skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Been looking for a job since I have graduated this past May to no avail so far. I have some experience as a Programming Co-Op at a paper mill but not too much experience other than that. Really looking for a company to give me a chance.

Location: Georgia, USA

Remote: Willing to do.

Willing to Relocate: Yes

Technologies: Javascript, Java, Python

Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eSuAvGrhmjjfIJgQtSOsFOEcoo9...

Github: https://github.com/Birbcoon

Email: russellandy98@gmail.com
Needgap: Problems for Startups to Solve
The paper about the messages written by Dumas and Dutil:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228862784_The_Evpat...

As I was young, I watched Star Trek and listened to Carl Sagan's positive expectations about the "first contact." But that was before the modern Internet.

Now I'm much more pessimistic. I'm almost sure that the biggest chance of anything outside of Earth responding would not be something we'd like:

I would expect either cosmic spam, cosmic scammers or cosmic criminals to respond. And it can be even worse, to the point of some powers that do some planned destruction out of pure indifference to what the effects are, like Douglas Adams writes: just "to make room for a hyperspatial express route" and even if the Earth was not exactly there it was close enough that the "cleaning" from "risky" lifeforms will be performed and your time to file a complaint expired, thank you very much, we really care about your opinion, to return to main menu press 0.

So I'm thinking more like Hawking:

“Meeting an advanced civilization could be like Native Americans encountering Columbus. That didn’t turn out so well.” (1) ... (to Native Americans).

Some quite recent news, probably influencing me: https://www.sciencealert.com/a-46-000-year-old-aboriginal-si...

1) https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/03/stephen-hawk...
> You don't know how long the fad will last.

Also, note that if you were like me and bought records because of the music on them, and think digital music is a very recently unimaginable blessing; this is the time to sell. Don't wait until the bottom drops out (like baseball cards in the 90s.)

They paid me a fortune for my record collection. My mindset was 20 years old, and I only brought records to sell that I thought were "good" or "rare." The prices paid for even the marginal ones convinced me to go back and fetch the leftovers.
Open source interpreter, but only wealthy users can submit bug reports. "Bug or feature" is from their perspective.
[Pacifism] is only possible to people who have money and guns between themselves and reality.
-- George Orwell
one hundred percent agree. The civil route is the only one where we can achieve a true change. The regulations can push, but consumer demand will ultimately change business perception
Console options without disc drives could be GameStop’s final death knell
How to scan for secrets like API keys using a simple Python script
Fiber in France is very patchy, I had fiber in my previous tiny apartment in a building that was almost falling down, moved to new construction building aaaaand... back to ADSL, 10mbit, less on rainy days.
A genius is the one most like himself.
-- Thelonious Monk
Sean Carroll (theoretical physicist) and Nick Bostrom (philosopher with a very technical background) discuss Anthropic arguments on Sean's Mindscape podcast a few weeks ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EffcY6tnbcA
Europe forced automakers (indirectly) to change what plastics cars were made out of. Previously there were so many unique formulas of plastic that you’d never be able to sort them properLy.

But as has been mentioned already, plastics don’t recycle well.
Yes, Julian Assange for one. Look him up, you seem to be unfamiliar with his case. /s
> If a developer chooses to only publish on steam, that's not really the platforms fault, is it?

It's complicated. Using Steam's infrastructure for multiplayer and mod support means that the game will only work with Steam. Valve isn't stupid, the reason they offer those services is to encourage games to be Steam exclusives. It's not an accident that Valve has no terms or options for developers releasing on other platforms to tie into those same servers.

Now, is it nice for developers that they don't have to pay for servers and that they get an easy API to integrate with them? Sure. Is it good for the consumer? No, not in any long-term way that wouldn't also apply to Epic funding games.

I will make the argument that what Epic is doing is better for the consumer than what Valve is doing. Epic exclusives are timed, eventually games leave the platform. Valve's infrastructure changes the way a game is built, it has to be re-engineered to work anywhere else. If a game is tied into those frameworks, it's very unlikely that it will ever leave Steam.

For the most part, developers that use Steam's features end up releasing gimped versions of their game elsewhere -- you buy a game on GoG and it's literally just missing features. This is especially frustrating for mods, you get cut off from the entire community. I think fragmenting the PC market so that different versions of the same game exist on different storefronts with no indication of the "proper" place to buy a game is way more toxic and harmful to the end consumer than forcing them to wait 6-12 months to play a new release.

I agree open sourcing that infrastructure would go a huge way towards alleviating the problem. If GoG could offer their own multiplayer servers that were compatible with Steam games, that would be huge. Even better if players could set up their own compatible servers for GoG games, that would be amazing. But there's very little incentive for Valve to do that. They benefit tremendously from games hard-coding those servers and making them impossible to change.

