skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are lying.

The only winning strategy is if the FBI does investigate, and if there is an actual penalty. Nothing less will impact the long term behavior of AT&T or any other cell company.

Seriously, it is game theory. They are saying "we will stop" because of the presence of the threat. If the threat goes away, then they are going to keep making money/selling you until the threat comes back. Like the boy crying wolf, the villagers (fbi) takes longer to build momentum for the second event than for the first.

The organization is the least common denominator, so its moral capacity is the worst of a 5 year old child. Like raising/disciplining a child, the only way to change their negative behavior is to add an expected penalty to the behavior that is larger than the expected gain, so the risk-reward evaluation they make says "don't do it".
There isn't much fish in the deep sea.

There's a lot of fish (and other animals) in the top four meters, a lot of others in the forty meters below that, and somewhat less in the layer below that, but once you get to kilometers of depth things change. There are many species still, but fewer individuals of each species. Life also slows down — animals down there grow slowly and reproduce late.

I personally don't like to mine down there. We should make our mess where we can get to it, and can clean up any problems. But conflicts with fish aren't likely to be a big problem. Driving some rare species into extinction, perhaps releasing a bunch of contaminants where we can't clean up and don't know where they will flow, yes, both of those, but not conflicts with the rich fisheries near the surface.
Thanks, that's actually a reasonable and balance view. Let's just hope that's what actually gets implemented in the law as well...
That while they are grinding their professional life on Kernel development to barely make ends meet, others with Geocities-level HTML skills are making 10 times more money with Clickfunnels selling crap nobody needs.
I'm quite familiar with it. Compared with, e.g. Rust, it very much feels like an also-ran. And Rust has incredible momentum right now.
If you want to test this hypothesis, try out something like https://zkillboard.com/ that shows people dying in realtime.

Keep in mind that on average there are 20-30k people online at any time. PVP is pretty much all of the Eve game. Not just pure combat but the markets and basically everything else is tied directly into player competition.
Thanks for the article. I'm a big fan of gaming. Recently I found info on https://drakemall.info/truth-about-drakemall/ about cool drakemall game with the element of gamble and decided to give it a try. It's a win-win game where every player can win some cool stuff. Now I'm a regular player and I don't see anything wrong with that.
I wonder how one would structure a big company to keep it more agile. Some thoughts:

- Salaries would be lower, so that people coming for the money wouldn't. There's be more variable pay. This will eliminate the "who cares if the product fails? I get a big paycheque anyway" attitude I've seen in a big company.

- When a product fails, each individual on that team will have something to lose: skin in the game. Maybe he won't get a bonus. Or will get paid less next year. Or gets demoted one level. Or something.

- Each VP would have the flexibility to pay his team the way he wants. The only thing he'll be held accountable for is the results. No salary band for each level, etc.

- He'll also be able to hire people he thinks are better. Maybe people who've been a founder or early employee of a startup more than people who've worked at other big bureaucratic companies.

- Engineering practices won't be centrally enforced, as they're in some big companies. If a team believes that unit testing every class, or code reviews that drag on for weeks, or <insert other practice here> have a low ROI, they'll be able to choose different practices. Maybe each (S)VP would get to define his team's practices.

These are just ideas. Maybe you can come up with better ones.

What would you to do to make a big company more like a startup?
The GDPR is very similar to the old Data Protection Directive, which came into force in 1995. Many member states had done a piss-poor job of implementing and enforcing the DPD, which was largely the motivation for passing the GDPR. Directives have to be transposed into national law by individual member states, while regulations are immediately applicable across the entire Union.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive
This is amazing, I was just wondering why this wasn't a thing a few weeks ago! Can't wait for Swift to be a great general purpose language for me.
There's still quite a few local govt that I've worked with that still use AS/400s / iSeries type stuff for all financials. One just bought a brand new one a year or so ago because it was cheaper to buy a new one than replace it with any other system.

I learned enough to know when to call IBM for support, but with that experience it wouldn't be too difficult to find another job managing one.

I remember 12+ years ago, my old boss bitching about working on an AS/400, then he'd hire his brother (who worked on them for years) to come out to do very simple stuff for quite a high premium.

I just wish they weren't so proprietary, but at the same time, I am glad they are. It's been a love hate relationship.

Now I work with an AIX system. Unix under the hood, but IBM still has a stranglehold on it. Both tanks though.
JavaScript/Gatsby
The problem is manifold--first off, the people leaving are the ones who had decent incomes and paid those high taxes. The influx is mostly all on the low end, meaning minimum wage or thereabouts. Do your own math--NYC wants to give everyone universal health insurance freebies. I don't see how that is even remotely sustainable with a huge population making median or lower than median income. It is already ridiculously expensive to live in NYC and most of the worker-bee underclass live on the margins, have hellish commutes, and basically exist like animals in substandard conditions that are just barely better than wherever it is they came from. It sucks being middle or lower middle class in NY, it is how I grew up and that was decades ago. With all the intervening inflation, it must really suck by now.

