skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They charge you by code tokens typed. Forces you to write succinct code. Win win!
Trust me, getting VC money isn't magically easier at small scales. There's a reason most businesses die under-capitalized.
Some Australians care but all of these horrific laws are getting passed with bipartisan support.
How can SEO service bring success to a business?
It's now beam me a loan, Scotty (1999)
Lambda is the antithesis of frictionless development, most of your life is invested in figuring out the Lambda way to do things, just like App Engine before it

"I just need to run this function every 10 minutes"

.. (3 blog posts later)

.. (1 lunch break later)

.. (5 Git commits across 3 repos containing a mix of CloudFormation, CloudWatch and Terraform, 3 new IAM policies and 12 S3 buckets with completely unmemorable names)

.. 5pm, oh shit, I haven't actually written the function yet
I’m admittedly biased (early Parse employee, but not there by shutdown). Which part was a “fiasco”? As far as turndowns go I thought it was pretty damned fair: one year notice, a live data migration pipeline to self-hosted mongo, and an open source server implementation with a free license. Facebook even paid employees to continue working on the OSS components for a while till the community became so abusive that they moved elsewhere. The only thing I think could have been smoother is if Parse appIds were indicated by subdomain rather than header, which would have allowed switching over without client code changes and minimal cost to Facebook.

And does Dark even have the same sort of risk? It says your code runs on Google Cloud, which sounds like you get to walk away with your own backend if they shut down. Parse considered AWS an implementation detail, not a feature.
I remember doing this in PHP in 2007.

Seriously, if you quint, it sounds like "cPanel + integrated PHP editor for cloud era".
Basically, no. AWS is flexible enough to let you set it up in any complicated way you want, meaning it gives you plenty of rope to hang yourself with. It's arguably much easier to audit a random Linux box for security than an AWS account.
So the app should ask for a permission to a reasonable set of domains, and when you're installing it, you should get a clearly laid out permissions / privacy risk management worksheet to look at and agree to.
Your most recent article, http://www.loper-os.org/?p=3440 is tagged bitcoin, and in fact if I click on the tag, I see an awful lot of articles written in the last few months http://www.loper-os.org/?cat=42
You are right. Reported this submission as spam.

It is a closed invite-only product.

They try to mislead saying that the only downside is learning a new language. Every good programmer loves to learn a new language. The actual, real downside is license/lock-in/ownership.

...Their website is hosted on Medium, not gitlab/hub. I rest my case.
[The year is 2003, Facebook was then just a small student project]

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Just ask

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don't know why.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks

https://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-im...
85k? I thought it was 50k.
> your IT guys are going to have to deal with users complaining anyway

Except that IT can say "Complain to Slack or complain to your manager that we shouldn't use Slack. Don't complain to us."

This is remarkably valuable--doubly so if your management is stupid and regards IT as a cost center instead of as something useful.

> chat is pretty straightforward and it's not that hard to set up a IRC or Matrix server and direct users to download and configure a client.

Is that true? Take Single-Sign On, for example. That's remarkably non-trivial for IRC. I'm skeptical it's any easier for Matrix/Slack/etc.
That is it. They published a book which the article mentions. It was reported in USA Today in 2000. OP made it sound like it was still some nefarious conspiracy.

This is the guy to figure it out: https://www.armscontrol.org/about/daryl_kimball

That's not the resume of someone not able to get the word out.
I said this last time I read about it and I'll say it again because all I keep reading are puff-pieces with nothing to back it up, it sounds like a convoluted version of Geocities, funded by a seed round from Russ Hanneman.
For small things you don’t want to think about or tiny/solo teams, I could see a use case for this. But the product has to be really, __really__, fantastic for bigger groups to consider the control trade off.

I’m not bashing on the product, I’m heavily apprehensive of the model for the situations I’m involved in. I can say with certainty it’d never make its way into my current place of employment for several reasons.
Looks like the best option is the EU radio if you're in Australia. However, that won't support Telstra's 3G, which might cut you out of voice calls. If you have the option of provider, go Optus, that will give you most of the 3G and 4G bands they have on the EU Radio. US radio only supports Telstra 3G and Vodafone 4G, and nothing else.
> So surveill and/or eavesdrop and/or ambush. Nice.
It's common courtesy or some kind of "office ettiquette" that if Alice wants something from Bob, but doesn't want to interrupt, she waits until there is an opportunity. Returning from a break is an obvious cue.
Okay good. I was feeling so confused because I could have sworn I saw them posting like a year ago about paying a few early startups to dogfood the Dark platform as it was being developed.
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however, I find jq not so friendly piping its output to other programs.
Is there a code sample I can read? Seems like this will all hinge on this new language.
I've played with some early betas of Dark and I must say being deployless may make a good headline, but there are many more-exciting features. There's visual programming, a concise OCaml-style language, a unique pub-sub mechanism baked right in, and integrated database support. It's a really fresh approach.
What do you think is a mistake Tesla is currently making?

