skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say the following to this (very reasonable) argument against using AWS: AWS makes money by selling services, not collecting data. Should Amazon make the leap and start harvesting data from AWS for marketing purposes, the data from their analytics platform will be the least of our worries.

Thus far, AWS has proven to be safe for companies to host their data upon, and there have been no leaks of data stored in AWS into Amazon's marketing program. The HIPPA, PCI, and FedRamp certifications help back up their claims that a company's AWS data stays in AWS.
Maybe, but the call does not mention holding up funds, so we don't really know. It's suspicious, but we don't know.
Do lego sets appreciate?
Well I'd assume they're doing better than ever. With a reality tv show coming out.

https://www.fox.com/lego-masters/
I'm ashamed to admit that I use GA on my blog to essentially count page views. The other information is interesting but mostly unused (by me). I would be far better served by a tool or service handling server logs (any recommendations?). But GA is 0 friction, so it's what I picked up back in the day. I suspect there are a lot of people in this boat.
Sonos system will stop receiving updates if you have an old device
You are presenting an extreme. Business and capital will not fail if there is more emphasis on the people. We won't turn into Venezuela or communist Russia if business doesn't get 100% its way.
Adding specific bangs to your phone's dictionary amazingly improves using DDG on mobile devices.

e.g. for Google, I just have to swipe "bang" at the and of any query to add "!g" at the end of it. DDG picks it up flawlessly - you don't have to mind the spacing, etc. Google fires up instantly.
Saudi Arabia dismisses “absurd” claim it hacked Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' phone
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"My competitors tracking solution is ridiculous. You should get your head examined if you use it. You should use mine instead."

Terrible argument.
If you're really curious, these answers can be found by Googling.
I seem to remember it being basically a deal of co-signing a loan and helping with a deposit and considering it part of my first year uni tuition. But it really was way too expensive.

Ended up getting a 486 50mhz and running very early (like pre 1.0) Linux on it. That scratched a bit of the itch :-)
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> Plants, they [mainstream botanists] insist, are mainly genetic robots

Interestingly, that's what many people thought about animals too; Descartes famously described animals (all animals, including usual pets like dogs, etc.) as machines, mindless robots.

It's already common knowledge that plants communicate with one another about danger; why shouldn't they remember? Just because we don't know how doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
Because such a set would lack playability and have zero mass appeal (you would never buy this set stand alone). There was an Idea submission for such a set and it was rejected bu Lego:
https://ideas.lego.com/projects/a88109ec-9970-4fe1-98b4-9bd5...
Absolutely incredibly how much of my Steam library disappeared overnight. I realize dual-booting Windows or an old OSX release is an option; but not so easy with the minuscule MacBook flash storage.
They are funding it less and less. And things like the wave of white flight and suburbanization in the 1960s and 1970s make it clear how comfortable well-off white people are doing that.

In any case, I'm not arguing for guilt trips as a means of solving the problem. Instead, I think the right solution is the bedrock of any community: shared experience.
What an incredible yet horrifying article. My first thought is someone should make a Chernobyl-style show based on these events so that it gets national attention.

Edit: apparently there was a movie recently released about it, that I had never heard of until I reached this thread. I still think a TV series is the best way to approach this sort of topic as you have more hours to sink into the details.
The French word for window is "fenêtre". And in French, the circumflex accent usually denotes a deletion of an 's', as in words such as "forêt", "hôpital", "île", "conquête".
Have to agree with this. I find that Scratch removes the dangers and perils of programming for any level, which, unfortunately, are the parts that you learn the most from.

