skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, having the mental energy to worry about the packaging the food your kids eat is not the norm unfortunately.

People have too many terrible things in their life to worry about without taking responsibily for this too. Its great for people to recycle but to me its more like being and early tech adopter, it doesnt really work for the masses yet but the lessons learned are invaluable.
Never give chocolate to dogs! That's poisonous. Or to rabbits. Don't let them eat cake either.

Don't be murderously disservant. It's torture for animals to be served with things that fastly kill them. All of those things do.
I usually don't pay attention to names on HN (usually answer blind or don't remember if I talked again to someone), with a few exceptions that have a distinctive style or comment very frequently. I can almost always tell when I'm reading something from you based on two things:

1) It will mention some experimental/research languages from the 60s-90s (if Oberon is mentioned, there's pjmlp for example).

2) It will mention some otherwise niche commercial compilers/IDEs.

I enjoy that you dug into all this history, and remind people of the legacy and innovations of all those research/minor/forgotten languages.

And that you also remind people that paying for software can help sustain some high quality products we don't have as FOSS at all (though it's a bitter pill to swallow when you're a student for example, or a programmer making much less than the US/EU devs somewhere else in the world, not a consultant where the customer pays for your software).

But, personally, I find that you have a tendency to not account for the niche factor, and all it means, talking about some products/languages/implementations as if they're an equally valid and even common choice with the stuff people actually use.

E.g. "Who said Java doesn't do X? There's the commercial JVM/compiler "Foobar" that does X!", yeah, only that has like 1000 users and costs $10K, and 99.999% of the people when they want Java to do X, they want the Java implementation they actually use to do it.

So my comment above was in that spirit...

>Regarding TIOBE, neither Ctrl+F Oracle nor Ctrl+F OpenJDK turn out to find anything, just plain old Java, zero references to implementations.

Missed my point, the "plain old Java" in TIOBE depends on programmers using particular implementations, not the abstract idea of Java or the Java specs. And those implementations are Oracle/OpenJDK by a far far far margin.

If you take the companies programmers that use Oracle/OpenJDK out of the picture, remove their Google searchers, Stack Overflow questions, blog posts, conventions, job postings, etc there wouldn't be any mention of Java on the TIOBE index, even if there would still be 20+ additional implementations.

Same way that if the Python community was reduced to just the PyPy users, Python would be nowhere in TIOBE -- even though TIOBE says "Python" and not "CPython".
Some of them can't be reasonably fixed (doing a path_is_under() check on all ".." traversals would fix most security bugs -- but it would make all path lookups be O(n^2) which is unacceptable) and there is also the risk of yet-unknown attacks.
Someone wants to lower their cdn bill, so they serve static things on cdn, and dynamic things from origin.
> Unless there is a micropayment tip jar

Blendle [1] tried this model. It did not work for them. They're now using an all you can eat model.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blendle
> My brand new Lenovo has no crapware at all. It had McAffee

McAfee is crapware.

> Compared to Samsung who put a non removable Facebook app

adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.X
It is, however, not a value shared across time in those religious and ethnic backgrounds, and anthropology shows this. Religion tends to incorporate ideology, not just produce it. It is entirely reasonable to say that there is a "capitalist work ethic" that finds its fruition in societies with generalized commodity production. The same work ethic was not found in many more isolated countries, or those countries which resisted capital. It was not nearly as strong (and had different motivations) in feudal and slave modes of production.

It is absolutely not some kind of eternal human nature common to us all to value hard work, and it is not even an emergent phenomenon in many cultures - until, as I said, they come under the sway of capital.
These getting started tutorials are also very annoying for IT departments that have developers pushing for containerization und not understanding that it isn't just a few commands when you are responsible for operating them in production. They aren't the ones that have to be on call in the middle of the night and make sure it's all running.
> In your example, you would always need to acquire a file descriptor outside the current chroot first.

