skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Space was because HN uses it as italics and I don't know the escape. And yes there are cleaner ways, but the point was a real world example of having something not work out in pure shell but yet quickly barfing out something working with perl. And yes, looks like I didn't escape the dot, funny!
Great idea!

Just a heads up - the original power supply tends to give off higher voltages the older it gets, so make sure to check the 5V rail, or better, get an aftermarket PSU. They use less electricity, don't run blazing hot, and won't burn your precious antiquity :)
Knocker uppers: Waking up the workers in industrial Britain
> We can't do anything decisive to help the Uighurs without ripping apart Chinese sovereignty and causing even more collateral damage, so the best we can do is once again find our principles

Yes we can. Boycott CCP controlled businesses, their manufactured goods and services. Ensure strict sanctions are levied on CCP members. Ban travel of CCP members to and from countries that respect the rule of Law.

But nope. We would rather, like cowards, keep our mouth shut and do nothing while this genocide continuous unabated.
I means that people who would have died later this year (e.g. September) already died in March.
Honestly I think this conclusion comes more from lack of familiarity with how people solve similar problems with FP than anything. For example, in the author’s followup post:

All you have to do is pass the world state to each function and return a new state.

True, yes, but...yuck. It can be clunky in a language with single-assignment. And what is this really gaining you over C?

I mean, if you stop there, sure that’s ugly. But if you model your program with that as the foundation, then break it down (and generalize where breaking it down is general), it’s pretty easy to reason about. And what it “gains you” is never having to think about something changing in a way that produces invalid or unexpected state. (This is more true in statically typed languages of course.)

In any program of any real complexity, you will eventually be inclined to break the problem down into smaller pieces. If your smaller pieces are functions, you can be certain about the state that’s returned by them. If they’re stateful subroutines, then you have to think about multiple pieces at the same time.
Criticizing the Chinese government is racist, don't you know that?
Kindle and even PC downloadable games fall into the same category. You stand to lose your license to access if the service shuts down but at least you have binaries or files that could be reversed. It’s becoming harder though, considering how much effort RDR2 took to crack.
The war on terror deliberately avoided slaughtering white people and american citizens. The slaughtering was kept exclusively to people with middle eastern backgrounds.

It's the same.
I hate this type of comment. Just so black and white and uninformed. Bluntly there are not many things you can purchase that do not come from or have parts made in China. Food maybe?

You could instead not purchase goods from companies (not countries) that actively support China in exploiting these people. (like apple) https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-forced-uighur-labor-ip...
What do you use for code organizational purposes then?
YC Gaming Startups Are Hiring (Job Expo with Emmett Shear, CEO of Twitch)
event link: https://www.workatastartup.com/events/gaming-tech-talks-2020

YC's Work at a Startup and founders and teams of 8 YC gaming startups are coming together to host a first ever job expo focused on gaming this November. Emmett Shear, CEO of Twitch will be joining us to share his insights on how the business and technology of gaming is rapidly changing.

Aside from Emmett (if you haven't seen it, check out his excellent TED Talk on what streaming means for the future of entertainment: https://www.ted.com/talks/emmett_shear_what_streaming_means_...), we've got three pretty cool 10-minute lightning talks lined up:

- Designing Characters with Deep Learning, Cory Li, Founder at Spellbrush (W18)

- Synthetic Media: Virtual Influencers and Live Animation, Jay Rosenkrantz, Founder at Figments (S19)

- MMOs in the Instagram Era, Jimmy Xu, Founder at Highrise (S18)

After the talks, we'll open up a virtual expo hall to meet with the founders and teams.

Many of the gaming startups fly under the radar at YC, but in my (biased!) opinion, if you love games they're some of the most exciting. And the gaming industry often tackles some of the most exciting and challenging frontier technology problems before anyone else.

