skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This IS an unreasonable and inappropriate comparison. Anecdotally I've been overworked by a diverse group of shitty bosses of a variety of races, nationalities, and genders over the years. Nobody has a monopoly on shitty management. Singling out white men as uniquely shitty managers and then slapping on "plantation driver" is super racist!
Python just installs with a double-click and you can write code in a box (IDLE) and it runs. That’s not a high bar to clear, really.
I've found Tildes to be welcoming to a wide variety of ideas, opinions and world views.

We're hostile to trolls, saboteurs, personal attacks, self-promotion and repeated empty or trivial junk comments.

If it's cliquish to discourage activity that makes social spaces miserable, then that's the kind of clique I'd like to belong to.
TIL?
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I remember playing it for the first time when I was in early high school. It was one of the first games I played on the PC and I loved it. Seems like it's time for a replay.
a lively previous discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15779382
Not on Firefox with uBlock Origin.
On the flip side, the two destinations I regularly fly to have three airlines each, two of which use Airbus.

I absolutely do have a choice, and I'm not going to fly Boeing until further notice. Apart from the whole 737 Max thing, Airbus' planes are just much quieter internally.
Life stopped after Half Life 2
I went for an interview there in 2010 and it was the most absurd experience. I walked into a dimly lit open gymnasium with a running track and desks sprawled all over with people working, while voices echoed off the walls. The CEO had a desk with a giant life-sized horse standing over it. The developer who interviewed me was sad. I asked him how it was working there and his response was "they just throw things at me and then leave me alone, we're also digging ourselves out of a hole one developer put us in". Also, no one could really explain what the company did. I declined their offer.

> I mean, just look across the street at Gnip - another Boulder startup...

So I had experience consuming their pipeline and Gnip had a real product. Also, the people running Gnip are still in downtown boulder running the Cognizant office. They are very competent.
I live in one of the industrial "hot zones" for these chemicals. In the 1960's a local tannery was the main employer in the area, and commanded a great deal of local clout. As a result, they obtained permits to dump industrial waste in various (30+) small dump sites around the area. This waste contained a variety of industrial chemicals, not the least of which was the 3M product Scotchgard, which was used in large quantity to waterproof leather, contains PFAS, and was buried feet from the surface, generally in nondescript forest areas.

A few years ago, when our local water authority began testing for PFAS, they found unusually high numbers specifically around one well-head used to supply municipal water to the area. Instead of disclosing the issue, the authority chose to use that well head only when the demand was high, which excluded times in which the water was tested. If they timed their testing to times of low demand, the numbers were under the EPA recommendation.

With significant grass-roots pressure in the area, many pending lawsuits, and lots of reporting and investigation, the municipality is taking the issue somewhat seriously. GAC filters were installed on the municipal supply, the company considered largely at fault has agreed to pay for the extension of municipal water to some (not all) affected areas that are still served by well water, in which the danger is particularly high. Some cleanups are occurring, while other sites exist under what are now housing developments.

There's story after story here, of people (especially those located in areas served by well water) with a history of cancer after cancer after cancer affecting their entire families. These are folks who after having their water tested, confirmed some of the highest levels ever measured in a water supply.

In all, the whole ordeal has been a wake up call for me, regarding the level of cover-up that happened and in some cases continues to happen surrounding waste disposal, especially for large companies that are considered the "economic life blood" of a given area. Looking over records, people have found strong objections to the practice dating back to the time it happened (some of the warnings eerily prescient) multiple cleanups that were funded but never occurred in the decades that followed, and a continual failure to acknowledge any risk surrounding the practice and dump sites for decades. There was a constant drum beat of "very smart people say that everything is fine."

As for me, my (municipal) water is GAC and RO filtered. I pay close attention to things I would not have considered before, like air quality. It's made me reconsider the source of the foods that I eat. It takes little work to take these precautions, the potential upside is pretty big, and the downside small.

I wonder if in the years to come, we're going to find significant causal links between aspects of our environment and maladies we previously considered a mystery.
Are you advocating something, or just sad that Go is more popular than you think it deserves?

What languages do you think people should be using instead? My use case is mostly backend network services. My next two choices would be Rust (absolutely love it but slows me down and async isn't ready) or Clojure (would rather avoid a VM). Would you suggest others?
FYI, if your setup relies on API Gateway, you probably could use VTL / Mapping Templates to directly send from API Gateway to Kinesis and skip the lambda altogether, like some do for dynamodb

See https://hackernoon.com/serverless-and-lambdaless-scalable-cr...
And https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/using-amazon-api-gatewa...
I am not so sure it is far from its intentions. The founders knew and expected most politicians operating as fronts for various groups and making bad faith arguments and backroom deals. That is nothing new! Most of what they did was try to prevent the government from being wholly brigaded by one minority perspective, and if so it would be moved along after a short time.