In general, things aren't getting better for most inhabitants of the US, citizens and non-citizens alike. We are headed for 3rd World status where there is tiny, rich elite and everyone else is a low-wage debt slave running in place on a hamster wheel.

We have to turn this around or it will be revolution for real--everyone is exhausted. Every stupid policy in the last 30 years has rewarded big business and done harm to middle class people.
> A single first post can be influential, see mimblewimble, bitcoin, linux, special theory of relativity...

Again, I'm not trying to be contrarian because you bring up valid points - save for Theories of Relativity because they were review before being published by someone.

A good example, which was quashed from its inception, was the Copernican Theory of Heliocentrism: Though, very much valid, it was oppressively pushed from gaining ground by "muh religious viewpoint[s]". Even when substantiated by Galileo, this wasn't influential enough to change the status quo - with Galileo living the remainder of his in house arrest.

To lazily quote Nietzsche, in this regard: "All things are subject to interpretation, whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."
The dinosaurs tried to do that by bringing the Chicxulub asteroid into Earth orbit for easy mining. Look how that turned out.
>but I’ve never read through something that wasn’t sound.

Sound in respect to very general interpretations and "common sense". The problem is that general laws can touch topics that are way beyond common sense, the room of interpretation is then just so big that it's like a weapon to take out anybody if you only dig deep enough and frame it as a problem for the common good.
He's not exactly going out of his way to disprove it; any public appearances he makes look heavily scripted and rehearsed, and performed robotically.

And for good reasons; on the one side he's the CEO of one of the biggest companies in the world, and any slip-up he makes will cost the company billions in lost stockmarket value. On the other side he has a family who are at constant risk of abduction and / or murder by people that want ransom or who he or his company have pissed off.
It's unsolicited bulk email, and bulk is generally > 10 or so for most people, > 1 if you are strict.
Scroll of enchant weapon above +6 has a 2/3 chance of vaporizing the weapon and then a 1/N chance of actually increasing the enchantment by +1, so if you can manipulate RNG you can make sure that you always get the no-vaporize +1 result.
NYC’s population keeps growing. It had a peak in the 70’s, but it’s never been larger than right now. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_New_York_(st...
Explaining monads with C#’s null conditional operator
All that and it basically concludes Windows is terrible?

Really? All that just to bash Microsoft?

And X Windows being any part of a conversation about user friendly-ness is ridiculous.
Consent.
If you want to start looking at OS level stuff, if you ever want to do embedded work...

C

You may not need to do new work in it, but the large body of existing stuff is in C and that's not changing for a while.

If you want to move into the mid-stack then Java is pretty good these days, python too.
I don't know WTF you were looking at, but I was just in LV with my Dad looking at property. Many of the brand new Turnberry high rises (they're like 20 - 35 stories) rent for $1/square foot/month and sell for like $100 - $200/square foot. They are absurdly cheap, as most of the other places he looked, and they're modern.

Keep in mind that some have unreasonable asking prices. So I don't know what you were looking at, but the market is falling in LV (my Dad has been seeing price drops over the time period he's been looking). Here is some quick data via Duck Duck Go: https://ballenvegas.com/las-vegas-real-estate-market-report/...
If you buy a home in Miami, you are moron.
This. Many years ago, Eve's awesome internal market and (much less evolved) data tools gave me my first intro to quant finance. I had a lot of fun building a TSP-like solver to find profitable trade routes -- before realizing that the real pros maintained inventory and orders at many stations and made the goods come to them.
I ran across one the other day where the options were yes, and yes worded a little bit differently
https://luckyframework.org/

Lucky uses crystal, you get all the benefits you are used to with rails, i.e. migrations, models views etc.

The main benefit is that crystal is a compiled language and is type safe. So you get to use all your ruby skills and the compiler adds a whole new level of safety to your code.

https://crystal-lang.org/
I'm thinking SpaceX will be the first to send a GPS around Mars, they have some Satellite building experience with Starlink, and they will be the ones with a need...about 2025 for Starship.
I would be happy if they rename Destiny 3 to "Destiny United" or similar, and just allow us to import our old D1 and D2 characters (weapons, armor, etc) into it all at once.

But the constant, repeated trashing of earned stuff (and recently, the massive spike in grind-wasting-time required) turned me off. Warmind + Forsaken was peak Destiny 2, but with Black Armory they're already sliding away from that again.

