skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The person your replying to proclaims in a comment earlier today that he has no problem using less than precise language in order to further his ideology. I don't think the nuances of the statement "linked to" are very high on his priority list.

I really hate dredging up past comments/opinions (since it invites ad hominess dismissals of valid points) but felt it was warranted in this case since it is directly related to your comment question of source robustness.
This is highly inaccurate depending on where the upper bound of age is (ie excluding retirees or part timers). For instance, the average person above 40 years of age have much more time to focus on work: Children already grown, not frequently going out to bars or staying up late etc.
http://bropages.org/ is usually my goto. I learn by example, so naturally I despise man pages, and this makes it tolerable.
Quake?
Doom?
Wolfenstein 3D?
I'm sure there are many unaffected, but it's a well-known and not uncommon issue. It has persisted for years.

3 years ago https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/46dnse/robot_vo...

2 years ago https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/6u4uw6/voice_qu...

2 years ago https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/6u55vj/robotic_...

11 months https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/apmkja/big_incr...

9 months https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/bd6o7v/robotic_...

8 months https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/bk63nd/low_ping...

https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/search?q=robot+voice&res...
> "cover up the existence of poisonous chemicals in your drinking water" is a viable position for a democratically-elected officeholder to have.

I'm not sure if you actually read the article, but the EPA has known about this since 2001. Attempting to make this all about the Trump administration is quite myopic.

From the article:

The EPA has known since at least 2001 about the problem of PFAS in drinking water but has so far failed to set an enforceable, nationwide legal limit. The EPA said early last year it would begin the process to set limits on two of the chemicals, PFOA and PFOS.

The EPA said it has helped states and communities address PFAS and that it is working to put limits on the two main chemicals but did not give a timeline.

If you want to blame someone, blame the EPA for not doing anything for over 17 years.
Indeed but that doesn't make it a good decision, and it certainly doesn't make it "undervalued technology" -- and that's what we're discussing here, isn't it?
Funnily enough, the pot of petunias is part of a "brick joke" in one of the later books, where it is revealed to have been part of a reincarnation-line of a single being, which was killed by Arthur Dent every time it lived, either directly or indirectly. (Hence the 'Oh no, not again')

Douglas Adams had a way of thinking which made him right about quite a lot of future discoveries/technologies, even though most of his predictions were meant as hyperbole...
Well-told story.

I keep waiting for the decline and fall of online advertising, and all it does is keep going up.
Fair enough. I agree it's sad how much gets lost from generation to generation. Unfortunately progress is not monotonically increasing, even in the internet age. But that doesn't mean Go isn't one of the best languages we have today, which has been my experience.
> As usual, the truth is vastly different than what the U.S. media is reporting.

Fake News, circa 2005...
....how f'ing old am I? Do people seriously not remember Doom!? And that FPS's used to be called Doom Clones!? GET OFF MY LAWN!
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Why would we need to limit our programming language abstractions to how the machines work underneath? Are there some stateful objects running around in the hardware? Just because the abstractions are detached from the hardware doesn't make these design patterns useless.
A website has “stolen” my program and reselling it
Hi the website https://www.ektor.io has stolen my entire program https://github.com/instabotai/instabotai/. He is breaking both my old license and my new. He does not credit me or the repo in any place and he has just excluded the license from my program which he sells for $49.

What can i do about this ? I am thinking contacting his host today.

Thanks
I don’t want to discredit this, since I don’t know your source, but linguistically that seems quite unlikely for a consonant introduced three thousand years ago to have influence on the modern Cornish place names. Three thousand years ago, the Celtic languages hadn’t even split from proto-Celtic, so any influence on Cornish should have also had influenced on the rest of the Celtic languages. In addition, the sound /z/ is a very common one across languages (so it does indicated Phoenician influence), and they didn’t have a script then to write the place names (so the orthographic letter z doesn’t mean anything).
The ISS model specifically says it's for adults, 16+, so playability isn't a huge deal.

Additionally IMO they're missing the boat by sticking to their classic distribution model that has the restraints you say. I mean sure, some sets aren't fit for shelf space in a Target toy aisle, but they should be able to JIT packaging for just about any set that's had the work put in as long as they don't run afoul of trademark.
I know they (at least used to) use some results from Yandex
Thank you so much for the feedback! I'm almost through with the building and I will do as you've advised.
Thanks once again.
> The report’s authors warn that treating the world’s resources as limitless is leading towards global disaster.

This is the same fallacy that lead people to fear “peak oil” every decade for the past 50 years. Nobody treats resources as if they’re limitless. The reason we don’t coat everything in gold is because it’s rare (and thus expensive), leading to producers only using it when it’s absolutely necessary. Wood is abundant (and therefore cheap), so it’s used in everything from packing materials to building houses. If these conditions changed and wood for some reason became rare and expensive, it wouldn’t be used in the same way we use it now. People would choose to build their houses out of a different material, and tree farmers would choose to plant more trees.

The idea that we’re “running out” of resources doesn’t make sense. Resources are and have always been scarce. When something becomes exceedingly rare, people choose to consume less of that resource.
Shout out to http://cht.sh, which could be used without installing anything:

curl cht.sh/tr
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Define far behind? Discord solves the low latency communication problem for me like 99.99% of the time without any sort of issue. I don't really see how you're claiming it falls far behind if the difference between it and Teamspeak/Mumble/Vent or whatever is so razor thin. I've barely noticed any issues in the past 3 years of Discord, and it was the same with the previous 4 years of Mumble and however many years of Vent and Xfire before that.
Well they didn't foresee the formation of political parties. That alone upended a great deal of how the different bodies were supposed to interact.

Half of congress is now lead by the executive branch, which completely undermines the checks/balances between them, which is the basis on how the government is supposed to be function. Never mind the judicial branch, which also frequently votes on partisan lines.
The Lego Classic kits they're selling these days are some of the best generic kits they've ever made IMHO. Good mix of general purpose bricks with a well-selected smattering of interesting (but still reasonably versatile) more specialized parts, at reasonable prices.
I collect stones, rumor in certain circles has been circulating for a while that if it were to hit auction, it would easily command $75M. That would make it the most valuable gemstone per carat ever.
Oh heavens. I played the free version in 2009. That was more than 10 years ago! Only Xen was missing back then... so I waited. And now it seems to be ready :D
I run a nocode platform with some large and global applications made/run on our platform.

During architecting phase of the application - we do estimate if nocode tooling will hit a ceiling. If yes then we explore 4 options:

- no brainer, export code and take it from there

- write custom Ui controls and patch them into your nocode tool

- write custom function and patch in the workflow engine or front end logic

- build Ui/UX using external code and use nocode to build backend process and connect front end with apis of the workflows/dbs

- generally complex algorithms - eg route optimization, would become a candidate of converting into a web service and eventually consumed in the nocode tool.

In my experience - One of the core essentials to write an application on nocode is having your sprint 0 dedicated towards a design phase.
Math from the Bee Whisperer
My video game history isn't all that great, but... what? Wolfenstein 3D (1992)? Doom (1993)? Quake (1996)?
Xen is out and it is fantastic. I was 13 when it was announced and it was worth the wait. Enjoy :)
>"it"

refering to people as "it" is kind of wrong

also the only reason its better (if thats even true) is because things used to be so shitty that anything is better than that
Any pricing theory would fly out the window on something like this: it would purely be driven by the desire to win, for someone rich to have something they can hold against other rich people. It’s a status symbol. The auction would likely be a public English auction so that bidders can know the interest and who’s bidding.
You seems to have missed the arguments made tho.
You get to avoid the cookies and as someone else pointed out Amazon doesn't use the data. It's your data.
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I was about to say that onion only IRC channels aren't for high quality discussion. They're for discussion by people who are paranoid for one reason or another. People selling drugs/credit card numbers/weapons. People with extreme political ideology who are talking about violent revolution. People who mentally unstable with paranoia.

A better site for someone wanting high level discussion on a narrowly focused topic is Reddit, although you will have to choose your subreddits carefully. It can be a difficult needle to thread, but there are quite a large number of quality subreddits once you know how to search.
>Anecdotally, I believe burnout is more likely when you work on a job that only cares about profits, or is not fulfilling in some meaningful way.

I worked in academic medical research for a while and many people seemed burn out. There was basically no profit motive since we were working for research grants and there was pretty strict controls on how that could be divvied up on payroll (can't just get a million dollar grant and give the boss a 300k pay raise). You'd think it would be fulfilling since we were studying disease/working towards treatments that could actually help people. Meanwhile I have friends in finance working in purely profit-driven roles that don't really help the world per se, and they don't seem burnt out at all. I really think a feeling of freedom has a bigger role than anything else. If you feel like it's not a big deal for you to take a vacation or a long lunch or just be away in general, then you'll feel less burnt out than someone who is expected to show up every day and give it their all with no end in sight, even if the goal they're working towards is something altruistic.
I've been to most parts of Turkey and I can say the Internet infra in smaller cities are actually better than the bigger ones. Especially the cellular/LTE network (I use Turkcell).

You rarely have dead zones between cities and most towns but the Internet sometimes downgrades to 3G or Edge if you're in a super rural area.
Looks like 4 to 1. Not great, but probably not a huge hit if you hook it up only for drinking water. I wonder how hard it would be to pump that waste water to your toilet tanks instead.
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suggestion from HN user has more weight than Google search since Google search is based on popularity and not quality.
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Developer_commentary

Enjoy!
Thanks! I didn't know that German schools quality varied between locations/Länder.
> Just wanted to remind folks here that Half-Life is the game that single handedly popularized the entire genre of First Person Shooter (FPS)

I think you're forgetting a few titles...
> seems to be the kind of reality we are now living in

Nothing new. From Crassus to J.P. Morgan, almost every society had powerful non-state actors foreign rulers sought to embarass.
I thought Delphi was pretty much a repackaged version of Pascal.
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Maybe, like, MBS is bored, and is just looking for a similarly-sized adversary to fight with. Because it's kind of hard to explain this behavior else wise.
I'm thinking of a graduate turning up for a modern programming position and opining:

> I know Delphi!

I would argue you can made good courses in any language and it would seem more convenient to teach in something that has better transferrability into industry.

Also the response is likely aggravated by this quote from the source article:

> a curriculum that has taken heavy damage from the adoption of Java and C# in the early 2K’s.

wut?
This apparently comes with a little dragon capsule.
Same in the UK. Especially annoying if I search for a book to buy and only .com's appear in the results.
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They do have native search engines with neat option to add them from a site's search field. Why not add keywords too as they did on desktop.

I feel silly adding bookmarks for the things I already have in search engine list.
I don't think they ever intended political parties to be even close to as influential as they are now.
I believe it is an option in the settings or during start of the game in main menu. During the game speechbubbles will appear with which you activate the commentary.

There is also the Lost Coast 'episode' which is more of a tech demo instead of a game but really worth to play through as well.
As a NeXT developer who started the NeXT User Group at my college, I agree they were lovely machines, way ahead of their time.

But I want to be quite clear that as a business, NeXT failed. They started out wanting to be an integrated hardware/software company, like Apple. But Jobsian arrogance entirely undercut that; it was a machine developed (and priced) for people like Jobs, so it never found market acceptance outside of a few market niches like finance, where people had money to burn.

Eventually they gave up on hardware and shifted to being an operating system on other people's hardware: Sun, HP, and eventually, a narrow set of Intel-based PCs. This kept them going a little longer, and made things easier for their existing customers doing in-house development, but they were still failing more slowly.

They then pivoted toward being developer tools for Windows machines, except they could only run on the more-expensive Windows NT. This too was headed to eventual failure.

Apple did screw up writing a modern operating system enough that they decided to look at buying one, and I know Be and NeXT were candidates. But I don't think the deciding factor was technical. What Apple's board wanted was Jobs, so I think of the NeXT acquisition as more of an acquihire with some bonus technology.

Yes, Jobs and his investors eventually turned a modest profit on the sale. But Apple quickly shut down all of the NeXT stuff, leaving NeXT developers like me high and dry, which is a strong sign it was not a viable business. So I look at the sale as Jobs's price for rejoining Apple, his way of not admitting failure.
Nope looks pretty much dead on to me. See [0] for the real ISS vs [1] for the box art. The relative scales are a little off due to the available pieces (the larger radiators are pretty big compared to the solar arrays).

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Internat...

[1] http://www.collectspace.com/images/news-012120g-lg.jpg
I just found out about !r the other day and had no idea !hn existed. This is excellent news.
Not firsthand experience, but what about one of the Scheme dialects that compiles to C?
HN does have diverse commenters.
In a single day, I managed to see 5 distinct comparison that I wouldn't have anywhere else.

Note - this is only just an observation.

Really amusing - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe
I'm in favour of making slavery legal again for the sole purpose of making people like this slaves for a year just so they figure out how fucking stupid they are.
In the case of something so unique, there's a strong argument for it being acquired by a museum so it can be enjoyed widely, and studied by geologists.
I don't have any of those intentions but I have to think twice before posting and make sure it's politically correct. I assume this other people might feel the same.
More importantly, based on this article, we literally do not know anything. How bad is this really? Is the draft report accurate ? Etc etc. let’s not jump to conclusions, let’s just be comfortable admitting we don’t know what’s going on.
https://github.com/sheshbabu/freshlytics
There's usually no reason to ever put Lego blocks on the trash heap. They last forever and they're easy to resell locally by the bag when you're done. There's also a vibrant global secondary market of online used Lego block resellers (Bricklink, etc.).
What are you talking about? Delphi let's you build Android apps, not just DOS apps. And iOS, and Win64, etc...
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This is all true but markets don't always have great foresight, and there are entire tranches of externalities to worry about.

For example, the market doesn't really care if a tree is 'new growth' gown for consumption, and a 300 year old 'old growth' tree, the loss of which has some material impact. It might be cheaper in many cases to fell old forests, in which case we're pricing poorly.

So let's get all the externalities in there and see what the numbers look like.
Generally yes. More for the collector sets like the older UCS Millenium Falcon (though the price for that might have fallen since the new one was released).
I once threw together a 6502 assembler (really a front end to x65) in Scheme to be able to write Commodore programs with powerful Lisp-like macro facilities.
But StackOverflow helps only with basic to common intermediate problems. The most upvoted answers often resemble the most common beginner problems. So it indeed very much replaces the old paper/online help documentation, is often better written and more readily available. On the other hand for more difficult problems it's common to not get an answer. In fact the problem might be so specific that it's even against the SO rules.

> coding will decline or bifurcate more because general AI will allow non-programmers to ask a machine

I was expecting this development with the rise of React since at least the visualization part has become completely declarative. It's no rocket science to automatically transform that, in fact being an XML dialect there are a lot of tools available for this. But still, even in 2020 people still make money with writing HTML/CSS either plain or within a CMS.

In fact even a reverse development happened in some regard. In the 90s it was quite common for people to write CRUD apps running in Access, FoxPro etc. These tools - like Delphi which might be closest to that - practically disappeared.

The analytical load is still there and cannot be abstracted away. The decline of Access etc. happened because many aspects couldn't be mapped. Not to speak of all the nitty gritty details needed to make applications run safely and maintainable. There's still a very long road ahead to automatize all that, especially in a way that it consumes only a reasonable amount of CPU, memory and storage...
Man pages are intended to be an exhaustive description of the individual options, switches and command arguments and what they do; but they won't tell you how to combine those to be useful in your particular case. It's up to you to figure that out.

tldr caters to an entirely different heuristic: I have this use case, give me a list of use cases and the corresponding combination of switches, options and arguments for each respective use case. tldr won't explain to you what each individual switch, option or argument does, turning the provided commands into black boxes.

Here's the trade off:

The former has a steep learning curve and figuring out how a tool works doesn't solve your immediate problem. But if you commit the meaning of switches, options and arguments for common tools such as awk, sed, tar, ls,... to memory, you will become proficient at solving any problem with a few tools over time.

The latter has a low learning curve and you just have to copy/paste a command to solve your problem. But tldr won't tell you how those switches and options work. And you will just use them as incantations that magically help you to solve a limited number of cases. If you end up with a use case that isn't listed, you are left in the dark as far as tldr is concerned.

So, is tldr a bad tool then? No! If you are confronted with the command line sparingly, then tldr helps to lower the bar and solve your immediate problem. But if you hope to grow into a proficient shell user, then you're still going to have to grok the man pages one switch, option and argument at a time.

I'm a polyglot. Studying a language by opening a dictionary and starting alphabetically, is arguably, the worst way to get there. You would start with learning a set of common words and basic grammatical rules, and then expand over time through practice and instruction: speaking, reading and writing.

The same applies to command line tools and man pages: they are reference materials first and foremost.
> "and nearly a quarter is discarded into the environment, such as plastic in waterways and oceans."

That piece of the graph showing that 22 billion tons is discarded into the environment almost seems unbelievably high. There must be some caveat to that figure right?
Super shady. I wonder how often this occurs. Let's make a website just to index open source software being sold inappropriately/ against the agreement of the software. Seems like this problem will only grow if someone can grab some open source software on this corner of the web and put it on a shelf with a pricetag on this other corner. Rightfully the profits would belong to you, but it's free software, so people are just handing this person $50 to get access to your github effectively?
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> This is a serious question because in 5+ years of programming I have never used a debuggers. The only time I used a debugger was when I was learning to program and to trace out for loops.

They're saying it themselves, "yeah technically once I used it when I was figuring out how for loops work".

I wouldn't say I've ever written a Brainfuck program even though once I messed around with a hello world on an online interpreter

Leave it to people here to say a comment doesn't say literally the exact words it says

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The spirit of multiple replies, not just mine is debuggers are an option you should at least be familiar with before tossing aside, even if you do end up not needing them
Because if you're needing to repeatedly free giant amounts of RAM, the OS probably doesn't have many zeroed pages and will need to zero them itself. Linux, at least, does not idle-zero, so if you want to take advantage of otherwise idle CPU time to do the zeroing, then you need to take matters into your own hands.