironed out. After playing this I couldn't force myself to endure Civ6 and its many flaws.
That's certainly a possibility! There's also a slightly different reality, people continue to mine while it's still profitable.

While there are certain places in the world where the cost of electricity currently makes mining unprofitable, this is not true w.r.t the majority.

Sure, people who are afraid of the rollercoaster might sell, but the big fish will gladly eat them up, and at a sizeable markdown. In all honesty, it's hard to imagine that people would stray away from making passive income while still feasible.
I would say C will never be as safe as Rust. Just accept it, C is crap. It's just not cool.
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>It has been shown time and time again that black Americans are disproportionately arrested and sentenced.

And you also conveniently ignore that blacks disproportionately commit crimes, especially violent crimes.

Such discussions cannot be productive until we are willing to admit to both sides of the problem.

I do not deny that there are inequities in our justice system. However, disproportionate police presence in low income communities is not a symptom of racist targeting. The blackness of these individuals is incidental to the fact that low income communities have higher rates of all types of crime, especially violent offenses, and in any other context it would be obviously prudent to assign additional police forces to target high crime areas.

But this discussion has far surpassed the boundaries of what is acceptable on HN, and I will not comment in this thread further.
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China is terrible.
Their government is evil.
If you're there, get out.
If not, stay out.
'Nuff said.
LOL, I just thought it was typo. I guess I didn't get the memo
on the new sarcasm tags. It's actually a very fun comment then. Cheers.
What if it’s not a massive overhead? What if the tooling is as simple as setting up a database nowadays, and the performance is a known/acceptable trade off?

Surely you can see there are some advantages of blockchain based tech then?
Civ 3 feels like the right version with the level of detail vs fun.
Right, his job is not to 'satisfy the mayor', but his job is to try to accomplish his goal. The poster is saying you are more likely to accomplish your actual goal if you don't start by being antagonistic, which is certainly true.
This is great. It perfectly fits the scale of the space that I can afford to buy in San Francisco. Now if I can just shrink my body we will be set.
Here they are. Yeah, I agree with you, a big piece of the enjoyment was writing the code, and then being surprised by what happened while exploring the image space. You definitely don't have as much love for the surprises in someone else's program, not knowing what it's expected to do or how it works. At least one year I was working on this I spent more time using it than coding it, and it was pretty educational and productive to be more of a user.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLmtvIt6ihA

http://dahart.com/paper/hart_evomusart_2007_paper.pdf

http://dahart.com/paper/hart_evomusart_2007_slides.pdf

BTW, Karl Sims read this paper and recommended it for Siggraph, but a few other reviewers were fairly opposed to generative art papers. C'est la vie.
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> the law was pretty explicit that Chinese citizens can't fly under their passport

This is false. There were rumors in May 2017 that some airports in China started to reject passports for Chinese citizens per some new internal regulations, so that is probably what was initially reported. As is always, the follow-up was never reported again: top aviation administration and public security department later clarified the law still allows using passports. The real reason for the few occasions of passport bans was because those few airports didn't have networked passports readers to verify it.
Hm fair point. BTW I'd just like to say thank you for Crafting Interpreters, been going through it (in c#) and enjoying it immensely.
Ask HN: Former programmer/consultant, out of tech for awhile: re-entry strategy?
Hi there! I seek input on re-entry strategies for someone who has been out of "the industry" for awhile and is thinking of getting back into the tech realm.

I've supported myself fine for the past 10+ years via my own small business (not tech-related), but my segment is going away, so it's part-time. I'm at a point where I could just sell my SV property and "retire" out of state, but I still want to be part of something.

General background:

- B.S. in CompSci/BusAdmin, plus an A.S., from state schools.

- Developer in the mainframe world first, then jumped to the UNIX/C/RDBMS world, doing everything from Advanced Support to Consulting to Development.

- After having several consecutive jobs offshored, I left the industry, developing my own (non-tech, mostly) business in an unrelated field.

- My coding skillset (primarily C plus some obsolete proprietary tools) is outdated, but I bring value in other ways. I do write well; I wrote/edited/reviewed lots of docs/specs in my old roles. I'm great at recognizing edge cases in specs and docs and am great at breaking things.

Anyway, enough with the history. Here are my specific questions:

1) What are suitable resume formats/strategies for somebody with a huge time gap in their "work history"? I'd feel funny writing, "well, from Date A to Date B I did this, and from Date B to Date C I did that... then from Date N until now I went off and created an unrelated, nontechnical business and haven't anything in the way of skillset buzzwords to show for it."

