skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The LAMP stack was effectively fucking magic and basically the whole reason many of us are in this field right now. Specifically, PHP/MySQL mostly "just worked" and dealt with most of the stupid stuff for you. Yes, the performance was kinda meh sometimes (but back then a normal page load had a dozen assets, not hundreds) and not-strict typing, behind-the-scenes shenanigans, and other magic made for some interesting bugs... but overall, it worked, and it was easy enough for a middle schooler to pick up.

I switched tracks from webdev to systems pretty quick but sometimes I look at what's going on in webdev today and frankly it's pretty disturbing. The sheer amount of complexity to render some HTML and JS is mind-boggling. And the worst part is it's not even that much better than it was back in the LAMP days. Pages still take forever to load, browser compat is still crap, and heavy sites are still gross. The only difference is the amount of complexity, gatekeeping, and sheer busywork that these new frameworks/languages/systems bring in.

Or maybe I'm just the old man yelling at the clouds.
The science institutions hiring integrity inspectors to vet their papers
There are no ads on Stadia nor have they announced that there would be. You currently have to pay full price for their games, I don't see how you can just shove ads into them.

Maybe in the future if they offer a subscription but right now your comment is just guessing at the future intent of a newly launched product.
The only indictment that there is evidence for is from 2017 under the Trump DoJ, 5 years after he fled justice to the embassy. Assange made up a story about a fictional sealed indictment when he fled justice. He just did such a poor job fleeing justice that he wound up with a sealed indictment for criminal behavior he engaged in after he'd moved into the embassy.
>It's also not a good sign that they're not talking about avoiding wifi for your connection the way Steam does.

At the very least, they send an email full of tips to everyone that buys one, where the top-most/first block mentions a wired connection makes a big difference over wireless.

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/4XsvdDN.png
The book contains many references, but it's dense. I thought admin overhead tended to go to 15% because of ACA provisions of 85% spending requirement on direct care? I would likely have to do a fair bit of digging to compare how the scope is defined exactly vs an ACA definition. Makes for something of a perverse incentive if the companies want/need to route additional absolute dollars into their service depts - but I don't know how much it actually gets bent in that direction.
My experience is that “talent” in a superstar city jumps around between major companies every year or three in search of better salary. There is an expectation then that each new hire is immediately put to work and depending on your level, you are coding almost 100% of the time.

I’ve now lived in a much smaller city for the past 5 years. My company hires both senior developers tired of the mercenary treadmill as well as many recent grads that stay for longer than three years since we invest in their career growth and provide much more mentorship. Also the biking distance commute to work are a big selling point.

I loved living in a big city in my 20s but don’t regret moving away in my 30s. my quality of life and financial freedom is immeasurably improved. This regularly surprises my acquaintances that stayed.
Using a plethora of disconnected, non-build targets in a Makefile to provide a "make <command>" language sometimes seems like such an anti-pattern. Those commands just want to be simple scripts, right?

Why does that pattern persist? I believe it is for these psycho-technical reasons.

1. The current directory "." is usually not in PATH for security reasons. But make ignores that; it reads a Makefile from the current directory.

The psychological hypothesis here is that people somehow like typing

make bundle
make yarn
make db-reset

compared to the no-Makefile alternative scripts:

./bundle
./yarn
./db-reset

Something always feels off about running a program as ./name.

2. If there are any shared make variables between the non-build utility steps like "make bundle" and actual build steps, then it's easier for those utility steps to be in the Makefile so they can interpolate the make variables. The scripted alternative would be to have shell variables in some "vars.sh" file that is sourced by all the commands. But then somehow the Makefile would have to pick those up also in some clean way, probably requiring a ./make wrapper:

#!/bin/sh
. ./vars.sh
# propagated needed subset of vars to make
make FOO="$FOO" BAR="$BAR" "$@"

So I think these are some of the main sources of the "pressure" for various project-related automated tasks to go into the Makefile.

Another source of the pressure is that the "<command> <subcommand>" pattern is present elsewhere, like in version control tools "quilt push", "git blame", ...

It has the technical advantage of namespacing. If you have a make target called "ls", then "make ls" doesn't clash in any way with /bin/ls.
Actually, Lithuanian is the most archaic language in Europe, which is what makes it so good.
Nitpick but:

>that Apache server isn't going to install and start itself

Yeah it is, you just check the "web server" box during the Debian installation.
> it is easy for a language to lose grammatical rules, but very hard to gain them.

Do you have any citations for this? As far as I know (though I'm not an expert), academic linguists disagree.

https://www.reddit.com/r/asklinguistics/comments/abiphn/has_...

Romance languages have gained inflections that Latin didn't have (from the above link: the future tense conjugations are an innovation in the Romance languages that didn't exist in Latin).