The attack is the following:

0. Process is running in a chroot.
1. Process opens a handle to ".".
2. Process chroot()s to a directory underneath ".".
3. Process chdirs to handle made in (1).
4. Process chdirs to ".." a bunch of times.
5. Process chroot()S to "." which is the host "/".

Yes, this requires CAP_SYS_CHROOT (and this is why user namespaces don't work in a chroot -- because breakouts would be trivial). But as I mentioned above there are other VFS-related attacks which are a bit too complicated to get into in a HN comment (they involve RENAME_EXCHANGE and other such fun tricks).

But it doesn't require another process to help you. Seriously, just try it.
Let's make a RTS with Vim shortcuts/commands!
Todd Humphreys and his group at UTexas have been doing some remarkable work in this field:

https://researchers.dellmed.utexas.edu/en/publications/civil...
nobody wants to support weird looking one-liners either
Decision Theory (2018)
> ..which were heavily subsidized, if not outright paid for, by ads.

Ads, yes. Tracking? No. Not remotely similar to what is happening on the Internet right now. The problem isn't advertising; it is tracking. Targeted advertising is just a result of tracking.
It is really a no brainer. I kept my free dropbox account thinking "I'm just going to use this for the stuff I want to share because I hate the OneDrive client and just store photos/videos in OneDrive"

But now the reverse is true and I don't know the last time I used Dropbox.
It doesn't have to be a paint, it could be a film.
"Modern WoW is [...] unchallenging"

Well this is just false.

I would say the mythic raids are the hardest theyve ever been.

Mythic+ offers its own scaling difficulty from easy to hard to impossible.

PvP is as engaging and tough as ever.

Id argue these are all fun too. Maybe you've just moved on. The game has to change overtime.
That’s only at Cineworld theatres. MoviePass was at one point, most theatres in the country.

AMC, the largest theatre chain in the world, has a successful subscription service also limited to its chain.
I've played a few of these; I think I liked the Battle of the Bulge episode best (pacier than the preceding episodes). The first was really slow-moving. A Bridge Too Far was annoying.
I think that the "just nostalgia for your formative years" argument, being fundamentally ad hominem (doesn't mean it's not relevant though!) is a little flawed against actual criticism. I never really played MMOs apart from some F2P titles back in middle school, but I believe that "dumbing down" games is a real thing and detrimental to people playing. When I emerge from a longer playing session of some challenging game where I'm really on my own when it comes to controlling it and winning (I'm thinking Nethack, a game way older than me), I feel... not productive, but intellectually capable. No regrets. Whereas after a session of something where 1) the devs really want me to win and God forbid not feel lost or overwhelmed by anything! 2) there's a clear intention to continually suck time and preferably money, I feel dumber myself, my time wasted and sadder about doing anything else. And of course they make it at least somewhat addictive to make it harder to stop.

What I'm saying is games are a significant part of daily life experience for many people, and it's fair to judge how it shapes them. I'm not saying all games should be hard, just that they should provide honest rather than fake challenge on the appropriate level.
It's time to talk about post-RMS Free Software
http://archive.is/wCZRb
The article never discuss carrots, but milk for newborn/babies. It says that the first versions caused problem because they had the right macronutrient, but not the right micronutrients.

I had the same concern about a 100% diet on Soylent, so I think it makes sense. Anyway, I guess the first versions were cow milk mixed with something, so it must have some micronutrients. But cow milk is optimized for fatty acid shield, not optimized as a whole food, and mixing it may make it even worst. I'd love to see a link to the study.

Anyway, for some reason the author think that micronutrients are a failure case of reductionism, but I think it's a success case.
> people who can barely code a sorting algorithm are hired for jobs with 6 figure salaries

I ask, where does this happen? I'd love to apply to this easy money.
I'm now over 50 years old, a full stack web developer, and I'm married and have two kids, an 8 year old and a 1 year old baby.

I've been in this industry for a while. I started out as a system administrator writing a lot of bash and Perl scripts, taking care of mail servers and DNS, and doing a lot of corporate backups. That job is now called "DevOps", and I've made the transition.

