skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course that's true - we probably don't need to start re-teaching the abacus... but I'm careful about getting too complacent. When everything has been going well for a long time it's tempting to think this will continue forever. But one, say, global pandemic can bring everything down - and some of our modern conveniences can be gone... possibly for centuries.

An interesting (programming) talk by Jonathan Blow on the subject of losing knowledge! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk
The Hummer is coming back as an electric vehicle
> This was also the era of “web-safe colors” — a palette of 216 colors, where every channel was one of 00, 33, 66, 99, cc, or ff — which existed because some people still had 256-color monitors! The things we take for granted now, like 24-bit color.

Ah, I remember so many evolutions of my own websites using 336699 and 6699ff as the main colors. I still default to them even now when I just need _something_ that isn't default colors.

And wow, I forgot all about image maps! I used to stare in awe of the super artistic websites that used image maps heavily, as if I was witnessing the blackest of black magic.
Here's the WHO map, which I find a bit more legible.

http://who.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/c88...
Hippos are also rather dangerous animals. In Africa, they kill and injure more people than lions do.
Shitfights are what drive engagement and sell ad space. I think the only way it's going to stop if we start moving to a pay model instead of relying on engagement
If you don't make enough money to have any savings, any purchase of $600 at any time is "big."

Like yea I can afford it because I make 3x what my friends and family do outside the Bay Area tech bubble, but I don't pretend that I'm not special because throwing a few hundred around doesn't cause me any stress about next month's rent, or credit card, or car payment, or health insurance bill.
Remember when Amazon was just a bookstore?
Would dependent types help in this case?
Add the reference type when creating the type and then you could have the compiler check that the contract holds.
Well, you can still pull out a soldering iron and end up with a radio. That’s part of the draw, using home built equipment to talk to modern machines across the world.
> Bulletstorm lightened the mood, and as a precursor to the Gears of War series,

Bulletstorm did not predate Gears of Wars. It came out way later.
What people also should realize is that China is likely the only country of this size and might in the world that is even able to pull off a response like this anymore -- perhaps Russia could also be a candidate -- just in terms of handling the population. The same approach would likely fail in Western democracies starting with logistics and then individuals being too much out of line.
Indeed it is. Guido himself maintained a project called Pyxl3 [1] for a while (forked from one at Dropbox during his tenure there) that abused this codec feature to implement something similar to JSX within Python source.

[1] https://github.com/gvanrossum/pyxl3
It's to prevent armed riots when millions of people have no means to exist. It's definitely not to empower people to let them take more risk, start a business or anything like that. For this reason, UBI will be just enough to pay for cheapest food and cheapest housing. And if someone dares to take risks, start a business or just work, that someone will be stripped from UBI, only to prevent such activity. In the era of automation and AI, the rich don't need these millions of hyper active men who have a lot of spare time, and since they can't just eliminate them, they'll create a system in which any activity is discouraged. Call me cynical, but I'll be really surprised if I happen to be wrong.
Beyond Open Source (2015)
What's your real internet speed? (hint: not the one your ISP shows you)
> It has absolutely nothing to do with pas as in a step.

"Pas" as in the negation originally came from "pas" as in a step, through expressions like "I will not walk another step".
Is it also true that some frogs are turned gay by chemtrail as well?
That's all well and good, but if I need to make a particular effort to appreciate something, particularly if that effort includes suspending my ordinary standards of fun and quality, that something is not going to match up to the assertion "X is the best shooter you can play today." At least not by any standard definition of best.

Fwiw I don't think the og star wars movies require nearly the same suspension of standards that something like Doom does. Maybe for sfx buffs but I think most people go to movies for the human elements. That's not the same with videogames because of how the medium is interactive.
CSS layout is, in more than one way, like string semantics in c++. A whole lot of innovation and a few gross missteps happened there, with the side effect of pushing everyone and also the language itself forward
Google has recently started to tip its toes in something I've been wanting for so many years: mixing transit and cycling. But it's still mostly useless. For now Google suggests I cycle to the train and then take the train and then change to the subwat, and then walk the rest of the way. But what I want is to take my bike _inside_ the train with me, commute only in transit that allows bikes, and then bike the last mile.
The inclusion/ exclusion idea can actually be useful for harder project euler questions (deriving some sort of closed form sum to compute). Worthwhile to think about.

Im also reminded about the "semigroup resonance" way to solve fizzbuzz posted recently on hn [0]. Seems like another interesting method.

[0] https://blog.ploeh.dk/2019/12/30/semigroup-resonance-fizzbuz...
The content is also published on twitter.

https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1223931569426952192
This is profound and concise. Particularly that society/someone/something will make a plan out of you if you are without one.
They would be better off redirecting that $174B to other things at the moment.
Do not really agree. Monoliths aren't the answer for bad engineering practices any more than micro-services are.

The fundamental problem a lot of companies have, especially fortune 500 type legacy shops, is that they haven't accepted(at the c-suite level) that they need to become tech companies to compete with startups that are eating their lunch .

Switching to micro-services to try and deploy more features while starving your development teams of talent and funding won't make you a tech company. If you want faster development + more features then you need lots of development teams, and large development teams means micro-services so that you don't have a slow to change, interdependent mess after a year or two.
The cost of owning a house includes the cost of financing, you can't get around that.

Stocks can also be created.

Land is a hard one. We have no choice but to share it somehow. But overly tight money is really really not the way to make land affordable. Reducing land prices through overly tight money is basically price control through making people too unemployed and too poor to have demand for land. It's an exceptionally destructive approach.
I see that I have made you upset, you started attacking me, it was not my intention.

I'm a bit confused about your comments, since it would be comfortable to think that you are "trolling", but the fact that you are upset is clearly a sign that you believe in what you are saying.

My guess is that you are young and above average intelligence, I'm sure that you can look things up on Wikipedia, I'm old and not so sharp anymore, so I'll also look things up, hopefully we can all get better educated on what all these countries did.

Writing in English is hard at this time of the night, so I'll sign off, I wish you the best.
Google Is Shutting Down Google One Today
How does one join gigster as a contractor? There’s no obvious way to do this on their website.
Google technically has one big repo. It just depends on how you do it.
Agreed. It's a close cousin of my personal #1 driving safety strategy: "don't do anything surprising."
> because the price of any good or service that profits rent seekers will be inflated almost instantly to maintain differentials.

Only if there is insufficient competition to keep prices down and the market is already broken, which is the case in some areas but not most. In the more notable cases like housing UBI still helps by freeing people to live anywhere instead of cities with plentiful jobs, and even that is largely an artificial problem in developed countries with birth rates below replacement levels.
Loved Doom, but preferred Quake. The latest iteration, Quake Live (now on Steam, cheap) is my favourite multiplayer online game.
What do you call this thing on the upper left at apple.com?
https://imgur.com/a/pm3kOUq

Looks like a hamburger to me. It opens a menu when you click on it.
Not very nice filter coffee though. A hack for money saving brits is to get a reusable cup and then it's 49p from Pret.
I don't really see how Katrina was any indictment of Bush versus an indictment of how bad the mayor of New Orleans was and how corrupt the state of Louisiana is. Not fascist at all--run by leftists for decades.
The "normal" stuff, HK Government continues to give benefits to all Mainland Chinese, sending all the Face Mask reserve to China instead of giving it to Hong Kong people, ( Or only giving it to its own supporter in HK), refuse to shut its border with China.

Basically adding more fuel to the fire.
But at what cost? WashPo, NYT, Bloomberg, even Medium!, are paywalled to the point of exclusion of the vast potential audience they could have. Axios,NPR, BBC, and The Guardian, have not succumbed yet. I hope they do not.
Not on PC - the point-and-clicks aside - PC gaming back then was horrible, Doom was an absolute revolution when it game out.

Sam and Max was released in 1993 though I'd argue that it's hurt much more by the graphics than Doom is.

On console? A fair few, with Secrets of Mana being the pick of the bunch. It's still a fantastic game in 2020. After that you have Super Mario Kart and Super Mario All-Stars.
> Navigation apps have mostly settled into a comfortable state of "good enough" mediocrity.

There are some hidden gems out there. I've been using Locus Map Pro (Android app) for all my cycling and geocaching needs for the last few years, and some of the things you mention do have solutions in it. The app is not at all beginner-friendly, there's like a million various options and functions, but if you're willing to spend time configuring it, usually you can have it do whatever you want.

> I know what I'm doing when I'm in this area

When planning a route, it's possible to choose whether to generate navigation instructions, and this can be chosen for any part of the route separately. It's also possible to delete individual nav instructions or manually add new ones.

> I can't compare multiple modes of transportation on the same map

The route can be saved and then shown/hidden on the map, and there's probably no limit on how many routes can be shown. Color and line width is configurable, too. But yeah, it will be quite a manual process, unfortunately.

> There's no way to optimize for minimizing left turns

I think that if the navigation engine is switched to BRouter, it's possible to assign different weights to left/right turns. But I have to admit that tweaking these parameters is too much even for me.

At this point it's also worth mentioning that it only uses OSM routing engines (GraphHopper, BRouter, YOURS), so it can't take traffic into account. Which is fine for my needs (cycling), as I'd rather see the Strava heatmap (and I can!) than live traffic data. :-)

(I'm not affiliated with the project but I do use it a lot and have built an add-on against their API, so I'm a huge fanboy.)
This is one of the down sides of "software is eating the world." A 1960s Ford C4 or Chevrolet TH350 is mechanical and applied physics, whereas a modern automotive transmission is mechanical and applied physics combined with a blackbox of software controlled electronics. While it's awfully hard to obfuscate mechanisms it's nearly effortless to do so with software.
That's fine, and very common, as you say. But it is not what is meant by "it stands the test of time as the greatest in the genre." That epithet, explicitly, means an exception to that rule.

A lot of music from the 80s is good in the way you described. Thriller however, is an album that stood the test of time.
Thanks for reminding me about Erowid. Donated -- since I'm in a better position to do so than when I first needed it as a resource.
Exactly. I read on twitter around Dec 31 that there was such a virus spreading in Wuhan. Around Jan 1, the Wuhan police dep publicly condemned 8 person (the origin of the twitter news) for spreading this information and called it a rumour. Then the gov did everything to hide info and did nothing to prevent its spreading before around Jan 2x. They behaved even like they want to spread it as much as possible because just about two to five days before they made the announcement of the virus outbreak, the Wuhan gov organized a so called 40k family new year banquet -- around 40k Wuhan local families were concentrated together to have a banquet to celebrate the coming Chinese new year. All the events I cited here can be found on China's own newspaper and tv recordings.

Check out this video for the banquet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kft21UdBFI
About a year ago I really devoured Jonathan Blow's opinions. He is definitely correct in many, many aspects. I've been paying less and less attention lately because he explains the problems of virtually any language, then explains how his language solves it all perfectly. I am personally incapable of taking firesale arguments like that seriously.

I too have many great ideas, but you need to be honest about the limitations of your ideas. Jai seems like the answer for game development, but I would not trust a browser written in a language that is aspirationally fast at any cost.

Rust has a place alongside Jai, they don't have to compete.
Street and house number are certainly two different things. It's more like series of movies (Die Hard 1, Die Hard 2, etc. are different movies but part of the same series. In the same way, a street could be seen as a series of houses or addresses. So the smallest unit is the house, then the street.
> I'm wondering this is why there had been no recession past the entire decade and very likely none ahead.

I'm taking your "we've solved the business cycle!" comment as my sell signal. Everything is rosy until it isn't. I have a very opposite, pessimistic view, that this great fear of even the slightest downtown means we're just putting off the day of reckoning until it really comes crashing down.

The fact is the prosperity of the past 10 years has come with huge and growing imbalances that can't continue ad infinitum. Deficits are gigantic, and at some point all this money we've been lending will require higher interest rates for people to buy our bonds. When that happens, watch out.
Not much more than 100 years ago, 40% of world trade passed through Liverpool: 40%! It's staggering how quickly things can turn around, and I find it just unfathomable how the wealth somehow just leached away to other places over time.
Fix Like No One’s Watching – Overreacted
Ask HN: How do you organize your life?
Especially when trying to break and form new habits.
> So what to do when your sales are "one and done" ? It is a hard problem from a business model perspective.

The vendor's responses since the ~90s is pretty much that they do trade-ins and crush the old gear. That is one of the reasons (the other being outsourcing) why test instruments made in the last ~20-25 years are much rarer in EU/US compared to older gear.
Looks to me like the author should try Splatoon 2

- moving fast in non realistic patterns? check

- not being dragged down by realistic limitations? check

Its network stack is garbage, but from any other point of view (speed, strategy, system, weapons, visuals and music) it’s I think the best FPS we have in this generation. And personally I’d say ever.
> In current architectures VM is flat and continuous

Looking at /proc/$PID/maps for firefox, it contains well over 100 noncontiguous map ranges. The address 0x11b000000000, for example, is not mapped to anything, but addresses above and below it are.

You can handle the heap growing by just allocating a new page for it somewhere in free memory. Your heap doesn't have to be contiguous.
The problem is that this is a bunch of bollocks. But at the same time, that might actually resolve my problem with it as the pain gets fed back.

If one is very very lucky, a library will have accurate changenotes explaining what the version increment actually means, distinguishing between security updates and wanking-over-new-subdependency-for-shiny-irrelevant-features updates.

However, if people are penalised for not wasting their time chasing the latest version of leftpad-with-custom-characters-except-in-locations-which-are-prime-or-square.0.4.3-beta.butnotreally, maybe we'll see shallower dependency trees in the important stuff.