I don't blame Bungie for it. I get that everyone on Reddit complained there wasn't enough time wasting, so Bungie added a bunch of time wasting, to make Reddit happy. But it's just too much. I can't imagine what Destiny will look like in 6 months if they keep on this path. "Do 100 hours of homework first, and then we'll let you play with the cool thing you just bought".
How is this from 2002 if it talks about events through 2018?
What do you do if you think your voice does not carry any weight while working at a growing startup?
That makes no sense. If you own property anywhere, you have to pay property taxes. Plus you don’t have to own property to claim residence. Fraudulently or not.
Sort of, there is a big push in that direction mostly from the EU.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_aspects_of_hyperlink...
Same experience here. Grammar corrections should only be back out if they create true problems with regards to intent. And if that’s the reason, it ought to be made clear, through discussion, what the problem is.
Candy Japan 2018 Year in Review
This seems like the wrong direction; C++ style projects are either more heavily indirected or make heavier use of compile-time reasoning with the type system. While you can pretend that a structure full of function pointers is a vtable (and the Linux kernel does a lot of this), it's not really the same thing.

Treating C as a sort of "portable assembler" is a lot better, although it runs into UB problems (see DJB on this subject).
My point is that Sears is synonymous with the concept only in some countries. Amazon seems to be established in more countries. In absolute terms, perhaps Sears wasn't as huge as it seemed from your perspective.
There's a "favorite" link you should click instead, located just below the article's title on this very page — it'll add the article to your "favorites" list at: https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=willart4food
AIUI, Swift uses reference counting, not fully-general GC. So, it's really not different from Rust from that POV, other than the fact that Rust can avoid the overhead of atomic refcount updates (or sometimes of reference counting at all) in many cases where Swift requires it. It also seems a bit silly to push for Swift on the backend when excellent and well-supported alternatives exist such as Rust, Go and others.
I finally installed ALE in Vim this summer and have been so happy with it: https://github.com/w0rp/ale. Great even for linters for JS. Always much easier than expected. Shouldn’t have waited so long...
The man who built his own castle
it's dishonest only because you have a certain opinion. which kind of doesn't reflect how honesty and dishonesty are meant to be used to describe things. if you are surprised or disappointed that a big business acts like one, then perhaps you should do some market research.

epic had a fine licensing scheme before with udk which was modernised along with the market. as well as the additional services they now provide. without these services and the quality of games they produce they would have no fortune.
They realise, in the market, you need to keep growing or go bust, so further developments and improvements are made. its not dishonest or unfair - tried running a business lately?
I've heard the Leonardo Divinci would use sheets of blank paper so that he could later re-arrange concepts easily and draw.

I know you'll also need habits to make it work, otherwise, you'll write, and never review. I'm having this trouble myself. I use vim wiki to organize but I never do come back to much of it.

Anyways I think the answer is, in the abstract, more of a process than a tool. Something that you can easily form a habit with and something that allows for creative expression (like writing or drawing, or programming or linking). I'm envisioning a digital book where the pages can be drawings or writing or snippets of runnable code. Easy to rearrange, probably you want to track historical changes, and make connections between things. I don't know of anything that does all of that but I think you could get pretty far with a reminder to review stuff and just sheets of paper.
Will it be cheaper than angus beef? If not I’d call that impossible alright.
if it's more than ~5M I don't want it on my desktop. usually it's not set up anyway to warrant sending it to developers for debugging. (missing symbols, unclean environment, etc) and even if it's less than ~5M, who will send it to where? coredumps are completely useless to do automatically. if the developers expect to get them, use a guardian process or some other error reporting framework.
Detail Guide for React Native Bridge UI Component
It's a growing/exciting/high-momentum language. On a platform with 1.5 billion premium users and a very large developer base, it offers a modern, improved way of building software. That doesn't mean it's exciting to everyone, and it obviously isn't relevant to a Microsoft-shop middle-tier developer, for instance, but that doesn't matter.

The app store "gold rush" has been over for almost a decade. Now it's lots of very profitable little niches, and a lot of companies doing very well for themselves.
They still sell their engine with royalty-free licensees for six to seven figures. Most large productions that use Unreal are opting for that. I assume they still make most of their licensing revenue from these sorts of royalty-free licenses, just as they did a decade ago.
Well a giant block can roll over a wormhole, but only if they spend a year sneaking in materiel first.
It’s showing ~3kills per minute that’s under 1 fight every 55 hours for the average player. Sure, it’s going to spike in a big battles but again those are rare and relative to the player base don’t involve that many people.

PVP is a tiny fraction of gameplay. (Assuming 20k players 3 deaths per minute 1 death and 1 winning player 20000 / 3 / 2 / 60 = 55.6)
The fact that they only know how to tear down and not to build will make it futile.

At best it will create a divergent protectionist demense while doing nothing to aid viability outside the market - and its help inside is dubious. Even outright banning Google and Facebook won't suddenly make Bing and Yahoo the next big thing. At best they will be the postum to the real coffee.
I'm just trying to differentiate between this guy who is sending 30k emails to people that might likely be interested in his business and some viagra seller that sends ten million emails a day to any address he can get his hands on.
Why would movie quotes not be copyright-protected?