Working at a startup is not for everyone - and gaming startups are some of the craziest for sure. But if you're in a position to go for it, based on my experiences I can say there might be no greater adventure. So if this piques your interest, check out the event link and apply to attend/come learn about open roles in engineering, game design, art, marketing/media and more.

Hope to see you there!
Possibly. I just tried the official installer for JDownloader (which i know it includes adware) and it was flagged by several engines:

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/6684894d334c9fd629c6586c...

So chances are it'd also flag SourceForge's stuff since it wasn't purpose-built malware but some sort of generic wrapper.
Didn't the inventors of the smartphone and internet startups do exactly what the author is suggesting? How would those ventures be successful without a large segment of the population addicted to the products they provide? Let us not overly worship the power of creativity. While creativity can produce the smartphone it also produces the consequences of smartphones being successful.
Ha! I used flashcards to memorize a fair number of Emacs shortcuts.

It's not always that easy to find - even with C-h a or C-h m, etc.

But the bigger benefit is even knowing that feature X exists and there is a key combination for it. I found flash cards useful because I would get an occasional "reminder" that X exists and I should use it more often!

A trivial example: flush-lines and keep-lines. I never knew these existed till I read them somewhere. I put it in my flashcards, and over time I would remember its existence and use it more and more.
You're wrong, nuclear is very controllable. Look up control rods. It's not like it can only pump out one level of energy.
Author here for all your 8008 questions :-)
I get your point, but having people come naturally is challenging since the company is new. They need to find out about it.
Paid ads are a NO as we want to do a few iterations of the product (and validate it) before we throw money at it.
Here's the realpolitik deal, as I understand it.

China doesn't really care about terrorism.

What they do care for is a separatism movement. Not because they can't afford to give some land to those to make their own country, but because they fear that that country (or the population within China's borders if no country is created) will be used against them from foreign powers as a pressure point against China. Which is probably justified, as such a thing has happened time and again.

The West on the other hand, could not care less about the "plight og Uighurs" either. I mean the politicians and policy makers who use the Uighur plighy against China, not because they give a duck, but because it's convenient. They themselves have no qualms with fucking over other countries, or supporting other repressive regimes. As for the people in the West, we have the memory span of a goldfish, and just eat up sob stories presented concerning the "enemy of the day". Cut the prominent stories from the media, and they'd forget Uighurs in a second, like they don't give a duck for other peoples plights.

This leaves Uighurs in a hard spot, which is a crying shame, because short of genocide, what China wants to achieve is impossible. The best thing they should do, and the more humane, to don't hurt Uighurs and to get them on their side (to stop any seperatism ideas), is a friendliness war -- shove them with money, support, etc.

But there's bad blood and BS decisions already, so can this still happen? The Han Chinese need to overcome their distrust of non-Han for this to be a possibility.

I say "the Han Chinese" at large, because the party is hardly the issue here. China would do quite the same thing even if they had a democracy. Those things have happened time and again without communist parties in charge - see the re-education camps for Native Americans, Aboriginals, European camps for regufees like Moria and so on.
Great game.
I believe most high schools (at least in California) have an economics semester that covers a lot of loosely finance related topics. And actually mine had a work experience class that did cover basic personal finance / talked about compound interest.
A.) Ozil hasn't left Arsenal, he's just not played. His contract runs till next year.

B.) Ozil is just a shit team player. Never attends practice, instead vacationing on Arsenal's dime. Even Arsene Wenger, one of the greatest coaches, had issues with him.

C.) Ozil is also a huge fan of Erdogan, somebody who's currently sending troops to massacre Armenia, while also genociding Turkish Kurds. There is a 5 year old conflict that began ever since he came to power

D.) What's the last country? Iran? Russia? India? Because all of those countries and some more engage in trolling activities in online forums (including HN)
> The question is, is a successful quelling of all terrorism worth crossing the line?

Wow, the balls on that question.

And please tell me your imagined design to "quell all terrorism" uses a blockchain. If so, do tell-- really, no detail is too small.
Why do you think it's useless?
Actually I also thought of something similar, but the analogy is wrong.

A knife cannot make any decision based on the subject on which it's being treated.

i.e., a knife itself cannot do anything, while I use it to kill someone.

A software can stop a user from downloading copyrighted content.

Intact, YouTube itself gives video info, simply by requesting it's info page.

But in-order to download music videos, one needs cryptographic hashes, which need to computed.

One needs to write specifically software to deal with this case.
Doing Easy Things the Hard Way: Blog Creation
I am working on it now, it's time consuming and will yield results down the line.
Our team is hoping to try social media to accelerate acquisition at an early stage.
This is an incident that desperately needs an application of the Five Whys.
I think it's interesting to place "Useful" at the 4th level of the pyramid, above functional, performant/secure, and usable. The author themself writes "Usability marks potential, and if nobody is using it do we care?" - and why would anyone use it if it's not useful?

Personally I would reorder this with Useful at the bottom, then Functional, then Usable. It doesn't even need to work for you to ask people, "If you had a magic button that you could do this thing for you, would you want it?" Maybe this is edging towards "Product Quality" rather than "Software Quality", but I think the two are intertwined.
C.f. https://github.com/v7unix/v7unix/blob/master/v7/usr/src/cmd/...
That sounds like a great set of initiatives. But there is part selection bias for those posting on HN, they are probably on the nicer and more logical end of the spectrum.

I’m not in a place to make decisions, so unfortunately can’t change the culture from within. The founder isn’t a bad guy, I just know he’s going to screw me in the end, so overworking for him doesn’t make sense for me.

For me it sucked that I was lied to in the interview (if I had known that two of the senior members left, I would never join), but once you are roped in, it’s not that easy to get out.

That said, I don’t think my experience is particularly unique — honestly I think finding a good company is more rare than working for a bad one, but when we are in good roles (like I was in previous jobs), we do assume we can always be in good situations.

Pandemic didn’t help - worst time to be an employee looking for a change!
We tried some. But, I suspect he has tongue-tie, which might be causing this. I am not sure, if we should try exercises without knowing the root cause of the problem.
I'm all for the 'right tool for the job' mindset, but why would it be bad in principle to write an application in JS? Leaving aside the fact that modern JS is ~3x slower than C++, i.e. slightly slower than C# and Go but in the same league as Java/Haskell, not in the same league as Ruby and Python, programs like VSCode are written in JS and they have no performance issues.

It's true that performance is often ignored for no good reason at all, but it's not such a pressing concern for most applications. Very little software needs to be performant to the point that what language it's written in even matters.
Ancient Maya Built Sophisticated Water Filter System
The Bidens and by extension the Democrats have extensive business connections with China.
Where do you put all the waste you generated covering renewistan with all the equipment and infrastructure you had to build??? Is that not an environmental disaster??? The environmental impact of all nuclear would be an order of magnitude smaller.
I find "whataboutism is not an argument" is a knee-jerk conditioned reaction against putting things in perspective.

It's almost a Pavlovian thought-stopping response by now - "sure, we have faults but we know them already, can we now concentrate on treating the enemy as some unique evil again?".
Is this article designed to create imposter syndrome? What was actionable about any of this?
> What are you going to get rid of to open up some time in the kids schedule to teach finance?

Half of the English curriculum now is literary analysis. Split English into a grammar class and a literary analysis class, and let students take finance (or computer science or psychology or ...) instead of literary analysis.

I also don't see why foreign languages or art would be particularly more important than finance.
my point is that, once you accept that you can't beat the professionals, there is a very limited set of investments that make sense for most people. you can get optimal returns without understanding much about how the instruments actually work.

there are some hard decisions to make along the way, but they depend more on self-knowledge (what's the minimal lifestyle I can accept? how much risk can I tolerate?) than a technical understanding of investment vehicles.
Yes. I made an single page app exactly for that.

WIP: Achenes: A small typing-only flashcard app

https://gitlab.com/beryl/achenes/info
Strong disagree. Religion is opium for the masses. What would replace the time wasted in religious activities? Facebook? We all know where that got us.
Yes!

Replace the ESP8266 with some Arduino clone for 3.50 € and you'll even be more beginner friendly...
No, it's “uniqueness isn't the argument, stop beating that strawman”.
Yes, Fossil.

https://fossil-scm.org/
Web search data shows soaring interest in police reform, study finds
Excess deaths went down, not up, during very strict lockdowns in European countries as measured by EuroMomo data. Excess deaths also correlate quite well with reported corona deaths in this and the US dataset.

Both these facts point towards excess deaths being mostly corona-related, and not lockdown-related.
Can someone with experience of entity component systems (ECS) please chime in? My understanding is that games are not written in the manner that the author says is so easy, rather they are written as pure functions operating on a big table of world state. The world state happens to be mutable for efficiency, but that's an implementation detail. Then again I've never worked with ECS so perhaps this my misconception.
In my school (Canada), the math classes for the smart kids have stuff like matrix multiplication, and for the less ambitious kids there are units on finance.
It is true that pi is complete overkill for such a project, but it is very convenient and lots of people have experience with it.

Plus your standing desk could also be a pi-hole for wifi security.
Or you could look at this chap and his experiences in an Australian university: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/14/i-criticized-my-univers...
>But people who disagree can do so for reasons other than ignorance.

Yes, and here's the key: they might still be wrong.

I'm not saying this is the case. I'm saying that this is a possibility. "I took an informed decision which is not due to ignorance" doesn't mean the decision can't still be wrong.

Not to mention that most people just adopt shiny new stuff, hardly pausing to indeed make informed decisions...
That "epidemic of chronic disease" isn't an American phenomenon, it's a global one. The percentage of people suffering from chronic conditions is surprisingly stable from country to country. It's the prevalence of acute diseases that changes due to quality of healthcare and (in the case of COVID) transient government competence.

The each step in the shift from subsistence agriculture => industrial labor => sedentary lifestyles are characterized by their own maladies. It starts with chronic malnutrition, then moves to chronic diseases cause by pollution, then to chronic obesity and heart disease and is compounded by climate. Each country has its own unique mix of the four but the overall rates don't change much.
"Push for a data-driven culture."

Yep, stopped giving any credence to this article after this line.

In practice, data-driven is extremely hard. Most A/B testing is blindness dressed in nice clothes.

Data-driven is only cost-effective at some (large) scale, because you'll need actual experts and infrastructure.
Agreed, but we could clarify it. If you sue or take any legal action against an open source program, you forfeit the right to use any software that is open source, forever.

Which basically means you can no longer use a computer, which in pratice should be a strong enough deterent.
Actually, you can host any amount of pirated video content on youtube, as long as its "visibility" set to "private"...
Even if it's suboptimal from a technical standpoint, a company that went all in on an HTML/JS Frankenstein is likely to have seen more success than one that went all in on a more appropriate native desktop client. There's a reason we see a lot of the former and not much of the latter.
I believe the 'problem' that it solves is universal network transparency between pieces of anything. It's a library that can be used from basically any language that has a C FFI on any system with a C compiler to do IPC with anything else supporting same using a uniform and relatively simple API.
I just checked and according to the government, only English, Irish and Maths (and formerly CSPE) are mandatory for Junior Cert. I guess the fact that basically every school in my home town made all students do Science and Business Studies must have been a staffing/scheduling related thing then.
An embargo is a national, legally mandated boycott that carries penalties up to and including prison time.

If your personal boycotts help make you feel better about the ongoing genocide, that's great! I, for one, would prefer a solution that works.
Yes I do. For example, this is an article from the company that owns all of Swedens large airports saying traffic fell by 87%.
https://www.swedavia.com/visby/press/swedavias-traffic-stati...

Here you can see that in september 2020 road traffic accidents fell sharply from the september average of the previous years.

https://www.ssb.no/en/vtu
Yep, same here. I gave away my 20s for great experience but not as much pay I think I should have gotten and now I’m not as comfortable as I would like myself as a mid 30s worker.

There are always good and bad cases of course - I’m hopeful that the parent of your post is a good case (we should always be optimistic!), so it’s not to bring him down but rather just share other experiences.
That wasn't whataboutism. There isn't any arguments there also. It was simply pointing out that if this man's torture is being added to your karma if you buy anything chines then that would mean that buying anything US made would add all those mentioned things to your karma.
You know how people often bill sqlite as a replacement for (postgresql|mysql|oracle) but it is really best thought as a replacement for fopen()?

zeromq is the same way. It's not a replacement for something like kafka or rabbitmq, it's a replacement for socket()
Where do we put the waste from industrial society in general? The material flow through the renewable energy system will still be but a fraction of the flow through the economy as a whole. The US makes 100 million tonnes of steel annually, for example. There is no need to use any toxic (or, really, uncommon) elements in renewables, so recycle what it makes sense to recycle and just landfill the rest. This is sustainable indefinitely.

In the very long term, humanity might face a problem with exposure of crustal rocks by mining operations. This causes reducing materials in the rocks to react with atmospheric oxygen, gradually depleting that oxygen. The long term solution to that will be to bury some reduced materials to compensate (the production of those materials released oxygen when oxides or CO2 were reduced). So, some level of sustained burial of waste material is not only acceptable, it's likely to be necessary.
>Wow, the balls on that question.

>And please tell me your imagined design to "quell all terrorism" uses a blockchain. If so, do tell-- really, no detail is too small.

You got big balls too. The Terrorism he talks about involves actual human harm and the mass slaughter of hundreds of people in China.

And here you are trivializing what he's talking about into an insensitive block chain insult. Might as well just call him a "nerd."

I'd say your balls are 100x bigger than his.
This is just the next terrifying development on Planet China. YouTube-dl went unmolested for years. About week ago, I was party to an online conversation a week ago about how youtube-dl is an important tool for archiving videos of public officials before they can be disappeared.

Coincidence?

After the RIAA won a case against Limewire in 2010, the next significant legal action I can find in a bit of looking is that the US Supreme Court ruled against the RIAA in Allen v. Cooper (March 23, 2020).

Here are the opinions: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/18-877#writing...

I have a lot to look into...
> Religion is opium for the masses, as Napoleon succinctly put it.

As confusion between historical figures goes, Bonaparte - Marx isn't one you see that frequently.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_of_the_people
From the site,

”ZeroMQ (also spelled ØMQ, 0MQ or ZMQ) is a high-performance asynchronous messaging library, aimed at use in distributed or concurrent applications. It provides a message queue, but unlike message-oriented middleware, a ZeroMQ system can run without a dedicated message broker.”

I read it as a low-level abstraction for when you want to build a custom messaging infrastructure.
> We can't do anything decisive to help the Uighurs without ripping apart Chinese sovereignty

Breaking up a regime capable of doing monstrous things has been done before q.v. europe 1945 .
I read that in studies, including a meta-study showing no difference in mortality rate.

I suppose it's not strictly "useless" as it apparently can reduce time spent in ICU in patients who would get better anyway, but in my view to call it useful it should affect outcomes.

I'm also betraying my frustration with pharma's hold on the medical system and minds, where common sense interventions like correcting deficiencies in vitamin D, zinc etc. are seemingly ignored. Even the media is in on it. It's really an awful situation.
Well thank you for giving me a different view, now I'm going to have to dig deeper on this. I would say at first glance I already see some methodological cracks, but thanks for the rabbit hole anyway.
Uber and Lyft knocked the taxi industry on its arse.

Amazon ate Walmart alive, alone with a handful of other retailers.

Etc.