I now work in Python 3, Django, Ruby, JavaScript, Kubernetes, and AWS. I haven't been standing still, and I firmly believe the key to avoiding career stagnation is to be constantly learning and educating yourself and never being satisfied with the status quo.

I've been fortunate, as a remote worker, that I haven't really experienced severe negative consequences (at least not yet...knock on wood) from age discrimination. Yet the shadow of ageism is always there, and I hear stories from friends about incredibly insensitive and cringe-worthy age discrimination.

I'm content with my role as a "grey beard" (I'm actually clean-shaven now, but back in the day I had a huge red UNIX hacker beard). But I'm not happy with the way the tech industry treats older workers. I'm supportive of legal protections for older workers in tech. We are not all dinosaurs. Many of us know, for instance, how to sniff out fads from real forward leaps, and we have deep industry experience that can be leveraged by employers open-minded enough to hire us.
My take is a bit different, and it may explain the phenomenon you've noticed on HN.

TLDR;
I believe a lot of people mistake price discrimination as age discrimination.

Long version:
Let's say you need some code monkey to slap together go or rust services. Well, sure, you get a lot of people applying with 25 years experience, you also get a lot of people applying with 5 years experience.

Now here's the rub, it's highly unlikely that anyone's been coding go or rust services for 20 years in any case. (To be honest, it's even unlikely that anyone's been coding go or rust services for 5.) So any of those applicants, as long as their references check out, will do.

Which salary do I want to pay?

If I have a low level, quasi hardware layer service that I need coded in C or C++? Fine, yes, experience matters. It matters a lot in those instances, and I'd be foolish to hire some kid to do that. But there is less and less of that kind of work. (Flip side being that such work is more and more critical.) The dirty secret of the tech industry however, is that most work is just CRUD equivalent stuff that could be satisfactorily accomplished by any warm bodied techie. So it just makes no sense to pay more for those warm bodies.
"Mutant 59: The Plastic Eater" - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0081RLFEY/ref=dp-kindle-redirect

Science fiction from 1971. The main effect hypothesized was the disintegration of electrical insulation, which destroyed power distribution, communications, and electronics.
Exactly. I don't care about health insurance costs as much as I can about health care costs.
DolphinC App Launching Soon
Software licenses don't really matter if you implement the Go language spec with your own code.

It's only when you want to share code with other implementations that software licensing enters the picture. Gccgo manages to share most of the standard library with the golang.org implementation, so they appear to have the licensing figured out.
At $work I maintain and develop a CMDB and the software that is used to manage it.

All of this sounds like very familiar data entry and maintenance problems.

In general, good data quality can only be achieved by giving the people who enter it some incentives, or make it impossible to enter wrong data (then data can still be missing).

For example, we have automation that configures monitoring and backup for hosts from our CMDB, and this information tends to be well maintained.

Other information that we need e.g. for compliance, but that no automation is tied to, tends to be of much less quality.

The second part is the feedback loop: if you enter some data incorrectly, and weeks or months later somebody complains that it's wrong -- that's too far off to efficiently learn from it.

We as an industry might have expected better from CAs, but we haven't pressured them into building the necessary feedback loops, or indeed given them incentives to provide higher-quality data in the EV certs.
Bad how?
When you are young and childless you get the difficult shift/all nighter/extra travel because the other guys have families. Then when you get older and the kids are gone you get the same screwing over because the other guys have family to feed. It's always something.
I don't agree it's part of the societal contract. I am already grateful to live in a world previous generations built. The wars are fought, the infrastructure is built. I get access to technology previous generations could only dream of. I can do business selling to the whole world wearing underwear sitting in my bedroom even if it's a 3rd world country.

I couldn't have asked for more of previous generations. The last thing I could complain about is people from the generation providing me with all that trying to still work and make money out of it.
Namly is a search engine, but one that you can talk with and it talks back to. It helps you easily find what you are searching for on the open web by being contextually aware.