Funnily enough given your example, Chinese languages have gained morphology too: Mandarin has the aspect-marking suffix 了, whereas Classical Chinese didn't.

We can't reconstruct the history of language any further back than Proto-Indo-European, so there's no way to know whether it developed from some less-inflected language.
This is called narrative journalism[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative_journalism
Rugged individualism on an island with 2000 people per square kilometer...
Okay, but that's a little different. Stadia, you have to buy the game retail.

Ps now (I have a ps4), 10 bucks a month to play how many different games when the hell ever I want. It totally works out for me because I normally don't care about most games after 10 hours of gameplay. I don't want to buy a game for $60 bucks and not actually have it. Generally, I don't buy a game until it's down to like $30, because I don't have to play anything immediately. At 32, I'm over the whole "ER MY GOD, I have to play this game right meow!"
Blue Babies, Big Egos, and the Wild World of Early Open Heart Surgery
If it was a traditional company I'd agree, but it's a not-for-profit that also runs Wikipedia so I see it as a donation toward that. WT.social is just a perk.
> The reason is that the grammar is so developed that the word order is essentially arbitrary

It isn't really arbitrary. There is a standard order. You can use non-standard orders, but that changes the emphasis of the sentence. If you don't want to emphasise some part of the sentence, you stick to the standard order. If you are going to emphasise some part of the sentence, that emphasis ought to make sense in the context. (Imagine if I wrote in English "The CAT sat on the mat" – my emphasis on the word "cat" needs to make sense in the broader context in which I am using that sentence, or else I'm using the language in an eccentric way.)

(An exception to this is poetry, where non-standard word order can be used for reasons of metre rather than emphasis alone. But, having somewhat different rules for poetry isn't unique to Latin, the same is true for many other languages, English included.)
Somewhere out there, a biotech R&D company has developed an effective penis enlargement treatment. Unfortunately they have been having some trouble reaching potential customers.
This is a kind of interesting product in that arena: https://thehelm.com/

It's sort of a managed server that lives in your home. I'm not sure whether that's actually better than having your data out in the cloud or whether it's more on the security theater end of the spectrum, but it is interesting.
The number of people involved in the authentication would have to exceed the other party's ability to bribe them. Corrupt practices could extend to both companies involved in a deal.
GMail being at fault isn't going to make up for a missed invitation (or RSVP) to a special event, or not getting a note of congratulations on an accomplishment, or not getting a message of condolences.

Assigning blame is done after the fact to make up for a mistake.

Just avoid the mistake.
> all sorts of things tracking your usage and access to everything lends even further credence to the big brother thing.

As a user, shouldn't you be happy if the usage / access to everything by Facebook developers is carefully monitored? That should significantly reduce the risk that some insider improperly accesses any of your data.
see

https://blog.getpaint.net/2007/12/04/freeware-authors-beware...

Someone tried to claim it as their own by repackaging it and packaging up some plugins... He obviously got annoyed and figured he doesn't want to make it so easy to make your own version.

It adds up for me, just kind of unfortunate, I'd like to think it still would've been better off open, but it's his creation and his time and effort so if that's what he wants to do, I'm ok with it.
Can you update and tell us what happened ?
Not necessarily to save time, the first one was because Captain Marvel was a late entry and they had to shoehorn her into the plot somehow. All her appearances in that movie had an alternate and more cohesive way It could have went, such as Stark and Nebula finishing the rudimentary repairs they were seen doing and limping home on their own power.

Time travel was also mentioned in the Ant-Man and the Wasp stinger, so it didn't completely come out of nowhere. Stark didn't invent it, he invented a navigation system.
I'm currently going down this route myself. I fill 6-10 notebooks a year and am wondering if there is a better way. For me it's specifically how can I take what I write and then make that editable text so I don't have to duplicate work.

My current test is an iPad Pro and Apple pencil with GoodNotes. It's not inexpensive and I didn't buy the tablet specifically for this reason, but it's a test.

It's good for some things: meetings notes, proposal work, things I need to send to other people.

It is not a replacement for pen and paper. For me I like fountain pens and paper. So I still have one or two notebooks that I'm using for daily schedule, etc.
The trend seems to be the IDE and development environment will move to the cloud for larger companies. This is what Facebook and Google are already doing. It makes ramp up easier, environments more consistent and tooling more predictable. Also you can spin up multiple development branches of the same codebase without having to switch branches or stash changes (a big deal when you have one giant monorepo). And probably harder to leak any IP.
Well... why is it necessary that we can teach a human to do something in order to teach a machine to do it?
About the only big thing I'd probably change would be YAML or TOML for the configurations over hjson.

Seems like some pragmatic tool selection... I am curious how their turn around time was compared to something like MonoGame, Unity or other rapid development options.