2) What roles would be best suited to someone with my skills and gaps? (I should say that although I've been in various technical lead roles, I've avoided being in personnel management -- I don't know how to motivate people who aren't intrinsically motivated on their own.)

3) To those who have been in a similar boat: any advice?

Thanks for any constructive input; email in profile.
I don’t have a citation, just personal experience of knowing people who were exactly in this situation. You don’t lose PRC citizenship when losing your hukou, you still qualify for a chinese passport. The policy in the 90s was that you had to turn in your ID card/hukou when going abroad to study and work, and there was no easy way to get it back. I don’t think that is true today, but it’s a reason why many older Chinese in the tech industry have citizenship but no hukou.

You can fly internally on a chinese passport. Again, because not all chinese citizens have or qualify for ID cards.
You could but the downsides are:
1/ It doesn't have the ideal sensors (stereo cameras, or other depth sensor), so you'd have limited functionality
2/ Most people wouldn't want to run their iPhone consistently day after day.
Is AP2 supposed to handle oncoming traffic safely (SAE level 3 I think)?
[citation needed]. The IRS has asked repeatedly to introduce return-free filing, only to be blocked by Congress after their paymasters at Intuit and H&R Block voiced discontent with the possibility of their revenue stream being shut off.
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Given that I am planning to use Uber/Lyft for the commute - this seems great. My monthly parking costs are already $325 per month and given that my one-way commute using uber costs 20 - 25 this is what I need to stop driving.

So how do I get an invite for this ?
Civ Revolution is the "streamlined" version of the game for consoles. It's a good introduction to the series as a whole and a joy to play in shorter sessions. (I haven't tried its followup)

Of the mainline series, 1-4 is a straightforward progression that doesn't rock the boat too much. Civ1 is still fairly easy to get into but has a lot of crude, unbalanced or easily exploitable elements(e.g. the AI has a random chance of building a Wonder of the World every turn instead of having to actually allocate a city's production to the project over many turns like the player). Civ2 has fewer exploits and more polished 90's-era graphics, but now the number of units and cities explodes into a very tedious, micromanagement heavy late game - the degenerate strategy of Civ2 is called "smallpox" because it involves spamming a lot of small cities across the map. Civ3 added a lot of additional balancing and finetuning and graphical flair, and Civ4 does more-or-less the same. I have trouble remembering Civ3 after Civ4, really. But the basic feeling remains consistent: Most Civ strategy is focused around optimizing fine details across your entire empire towards a focused direction, so that you survive now and gradually get ahead of the AI players later. And the late game slows down because a lot more is going on in each turn. It gets hard to keep track of things.

The games after that make more drastic changes. They still feel like Civilization, but with major changes to the cities, board and combat components that differ from the "Empire" model that had been employed since the first game. The ways in which you have to make tradeoffs of "now" versus "later" or the kinds of capabilities to emphasize are more varied. And they have higher system requirements - Civ5 at release was quite heavyweight and buggy, and Civ6 has gone similarly. But these are things that everyone expects will get smoothed out with time. With the newer Civ games, it's more a case of the designs just being different versus being definitely better, with emphasis placed on different things.
You're thinking of the REAL ID. It's controversial if it counts as "national ID" or not but it's mostly linking state databases and settings a standard for security.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REAL_ID_Act
They've been buying their own debt with their central bank, aggressively debasing their standard of living to try to relieve the extreme debt pressure & interest that has been consuming nearly half their tax revenue.

The central bank buys up the government's outstanding debt at zero interest, removing external holdings of debt, while punishing the Yen and anyone holding Yen assets in the process. For the government it becomes a low cost approach to cancelling out debt. For the people of Japan, it becomes a stealth inflation attack on their standard of living. The choices are slim though, they already have high taxes, and the national savings rate has dropped from high to nearly zero (formerly the people of Japan funded the big debt binge with the high savings rate).

It's the next level up from what the Fed was doing with QE. The Fed - supposedly - will sell a lot of its assets back into the market. The central bank of Japan plans to just buy up its own debt and cancel it perpetually. The Bank of Japan owns something like 43% of the Japanese Government's debt at this point.

You can almost guarantee the US Government & Fed will do the same thing in the next ~15 years, as US public debt hits $30+ trillion. If the US wanted to push its debt interest costs toward zero over time, it could have the Fed start buying up all the public debt. The cost would be debasement of the USD (the dollar would fall, commodities would soar, the US standard of living would fall, real inflation would spike). If you want a functioning market for your debt, you have to pay investor's rate of desired interest. You can massage that to some degree, which the Fed does, to try to keep interest costs under control. In Japan's case, they've gone full QE, entirely dropping the pretense of a market for their debt.
It certainly feels like that, but I doubt this is the direct result of modern propaganda teams. What I think is more likely is the propagandists were so successful decades ago that their whataboutist memes got so integrated into the American/English discourse that many people repeat them unthinkingly.
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It is assumed when you have more $$$ you are more logical I think.
Why do you use infura and not your own node?
example.amazon.co.uk and amazon.co.uk are not matching domains as defined in the RFC[1] (they are not congruent).

The includeSubDomains directive[2] allows the HSTS policy set for amazon.co.uk to apply to its subdomain example.amazon.co.uk, but not vice versa.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6797#section-8.2

[2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6797#page-16
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Great research, I wish you luck!

One of the things the mayor said interested me:

> If someone's blocking [a bike lane] for thirty seconds while they get their groceries or drop their kid off, I don't think they should get a ticket for that.

Do you agree? And do you have any data on how much of the blocking going on is A) the "thirty second dropoff", B) driving in the lane, and C) stopping and parking for any period of time?

Lastly, I'll add that as a walker in NYC (no car, no bike), I have no fear of being struck by cars. I fear bikes. I rarely see bikes obey traffic laws at all, and have frequently come 1-2 feed away from being side-swiped while a bicycle blows through a red light. Since you're so passionate about this I'm sure you follow traffic laws, but maybe you'll be inspired to take a look at bike behavior too!
>2. How does a dining area and free food affect loneliness? Will it make it worse by highlighting things, or will it encourage everyone to eat in the [company provided] dining area, sparking new relationships? If both, what's the distribution?

We have a dining area that no one uses due to fear of being seen as lazy.
I also know Adrian from 2600 meetings, starting in about 1992. I have invited him into my home and had him stay a while on various occasions.

He’d always been comfortable in our friendship.

I find your summary distasteful and not accurate. You should have enough respect for life to not take the opportunity to trash someone on their death announcement.
I think you're asking about the part after the comma, so here is the part from the comment that started this thread that makes me think so:

> Why? Because it's cleaner. It means there are no abandoned copies of my codebase sitting around forever forgotten in random Github accounts. I set up a private repo because I want to control access to my code. That's why a private repo is private.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16600864
You can't fix violations at this rate with enforcement...

You're better of re-thinking the system so it's not violated as much. Putting up a barrier, and making wide pits that only busses can cross..
> It also would be a harder boundary to draw than you might think

As an example my 2010 Toyota has an automatic parking system[0], which connects the backup camera, infotainment system (for display and input), steering control and parking sensors.

[0] Which to be honest is basically pointless. It works, but takes a lot longer to setup and use than just parking yourself.
And yet the average speed of a well-flowing road will invariably be near the speed limit. If your mode of locomotion can't reach the road's ceiling, it shouldn't be on that road.
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> I don't know specifically in Manning's case, but yes, in general in the US, knowledge that a crime is about to be, is being, or has been committed can make you an accomplice and expose you to criminal liability.

This is incorrect. Being an accomplice generally requires active counsel or assistance to a crime before it happens (the usual “accomplice before the fact”, or “aiding and abetting”) or active concealment (which goes by a number of terms, including “accomplice after the fact”.).

There are a few special cases where particular people have special duties to report specific crimes, but that is not the norm in general.
Does being rejected by cliques at lunch make your experience worse than be rejected by cliques in other activities at work? Would a non-cafeteria workplace, where cliques went outside to eat, or brown-bagged in the break area, or sat each at their own desk, felt less painful?
6 months ago at my last company they used office and we used office 365 to collaboratively edit some word docs and we had a problem where the docs kept getting locked and others couldn't edit them. this doesn't happen with google docs. if you have a big collaborative doc its a problem, or was 6 months ago. Did it get fixed?
Are they cliques or rather groups of friends?
For those interested in learning more about simulation games and the grognards that play them, I strongly recommend "Playing at the World" by Jon Peterson. It's everything you ever wanted to know about the origins and theory of simulation games, especially D&D, but were afraid to ask.

Jimmy Maher's thoughts about "experientialist" games (linked in TFA) definitely echo Peterson. Worth a read for anyone interested in games.
I too use to go to the 2600 meets at the Embarcadero in SF and go trashing.
>then the world managed to collectively decide that those should be illegal tools of war.

There is good reason to believe that biochem would only have hurt western interests if it was researched. Countries with nukes don't need weapons like this to wage war.
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Time for consequences 2 years later when our system finally processes your return and you've long since forgotten where you put that receipt for an $8 taxi ride.

One of the biggest frustrations of modern life is knowing how efficient and easy things could be if these systems were designed better...and then realizing that nothing will be done about it because entrenched interests hold all the power in American government.
It would seem more practical to put these people in a "prison" that's more of a dormitory with a chicken wire fence than one with walls, barbed wire and bars.
I think the biggest thing open source does is allow you to choose the level of investment you have in it. As someone who works in IT, I don't generally just grab an open source project and deploy it at work: It becomes a burden on me, not the developer, when things aren't working right. I need things which are supported.

But that's a choice I make. I could choose to use an open source system, and we could hire a developer to make it do what we need rather than paying the company. Maybe I can just use a free open source solution for something if it's temporary or not critical and not a big deal if something happens.

Many open source products have commercial tiers and support offerings, and I can choose those if needbe, but I'm not forced to. Really, the main difference here is that I get to choose my risk with open source, whereas a closed source product will have a set cost.
For now we're using Infura for speed of development. We plan to use our own node in the near future.
Please don't confuse frequency of hearing a message with the frequency of belief in that message in a population. Sure, there are a tiny fraction of bike riders who don't care about rules and happily flaunt them and defend their 'rights' to do so, but they are far overrepresented in the dialog. Most people who ride bikes follow the rules pretty closely, and don't go home at night posting on city message boards about how it's their right to break the law.
I don't know. How much does it cost to run things on the blockchain. Someone must be paying. How much does it cost you to spin up on MySQL instance, replicated in all AWS datacenters?
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Google Leads in mentions of voice products but lags Amazon in sales of device
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Whatever you think the West is doing is not even close to this. The Chinese government owns and runs more than 50% of the economy and 100% of the industries they deem essential.

Thank goodness. However, what you're pointing out is that the difference is not because the principles are different. The difference is primarily that in the west, the people who would do this, don't yet have 100% coverage over society.
You have all these 8-bit computers limited to fixed palettes of 8 or 16 colors (except the Atari, MSX2 stuff) at the time. Then you have the Macintosh with its monochrome flat framebuffer, or the IBM with what, four to 16 colors? The Amiga chipset was originally designed as a video game system. Its predecessors were really the Atari 8-bit computer family and the Atari 2600. It had a bunch of coprocessors to accelerate 2D graphics, offloading the CPU for other crap while the graphics chipset handled sprites, video memory copying and merging, and even a simple "line shader" that could update graphics registers on a line-per-line basis independent of the CPU. Add similarly powerful audio hardware with four channels of arbitrary sample playback with per-channel frequency and volume independent of the sample data, and a pre-emptively multitasking operating system in many ways ahead of its time and you have a hell of a computer that can do things with the CPU running cold (the boing ball demo on the Amiga was famously implemented using the blitter hardware to draw the checkered ball and changing the palette once per frame to "rotate" it).

Of course, these features became increasingly irrelevant as CPUs got cheaper and faster and could perform the graphics duties of the Aliga adequately in software, and the it didn't keep up. Particularly devastating IMO is that the Amiga uses a bit-plane model for graphics. Essentially, this means that graphics screen is composed of several single-bit per pixel planes that are interleaved to index a palette. This is great for memory consumptions because if you don't need 4 bit graphics for a particular screen, you can use two or three planes. It's awful when it comes to render raycasting columns because it makes each pixel in a comumn based renderer take several writes and reads. So a popular opinion is that Doom killed the Amiga. IMO it was just the final nail in the coffin.

I got myself an Amiga 1200 with an accelerator rather late, trading it for a Pentium PC when those went out of fashion, just out of interest. It's a great machine and I still sometimes use it for games, basic internet duties like IRC and... Doom!
Edwin.ai - the largest ESL market in the world is China, where Facebook is banned, yet you require Facebook to log in? Oops!
So they keep copy of code after it's deleted?