Me: How do I install a Facebook Pixel on my blog

Fetches results, now user can amend the search in the same context by saying:

Me: I am not a coder

Namly will now fetch results for installing a Facebook pixel without coding skills. But it occasionally converses back to help you narrow the results further.

Namly: What language is your blog in?
Me: PHP
Namly: Do you have CPanel access?
Me: Yes
Namly: Here you go. Showing you the most relevant results.
Namly: All the best with the Facebook pixel setup
Perhaps your questions are more general, but I'll speak for myself.

I don't consider paywalling quality journalistic content socially unacceptable. I consider dropping a link on a free discussion board to a site with a paywall to be beyond obnoxious (but not quite to 'unacceptable.')

I often work for free, but not always. I often pirate software, but not always. I pirate software when I can't get a trial; I've seldom found reason to continue using pirated software and thus don't pay for it. Software with trials (much like paywalled sites with a limited number of free articles each month) let me sample without cost and are indeed more likely to get me to pay.

As I said, I don't seek out paywalled content- I'm not visiting the NYT daily trying to find a way around the paywall so I don't have to pay. I don't subscribe and pay for these things because it's not a part of my life. I get news and opinions and entertainment from other sources, only as sporadically as my curiosity piques, and usually because it's in some public place (TV on in the lobby, newspaper on the security desk, etc.)

Quality journalism does have its price. As does poor quality journalism - they paywall both. But I can't be bothered to throw money at them so that I can learn who actually provides quality content ... because it's not a part of my life, nor do I want it to be. See sibling comments on content quality.
Is it possible to get an EV cert without registering with a specific government database first?
Just in case it's not obvious, your assertion about what older people are like is absolutely textbook ageism.
Because there are a lot of people who really like Macs and there are a lot of people who really like things that aren't Macs and these people do seem to enjoy engaging with/against each other.
> I was around the MMO scene back when Blizzard was developing WoW, and this was the general sentiment around the community even at the time, it was seen as the care-bearest of the all the care-bear MMOs (which is what people at the time called MMOs that weren't hardcore enough for them, particularly in the PvP area). A lot of people that WoW was a step backwards for MMORPGs.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers this. I find it extremely humorous all the people saying WoW is too spoon fed and they want Classic for a "real challenge".

I remember many friends not wanting to touch WoW because of how themepark it was when it came out. They wanted something _more_ challenging that what they had experienced, not less.

I remember MMOs where you printed out a generic map and had to navigate the world like you would in person (well... a person without a gps these days lol)
No. That's a very cynical interpretation of the events. In fact, it was the human instinct to protect those that need protection (elderly, children) that was the driving force.

American Life had a podcast about a Chinese family that hid their elderly matriarch's terminal diagnosis from her. The story is similar in spirit to this one. Whatever you may think of that decision, it was not an evil act. In another podcast, the adults shielded their girlscout troop from the harsh realities of a POW camp similar to 'Life is Beautiful'.

Sometimes, people will decide to carry a burden on behalf of others, and in general that is a deeply admirable quality.
I have to wonder, when people used to think about medicine extending the human lifespan, did they realise it just meant another 10 years of work. What a horrible outcome. If the people who wanted to retire were allowed, then kids wouldn't struggle to find jobs. Even starter jobs are difficult to find. Anecdata, but when I was looking for a starter job the median age of a shop worker was nearly 30. All the higher up jobs being taken just stops the mobility and hurts everyone.
Also this game is fully open source and is a great resource if you are learning something like Blender or want to dev a game / side mod in .js ... https://github.com/0ad/0ad
Only Russia is an alternative but I highly doubt they would do it. They would not go against SA and they have always kept Iran at a distance.
> The last thing I could complain about is people from the generation providing me with all that trying to still work and make money out of it.