And that's not to say that what Epic is doing is good. I generally think that we should be discouraging exclusives, or at least making it easier for users to move their games between storefronts without installing new clients. Buying games from the Epic store wouldn't really be a problem if they were DRM free and you could download them from a web client, at that point I wouldn't care about exclusives at all.

My point is more that I don't think that what Epic is doing is bad in a way that makes them unsuited to bring this case, or that the way they're disrupting the status quo on PC is uniquely evil or something. Pretty much any dev you talk to will be happy to see Valve getting more competition. We don't want Valve to be taking 30% of our game revenue.
> However I would trade it all to grow up in a stable suburb and graduate from high school with a few handfuls of folks I'd been to primary school with.

This is a fantasy not the reality of everyone else.
How so?

Having a choice of who to do business with is always good for the customer.
The problem with beginners and S3, is that they can't handle the billing side. Both calculating (outbound? same region? edge location?) and monitoring if things go south. Beginners will prefer the site going down rather than paying extra.
First Photonic Quantum Computer on the Cloud
There is a technical definition of monopoly, and this case has a lot of people throwing around terms like “monopoly rents” with no relationship to the actual definition.

A monopoly means you have total control over a market and thus control the price of the market. Monopoly rents are where you can charge higher prices but people won’t go to the competition. Neither is true: app devs can charge whatever they want for their apps. The redirections are about stopping underselling across stores which is a common retail practice when they carry your wares.

This is a fight about retail markup. Epic knows they don’t have a strong legal case which is why they have the PR campaign. The only recourse will be to convince people to change the laws, because this case doesn’t neatly fit in the traditional antitrust model.
"Buy cheap, Buy twice" I think seems related :)
The big difference is subordination.

A volunteer gets to choose what he wants to work on and if he wants to work at all. An employee/contractor does what his boss/customer wants him to do and get compensated (i.e. paid) for it.

There are many reasons why you may want to pay someone. The obvious one is to do things no one wants to do for free.

But maybe you also want a proper contract, to make sure some essential job is done fully. Volunteers who work on they spare time will stop working for you once they stop having spare time, and there is not much you can do about it, both legally and ethically.

Sometimes you also need certifications. I don't know how it applies to Debian but certified people usually don't work for free. The certification process can be expensive and they can have legal responsibilities. Even if people can offer their time and skills for free, legal responsibilities are usually off limits.

As an example, I volunteered to staff a few events. None of the regular staff and organizers were paid. However, security was paid. While we had a few burly guys, no one wanted to take responsibility, and probably couldn't anyways.
Looks like you have some XSS issues in the editor; for example changing text to "<script>alert(3)</script>"
> Not to mention that it is missing “good citizen” features like turning off colors when stdout is not a tty.

It's a tutorial, not a 1000 page book. Some things won't be in there.

Besides, detecting stdout or tty isn't even relevant for interactive TUI applications.
A small error at the beginning of something is a great one at the end.
-- Thomas Aquinas
I would add CPAN to the list of Perl's advantages.
I have no background in psychology but... is conditioned reflex even a valid psychological term?

Many human cognitive abilities are unconscious, like, in most cases, face recognition, so while I am not typically doing deliberate conscious mental math when distinguishing between my mother's face and my drinking buddy's face, it doesn't make sense to call it a "conditioned reflex" either, it seems to me. My brain is doing some sort of thought that I am not consciously aware of. That doesn't mean thought isn't happening.
This is working now. We use G Suite to create email aliases, and for some reason the permissions automatically set to "Private".
I tackled this by using SQL as the filter language where the generated code will fill in some context-specific variables like current session user id or current request object id.

This is a little limited in this current form and I'm working to expand SQL filters to match up to HTTP codes so you can say this request needs to have a session otherwise it is a 401, then it also needs to match another filter otherwise it is a 403. But this other endpoint is ok to show without a session if the object being requested is marked public in the db.

There's a lot to think through especially when extending these filters to bulk methods.

https://github.com/eatonphil/dbcore/blob/master/examples/not...
Humanity !== Capitalism
Funny, I already do most of these things in addition to some others. Adding solitary self improvement skills are a necessary start, and friendships are indeed often the effect of being useful at something. Some gaps are astronomy, which I planned to pick up as part of celestial navigation cert for sailing, and the gardening bit, as I just bailed on doing a vegetable garden.

I've seen a few of these efforts over the years, and good on them, but it's like they're trying to reconstruct Freemasonry, which already exists everywhere in the world and it is there for guys who are looking.
> Why should principles be given to countries that do not reciprocate?

I don't think Principles are really given. You have principles and you can abide by them.