I may agree with you in part, but overall your tone is just so overwhelmingly positive it makes me curious where you have dissonance?
iTunes does not always work reliably, from direct personal experience.

And the fact that Apple's entire system uses a proprietary storage scheme and doesn't support standard protocols other than for a few specific cases like photos clearly is a decision that Apple has deliberately made.
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Better code sharing through monorepos? [video]
I would't say that security is a quite sector. Just google IT security innovation and you will see a lot of movements.
I think that this is correct. The barrier to entry for producing software is very low because in many cases, coding does not require any capital. It should be a highly competitive industry with many alternatives to choose from, but it's not; this is because of VCs.

VCs use their capital and connections to create moats around their investments to make their industry unprofitable for all competitors.
Yep, would also really like a single signout example
You cannot use 1GB to encode more than 1GB of information. A 1GB zip file does not encode 1TB of information. Sure, you might have a 1GB zip file that expands to 1TB of data but not information. That is because the 1TB of data has lots of redundancy and inefficiency in how the data is represented that allows the high level of compression.
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Temporary panicked flashback to having to learn Z (the formal notation) at university.
haha, I've been burned by app engine too - well put.
I am doubtful. My view of the future of software engineering is that developers will be better equipped to handle _more_ complexity, not _less_. And we all know what happens when there's black boxes. Not to mention you're locked in to a particular editor and language.

Imagine this, but with any editor or language of your liking, and the option to go deeper into the machine if things go awry. Wait, isn't that how things are right now?

> Infrastructure is time consuming and difficult, especially as services start to scale.

It doesn't have to be, and it's particularly easy when you're starting out. Most of the time it's just premature optimization. When services start to scale, maybe you can invest a little more effort into this area, too, so why use Dark?
It's a generational thing as well. New programmers adopt whatever is fashionable when they start out and move on from there. Ten years ago that would be Ruby and quite a few Ruby developers ended up in e.g. the Elixir and Rust communities. Five years ago that would have been Javascript. Today that would be Typescript and lots of Javascript developers would have progressed to that naturally (as well as Go, Rust, and a few other languages).

This is significant because the number of programmers world wide doubles every five years (https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2014/06/20/MyLawn.html). So whomever was doing perl 20-25 years ago is outnumbered 16-32 x by everyone else in the business before you even consider the vast numbers of former perl developers that threw in the towel a long time ago. This means most new projects will bias to whatever skills are available cheaply (i.e. whatever is popular) and many of the relatively few older developers end up adapting to that.

I actually know a couple of companies with some active perl code bases. Wouldn't touch it myself since I was an early Java adopter (now using Kotlin) but they seem to manage. Though I imagine finding more developers is going to be tough. Languages never die but they do tend to become shadows of their former glory. I don't think anyone would suggest using Cobol for a new project at this point in time. It's been considered a legacy language for as long as I've been programming (since the late eighties). It's dead as door nail; never coming back. But you can still make good money maintaining code written nearly half a century ago.
Q: Are you capable of defeating this test?

A: No.

The answer does not convey any information whatsoever.
The founders are well-enough connected to get this sorta funding...
Whats wrong with a bidding model for the bulk electricity market?
What does this refer to?
Occasionally these really old cards feature in draft formats on Magic Online and it’s very satisfying to completely wreck the uninitiated.
It's simple if you know people with deep pockets -- and there was this mantra of invest in the team for awhile; not sure if that's still really a thing.
There's an Underground Economy Selling Links from The New York Times, BBC, CNN
The constraints put on self-driving cars already show that we clearly expect machines to exceed human performances.

We don't want an AI to show all the bias of humans, we mostly don't care about the emotions, the struggle to remember things, the unreliability of memory, imperfect communication, survival instinct, bodily needs.

Our brain evolved to be able to survive, reproduce, be part of a fitter group. None of these parts of the loss function is useful in most AI problems.

We don't ask a robot to drive a forklift like humans do, we want it to be faster (better, stronger) and more precise. To not tire, to not make mistakes, to not bore, to not wonder about the meaning of life.

The more AI advance and the more we understand the human brain, the clearer it seems (to me at least) that the fact that we are able of rational thought at all is accidental to other specialties that our brain has (we struggle to add small numbers, but we have accelerated circuits to read emotions, pose, injuries).

We may want to learn a bit more about the way our social brain works, but for all the rational things, I suspect the way our brain works is pretty hacky.
> Extensions should be able to have their permissions limited by domain (e.g. to customize YouTube or Reddit) at a minimum.