Where 'important' ends up being defined as 'the packages which everyone else gravitates to, and therefore can't be avoided'.

Ideally we'd see security updates for previous major versions of things, for those of us without feature addiction, but that would demand more of the devs producing this crap.
At the surface level, Doom was about killing monsters.
But it was also about navigation, finding keys, and budgeting your ammo, health.
> The reason why Americans deny that they are fed propaganda is because the kind of propaganda that exists in America is subtle

I'm assuming your American.

As someone who is not, but has spent a number of years there, I can tell you it's anything but subtle. Let's face it, your government convinces the people to spend trillions on wars while you have the lowest standard of living in the developed world. Regular citizens in America have a worse life than people in other OECD countires, but you're OK with it, because "rah, rah America".

> It doesn't involve jailing or killing dissidents.

Plenty of people were jailed in the occupy wall street peaceful demonstrations. Open your eyes.

It Also includes executing American citizens without trial [1], testing on huamns against their consent[2], overthrowing democratically elected leaders [3], etc. etc.

I could go on and on.

The fact you're inside it, and being subjected to it, means you can't see it clearly. That's why I said it's interesting 'siracusa23' can. He/she has more perspective than you (and I'm willing to bet the majority of Americans)

[1] https://theintercept.com/2017/01/30/obama-killed-a-16-year-o...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentatio...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_intervention_in_...
I did the same for the good place. Good point. Netflix can and does act as a springboard to that kind of stuff - some could miss out on the magicians or the good place and other such shows if they didn’t find them first on Netflix.
Quake Live is basically Quake 3.

After Quake 3 came Quake 4, Enemy Territory: Quake wars, and Quake champions.
> there were officials who were publicly disobeying his direct orders.

Gorbachev's point was more about public opinion than political machinery or party hierarchies.

Infighting factions had been a fact of life in the USSR since foundation, but the public as a whole still operated on the presumption that the State existed and was working with some degree of competency and some degree of shared purpose (if inscrutable or stupid most of the time).

Chernobyl laid bare that the social contract was effectively broken and the State could not guarantee the most basic protection even from itself. The system as a whole was effectively deligitimized at a very basic level, and it soon became "every man for himself". This is why subsequent attempts to solve matters among hierarchies in the traditional way (coups and so on) just failed - the public had moved on.
Things I Believe About Software Engineering
You probably already know this, but for the information for anyone else interested in becoming a Ham, you don't need to learn Morse to get an amateur radio license - that requirement was dropped in 2007.

In all of the disaster drills or other ham volunteer events I've participated in (like providing radio support for a race in an area with little cell phone coverage), Morse was not even a part of it -- it was all VHF/UHF voice communication.

That's not to say that morse is useless or completely unused, but don't feel that you have to learn it to become a ham.
If you find yourself porting to another platform that’s less PC (eg: smartphone, game console) that’ll serve you well.

Wren has some really interesting design choices so I feel like it’s a good fit for performant embedding.
I'm reminded of Scott Meyers most important design guideline, which I may be paraphrasing slightly, but it goes:

"An API should be easy to use correctly and hard to use incorrectly"

The dumbest link in the chain is always the guy writing the code, not the programming language, and not the machine executing it. So things should be designed in a way that makes it as hard as possible for programmers to make errors.

e: video is here for those who are interested
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tg1ONG18H8
Extremely useful, thanks!
Man, Doom blew everyone's mind when it showed up at work. Total productivity killer. FPS on PCs, Apples and Macs were pretty crappy prior to that. Hexen was creepier and improved the game play. Descent (non ID) was a great multiplayer and had better 3D. Finally everyone was itchin' for Quake because NIN was blowing up huge in 1995. Too bad the last level at it hard. Quake 2 had a great objective with cool bosses and much better level editing than Doom. ... And then, too many goddamn games to keep up! 1996 + Diablo I is about when I just got overwhelmed...
The Trouble with Probability
I also thought it was nice!
Per this list of US state bicycle laws [0] (I don't have easy access to bicycle laws in other countries, so I can't attest to them), I don't see a single state that requires cyclists to ride against traffic. To the contrary, every single state (barring Illinois, which suggests that bicycles be treated as traffic but leaves direct enforcement up to individual municipalities) appears to require that cycles travel with traffic (see all references to "as far to the right as possible" in the "Where To Ride" sections).

[0] https://bikeleague.org/StateBikeLaws
- install Google keyboard
- use the Morse code Tasker plugin to read your messages to you using morse code vibrations
And chainsaws. Let's not forget chainsaws. I don't recall gore like that in a game ...maybe Postal and Syndicate... but it was pre-Duke Nukem.