> All major American tech companies are banished from China

Nope. They aren't banishing anyone. They simply have laws that make it difficult for them to work in China. What law was TikTok not following that they are being forced to sell to a US company? Its essentially extortion.

If the US makes a law, i.e. all foreign-owned companies must store data on US soil or whatever else the issue with TikTok is, then that would actually fit. Rather the administration is forcing Bytedance to sell to a US company i.e. give it to us or we will kill it.
Would you use a pair of scissors for lawn maintenance?
Sure, if my lawn was 1 square inch!

It depends on your specific use case! What are you building? Is this the best tool for the job?

Seriously these empty questions about using a tool for some general open ended purpose need to stop.

Use critical thinking. Research your issue.

Ask HN has become an exercise in handholding toddlers. I'm surprised this was even upvoted.
I'm sure it was great, but always beware to change two similar codes into a more generic one, when what was originally two served two different parts of the system.

In that case, what can happen is once the requirements change for one part of the system, now you must change a generic component in such a way as to not disturb the other part using the same component.

That way madness lie. (Of course, cut-n-paste programming is also madness inducing.)
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
-- John Adams
> I get free games from EGS

Free games are a marketing practice, nothing more. It's not a sustainable business practice, and it's paid for by Epic's exploitative Fortnight lootboxes. The "free games" will become part of a paid monthly subscription (or just go away entirely) when Epic feels like they have the audience they need.

And me? The value those free games might provide me is not worth the cost - being marketed to by a company whose values are quite the opposite of my own.
An important piece of context here is that making a living by playing chess competitively is close to nil, so many even top players like Kramnik end up taking consulting/PR jobs like this in order to pay the bills. I have a hard time believing Kramnik actually believes (or said directly) that AI ruined chess. My read is that he's not really promoting changes to the rules of chess as much as he's trying to build support for new types of chess variants.

It's true that the highest levels of play include teams of researchers and computers that develop 30+ move preparation, but what we're also seeing as a result of that are games that are more precise, which IMO is a fundamental component of chess "beauty". Some notable games that were deemed "beautiful" in the past are now seen as less-beautiful as it became apparent that play was suboptimal. Chess beauty now is less about flashy combinations and more about qualities of a position and reverse engineering the "logic" behind certain AI moves, which is still great but admittedly requires more of an investment on learning the game than a spectator might care about.

That framing, though, leaves out the massive benefit that AI has had in training and improving new players. It used to be that you needed to hire a chess master to play against and learn from in order to improve. Now your phone can easily give you a challenge of master-level strength, as well as analyze your games over the board to look for improvements.
My partner is a physician, and this is _exactly_ how they manage disagreements about treatment plans, almost by instinct. It is amazing how well this works at clearing things up.
Mainstream cassettes have always been duped at 4X or even 8X real speed on industrial copiers, with predictable results.

You'll get much better quality from hand-made micro-run solo efforts, but the corporates don't do those.
Direct link to the product https://www.gitguardian.com/
Dear Lord, give me chastity and self-restraint ... but not yet, O Lord, not yet!
-- Saint Augustine
You're literally describing Homebrew.
I've skimmed this and will dig further (it's certainly interesting stuff) but one alternative needs considering is that it's there to attract animals which somehow leave nitrogen by other means - perhaps droppings? Or that eave offal? or are killed by other carnivores? Something else?
MVC to Microservices from a Student’s Perspective
Besides the choice between using IP or "bare" Ethernet, there are alternatives to IP as the layer on top of Ethernet that are used in routed networks. Two of the more-common examples historically are Novell Netware (IPX/SPX) and DECnet.
Such efforts have popular support, but a lot of lobbying opposition:

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/20/plastic-bags-have-l...

https://theintercept.com/2019/10/18/coca-cola-recycling-plas...

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/09/20/how-to-recycle-pl...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/10/plastics...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/government-...
Try and live your life so that you never end up inspiring a warning label.
-- knodi123’s Dad
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8541004
Veritatem Dilex
("I delight in the truth")

Truth _is_. I strive to find more accurate forms to know it by.
It's not a choice when it comes to exclusives. It's not a benefit if all of the prices are exactly the same across stores.

Competition is good, but they're not competing for customers - they're competing for developers, to the detriment of customers.
I can think of more uses if you cut them shorter. Pencil holder, ... ok that's it.
Having two ways to quote is a useful feature, not just one way to do the same thing.