But GPs comment was about pensioners who want to retire but cannot. Those who enjoy working - sure.
If that were true, weight loss surgery wouldn’t help. It takes away their ability to eat too much at once by reducing the size of their stomach. - it doesn’t change their insulin levels.

If you watch the show, most of them overeat as a coping mechanism and part of the treatment is psychological help.
It's us driving or flying too much, it's us buying artificial fibre fleeces, or products in plastic packs that formerly came in card or paper, etc. We need to change those.

It's not us choosing to end use of a sustainable packaging to replace with plastic, or having mainly artificial fibres in the clothes stores, or setting policy on inappropriate methods of disposing of plastic. It's not us subsidising oil at the expense of renewables, or approving planning permission on a factory making single use plastic packaging, or a fracking site or refinery. They need to change with far more urgency, as these acts are orders of magnitude larger, and cancel out all acts and change of millions of individuals.
I have a very hard time believing this happened. 26?
In a BBC interview, one of the researchers said that the concentration was quite high, like what you'd find in a contaminated landfill site. I think the research is just starting though, and now that they have an interesting result for high concentrations, they'll start looking at lower ones. So we don't know yet what effect different levels have.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulera9c18F0

Whole song with English Subs.
These ML patents are damaging the progress of AI research, and also the commercial use of this intellectual progress.

One way to attack this would be if researchers outside of Google and Facebook started patenting their discoveries, but then immediately released all rights to it under a license that's valid for anyone who does not sue offensively. That way if Google wanted to sue for infringing use of invention A, they would themselves immediately be infringing on invention B and C. Quickly any large player would be entangled into a web where any offensive lawsuit is impossible. If we had standardized licenses with these clauses, we could stand a chance to stop this.
Recent tech IPOs have been amongst others: Pinterest, Crowdstrike, Zoom, Fiverr, Upwork (as comparison to Fiverr), Uber, Lyft, Medallia, PagerDuty, Tufin, Life360, Cloudflare.

A lot of these companies could be bought by a huge tech company, but they can’t all be aiming for that, can they? Upwork and Fiverr likely never will. Zoom is [a bit] profitable.

For other hyped startups like Airbnb and Palantir, they aren’t angling to get bought out by an FB or Google either.
Merely placing resumes onto lots of piles of other resumes is a losing strategy for job seekers because the cost of doing the same thing for competitors is so low, and as you noted, it’s easy to get lost in the crowd.

As a hiring manager, I’d much rather hire someone whose work I already know or based on a personal recommendation from someone whose opinion I value. Combing through resumes is risky and time consuming. Please (!) help me help you by dragging yourself out of the pool of resumes and into one of the top two categories.
Well that's just silly. If it's the norm, why penalise people who're just doing it the way they think everyone else will.

Better to specify in your job ad that you won't accept CV's with pics.
It's actually a useful skill to have for remaining in some organizations for a long time. Not everybody can sustainably do nothing.
Could you do the popcorn thing the whole time when it was unlimited?
$0.20 a mile in an RV? Fuel alone will be more than that.
In all fairness, are you sure there was no playful sarcasm behind that?
You know, of course, blockchains do not magically solve the garbage-in garbage-out problem.
I find it fascinating how incentives shape human behaviour: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison–industrial_complex
one potential motivation i would personally consider is to support her work. her style feels somewhat refreshing for the content she delivers.

diversity in the approach of tech teaching, i believe, can only be a good thing.

i also think that the alternative method she imploys, with cartoons and colloquial language, helps engage some people who find traditional teaching formats unengaging.
The weird eligibility requirements for the patent bar also encourage this stuff.

Computer scientists are only eligible if they have an undergrad degree from an ABET-accredited program. This rules out people coming from AI powerhouses like CMU and Stanford, as well as Princeton, Yale, etc. Masters and doctoral degrees also don’t count, which is baffling since a PhD involves reading a huge chunk of the literature. The whole process is centered around 1960s “mechanical engineering as the source of all innovation” ideas and seems like it needs a massive update.