They already can: extension authors can specify that their extension only operates on specific URL's.

The problem is that most extensions are designed to work on all web sites, so you have to choose between security and convenience.

Most users pick the latter and trust the former.

This model works pretty well overall since harmful extensions never take long before getting flagged by the community.
Wait, did you work at DreamHost?!
Haha come now. Bonesaw gets a pass because he buys a lot of American weaponry to use in his genocide against Yemen, ands because he does Israel's bidding in Iran.

Iran as a nation has never harmed anybody I know. I cannot say the same about Israel, the Israel genocide force murdered an American friend of mine about 15 years ago, running her over with a bulldozer when protesting in Gaza.

Saudi Arabia funded and executed 9/11. An old manager of mine died in 9/11, therefore, Saudi Arabia has murdered somebody I know, on Saudi soil.

Iran has never harmed anybody on US soil. The bombing of that marine barracks? That's war, war on foreign soil, where America does not belong.

In return, America has murdered tens of thousands of Iranians, has starved them through embargoes, and the CIA helped remove a democratically elected, liberal democrat with a terrorist who wanted to impose Shariah law. Thanks to us, the entire nation has suffered for 40 years .. and will keep suffering as long as AIPAC deems it so.
So it's a lame version of dot net / Azure?
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Agree with the rest... every other solution is FOSS. A closed proprietary tool has a big mountain to climb.

> Every good programmer loves to learn a new language.

Er... no. I am still seeing new ways to leverage C after 40 years on it. Creating a new language is the ultimate self-indulgence.
Great point. The tools are there to make life easy for developers. Even after using these tools, PM need to do checkins with team then I think something is very wrong in terms how PM is handling the team.
The flow/concept is simple indeed. But with saml the devil is really in the details and they created way too many details by offering way to many options in the spec.
This spooked me. I thought I recognized the name, and then I remembered she had recently contacted me out of the blue on meetup.com to ask if I was interested in doing some urban exploration. I said yes, but we never got around to picking a day. Now I'm kind of glad we didn't!
Indian billionaire commits suicide as he could not turn his company profitable
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That's a very handy trick I'll have to remember.
For a technical intro to SAML, the best place to start is the original OASIS Technical Summary doc at http://docs.oasis-open.org/security/saml/Post2.0/sstc-saml-t... . It's still very much relevant and it doesn't gloss over important details (profiles as a central concept, profiles other than web browser SSO [such as single logout], multiple bindings in a profile, etc)
They really need a good bottom-up example showing what Dark is and why it is different from ssh-ing into a production server and fiddle with some php-scripts.

They write about feature flags, non-text code and a fully integrated environment. So what they are trying to do is different however these ideas has been around for some time (Smalltalk/Self/some databases) but have been not been adapted by the industry of practical software development.

Probably because the implementation was never really good enough.
Reminds me of wisp: https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-119/srfi-119.html
Ten open source tech you should take a look at before 2020
> The engineers would give me highly technical explanation I couldn’t understand.

That's the problem right there. How do you expect to manage a project you don't understand?

I don't think I will ever agree with handing the project to a non technical person instead of the team lead.
Nope, it was a COBRA administration company.
Are you truly proposing doing nothing for critical domains like flight safety and food safety ? How many thousands of people will need to die before you change your position ? Are you even aware of the history of the formation of agencies like the FAA and FDA ? The FAA was formed after the Grand Canyon mid-air collision at the end of a series of air accidents. The FDA was formed after a truck-load of food adulteration and deaths. Please read up on Wikipedia on the conditions that resulted in their creation. You might possibly be enlightened.
Because "race" is a toxic badthink word. This isn't about science, and what you call this group of hominids is not that important anyways.
The genome is not a code. It is more like a musical score. You only know how the music sounds if you have all the instruments playing.
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Feedback from a reader that found himself a user shortly thereafter:
- That's one hell of a funnel. I found it rather irresistible to explore the grid, and eventually to make an account.

- I am very impressed with the concept and the relative performance for a zoomable code/viz canvas.

- I was unable to open a link in VScode or to use the Open Cell pallet action. "An unknown error has occured, please report." I'm dutifully reporting it. The web link prompted an extension install, then on subsequent links prompted for open permission then failed silently.

- It would have been cooler if the population of Australia updated while I was watching the odometer.

- I disabled ghostery after it was blocking a bunch of network requests.

- The console threw a ton of 404 errors, but only for the same resources:
https://dc8bsfv4udm20.cloudfront.net/cell_images/551e4016-14...
https://rur.bigcrunch.io/cell_images/551e4016-1452-415f-85bd...

