skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Peter Molyneux cut my hair once at a Friday meeting in 2003 while I was interning at Lionhead on Black and White 2.

It was a very interesting company, full of brilliant people. Demis Hassabis wasn't there anymore, but Alex Evans was, and he was my demoscene programming idol at the time. I didn't hesitate to get both their autographs before going back home!
Even going as far back as when India was a British possession, the Indians who were able to immigrate was still the best-suited for success. In fact, I’d expect that the disparity was greater then that now - the caste system was even more strictly enforced, and it took more resources to move halfway around the world in 1960 than it does in 2020.
What a stunningly beautiful webpage
Oh this is awesome. I remember using Winamp in high school, and I think it was Winamp 2 came out one morning and they had an Easter egg on the site, writing in with the location of that Easter egg netted you a reward. It was a Winamp t-shirt.

It was a cigarette box with the llama on it.

Winamp, it whips the llama's ass.

What a trip down memory lane.

For those that aren't aware, the guy that created Winamp (Justin Frankel) is now working on a DAW called Reaper (http://reaper.fm). It's stellar for what it is as well!
EDIT I misunderstood the post -
I second this most strongly. Both Monkey Island 1 and 2 are available in unofficial "talkie" versions, which work in ScummVM.

It's technically piracy, so buy the originals at GOG so you don't feel too guilty.

Great games, and this is the best way to play them.
> It amazes me that people who are supposed to have studied business and marketing continually throw the long term health of their company/industry under the bus to satisfy the short term revenue stream.

It shouldn't really be surprising, given the incentives. Performance reviews, bonuses, etc. are probably based more on short-term performance than long-term health because it's easier to measure.
Another channel I'd add to this list is Vivek Haldar: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpXfS8bu7ILGCuOtsnJMtxQ

He comments on papers of various CS topics.
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There will always be characteristics that are advantageous, but what's beautiful about SV is that it's possible to succeed without those advantages. I'm not sure I've seen that anywhere else — at least not at the scale of SV.
Debt-trap diplomacy: Papua New Guinea wants Huawei loan cancelled
He is partially right about Syndicate. You used to max out your characters mid-game and the gameplay after that was usually "just persuadertron everyone until you have a goblin army and attack". There wasn't much variety in missions. However, I don't remember getting bored by the game either. I was just sad that it got too easy and repetitive after a certain point.
It's not "another way" it's just existing web technology but skipping the download step.
I know many believe that this is mess is the result of the existing Copyright laws but I disagree. We are in times of change, where Wild Wild West is getting rules and enforcement. It's a painful situation for most, because the rules are ambiguous, made up on spot and change often.

I believe the true solution is through use of scalable and precise technology, brining high transparency and removing ambiguity. I built my whole company around this idea [0], so I'm definitely biased.

I know that many might disagree with me on this, but shattering copyright is not going to do us, the society, any favors. If you, as I, believe that automation is going exceedingly take over more of our responsibilities, IP (intellectual property) [read creativity] is the only thing left to us as humans. While many believe copyright is about extortion of money, I believe it's about proper attribution. This is the founding principle behind Creative Commons which believes that credits needs to be given to the creators. If they choose to make money of their creation, that's their right and should be followed.

I do believe that with transparent rules and removed ambiguity the UGC market will thrive beyond what we seen so far. You can see glimpses of what's possible through platforms like TikTok or Triller that do acquire licenses and are in process of paying creators portion of the revenue. This was one of the most important innovations of YouTube that spurred a whole new market and paved the way for many new platforms.

Imagine that you, as a creator, could know instantly which content of other people can you use under what conditions. If you disagree with them, you just don't use it and choose something else. Especially in music, this gives you a freedom of selection. There is 80M songs. There will be always enough to choose from, even if the major righpshodlers would withhold their catalogues.

I believe that if the rules are know, are stable and unambiguous, then the market will be much stronger and healthier for everyone.

[0] https://pex.com/attribution-engine/
How are they going to prove intent?
Can't imagine any way one can prove intent one way or another here..
Uber Is Hurting Drivers Like Me in Its Legal Fight in California
I'd rather consider this an encoding than a cipher
BBC generally works pretty well and produces a lot of quality content (even many kinds that are not necessarily commercially viable but nevertheless benefit us all when they're made).

I don't see what's inherently negative about government journalism, although I certainly wouldn't trust the independence of say Voice of America based on the way it's run. But the BBC shows it doesn't necessarily have to be that way.
> now the same ones that said Obama was a secret Kenyan that ran a human-trafficking ring in a pizza parlor though?

I have never heard this. Apparently we get our news from different sources. Did I miss anything, or are my filters working properly?

The military has rules of professional conduct which help establish a non-toxic culture. "Respect the role" flows from that. When you're given orders, you're not going to make a personal judgement on the president. You're going to do your job. A toxic culture could cost lives.