Overall, very cool to see this list and the openness.
I’ve seen that obsessed accountant type, and I’ve been that obsessed accountant perusing public filings

There are lots of discrepancies that dont really need the fireworks

Self dealing, contracts awarded, etc

If they get paid its fine.

Jeff David should have been prosecuted in 2026 on event of non-payment from his unraveled scheme. If everyone felt they were made whole but noticed the external entities then it should have just garnered a slow upward headnod from the current executives saying “What a G, my G, ya feel”
I was an Atom holdout for a while - it felt disingenuous the way Microsoft kind of swept in and usurped their idea.

But man, eventually I caved. VSCode is a marvel. It performs better than most native IDEs I've used, despite being Electron-based. It's the good parts of Visual Studio without any of the legacy baggage. Its package ecosystem is just as vibrant as Atom's, with solid support for nearly every language under the sun, but at the same time its built-in features and attention to detail in the user experience are Apple-level (really, Apple-of-ten-years-ago-level). I still can't believe I get to use it for free.
Panic don't shutdown the entire program, only panics on the main goroutine. If your HTTP servers panics it will just kill the goroutine handling the request.
> being inflected marks marks Latin as a primitive language, not a sophisticated one.

This doesn't sound right to me. Primitive and sophisticated isn't really how modern linguistics understands languages (for like at least like half or a full century). There's no straight path of progress for all languages. Note how it can also be reversed by a proponent (or native speaker) of an inflected language: English is so crude and primitive with its robotic Tarzan-like chaining of bare words, as opposed to the sophisticated, properly inflected forms that perfectly blend into the sentence according to their roles. (Which by the way would also be bogus.)

> The reason is that it is easy for a language to lose grammatical rules, but very hard to gain them.

Word order is also "grammatical rules", as it includes syntax too, not just morphology. English has tons of grammatical rules despite having very simple morphology.

Also, in Hungarian many suffixes were originally postpositions but became fused with the words and took on vowel harmony. E.g. "utu rea" (road + onto) from the first surviving written Hungarian text became útra in modern Hungarian, with the -ra/-re suffix meaning "onto".
They realise that it's a terrible name though, right?

WikiSocial might've done, I guess that's taken. But this is too long, unless it's supposed to be pronounced "woot-social"?
> Lithuanian is the most archaic language in Europe

By what metric?

> which is what makes it so good

By what metric?
Try VS Code Remote Development extension now. It is already working as great as native and you will not miss TRAMP anymore.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscod...
That's more of an indictment of how bad Apple computers are at handling games.
The reason the presumption of innocence is important is because it becomes way too easy to create false evidence (or highlight circumstantial evidence) in order to sway public opinion.

We should have a high threshold for evidence in any arena or we are otherwise way way too susceptible to manipulation.

...or perhaps, more generally - when an opposing entity exists that could conceivably manufacture poor quality evidence, then that should raise the bar of evidence required.
Vacation is the only time I game. Wonder how Stadia plays on the plane.
iPad, Apple Pencil, Paper-like screen protector & Notability
The same can be asked about the claimed requirement that students graduate as docile cogs in a pliant social machine. Like, what are the stats for that so we can assess which one is the more accurate description of the purpose of schools?
Is that one Apple App Store (iOS) compatible?
You can use mbasic.facebook.com to see an low-bandwith version of Facebook. From there you can view and reply to messages without having to install the Messenger app.
All of these automatically fly themselves to destruction. So we are really only talking about a few defect ones.

Once we are launch 1000s of satellites we are defiantly going to have servicing satellites out there. Refueling, orbital maneuvers and so on.

Even in the worst case, decades is still not that crazy. The locations are known and can be avoid.

This is a problem, but really not any kind of gigantic issue that should stop progress.
Most users of Ethereum are FinCEN money transmitters. Where do we go from here?
I have a friend who lived in San Jose who just wrote the forecast on his whiteboard and left it there, because it never changed. It was funny, because he came from Minnesota where the weather is never the same two days in a row.
Great to see you guys moving forward. Great service, clear pricing, and great people.
Author here, happy for any feedback.

I'll own up to misleading-and-possibly-clickbait title, I just gave up trying to think of anything better without revealing the conclusion.
I've given out hundreds and hundreds of them. Almost any time I fill in an email address on a form, I'll tag it so I know where spammers and other miscreants get their addresses from. As have a number of friends I host mail for. Swapping to a mail provider that doesn't support them would be a giant pain for all concerned.
The obliviousness of what was facing him after learning the FBI was on to him is mind blowing. He thought he could pay it all back and be fine? His wife sticking by him this whole time is also amazing to me. Why? He's a crook. He's ruined her and their children's life. He doesn't deserve them.
There is a huge difference between 1000 euros and 0 if you're selling into a country from elsewhere.

The threshold is high enough to not impact incidental foreign sellers but low enough that it's not worth the costs of creating new sales entities to evade VAT compliance.
I want to like Stadia but I can't, not in its current form.