So far, so good, despite warning signs to the contrary. Spielberg's "Lincoln" is particularly clear about displaying this dynamic at the country's most fractured moment.
In order to read the article I need to SPAM list.

No way!
Why are these down voted? I'd say these Citizen Lab reports are HIGHLY relevant to this discussion topic.
Can anybody speak to how hard uLisp would be to port to RISC-V? It looks pretty nifty. I have a little hobby computer I'm building around a RISC-V core, it might be nice to have it boot to this.
My fave word for something that sounds innocuous but is actually severe is: vivisection.

If you didn't look up, it almost sounds like something you might casually get at a spa.
Wow, great article.
> trying to apply the ancient tools

Delphi isn't ancient, if anything chances are some of the tools people use nowadays on Linux are older than Delphi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7wM0QC5LE
They actually recently finished Xen! It's different from the original, but I think the overall consensus is that it's better than the original. (No more awkward fps platforming)
What a waste.

Studying software programming does not start with buying licenses.
>Their intentions were mostly based on philosophical guess work, as they didn't have a whole lot of empirical data or existing republics/democracies to base their new government on.

They had plenty of examples to base their design on; democracy had been invented more than a thousand years before the US was formed. Like the vast majority of social institutions though, it was in the end based on fallible guesswork -- people like Thomas Jefferson were explicitly aware of this.

What they could not have planned for was the industrial revolution, corporate proliferation/globalization, the information revolution of today, and the scale of it all.
What of when there are duplicate symbols with the same name? And this doesn’t help with unused locals. Also, another commenter pointed out that unused local functions don’t get flagged. Go authors probably realized that making people delete and restore entire function bodies during debugging was too much, but they could still convince people to be okay with deleting and restoring import statements and local variable definitions.
When the Orange Box came out, it broke many mods, SMOD being one of them. I believe this version should work with the current HL2 version distributed by Steam:

https://www.moddb.com/mods/smod/downloads/smod-40a-piped
> If you had told me they used the same processor family, I probably wouldn't have believed you.

I don't know how real it was, but one of NeXT's marketing points at the time was the power of all the supporting logic they put around the main CPU. There was a bunch of DMA support and a MC56001 signal processor from the beginning, and later on, it was possible to buy video boards from NeXT with onboard i860 processors.

One area where they did fall down, at least initially, was in the Magneto-Optical primary storage. The original NeXT cube shipped with one of these _instead of_ a hard disk. I think the idea was that you could take a single MO disk around from workstation to workstation and carry your environment around with you. The downside is that the access time on the MO drive was something around 80ms or more in an era when a hard disk was 20ms or so. Killed performance, as far as I understand, and the next generation machine was a more traditional hard-disk/floppy combination.
For others coming along later, right click, pick "open". If you don't get an "open" button on the dialog, go to system preferences, security, general. You should see a button that says "Pharo Launcher wouldn't open. Open anyway" or something of that nature. Click. Profit!
It's simpler to click a few lines of code, get the entire program state or a selected subset, and then get a perfectly line by line granular understanding if desired, then to write a bunch of print statements. The only reason printlns would seems easier is because it takes s bit more time investment to learn debugging tools.
When a foreign government does something, the legal system is not the appropriate mechanism to enforce international norms.

It lacks both jurisdiction as well as enforceability.

There is no global legal system. We are not a united planet.
As opposed to piping curl to sh?
I run a yearly Halfvember (Novembda?) playthrough event of these games with friends/co-workers because they're such great games. Highly recommend playing through, if you've not yet done so.

And if you have, I recommend the aforementioned Black Mesa edition of Half-Life, as well as the Community Edition of Half-Life 2.
Glad you find them interesting!

As for a redis-like disk-first database, it would be amazing, but I don't know if it is really possible (unless performance was severely sacrificed). This could be an interesting area to explore.
Or html canvas and js.
You can get as good as 1:1 clean and waste water using.

Though as you stated it still doesn't solve root cause.
I agree the impact of writing code and seeing something onscreen is very important.

> I had already started programming GUIs in Windows (MFC days)

MFC and Delphi's UI model are completely incomparable. One is statically built, often in code, inflexible, hard to iterate, hard to use custom controls... and one is modern OO, buildable visually (streamed to text, so editable in text), incredibly flexible, very fast to modify, and with thousands of custom controls.