The military can be a strange world for people who have never served.
the main issue I have with the DIY mentality is that, for me, it's endless, and even more so, it's an unpaved path, ad-hoc, with few integrated well defined paths. we've got lots of open source software, but the ops of being online is hard fought experience.

* `apt-get install postgres-server` would have worked fine for my needs on my VPS. oh but i need roles, so let's start an ansible playbook. maybe let's tweak some settings. fine, still all short, easy to do.

* ahhh i should probably have backups. how am i going to manage that storage, where is that going to live?

* then i introduce a new feature & my database is running slow. explain query helps, but i also could use some metrics for these boxes, so probably need to start thinking about prometheus & node-exporter, &c.

i am radically in favor of a) personally facing these challenges and b) open-sourcing the operational knowledge & tools for setting up AND OPERATING systems.

yet at the same time i also think spending $171/mo for a year is an exceedingly wonderful option to have on the table. running my own servers is, to me, a lifelong project, something i want to deeply invest in. there's plenty of ways to go about it that aren't so arduous (k8s+postgres-operator+rook+tbd monitoring+tbd directory-services), but that willingness to keep engaging, supporting, maintaining, scaling things can be a very serious concern that extends well past the time it takes to set a database up: it's an ongoing "giving a shit" burden even when (seemingly) working fine.

being willing and able to hack through is great, and i am all for the coallition of the willing who elect to march through, hopefully not getting bogged down along the way. but wow if you are trying to start a business, it sure is nice being able to pay someone to spin up, back up, monitor, scale some services for you.

i hope some day "we" are better at such things, systematically, i hope open source ops helps give us better paths to doing these kind of things easily, safely, observably, resilliently. we're not there yet. but wow, this challenge to me- how we move open source from an older "software" model to an online service model, that empowers people to set up online systems as easily as opening an editor, that's the challenge at the heart of open source today. it's one that needs a lot more effort, a lot more work, such that we have good ways to stand up & keep up a database server.
> He also made a hard right-wing turn.

...or he refused to kowtow to the dominant narrative after which he gets accused of 'making a right-wing turn' in the same way believers are accused of being sinners. He has, after all, what is often called fuck-you money so he no longer needs to fear being cancelled.

It is way past time for the stigma on other than left-libertarian political opinions to be dropped. It should be clear from the past few months that those who hold left-libertarian views are not automatically 'good' people, nor are those who hold right-conservative views automatically 'bad' people. Society benefits from having people on both sides of the spectrum, left-libertarians and right-conservatives.
I think this is a difference of language.

It’s clear that Blacks are less likely to succeed in the US than Whites. One can phrase that as “Blacks are disadvantaged” or “Whites are advantaged”. Both are true statements, but one leads to positive actions and the other to negative.

As a society, our goal should not be to eliminate the advantages of one group above another. We should be trying to provide more advantages to everyone, both as a population and individual groups.
Concurrency is generally a bad thing and specifically it is a good thing.
The amazing thing is that Silicon Valley doesn't take advantage of young founders in this way (at least much less than in the East Coast/other environments I've seen). YC did a lot to change the culture of VC in Silicon Valley — I think almost everyone has shifted to playing infinite iterated games where screwing over a newcomer is disadvantageous because you don't know where they'll go in the future.
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Yeah, the home screen is "different" (though that's actually probably where they are the most alike). It's stuff like the boundary setup experience is very different. Their respective SDKs are incompatible with each other, so the available software library is very limited on the Focus and Neo. But they are also mostly "stock" Android devices (other than the VR related APIs), so as a developer there are no artificial barriers like on the Oculus platform.

Tracking-wise, there isn't a lot of difference. Certainly not enough to warrant giving all your data to Facebook.
Someone once put it to me that cooking is a process of converting inedible calories (combustibles) into edible ones. Mostly by cooking difficult to digest food, but also increasing longevity of other foods (eg, smoked meat).
Radiography – Text-ray goggles for your Android views
Re-examining our approach to memory mapping
Can't wait for new major version that includes changes listed in RFC4880bis, new curves, AEAD methods EAX and OCB and many other improvements.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-openpgp-rfc4880b...

GPG is great, there is no tool like it.
This is what I did as I had deleted my Facebook account years ago. I haven't run into any issues so far and it's been working with my Oculus.
You know, it was always a long shot. I grew up poor. So I was disappointed but there is no way my parents could afford to pay for a couple of weeks' accommodation for me in Guildford (and I obviously didn't have the money). In my heart of hearts, I knew that all along. Really I think I just wanted to see if it could possibly work. As you say: pretty cool to have made it halfway.