Think about when you began to code. You tried printing 'Hello World' and that was good. Then you tried doing some more, and quickly ran into some trouble. At this crucial point, is where you are bound to learn the most. Troubleshooting is part and parcel of the experience. People need need to experience those painful points to grow, even young programmers.
Also, it's fenêtre in French and finestra in Italian and Catalan.
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I was wrong about the name the wiki seems to call what's included in the ISS set Nanofigures. Though it seems like places use both nanofig and microfig interchangeably since microfigs are discontinued.

https://rebrickable.com/parts/90398/minifig-trophy-statuette...

https://lego.fandom.com/wiki/Nanofigure

https://www.firestartoys.com/Shop/LEGO-Minifigures/LEGO-Nano...
can anyone confirm whether consumer grade filters like Brita help filtering these things out?
I agree, there already were countless opportunities to buy the series for next to nothing during sales.
Just learned that there is a difference between 60% and TKL, thanks. I've been treating them as the same thing..

I just learned about the existence of smaller keyboards like a year ago, have always had one of those monstrous l33t gamer keyboards decked out with macro keys because they were the only mechanical ones at decent prices last time I was in the market. Just hated the space it took up on my desk.

Right now I'm using a cheap Reddragon K552 because I too like having the arrow keys available and mechanical+backlit was non-negotiable for me. After a few months of heavy use the cheapness is starting to show itself in the key wobble though, do you have any suggestions for a decently priced alternative with better build quality?
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> stop shopping your life around on the internet...

Evidence that Advice Porn is really bad.

In another era -- one might have solicited perspective from smart friends, family, senior colleagues. Even read a self-help book.

TODAY It's still reasonable that someone, somewhere on HN might have a sound, practical take on your situation. I could be wrong.
Japans economy was much more government managed than completely free at that time. Specifically the Japans Ministry of International Trade and Industry ("MITI") was steering the economy, mainly be using a control called "windows guidance". By given "window guidance" the commercial banks the Bank of Japan controlled which segment of economy was allowed to get what amount of credit. This turned out to be highly competitve compared to the western model of a completely free market economy.

This system was later abandoned due to pressure of the US to make the banking system and the BoJ "independent". The result from this operation was that the commercial banks diverted more credit away from real investment to financial markets and assets investments, which in turn resulted in an unsustainable real estate boom in Japan.

From of this real estate boom Japan never recovered when the bubble burst.

BTW: The Bank of China uses nowadays window guidance as a system to steer the economy - and seems to be pretty successfull with it.
I wonder how much Delphi/Idera bribed the head of the Ministry of Industry and Technology for this boondoggle. Allahallah, and they wonder why 10% of our country is illiterate. Every single decision by the government is made from the perspective of "how can I make a lira off of this"

MIIT chief Faruk Özlü just bought himself a new mansion in Mugla over the summer. Just saying.
What are you talking about? Nobody is refuting that MBS killed Kashoggi. What I'm refuting is that the Bezos hack wasn't a favor to Trump. It clearly was.
Isn't this a bit like saying the last release of Ford's Model T was back in the 1930's? It is now called C++ Builder, and it is still regularly released. https://www.embarcadero.com/products/cbuilder
Isn't this basically what DuckDuckGo does?
There you go,

"CHIP-8 in Common Lisp: Disassembly"

https://stevelosh.com/blog/2017/01/chip8-disassembly/
I recently found https://text.npr.org/ (linked down in the footer of the main NPR site) and it made me very happy.
This really reminds me of the infamous "you can just use FTP instead of Dropbox" comment.
I think a lot of crowd funding is for hucksters who abuse trust.
technically it does not matter. The trouble is students HATE learning something they think is a waste of time. I've found it impossible to convince them that the first language doesn't matter.

If they just learned anything they'd progress at roughly the same rate, but when their motivation is impacted it makes a bigger difference.
The author wrote a tool to make it do that I guess.
I live in the same world you do, minus that smug sense of entitlement to products and services others provide.
Depends on the Delphi version. Delphi 2 (what i used and still use sometimes) creates a VCL app at around 200KB. Later versions added a bit, but i think it wasn't until after Delphi 7 that sizes ballooned.