And these days it builds for macOS, mobile (iOS and Android), and Linux too. So it's a decent choice.
For me, it's almost always been for understanding other people's code, especially poorly documented third party code internals.
I don't think it's substantially worse, and I'm a pretty heavy user of applications. It would be worth measuring impact on productivity compared to gains in maintenance and overhead reduction.
Dark Waters (movie) was a real eye-opener for me. Also a way to ingest information that I otherwise probably wouldn't have been able to take in. It's no surprise that cancer is so prevalent.
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I turn off email and Slack when I get home. My stakeholders has to call me if something breaks.

I should note that when they do, my union has negotiated a wonderful overtime compensation where I receive a minimum of three hours pay, at 1.5 times the normal rate, if I have to solve an emergency even if it took me five minutes to fix it. If you're my employer, you better make sure that thing is critical to fix before you call in the cavalry.

After my employer did call me, and other team mates, to fix stuff we warned was not stable multiple times well, wouldn't you know it, suddenly people start listening to us when we want to spend more time fixing something instead of just shipping it quickly.
> But I'm finding it increasingly difficult to deal with the stress of managing all of this.

What's the REAL challenge here for you?

Any Bozo can quit and find a new job. It takes BRAINS to learn how to Manage Yourself.

On this subject, Drucker is brilliant. > https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2477223.Managing_Oneself
Nitpicking: Chernobyl happened in Ukraine, so initially communists in Ukrainian Soviet Republic covered things up, not Russian. But I imagine they did consult with Central Party Buro in Moscow.
because you are being swamped by the order of magnitude more people that want to find a price or buy it.
That smell is from natural causes, not chemicals from fracking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_water
Decentralization as a general idea predates blockchain. VRM/personal data lockers, for example.
Xen is already out for Black Mesa
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Most people use it for just drinking water. When compared to other uses, you don't drink that much water.
The business disappears, people turn to a competitor or create new ones if the need is still there.

Business are allowed to fail, that's healthy for the overall system.
yeah there is no verbatim mode any longer
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> you only need to audit those specific parts because everything else is safe by default

This deserves clarification. You only need to audit those specific parts because everything else is safe IFF those parts are safe.
Some of the games that Steam says aren't compatible are still compatible.
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> "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." - H.L. Mencken, The Smart Set (1915)

> Although it's worth noting that 'as the forefathers intended' carries more weight than it typically should. Their intentions were mostly based on philosophical guess work

Until the letter and spirit of the law are ironed out, it's hard to interpret what laws mean, specifically. A lot of rules, like how shouting "fire!" in a crowded theater is not free speech, are essentially interpretations of what the people who wrote the laws intended when they wrote it.

> It honestly seems like like they intended the US government to function a lot more similarly to the EU than what we currently have

That was, and is, the intent of having states be their own, you know, sovereign states, with their own constitutions, laws, and courts. Unlike the EU, the US has a common language, history, and currency, so centralizing and strengthening a federal government is easier, and has some advantages.
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I've seen a lot of actual developers try Scratch and think WTF is this? How do I .....?

It's weird how you need to rewire your brain for it.
I tried (and failed).

Once I got to college, the basement of my dorm had a computer shop that specialized in x86 NeXTStep hardware. I tried to find a way to make that work too, but the costs were just too high. You didn't need just a 486DX2/66, it had to have EISA, 32MB RAM, lots of SCSI disk, and the like. It was easily a $6-7K proposition.
There's a free Community edition, which you can use as a hobbyist, or as a company until you reach a revenue limit.

https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/starter

For the commercial versions, AFAIK overall it's less than Visual Studio, but when amortized over a couple of years. Slightly different pricing model so trickier to compare.
Sounds like:

https://boroughmarket.org.uk/articles/the-spice-series-cinna...

https://books.google.ca/books?id=SpmdDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT75&lpg=PT...
I like the tenkeyless format for the same reasons outlined above, and Blender's view keys were the main thing I missed.

Pie menus addon is a game changer for that though. Hold Q, push your mouse toward the desired view direction, and let go. It's honestly even faster than moving my hand from the mouse to the numpad.

You still lose the 4/8/6/2 shortcuts for orbiting in 15° increments, but I never used those much. It gives quick access to front/back/left/right/top/bottom preset views. The ortho/perspective toggle is in a second-layer "More" menu which isn't ideal, but quick enough action for something that I'm not changing back and forth all the time.

You can also navigate the pie menus with number keys, so typing q-1-4 will pull up the menu, open the second level, and toggle ortho/perspective.

In addition to being quicker than moving my hand to the numpad, I also like that it keeps my desktop UI consistent with my laptop where I don't have a numpad either.