It's also worth pointing out that whilst they didn't let me do that - and disagreements between stroppy teenagers and their parents are hardly unique - they did help me in a lot of other ways, and made plenty of sacrifices for my benefit, for which I will always be grateful.
Beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder.
>) so getting a response from high profile entrepreneurs is definitely possible without much luck.

...not the premise of the argument and clearly blind to self-awareness.
Do you remember Slashdot Beta? That got me into Reddit and HN.
So, made up history or art plus men are geniuses and women are pretty. Gotcha.
Yeah it was around 13/14 that I found YC. I think it was through a programming humor subreddit haha.
I disagree and view this more as recency bias.

It is better to have scrutiny in government - even if it isn't quite as agile.
My dad used to do the same thing all the time but with trains and coaches - if you had to send something to the other side of the country pronto, you'd go to the train/coach station, speak to the driver, hand them some money, and they'd happily take whatever you were sending with them. It was literally the fastest way to get something somewhere. It doesn't surprise me at all that people used to do the same thing with flying.
Not everything has to be monetized. Reddit is a data store of links, text posts (EDIT: as well as images and video per FalconSensei), comments, user identities, and associated meta data. Let's Encrypt runs on a budget of $3MM-$4MM/year. OpenStreetMap's budget is a few hundred thousand dollars a year. The Free Law Project could store and serve all of PACER for a similar amount. HackerNews is hosted on a single server. You could run a clone of Reddit off of the Internet Archive if built properly.

Funding is needed, monetization at all costs is not.
Sending a newly created secret to a colleague. I already have his pubkey so I wouldn't have to worry about how trusted a channel is.
And never mind the fact that just doing things well can be it's own permutation. Sometimes a field seems played out, and then someone comes along and knocks it out of the park by just executing.
Lots of business simulation games completely fail at modeling the inflow of customers as a reaction to existing customer satisfaction. Ie, they don't model returning customers or the effect of customer dissatisfaction on attracting new customers.

And yes, like with Rollercoaster Tycoon, one could do horrendous things; but that's less a reflection on the player's moral character as it is upon their curiousity and awareness of the lack of real harm.
It's not the best comparison. Gitlab is VC-backed, whereas Sourcehut aims for slow, sustainable growth. Plus, the UX decisions of Sourcehut are so drastically different from Gitlab/Github that it doesn't threaten existing customers very much.
The conversion rates (visitor to signup) went up from around 7.4% to 11.2%. Still curious to see if this holds.
> One other point that matters is time: running 20k unit and integration tests to verify the types are all correct for your 6kloc will take much longer than compiling 6kloc

I'll disagree here. The kind of thing you can verify at compile-time can be tested very quickly, and compilers with less useful type systems can be much faster. All in, the tests are probably faster to run.

But yeah, compilers do make a better job on incremental validation. That's probably intrinsic; validation is very likely more prone to be incremental than tests.
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The discussions about a lack of specification are, I think, the largest and most-relevant. Someone in an earlier discussion mentioned the Rust Reference [1], but it is not sufficient: in particular, many portions of the memory model, calling conventions, and borrow-checking enforcement are left unspecified. Rust's guarantees are built on these, and they are currently defined by the current rustc implementation. Until a complete and detailed standard is published, Rust will not have a stable AI, and cannot enjoy multiple implementations (which inhibits its portability). Even the bit about Cargo stems from this: without a specification, Cargo's implementation is the de facto explanation for to properly link external, compiled libraries against rust binaries. As Rust matures, I anticipate many of these things will stop being the case---and I really hope someone gets around to writing a different Rust compiler, using pattern-matched ASTS like you would in OCaml, instead of the current, visitor-based solution.

1. https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.0.0/reference.html
Whatever replaces C, if it is replaced, won't be C.
r/neoliberal for discussion of center left politics focusing on evidence based policy.
> The first five can't lose much in value

Allow me to introduce you to my friends, OTM and theta...
Agreed. Also, with the redesign UI there is no way to manage your multireddits, making it a chore to curate content. I have to go to the old reddit version of the sub to add or subtract it from a multireddit.
Ironically, I follow Bret's work over other, more famous people, because I prefer reading over listening or watching.
Yeah, I created an account a few years ago, since a few of my friends relied on Messenger / FB Events to coordinate plans. I used anti-tracking plugins, on mobile I used an unofficial F-Droid client for Messenger, desktop only used the mbasic.facebook.com

It was probably two months before my account was flagged for "suspicious activity" and asked that I submit a photo of a government-issued ID, which I never obliged.
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Seems like they've been having some trouble for a couple of hours now. On my end quite a few payments not going through.
> They're just trying to survive this quarter.

They are probably trying to maximize the metrics their employees (whoever represents the shareholders) use to evaluate them. And those are short term metrics by necessity of the evaluation.

