skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without putting too fine a point on it; if their way of life was being preserved in a large first-world community it might be a reason for government get involved or declaring a national emergency or somesuch. It isn't a very impressive standard.

People can go and live in a very basic way if they like; that is on them. There are communities that do it here and there. It just doesn't look like the Tuvaluvians have made that choice, and we know the vast majority of people prefer having luxury and comfort. Tuvaluvians are probably a lot like everyone else in the world in that they want to improve their living standard by an order of magnitude rather than keep on living with basically nothing on some island somewhere.

It is easy to romanticise subsistence lifestyles but very few people voluntarily choose them when they see an alternative. The consensus position is wealth and infrastructure is the right choice. It is reasonable to assume they also want this and that their actions are generally aligned to improving their position rather than holding steady.
Thats cool. Thanks
Yep. That's where they upload everything.
I am not really familiar with the economic situation of Wikipedia but, if their goal is to be able to keep running for years to come I think it makes a lot of sense to keep asking for donations.

If Wikipedia had no money on hand and were always at the mercy of the organizations and government programs that they receive grants from, that would be a bad situation I think.

You really do need to have some runway, whether you are a commercial business or a non-profit.

Perhaps Wikipedia is asking for too much, but I would really rather see them ask for too much than too little. Wikipedia is a very important project that is doing a great deal of good simply by continuing to exist as a free and open encyclopedia that anyone can contribute to.
Centrifugal Machine Guns
Well, you'd have to separate accidental incompetence from what the specific level can truly handle.

In terms of numbers of people, many US states are bigger than entire European countries. And American counties and cities aren't really smaller in terms of people than they used to be throughout history (or are they) or what we have in other countries in general.
2012 Book Archive (Of Flat World Publishing's Book Catalogue)
"biohackers"... "Less technical people"
I recommend you take a look at Roblox Studio [1]. My 10yo started out by building simple 3D Obby (obstacle course) games in a manner of minutes with no initial programming. Trough that initial interest he will now modify and even create Lua scripts to perform more complex game actions. The Lua scripting engine + API is simple but at the same time powerful and allows for very complex games.

There is also a quite active Roblox Developer forum [2], and good documentation of their API [3].

I don't push him much, and allow him to learn Lua / programming in gneral at his own pace. The game aspect definitely keeps his interest that I'm not so sure he would otherwise have.

[1] https://roblox.com/create
[2] https://devforum.roblox.com
[3] https://developer.roblox.com

Disclaimer: I work for Roblox on the Studio team now. This is largely due to my positive experience with Roblox Studio well before I even considered working for the company.
They're most likely deleting it. There's not much point in them hosting all that data when it costs money to do so.
Beijing orders state offices to replace foreign PCS and software
In the market. Let it crash. In 5 years you will be back to where you were or in the green.
great points

> If your goal is to build a profitable business not focused on exponential growth or VC-sized returns, then luck plays a smaller role.

a bit of background. I started Android development at 12 and published a few apps on the app stores. Tasted the fun of building one's own business and earning money by myself. I have always dreamed of building the next big thing.

I think now I'm slowly realising that building the next big thing is really difficult. It might not even be something I'm aiming for any more now that have better insights on the workings of exponential growth. The stress and luck involved reminded me of this college situation I'm in.

> I recommend reading "Fooled By Randomess"

gonna give this a read. thanks!
This. Been doing it for years. I have some other personal accounts and business accounts too but I aggressively track who is leaking/selling/sharing data and blacklist them.
This is such horseshit. "Imagined doom"? Ok, sure, let's all pretend that sea levels rising wouldn't be catastrophic for island nations.

"Extort money"? Yeah, sure. Asking countries most responsible for the destruction of the ecosystem to be held responsible and pay damages is an attempt to extort money?
The OP isn't the person who created the groups he's discussing. He's part of the effort trying to archive the groups.
A single butterfly can also trigger a hurricane. Therefore we must eliminate the Karner Blue[1] to save the planet.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karner_blue
Copyrighted article is tossed into a language converter and tossed back.

And you get a new article.

With a few improvements to the story like guy -> cow

Might be a GAN, but seems to high tech
The point of the Model T was to be mass produced and to be affordable for the average working class American household. No Tesla model meets those criteria.
Technical people make poor choices about using hosted services and not having an appropriate backup, too. People are, by and large, short-sighted.
Some things I noticed about google re-captcha already. It can't tell the difference between a 3x3 matrix of a house and a bus, it doesn't know the difference between scooters and motorcycles, it has a margin of error on fire hydrants/usually the last image that it asks you to identify a fire hydrant in and fades out will not bring up another fire hydrant so you can click verify early.
https://pantheon.world/explore/rankings?show=people&occupati...
Template metaprogramming makes things harder, but even in the most boring C++ hello world program, you have someone misusing a bit-shift operator for IO.

Concepts would presumably enforce some kind of thematic relationship between different overloads for the same group of functions and operators. (At least that's how we are doing it in Haskell with typeclasses. But we have a more forgiving syntax that allows us to make new operators.)
Why Rust?
I’ve always thought that the author of that phrase showed a fundamental misunderstanding of what ought to make a country prosperous. He seems to think it’s surprising that Australia’s success has come from the bottom up (millions of individuals acting in accordance with basically-sensible cultural norms) rather than top down (imposed by the will of some great leader).

But societal success always comes from the bottom up, and great cultures come from evolution, not intelligent design.

May the reins of political power in our country continue to exist in the hands of uncreative intellectual non-entities and suburban solicitors. When Great Men with Big Ideas get into power it always seems to result in a disaster.
What irks me is that the every time someone finds an evolutionary reason for something, it is just as easy to find an evolutionary reason to explain the opposite of it, which makes the explanation useless.

For example, "men evolved to be promiscuous because having many children gave the biggest chance at surviving offspring" makes sense until you realize "men evolved to be faithful because nurturing their children gave them the biggest chance at surviving offspring" makes just as much sense.

When your theory can explain everything, it can explain nothing.
Alright! Didn’t think you would take it in a positive way but I guess I was wrong. Gladly.

According to your post you have moved at least 6 times in the past 12 years and you had problems with the landlord every time.

Assuming that the houses and the landlord were not the same or somewhat related the only common denominator is you.

Having said that, I see a few possibilities:

1) You are somehow at fault for the problems you reported. Rats could come because of dirt. Mold can also develop if you have a place that is not cleaned or cared as it should.

2) You could be a bad judge of character. Somehow you managed to fail to perceive clues that could tell you that maybe the landlord or the property wouldn’t be great.

3) You are super unlucky

I’m not saying it is your fault. Only that it could be.

If it is, that’s a good thing because you can fix that.

If it’s not your fault than you should buy a rabbit’s foot.
In response to Prism, they immediately started encrypting all internal traffic. They were not willing participants and were likely furious to discover they were infiltrated.
The US healthcare system is not a free market. The pricing system--critical to any free market--is broken when it comes to healthcare. Customers are unable to shop on price (even for non-emergency care).. but also the AMA limits the number of doctors; and hospitals require a certificate of need (giving competitors a veto over new businesses), for example.

It isn't just that we spend more... if that was the only issue, then everything would be fine because we would be obtaining what we paid for.

But since it's not an efficient free market... the fact that we spend more only increases the urgency that we reform the system... since those inefficiencies become so huge in a system that accounts for such a big portion of GDP.

So while RCA's analysis might be perfectly correct... unless he also proves that the healthcare market is at least as efficient as a free market system... then we still need to reform it.
'dang dislikes people making new accounts for every comment. You've made like three in this thread alone. Why?
Same reason we don't sanction the Saudis - we want (and have built our economy around) what they're selling.
Not sure what the "British equivalent of a judge" is other than, well, a judge.

Court claims are expensive. This ultimately would've been heard in the High Court and the claimant would want decent counsel to represent him as well as a team of solicitors and other legal professionals to research and handle the correspondence — that's the bulk of the fees.

Then there's the cost of the application itself. The fee for starting a case is 5% of the amount for claims worth between £10,000 and £200,000.

In this case, that's almost £10,000 gone immediately on the court fee. For one case. There's also a court fee for the initial hearing and the return hearing for the freezing order.

Not sure how £12k was spent on the first case—article doesn't mention which court and suggests the High Court was only involved in the second case, but I suspect that isn't true.
This would be super useful with MIDI Export.
AI Dungeon 2 costing over $10k/day to run on GCS/Colab
That depends on your relative definition of "widespread." Was globalization widespread in 1919 compared to 1819? Absolutely.

But the globalization of our collective economies in 2019 is dramatically higher than it was in 1919.

Also, how was the US able to fund the massive buildup of arms and the Manhattan Project...which ultimately led to Pax Americana and MAD? By taxing the massive wealth generated by private enterprise.

Warfare is down even between nations who wouldn't fall under the definition of MAD (no nuclear weapons programs). How do you explain that if not for the aligned incentives created by a global economy?
> Please, don't judge what others (dis)like and make sweeping generalizations.

It's still adware/spyware if you're not running a LTSC/LTSB build of the software. I'll judge it all I like: Windows 10 is what we historically considered to be malware.
The incredible bravery, to me, comes from the fact that you can't know for sure your sacrifice will ultimately mean anything or be noticed by anyone.
FWIW, I read aspaceman's orginal post as speculation rather than an implicit claim of insider knowledge. I do see how it could be taken the other way.
If there's a way to share it, I'd actually love this one.
I don't agree.

When that paper was written, "Google" referred to an academic research project, not a company. Page and Brin indicate that because other search engines were developed at corporations, they were "largely a black art" and advertising oriented.

Since Google has become a company, and is no longer a research project in the academic realm, it has become a black art and advertising oriented, just as Page and Brin said happened to search engines developed at corporations.
René Auberjonois, actor who starred in M*A*S*H*, Star Trek and Benson, dies
The NNTP protocol was never written for archival purposes. These clients downloads either all headers ... or all data. That would never work to consult an archive.

It'd be like having patrons choose a book from a library by delivering every last book to their house and have them pick one. It's not going to work for any large archive.

> A future where access to valuable information such as this is of necessity mediated through corporations, Google or otherwise, is not one I am looking forward to.

Necessity ? You still have all access to books you had before. Google is providing more and better information about books, and is in fact NOT providing access to the books, except for excerpts.
I'm not sure how you get "right winger" out of someone who doesn't believe in identity politics.

I'm basically a socialist christian who voted for Trump (but will go Bernie next time), but I'm not into equality of outcome between social segments. Am I supposed to be right wing because I don't subscribe to liberal attempts at equality of outcome (between socially delineated groups)?
America's Missile That Uses Sword Blades Instead of Explosives Has Struck Again
It's amazing that they thought Sergey Brin of all people to be moral. If that cheater was Google's conscience, no wonder Google's at where it's at.
> In 2001, Garcia-Molina was invited to join the board of directors of Oracle Corporation, a position he held until his death. He forged personal and professional bonds with many leaders of the database company, including founder and chairman Larry Ellison, who offered this statement: “We will all miss his contributions. I will miss Hector’s pleasant and persuasive way of discussing complex ideas. Hector’s gentle and considerate personal style captured my enduring respect and affection.”

still trying to reconcile this with "Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison."
Because this way you can't use their emails against them
I've been doing Advent of Code in Zig. It's a far cry from "real world" programming, but still a decent way to get a feel for the language.
I would say experience is the best we have.
>We don't lament that everyday conversation is ephemeral.

Linguists definitely do.
Cyanobacteria evolved to use the sunlight as energy, but that doesn't imply that other species could easily evolve that ability.
Maybe because, for whatever reason, one cries a lot more than the other?
A turning complete query language sounds like a recipe for DoS attacks.
In 2010, there was an alternative in reddit, and people left digg. What's the alternative to reddit now? There is nothing.
Pixar in a Box was so cool! It's a shame Disney pulled funding for the program :(
In the early 2000’s there existed two main ecosystems in mobile software J2ME and BREW (not counting Symbian) the latter BREW, operated by Verizon. I had cofounded a QA consulting company that heavily based itself off BREW’s highly extensive developer portal. Then one day without warning, the developer portal disappeared. Luckily I had the foresight to download all the documentation a week before. My cofounder, a Microsoft developer was dumbfounded.
New to HN? Climate change denial is par for the course.
This is a good thing. Less casualties than what happens with explosive warheads.
I tried to get Zig running on a Game Boy Advance a while ago, but never really got to a point I was happy with. Great to see someone else working on it!

It's cool that you got the built-in linker to work. When I tried, I got a bunch of "unsupported architecture" errors and had to use GNU ld. Have things gotten better recently or is this an ARM-vs-Thumb thing?

I was excited to be able to use packed structs to represent the different IO registers -- at last, no more OR-ing the wrong flag into the wrong register! -- but unfortunately those don't quite work right on ARMv4T yet: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2767
I initially misread as "How much a baby is touched _by_ leaves [leaves] measurable effects on DNA."

Leaving me with an idle question: has the effect of interaction with plants on child development been studied?
TENS isn't muscle control and what is described doesn't seem to be voluntary but imposed (and economically coerced) use of physical pain as a means of correcting workplace errors.
Working class? Check the compensation levels of engineers at reddit.
Because saying something is worth more than developing an online persona. I had an account before and it made me a worse person.
You can't do that atomically with libc. There's a short window in which the file descriptor will potentially be inherited, if another thread forks.
Getting Tech into the Boroughs
AFAIK they hadn't started doing mass-archiving either. They were still setting up.
Does he pay you to say that?
Tests show Detroit River safe after collapse of uranium-tainted site
Financial Time Series Forecasting with Deep Learning: A Literature Review
I think it's mandated by POSIX standard; but even if I'm wrong, there's still the problem that libc doesn't allow to do that atomically, for instance. In general, it's an old interface that doesn't fully expose the full power of all modern syscalls.
Storage isn't really the problem in this case, collecting the data is the problem because yahoo/verizon are actively hostile.
Yes, it wasn't me who started the groups in mind, and these were quite early, starting in the late 90's. While many members were researchers, on the whole they were not in computer fields- chemistry, biology, medicine... On top of that, people of that vintage knew very little about the internet.