However i have a feeling that MrGilbert refers to using the Windows API directly without VCL in which case you can create very small executables.
Woah. That's way faster. Thanks for mentioning this! I'll switch all my machines over to tealdeer now.
Rob Pike et al gave up on Alef when implementing Plan 9, using a C based library for communication instead.
what if they... enjoy making things in scratch without aspiring to greatness?
Looks that they got caught in Valve Time for good: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time
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This is really strange that sounds like something out of cyberpunk novel, but this seems to be the kind of reality we are now living in.
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see camelot
https://camelot-py.readthedocs.io/en/master/
what a fantastic landing page. Especially that gif. All editors should have something this good.
I actually created my Steam account after receiving a coupon for a "free game" from a Steam representative at the 2008 Leipzig Games Convention. When redeeming the coupon, the "free game" turned out to be the Orange Box.

That coupon was certainly a good business decision for Valve. My library now contains 100+ games.
> has a lot of anachronisms

Such as?
Harry was unsuccessful in his oral defenestration of the grape seeds, which were now sliding ungracefully down the inside of the half open passenger window of Sally's otherwise immaculately kempt vehicle, leaving a trail of the kind that remains visible until chemicals are used in the cleaning.
This is why I use Prime photos, instead of Google photos. I need one, so I’ll take the paid one.
ok. thank you
Wow, this looks really amazing. HL1 is still one of my favorite games.

They even completely remade the Xen part and according to reviews, its better than the original, which some players did not like that much.
There's kind of two types of sets made today the play sets for kids and display sets for adult collectors. I do agree though that LEGO isn't really plastic waste because most of it doesn't get thrown out and kids collections get reused and resold to collectors and are relatively rarely thrown out.
One of the issues is people in general don't pay for dev tools anymore, and writing documentation is laborious. Borland could pay documentation authors to write extensive help and examples because they charged money, and sold a ton of licenses. Stack Overflow is simply crowd-sourcing the same thing.

'Eventually' is likely to be a very, very long time. I doubt we'll have self-programming systems like that even in my children's lifetime. It will likely take AGI to do it. There's the classic tale of programmers back in the 90s quiting their jobs because they thought Visual Basic would let non-technical bureaucrats write their own software, so there would be no need for specialist software engineers anymore.

One of the world's top self driving car engineers reckons we might never get Level 5.

I'm not an AI denier. Eventually we will get AGI, I think it's inevitable. It's just that the time horizon is so far off it's not really worth worrying about. We don't even have a clue how to go about designing it's general operational parameters or architecture yet.
Yes the safety driver must have their hands on the wheel at all times for - you guessed it - safety. Doesn’t mean car is not driving autonomously.
I've been thinking the same thing, and started[0] experimenting[1] with some ideas. I think it be fun to make a web browser that implements a few HTML tags, flexbox and a few other CSS primitives (no animations), and no JS. Sites that are compatible with it would still work on current browsers.

[0] https://anderspitman.net/19/#netcatable

[1] https://anderspitman.net/17/#curlable
Can anyone help me understand how anything at a concentration of < 5PPT can be dangerous?

I'm not arguing, just trying to get my head around it.

(And yes I realize that in some of these areas the concentrations were orders of magnitude higher; the recommendation for allowable concentration is < 1PPT according to the article)
California considers declaring Tylenol a carcinogen
There’s a generation of nerds who learned this word from the glossary of the Apple ][ manual which included, ”defenestration: The act of throwing something or someone out of a window.“
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More disappointed with its design decisions, and how some believe that Go is special in some way, just because they don't bother to learn computing history.

Example, Go's compilation speed is nothing to wonder about, when one enjoyed languages like Modula-2 and Object Pascal compiling on 4 Mhz CPUs.
The mistake is assuming Delphi is bad and stupid. Delphi is MUCH better than C and C++.

Miles ahead.

Pascal is what we need, but C is what we deserve. Billons of dollars wasted in it.