I'm a bit weary to shell out $60 for a game that I may or may not have access to a few years from now when the service is shut down or something.

Now, if the Stadia license came with a Steam key for the same price, that would be really different. I would have a fallback to play games I bought in a "traditional" way.
The law is based on measurement of course. It's our lack of reaction to the non-following of the law that's the perception issue.
I run Linux and LineageOS because I care about controlling my computers and data. But I don't care about games.

They're games. They're not important. They're not art worth preserving. It's just a little entertainment. A risk of "losing" a game that I would probably not play again anyway is a perfectly reasonable trade-off for a hassle free gaming experience.
Maybe think about calling your grandma more often, before it's too late.
> "unproductive to the effort of solving the SO ticket."

That's an odd thing to object to. I have no interest in resolving the SO ticket. Google doesn't pay me to fix their problems and nor am I inclined to donate my labor to a for-profit corporation.
English doesn't have an accusative or dative case. There are a few different names for the two different cases of English pronouns; "nominative" (I/he/she) vs. "oblique" (me/him/her) and "subjective" vs. "objective" are both reasonably common.

From Wikipedia:

> An objective case is marked on the English personal pronouns and as such serves the role of the accusative and dative cases that other Indo-European languages employ.
That won't fix the issue with recording calls, though.
I had a similar experience at one point. A team put energy into building a recommendation system, and were able to demonstrate that the "Recommended for you" content performed better than all other content editorial. After getting challenged a bit, though, turns anything performs better when put under the header "Recommended for you."
How's Portuguese any different in that regard from other Romance languages like Spanish or French?
Wow, 85m, that'd be fun to climb.
Clickbait, but _good_ clickbait :) I do so love good deep technical blog posts that dig into why something works a certain way, and the title is a legit statement based on the initial cause. Thanks for writing this!
Possibly submitted and subsequently deleted.
So, basically, they're rebelling against Facebook's "real name" initiative that completely changed the internet.

I never thought using your real name on the internet was going to catch on. I was terribly mistaken.
I run my own mail server for receiving, but send through a commercial provider (Fastmail). I also use user-sub@domain style email addresses. If I have occasionally have to send email from those addresses, I edit the From line in the Fastmail web interface or my email client.

I don't have a problem setting up a full email server, but I don't want to babysit it for just one person using it. I have too many real life obligations these days to try and fix the mess if a problem would arise.
I don't believe it will happen, but if it did, I think cities and outlying areas would return to a division according to desired excitement level, instead of who can afford what.
Getting a team to publish their results (after patenting) is also a good way to get them to do these sorts of things. Significance, baselines, and other things are asked for by reviewers for the better journals and conferences.
Let me be more clear: I suspect that regardless of whether Belloc believed it, the assertion is either false or meaningless. The correct way to judge whether I'm write or Belloc is involves pinning down what we mean in a scientific way.
You know the term "opinionated software"? IMAP is an opinionated protocol, designed for clients and servers that work exactly the same way that Mark Crispin's PINE and UW-IMAPd did. Disagree with Crispin about anything, and the protocol will fight you every step of the way.

Mind you, I think PINE may have been the greatest email program ever written, but Crispin was not the easiest person to get along with.
I'd wager the whole 'google has all your health records' scare right now increases the number a bit right now.
Hell, Rodney McKay did it by accident.
I had that experience after attending an overly loud concert a couple months ago - had a much easier time hearing the cacophony of noise in the cafe than I did the person I was supposed to be having lunch with. Got a hearing test and learned I have better than average hearing for a person in his 30s, but there's no baseline since I hadn't been tested as an adult before.

Still haven't figured out if the concert gave me tinnitus, or if the fright of it has made me hyperaware of aural sensations and less tolerant of what I considered "normal" before.
This is true! But when I last talked with them, I couldn't figure out a disaster recovery plan. They had no way for me to back up my users' mail aside from IMAP syncing. Which means I'd have to know my users' passwords. Which seemed slightly more ridiculous than just continuing to host my own mail.
There are plenty of remote employment opportunities that are stable career paths. So I don't think it's fair to say that as soon as remote work is a possibility the job will be sent overseas.

I think the early 2000s burned a lot of companies for trying to cheap out on dev costs by offshoring - offshoring is a valid choice in some situations and will probably become more and more competitive as time goes on... but there still is quite a lot of value in hiring out of the four year uni grad pool.
KGO-TV's San Francisco “Sutro Cam”, 11/25/1997 09:45AM
English merged accusative and dative centuries ago as it dropped most other cases, and this merged almost-a-case is generally called the "objective case" by English grammarians. Though the more accurate from the point of view of Latin grammarians name for the case is that English has an "oblique case".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_case
I wonder if this is how an AI would respond when it meets an exception

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