There have also been many other comments here about other types of groups, from bird watchers to people building rockets to histories of WWII, that would certainly not have had this kind of technical background.
> My incentive to automate anything for them ever again was gone.

I feel that a lot people have this exact problem.

There's not a word for it, but there should be. It's definitely an anti-pattern.

In my case, the way I got into "software development" was by automating things in my work. It has a lot of pluses and it looks like delightful magic to people who aren't expecting it. It can bring enormous value in places that desperately need it.

But there's a dark side to it. The dark side is that you find yourself alone dealing with problems using only stuff that you built. Like you said, you're at the focal point when things go wrong. No Q/A, no help-ticket system, no buffer, no one to manage expectations.

To make it worse, your boss, your peers and your PM's eventually find that, all of sudden, their workplace has a mini "software development department" that is integral to the mission. That's kind of jarring if they're not adaptable enough to handle it. If you try to get involved with actual software development folks in other teams, you're shunned because you aren't "really" a software engineer until you prove yourself to them (which may never happen depending on how rigid the org is).

I've find that to make this kind of arrangement work, I have to be willing to be a "one man band" for much longer than I feel comfortable.
Thank you; I was unaware of that. Although I do not generally use Reddit (I think Usenet and Unusenet is better), sometimes when something is linked, I would find it. I have the moz-rewrite extension and can easily configure it to rewrite the URL like that (I do a similar thing for Twitter, which also is not something I generally use, to force the mobile version to be used).
Principles of the American Cargo Cult (2003)
Are you going in reverse alphabetical order, or what?
You get the general idea from the name anyway.
Rust is great for when you're writing a serious, security-critical program that can't have any memory-corruption bugs or data races. It makes writing programs a little more challenging, and sometimes you sacrifice a bit of runtime performance compared to C, but it's often worth it.

But Game Boy Advance games don't really fit that description. GBA games don't accept untrusted input, and nothing bad happens if they're "compromised". (Like, when people discovered arbitrary code execution in Super Mario World, no one was worried about the security implications.) So languages like C or Zig that let you cowboy values directly into specific memory locations can be a better choice.

I'm excited about Zig in particular because the mission statement seems to be "C but nicer" -- you get the same basic programming model, but with things like instance methods, generic types, better macros, arbitrary-bit-integer types and a "crash when hitting undefined behavior" compile mode.
articles about rust don't have to include a link to "what is Rust" like this one does.
Not really. Few people today care about Yahoo Groups, and I suspect many people wish old posts they made to the Internet would just "disappear."
You seem to be misinterpreting the comment. I wasn't making a desperate cry for help on HN so that someone would provide me with random unsolicited advice which is somewhat obvious and unhelpful. The comment was just sharing an interpretation of what the author is saying, and it refers to the cynical way in which the newest upcoming generation relates to the internet and technology. I don't personally feel that way about life, but I do think much of social media has been reduced to that.

I think it's important we don't accidentally buy into the temptation of playing the role of an armchair internet psychologist for strangers with whom we have little to no context. If someone seriously needs help, anyone who isn't a professional is likely to just cause more harm than good, and if they don't need help then the discussion just ends up getting derailed.
They're also not monetizing the content or doing anything with it. They're just going to throw it away. Why would they go out of their way to block archival attempts?

This is the corporate equivalent of throwing your old computer into an empty ditch on the side of the road, and getting mad when someone responsible comes by to recycle it for you.
That's par for the course when it comes to propaganda.

It's even worse when it comes to international news. How many times has china "conquered the middle east" or "colonized africa"? A lot more than you think if you follow the news.

"China's latest conquest: Middle East power broker - commentary"

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/28/chinas-latest-conquest-middl...

China is "colonizing" africa.

"China raises fears of 'new colonialism' with $60 billion..."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/03/china-invest-60-...

When we actually invade and conquer the middle east, the media portrays it as "bringing freedom". When we actually colonize africa, the media portrays it as "aid".

Of course it isn't just the west spreading propaganda, china does it also. It's why it comes to geopolitical or controversial events, you need a wide variety propaganda to get as honest an assessment as possible because every side lies about something and is honest about other things.
I am pretty sure that there is less than 1% of the world population, who was user of Google, hate Google and complaining that Google track them and steals their information or data.
Without Google, the world may not be this advanced today. Billions of people get the info they want from Google for free.
Those losers after using Google for years and then spread hatred on Google. What a super hypocrite.
Google, just like us, got bill to pay!
There were a few ways for WWIV-Fidonet integration. One was using Doors.

https://wwivbbs.readthedocs.io/en/v5.0/other_nets/