What it have bad is the massive mismanagement of the owners, and that translate to lack the influx of talent to it.

Note: I'm moderator in a Delphi forum and use it for years. I'm now in rust, and is great yet:

- Some of the problems that rust fix? Delphi too decades ago.

- Delphi still compile so fast. All the stupid c-based langs are turtles. Including LLVM. Is a sad joke that "I use C-/C++/rust" for performance and the compilers NOT PERFORM. Period.

- All the other currents langs on earth, all of them, still fail at build a GUI easily.

- Only recently, with Go and now rust, people rediscover the joy of easy deployment. Delphi have it decades ago.

Of curse Delphi is not perfect, and we the users know it. Sadly, in this industry worse is better and without a path to improve the lang you are at mercy of the owners. But like smalltalk, foxpro, hypercard and others, Delphi is a testament of what could be a decent lang/environment.

That the community at large still inflect itself with massive amounts of pain and billons of wasted effort with c/c++/js and still refuse to learn? Is something I will never understand.

P.D.2: If this sound like a rant? Yes. My super-duper machine is still compiling with rust and I'm frustrated, because this post remind me that this pain could be avoided...
> but the comment I replied to said they had never used a debugger.

Except it doesn't say that.
Or is that wishful thinking? AWS and Amazon are in the buisness of collecting, storing, and processing data.
> Companies that expect people to work this hard are almost exclusively very well paying entry level jobs for fresh graduates with an up or out structure

I'm friends with accountants for the big 4 firms - they are in no way, shape, or form, high paying initial positions.
I'm just one example, but I've been using it since launch day. So 5 years is getting close.
I vaguely remember Dan Harmon talking about this on his podcast, lord knows which episode. Basically about how his audience or random people he brings up on stage can spontaneously cause him to crack up more than any professional.

He reasoned that since he's a professional, when he watches another comedian act, he pretty much knows what's going on under the hood. He can predict where a joke is going because there are tried and true formulas, he can see through their pacing, etc. But if a noob cracks one, even if it's a joke he's heard before, he knows there's probably none of the calculation that a pro puts into it. It was a genuine thing, which makes it all the more hilarious to him.
>You're forgetting the #1 cheapest and most effective way to reduce our environmental impact: efficiency of energy use and efficiency of resource use.

How can that be cheaper and more effective than reducing consumption?

>If we were to directly price in the costs of CO2 via a tax, the fall would be far faster. And as we come up with tech that doesn't emit, and is cheaper than fossil fuel extraction, we will stop using these damaging resources completely.

I don't think this is politically feasible in the timeframe necessary. The hundreds of millions up and coming in China/India/Brazil/Nigeria/etc want a piece of that nice Western life with a home and car and vacations.

The only realistic solution in a short enough timeframe is to try to educate everyone to consume less. Consume less space (more dense living), consume less fuel (enabled by dense living as public transport is now feasible), consume less products (vastly fewer cheap plastic toys and whatnot), etc.
So as a baby your parents were only giving you RO water? Then during your whole time at high-school and college you only drank RO water? Errr, I don't believe you.
If you want to go the dual boot way, target mode or an external disk to boot off might be viable.
I've seen this issue trending on HN multiple times within the past year, search "PFAS contamination" for more info online.

I moved into a new house last year near 2 closed down USAF military bases (known to have been previously contaminated by firefighter foam) and did a ton of research on the issue since the house water comes from a well (free water!). I ended up getting a professional water filtration system installed in our basement (carbon tanks, UV light filter, reverse osmosis). Cost me $5k+ for install and ~$1500 year to swap out the tanks and service the system. It's pricey, but you can't put a price on clean water.
Rounding 4.7 years to 5 seems like a perfectly acceptable estimate for a comment.
Zero waste is a great goal but not the full picture. If Lego is getting thrown out after each kids out grows it then it'd be a pretty big waste problem. Luckily because they last a long time and are perfectly inter-operable I don't think that many get just tossed. I see a lot resold and reused.
There is something very very wrong, absolutely, but the fiscal conservatism is not to blame. At all, if anything it facilitates long term stability(relative stability).

I get so frustrated when somone with conviction says : "oh the problem is the government is throwing its citizens into incredible debt, which leads to inflation and other issues."

And then say : "Oh the government is not spending enough on the needey. And its causing societal issues."

I'm not here to finger point or inflame. But it's just as irresponsible to pin it all on the government looking after its nations fiscal stability.
I would LOVE to play with that. How do you turn developer commentary on?
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There is probably no single thing to stop buying. You would set up regulations and everything would probably become a bit more expensive. Maybe some items would disappear completely.
Shouting "fire" in a crowded theater is a misquote

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...
You may love or hate js but it makes great language to start with, runs in your browser and has infinite labyrinths of complexity in every direction - perfect for students to play with. Why nobody is using it to teach?
I asked a question on HN but didn't get any answers - this might be an easier forum to get one.

I'm working on a hobbyist rocketry project where I'm helping build the flight computer - basically an Arduino Nano connected to modules like a GPS system, accelerator, gyroscope, etc. Are there any Lisp dialects that someone would recommend for an Arduino? The Nano is technically replaceable so if there are better boards that can use Lisp I'd be interested too!
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It's not unusual. Lots of Lisp systems support inline assembler or inline C. Historically Lisp systems stored compiled code as LAP (Lisp Assembly Program) and loaded these files via its built-in assembler.

The old Lisp 1.5 manual documents an in-memory assembler in Appendix C, Page 73

http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%...
I helped a relative assemble theirs, they appear to be gravity fed activated carbon blocks.
How many gallons of water do you have to throw away to get 1 gallon of pure water with this system?
Democracy is mostly a facade anymore, unfortunately.

Good english.
Nice article. I totally agree with you. I think the corporate and the startup world are completely different and people now can have a choice.
Just wanted to remind folks here that Half-Life is the game that single handedly popularized the entire genre of First Person Shooter (FPS). That in itself is a big achievement but the game is much more than that with its intricate puzzle style with giving minimum instructions to the player and let the player figure out things.

Edit: OK...I see folks reminding me about other classic FPS games that came before HL but I was too young when those games came out so my first FPS experience was with HL. Also by the time I started playing video games those games were too old graphics-wise to entice me to play. But fair point!
It's worth it from a financial perspective. If a plane goes down it hurts the brand and public trust significantly. People in general are already afraid of flying, lets not give them more reasons :)
I was wondering why one person on Hackaday thought Forth was uniquely suited for exploration in embedded systems programming other than also being a stack language like Assembly. Thanks for pointing this out.
It's simply selecting where packets exiting the VPN are routed.

> but I don't see why any of those features can't be added upstream to a FOSS OpenVPN client/server

Could be simply because none allows this in the first place. And then the selection may be very service-dependent.

In any case, their app is now open source, so why is this an issue anyway?
A diamond is worth what people are willing to pay for it. Just cause you don’t think they should be expensive doesn’t mean other people agree with you.
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Out of curiosity, I looked up maintenance costs on RO filters. It looks like the filters that need replacing annually are $20-$30 for the set, and the membrane that needs to be replaced every 2-5 years is $30-$50.
Also, I see that there are other similar projects: https://www.ostechnix.com/3-good-alternatives-man-pages-ever...
Most people don’t avoid fares. I’m of the view that the point of criminal law isn’t deterrence as such, but rather norm setting. We punish people for fare evasion so people know it’s a bad thing. The norm keeps most people from evading the date. But when you stop punishing people for it, the norm is diminished.
So they're about 1:125-140. And this set is about 1:225.

Also that shuttle is absolutely not to scale. It's about 1:400.
I don't think it's too difficult. It's written in C and it has also been ported to ARM...