Javascript already has this, so allowing single quotes simplifies copypasting object literals, which is a common use case.
You’d have to bill them collectively for things like cleaning up the ocean and you’d get countersued to hell and back. It’d be easier to just tariff everything, but then you either soft ban that material or embolden them (do the time, do the crime style).
"People work jobs they hate to buy shit they don't need." -- Tyler Durden (Fight Club)

That had a lot of influence over me when I heard it in High School. Something about it really clicked for me, and set me on a path to enjoying life for what it is instead of always chasing after money and possessions.
Slow chess is not solved by any human; it's broken. It's dead-ended because some better players avoid aggression so they can play short-time tiebreakers instead.
Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Releasing Fear with Ayurveda
In these times of uncertainty, fear has surfaced as our greatest enemy. Even isolated in our homes, we are affected by the emotional state of the people around us, those we casually interact with at the grocery store, our friends and neighbors or the population the entire country.
Read this beautiful article on "How to release fear with Ayurveda"
Personally, I would like to be able to use the new streaming gaming apps, such as Microsoft xcloud, Google stadia, PlayStation now, etc.
Tutanota is my first e-mail provider since deGoogling.

ProtonMail didn't have an integrated Calendar (at that time at least) and was more expensive.
Fastmail is Australian which is a non-starter from a privacy perspective. Unironically written from the US. Also, more expensive to use your own domain.

Tutanota is €1/mo (billed yearly), lets me use my own domain, has a calendar, and is based in Germany.

Since using it, I realized without the Calendar scanning my Inbox and auto-adding flights and trips and birthdays, I don't use it as much. But I also haven't traveled much since March.

Definitely worth a look if privacy is a goal, and money is an object.
Sadly the only alternative is to buy used, disc copies.

Digital collections certainly have privacy tradeoffs. Though I'm quite happy with many of the upsides: cross-play, automatic cloud save, (sometimes) cross-save, no disc swapping, fewer things to clutter my living space.
But even then, you often aren't returning the plastic bottles to be reused anymore, instead they're just recycled. --When I first moved to Norway in 2008, the soda bottles actually were collected, cleaned, and reused, but they stopped doing that, and now they're only recycled. --It's better than them ending up in landfills or being burned for energy, but as has been noted, plastic can only be recycled so many times, so it still ends up causing more plastic to be manufactured.
It was well named as a compromise. One of the possible alternatives was that slaves didn't count at all, not really being full people in the eyes of society. Then the slave owning states wouldn't have had nearly as much federal representation.
Praise makes me humble but when I am abused, I know I have touched the stars.
-- Oscar Wilde
I never took it badly - its hard to convey tone with just short text!

I think we were coming from different directions, i see what you are saying.
Nah. Teaching doesn't make people smarter. Challenging yourself does.

There's a fundamental divide between those that think the best of us are only here to help the less fortunate. And those that think, the best of us should be out there expanding the frontiers.

Especially since the 'less fortunate' sometimes can be that way by laziness.
true... But also at that time you did not make much as a developer anywhere. When I started this in the 90s if you made 50-60k you were the super elite of programmers and had been doing it for 20+ years. Usually if you stayed at a company they would take care of you. One guy I know went the full route at one of those companies and retired in the 90s his retirement was very nice. The dotcom bubble changed everything with respect to pay and long term comp.
The waste processor in Seattle claimed to be able to recycle Tetrapac boxes, although I’ve no idea how they manage that or if it’s just PR.
On Windows 10X that is the only way to install software.

Windows 10X just didn't happen due the current situation having changed schedules to everyone.
tl;dr you can recycle vintage goods as well into your daily life, start at home.

my entire kitchen is vintage glass, some of it lower in cost than buying new, that I snagged off ebay. In my case Anchor Hocking bubble glass. Combine with Corning Ware storage pieces for the kitchen you can "reuse" at home by buying what was made decades ago. Heck, my toaster is a 50s era Toastmaster.

Getting soft drinks out of plastic containers and the ever famous k-cups would go a long was as well. I do my best to only use cans and glass for for my food purchases. produce aisle is still stuck with plastic bags but I would love to see biodegradable paper bags or open top containers to stack goods in.

The soap/detergent aisles really need to go down the route of selling concentrated goods but this will require some incentive on manufacturer's part to sell them cheaper by end result.
I propose a glass container as a replacement.
Why? Other commenters were talking about PGO and saying Rust did support it.
"slow is smooth, smooth is fast" - not sure where the origin is, perhaps military, but some of my friends/coworkers have laughed when I said this before. To me, personally, it has always turned out to be true. When you're working on something, don't rush it, take the time to do it right. This typically saves time in the long run because you tend to avoid rework.
On the french Minitel a lot of discussion forums were private owned and not really censored. I think the censorship is more heavy on facebook than it was on minitel services.
I’m part of the disease.
-- John Drake, in the Dangerman epsode “The Man on the Beach”
You won't be disappointed in that approach, ever ;)
If he loses this fight, he should bankroll a Linux Phone and an iOS/android-app-to-Linux phone cross compiler.
I put a bunch of these suggestions into a playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/01K5ylCvqqzjV06mfj3RuA?si=...