They are almost certainly copyright protected, with copyright law provisions granted for certain fair use purposes.
I'm looking for alternatives because Zim is so rarely updated and I'd like more features. It's become very stable though so maybe I shouldn't complain.
We have them in local joints - at a 50% premium. Not gonna take over at that price.
You don't have to write everything yourself, but just saying be critical and think ahead when choosing which libraries to use and how you use them. One could even consider cherry picking (e.g. functions) from other libraries/projects that you are allowed, licensed to do so to keep your codebase as small as possible for various reasons, including security.
Memory management is the major difference between them and most of the higher level stuff. You need a good grasp of who owns what in a program so you can free and close things when they aren't needed (and not before). Less so in C++ these days of course, but definitely in C.

It's worth picking up some basic gdb skills. Use of ddd can help with this. On windows you can use VS for most of this of course. Picking up the basics of valgrind will also help you.

Get comfortable with the preprocessor. Get comfortable with Makefiles. Get comfortable pulling in library headers and binaries as needed.

Errr....

I was (mostly) a C programmer for over a decade, but that's about all I can think of right now!

--edit--

And someone below has just triggered me - FFS use stdint.h!
With all the extortion fraud and crime surrounding it maybe it deserves to be attacked.
> What good programs are written in C that don't have well-structured memory management the way C++ does it with RAII?

MISRA C standards, popular in embedded projects especially automotive, ban the use of memory management altogether.

The whole point of RAII is that the compiler manages it for you as far as it can. This is impossible in C because you have to do it manually. You might end up writing malloc() at the top and free() at the bottom of functions but that's the opposite of RAII.
> I think you've just demonstrated why many people believe fake news. A lot of them are set up to look like regular news sites.

You're reading my argument backwards. I'm not saying you should trust any website that looks reputable. I'm saying you should _distrust_ any site that looks _disreputable_. That's the first step, and it's a huge improvement over trusting everything (which is what most people who buy these fake news sites do).
Every regulation is a trade-off.

> There is a cost to businesses in complying with and implementing regulations, regardless of the size of the business and how good or bad their behaviour has been with respect to the intention of those regulations. You can't deny over-regulation by assuming only the badly-behaving people are burdened by it.

Indeed - the lack of this cost of business was causing (1) reckless and (2) (deeply) unethical behaviour to become rampant [0]. I think it was fair to say it was not acceptable anymore, and I think the GDPR does a good job of formalizing rules of basic common sense about personal data protection. There's really nothing in the GDPR that I can point to that is overbearing, although of course many businesses do implement unnecessarily overbearing UX on top of it.

Processing personal data should be a risk to business, and I think some basic rule of law was warranted for this risk to be clear to business.

I'm not saying there is no cost to regulation. But the cost needs to be proportional to the good it achieves and I think the GDPR does that quite well. Article 13 - in my opinion - clearly will not.

[0]: E.g. in unregulated countries: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17081684
The money that it says I make in my contract has basically been a meaningless number to me most of my life other than a hard number I don't need to calculate when comparing jobs. It is only now that I have a "true" job after graduate where I make enough money to be able to set aside some money before tax.
I think it was there after they was giving it away for a month and still no one wanted to play it.
- Seriously, having lower salary does not make people care more. There are plenty of lazy people who don't care who are not paid maximum possible.

- You will have people unwilling to work on risky projects. Good engineers assigned to troubled projects will be resentful more then normally and leave faster.
What a weird way to visualize this data. A simple histogram or CDF plot would have shown the patterns quite well. This way it's hard to follow the bands and blobs, which seem to be based on completely arbitrary cutoffs. It doesn't even seem to follow its own strange logic, jumping suddenly from just under $100K (1% per blob) to over $100K (8%) in a different part of the diagram. Why would anyone do this?
And then became petroleum! COINCIDENCE?

seriously, whatever the (overstated, imo) danger of moving mass into Earth orbit is, it can be mitigated - and probably a lot more easily than the dangers of deep sea drilling can be.
Well if you send an email to 25 people and 1 one of them actually takes time to read it, click and fill out a signup form, chances are pretty high that more of the other 24 somewhat liked it. Most likely 20 of them didn't even bother to open the email.
Last I checked, most embedded interviews (presumably barring Google etc.) can still be passed if you work through most of K&R (which is quite easy and accessible), know a bit about OS's, and memorize some trivia about locks. Worth reading about some of the deep C nuances as well if your interviewer frequents ##C on freenode.

Linked lists, bitcounting problems (which is covered in the first few chapters of K&R), etc. are all still popular.

The biggest issue you might have is the difference in salary and available positions you're going to see going from FANG Backend Dev at 5 bazillion a year or whatever it is now to 80-120K.