- I could not delete a space I made. It didn't send a network request.

- I was trying to delete a space in the first place because the one I made was too small to try any nifty templates.

- I really wanted middle mouse to pan around. In fact I wanted anything that can pan besides clicking the arrows.

- I perused the docs. I really wanted to just modify a link to make an array link to an additional cell, but I couldn't find out about anything but creating a link. I still haven't been able to figure that one out.

- It takes about 40 seconds for data to start really flowing. Until then I can't navigate to my space, and I'm prompted to let BigCrunch take care of making one for me. After the data starts rendering then I can navigate to my space. It would be nice if that returned sooner. Also nice if there was a visual indication that data is on the way.

You're really on to something here!
The tag thing is pretty neat, and it works with anything readline-based.
For those outside India, this is a person who's IT company (Mindtree) was forcefully taken over earlier this year for approximately $500M. However, his other project Cafe Coffee Day (India's own Starbucks) is still burning cash and was facing pressure from its PE partners and income tax department et cetera as mentioned by Mr. VG in his last letter.
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Not sure if my comment seemed otherwise, but I am overwhelmingly pro Tesla.
>> The mobile baseband will most likely use ROM loaded firmware

> this is another vulnerability

That's why there's a hardware kill switch on it.
well no it indeed had IPC with WebWorkers, however it is also very difficult to work with: data sharing between scripts is a complete clusterfuck. I had found my code, it is written in Vue/Vuex and I will attempt to convert it to using nuxt and upload it github maybe.
Their take on Haskell reminds me of "Lisp doesn't look any deader than usual to me." I'm a little surprised PureScript didn't come up at all; that has intriguing potential to interop with Javascript and now also Go.
"Homo sapiens" is Latin for "wise man," but there were many Hominin species who possessed comparative culture, art, and intelligence. Neanderthals actually had larger brains compared to modern humans[0]. There are many theories on why Neanderthals became extinct[1]; my favorite is that we simply outbred them because of our sex appeal. What is Latin for "sexy human?"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal#Anatomy

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal_extinction
Radical approach - they flip the whole thing upside down. The biggest challange is not new language or ide per-se imho - but detachment from git, this has implications ie. it seems open-source hostile (you can't use it for open-source code, or am I wrong?); what about libraries?

Technically very interesting.

Practically I'm not sure it'll fly, at any complexity project development means in big part playing around locally before pushing ideas up. On dark platform the code seems to be in compiled = deployed state only, or am I wrong? What about documentation, how is testing done, benchmarking, integration tests, if the system goes crazy, is there a way to actually stop it? What about recovery from backups? Reverting to past history code? After reverting is the new code still available so it can be fixed before next deployment?

The scope they're claiming is gigantic, they must be taking compromises somewhere. There's no way is all unicorns and rainbows.

However if they manage to execute it well, the potential is huge - they can create marketplace for libraries/services, they can become appstore+github+aws in one for execution-ready solutions (libraries, services etc), which could be huge.

Wolfram does something similar. Salesforce as well. Dark seems similar but for webdev, it's like serverless/lambda v10.
Nuclear energy is not a free but it kills a lot less the coal, so closing nuclear plants and using coal plants like Germany did is stupid(the decision was pure political and forced by the Green party, ironic)
Isn't it mostly all off the shelf hardware and software though?

I think they're going to discover that a lot of people say they want security but when push comes to shove when they're buying a phone they first and foremost want a good phone. If you were really bothered about security and privacy on a phone you'd just use tracking blockers, a disposable (google) account, not log into facebook, turn off location, use tor, or existing encrypted chat software to talk to other people who are also using disposable (ie not their main email accounts to sign up to google) accounts etc. But do all this on a regular phone. I'd always been concerned about timely security updates, software that's been written by people with no experience with security and who have no reputation to damage by cutting corners.
I believe `ps2pdf` is just a front end script for Ghostscript. Even for `ps2pdf` there are a bunch of options settable, most notably are the DPI settings [1]. The point is that I believe it works for images and/or scalar graphics.

As the PS format was designed for printing [2], my guess is that it selects a DPI value suitable for printing. I can't seem to find the source code to back this up though. (Ghostscript has the simple web front-end that doesn't lend itself very well for viewing code in browser [3].)

[1] https://www.biu.ac.il/os_site/documentation/gs/Ps2pdf.htm

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript

[3] http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=summary
> Norway, Singapore, Brunei, and Saudi Arabia

Tiny or oil wealthy or both tiny and oil wealthy. Not great examples for your point.
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How is loading a value from memory when an appropriate opcode comes in a dynamic property? Mill seems to be doing fine with their compiler and since Itanium compilers have gotten a lot smarter.