Survival is one, but it's a really easy one to top, so they are probably ignoring it.
Can I give half an upvote? I haven't played the game but, gosh that movie was crap.
I don't think Wordpress and VIP belong in the same sentence. There are vastly superior PHP CMS's such as Grav or OctoberCMS that don't make PHP look like a garbage language.
Not to distract from the bigger piracy issues, but I've found JustWatch.com and their mobile app to be a quick way to figure out where a given show or movie is available. No relation to them, just a satisfied user.
I do believe there's a "drop C and pick Rust" crowd, or multiple even.

When it comes to building user mode applications like desktop programs with QT or GTK or what have you or command line programs such as curl and wget, I think these crowds have a valid point. Most of those applications are written in an object oriented language though.

There's also a very small group that's very militant about everything, including kernels and microcontroller programs, being rewritten into Rust. I don't pay too much attention to that crowd; C has its place and it's not the ultimate solution to programming languages.

Rust won't replace C in the kernel, but I do think we will see tooling for our network clients, file indexing and perhaps even version control slowly switching languages (if they still rely on C, that is). These will all be new tools though, because rewriting an old application into Rust and maintaining compatibility and performance is a big challenge.
>> And so it will since politicians have control of the money supply.

The Federal reserve is criticized as "undemocratic" but that is why it is independent. Of course by the very nature a government can have sizable influnce on the economy without direct control.
Having served the Military of my country (NATO member) I can tell you that one can both obey orders AND believe that their President/PM/Minister of Defence is a dick :)

Edit: regarding the "sending you to war" cough ..Saddam-weapons of mass destruction.. (???)(rings any bells??) cough
No we agree much more than you think. I really like minecraft, some of my greatest teen memories are of running a server with a bunch of my friends that had 40+ mods. I think the world is made better by minecraft's existence, and people have made all kinds of beautiful and artful things in minecraft.

My point was not to say that there are no games that provide powerful, meaningful, beautiful experiences to the humans that play them. Such a claim would be absurd. What I am saying is that the game as a medium probably hasn't matured to the point where it can be compared to the Arts with a capital A, as they are historically understood. Precisely, I mean things like painting, sculpture, music, and literature.

I am not the stupid kind of cultural elitist who would say that there is something inherent about the video game medium that would prevent it from rising to that level, I just think that empirically it hasn't happened yet, though in the long term I am quite hopeful.

And yeah, contemporary "high art" has been in largely poor condition for quite some time. At least if the stuff that makes it into museums is any indication.
I know this is a small nit but the favicon on your site isn't loading, maybe my adblock?
Who cares if it is or isn't legal currently.

Lots of things where once legal, which the majority of society came to deem as bad (slavery, child labor) - which we then came to make illegal.

But the problem here isn't just simply buying stocks, or holding options. It's the repeated process of buying both a stock and its options at the same time by a whale - and it seemingly does allow for manipulation of stock price. As so, why shouldn't such a pattern of activity be made illegal?
For those that care about security in C, even those functions are not the way to go, rather something like https://github.com/antirez/sds.

This is something that the book fails to teach, as it also has no mentions of modern static analysers practices, naturally given the book's age.

So at the end we get yet another C newbie writing future CVEs.
I wish I had a better label. Something that makes clear that I'm criticizing certain players and not the game. A way to celebrate liberal democracy coupled with capitalism, distinct from monopolistic, predatory, fraudulent behavior.

David Graeber is much better at this sort of thing. Like his calls for redefining work in terms of caring for each other.
It is the English Language and Usage Stack Exchange (for linguists and etymologists), as distinct from the English Language Learners Stack Exchange (for people learning English), and indeed from the Computer Science Stack Exchange (for computer scientists) and the Software Engineering Stack Exchange (for software engineers).

* https://cs.stackexchange.com/

* https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/

So the question to ask onesself is whether one wants answers to a programming language question on how to name a variable from an audience of linguists or from an audience of software engineers. (-:
Amazing work, I've been doing something similar in my free time and it's a lot of fun.
I'm a bit skittish about posting too many specific details on a public forum until my application has been processed. This may be foolish, but I've put a lot of time and money into it, and significant aspects of my future are riding on being approved. I'd message you details directly if I could figure out how.
>Found out a few years later that the drives were defective, and would often (but not always!) have buffer errors when burning discs close to capacity

there was a slew of software hacks in most cd burning suites that'd attempt to deal with that problem across the industry.

believe it or not : time dependent FIFO buffers are capital H Hard. Or at least they were back then.. I suspect the damage done by poorly constructed FIFO buffers now is just more hidden, not exactly lessened.
Amazing how many people in this thread don't understand nuclear and are spouting rampant fear mongering. Nuclear is fundamentally a safe technology, and these new reactors are safer than anything before. Think about how many deaths have actually been caused because of nuclear compared to coal power. The difference is dramatic.