Outside of the numpad and pie menus, 2.8 has the clickable view gizmo in the top right corner for people who like to click on stuff. That's a nice addition for new users, it's certainly the most discoverable of the three options.
Lazarus is pretty much a free and open source Delphi (yes there are differences but they do not matter much) and really not any different in terms of difficulty compared to it.

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

You can see it in action under Linux here where i make a simple puzzle game:

https://youtu.be/s_01Xhd2EJM?t=692

(if the time stamp doesn't work, skip to 11:32, the previous ~11 minutes are me downloading, compiling it and configuring it - not 100% necessary on Linux and on Windows i never do that as the installer is a classic wizard-based one, but as i write on the video, i prefer to compile it when using it on Linux - also note that on Windows you do not need to install FPC as it comes bundled with Lazarus, it is really just running the installer, double clicking the desktop icon and you're ready)
I have been using DDG for like ten years, I love it, but I still use google for country specific results. I live in Switzerland and if I want, for example, a toy for my kids, something I want to order locally (for free shipping or the like), I use google.ch with the country option set on. I hope for DDG to add a bang someday like !.ch to have only results from swiss domains (not only .ch but all domains registered to a Swiss address). Of course for all countries.
As I recall, c# was developed by one of the primary designers of object pascal, Anders Jejlsberg, after being poached away by Microsoft. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg)
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I agree with your comment, but just for the sake of the argument, let's look at it like this.

The elected officials are also responsible for the functioning of the society in general. Sometimes you need quite the acrobatics to achieve that, I suppose. In this very case, what would happen if this report would circulate widely and become common knowledge among the population in a short time?

One outcome would be that safety measures and/or alternative water sources would be sought after. One other possibility is that no such short-term solutions are in sight, meaning, you, as the "democratically-elected officeholder" have no way of realistically supply clean water to tens of millions of people. I would bet chaos and panic would ensure. We're talking about health-related problems, and not only about the water having a bad taste.

So, in that view, I suppose that not every truth can come out to light. Some truths can simply be unbearable or have no immediate solution even though the people demand a solution to it. One other alternative might be to promise, publicly, that it will be solved. The years will pass, another promise, another elected official, and on and on.
I suspect it is a problem of information density and control that create essentially a societal logistical hell in decision making. There are too many damn things packed together for a ballot in the US's case for issues and any capacity for long term thinking is disturbingly /rare/ in general
which means the foregone and horrifying get procrastinated without issue until somebody gets hurt - hell even a while afterwards. And that even those who attempt to practice long term thinking are generally pretty horrible at extrapolation and planning for side effects of "success" because that is a pretty hard task.

Direct democracy has downright massive logistical issues for everyone to learn sufficiently capable of being informed on the issues while adding more may diffuse power it also diffuses responsibility. Simply subdividing more doesn't solve problems as not only would it result in squabbling fiefdoms instead of concern for the whole and lose the advantages of large scale.

Even if we had a known and proven better solution getting it implemented over the status quo would be fiendishly difficult to bootstrap or carry /massive/ side effects like say literal Civil War or Coups and the latter usually make things worse since the winners are based upon their ability to do violence instead of their ability towards any constructive pursuit let alone to govern.

Compound that with the evolution of emotional manipulators - the demagogs and propagandists as an electorally dominant force and every special interest after their own piece of the pie. An educated populace helps as always of course but that is a very long term project. It is a "plant trees and decarbonize 70 years ago" sort of solution.

The kicker is that despite the paragraphs of advantages it is still better than dictatorships and oligarchies. Their bread ans butter are lies, cohesion and the ability to rationalize absurdities to make travesties.
> We have hundreds more books for your enjoyment. Read them all!

I think you cut and pasted more than you meant to...
A reminder that you can remove these and many other contaminants from your water with a simple undersink RO filter. They are quite inexpensive and start at about $160 on Amazon for a lifetime of clean drinking and cooking water.

https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/list-of-household-filters-appr...
I can't remember exactly as I haven't made beer in years and sold all my books and equipment - but - I think it was _Uncorking the Past_ by Patrick Mcgovern.

It could also have been John Palmer's _How to Brew_ too - I remember the author goes into super interesting detail about metallurgy and similar topics.
Last time i checked recent versions of Delphi have DRM that need internet connection. I even remember someone from the official newsgroups saying that he had to install a crack so that they can use it on foot in their laptop when they had no internet connection.
Actually I meant I agreed that OP's comparison was (somewhat) unreasonable and inappropriate.
There is also this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebra_sky_disk

Even though Germany is not as far, it's from 1600 BC
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>it was in the end based on fallible guesswork

Right, that was my point. I wasn't suggesting they invented democracy.
america uses a first past the post voting system. Please don't assume that every form of democracy has the same problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting