skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On one of my first programming jobs, they weren't quite ready for me, so they just told me to read all the manufacturer's documentation on the platform we were using. I managed to read most of it cover to cover. Within a month I was being recognized for doing things others who had been there a year weren't even aware were an option. I've always been the type to open up a new application and explore what every single menu option offers, as well as at least digesting the whole table of contents/index to the help file or documentation.
>"...increasing military presence..."

What's the point? You think the US will really threaten EU with the war?
Columbo was pretty well-known in the nineties, so much so that it was referenced in contemporary hip hop songs as a byword for ‘cop’ or ‘detective.’

https://youtu.be/aaPQsYqNDnY (NSFW, language)
Thanks! Have done my share of remodeling in the past. Not easy work but the goal will be to get to the point where we can hire a team of workers and just do the finances / design / management. Same as anything else, right? Takes time to get a base going / get a process down, but I'm up for a new challenge.
Oh but that behaviour is actually pretty clearly not compliant with the EU cookie law. It just hasn't been enforced (which isn't great).

They're not allowed to make it harder to withdraw consent than to give it.

I've also found, on the few times I humoured their "consent" system, found that each of these "tracking providers" (?) needed to make a request to a different domain to withdraw consent, and some of them simply wouldn't load.
Sharpshooter fallacy: shooting a rifle at a barn and painting a bullseye around the biggest cluster of hits.

"Portal is to a great extent a tech demo" (therefore it shouldn't be judged as a game)

Yet Portal is sold as a game in its own right. Riven was released in 1997 and is still a delightful intellectual challenge today, with nothing really like it. It's very much the opposite of modern games with a built-in GPS system telling you where to go. Riven is clunky, pixellated, but integrates good puzzles and a well thought out world in a way I haven't seen anywhere else. It was also a technical feat at the time.

Like I said in my Steam review, I believe Portal popularity comes from the fact it's a puzzle game attractive enough to draw people who don't play puzzle games.

Baba Is You is going to be a classic 20 years from now, despite its ugly graphics. In hands of anyone else, it would be just a gimmick, like Portal. But the idea was masterfully executed.
People are generally the same all over but that doesn't mean that the actions of their state aren't fundamentally incompatible with the actions of other states.

I the average Russian (or eastern european in general) has more common ground with the average American than the average Frenchman or Italian does. That doesn't mean we can get along though.
Wow. Fearless, unblinking. Taking the pictures was the easy part - publishing them took courage.
Yeah, one downside is what you said that you can have a bunch of open tabs which is the whole problem this tool looks to solve! The other downside is that tabs don't sync across devices and your bookmarks in Runneth do (as long as you're logged in).
I think what the "legacy" news media failed at more than adapting was effectively communicating the time and effort that goes into serious news gathering and reporting. I regularly get the impression a certain slice of HN commenters think "the media" is a bunch of opinion bloggers fabricating sources to drive "an agenda". In reality, the effort for producing a deep investigative story can be equivalent to an a mid-size software engineering project in terms of person hours and expertise. Three senior reporters working on a Pulitzer-level story can take years, numerous support staff, and legal fees.

Most software engineers innately know that taking an open-source project, stripping the authorship, putting it your own site and running ads next to it is unethical, regardless of the licensing etc. Yet, when it comes to capturing news stories of equivalent production effort, "information wants to be free". I think that may largely be a failure to understand the work that real reporting takes.

Ironically, as prestige newsrooms have shrunk, the percentage of high-quality stories has gone down because revenue has declined and those stories are expensive. So in fact we do perversely end up with more click-bait as Google et al engineered systems to optimize for attention and click-through (the opposite of a multi-part investigation).
No, the article just replaces the container with SQL but not the components (e.g. a slide). Which without extra changes are still XML, stored as text in the database.

The change from storing the inner document format in something which is not XML is completely independent of changing the outer container to sqlite.

SQL isn't really suited as a markup language so storing styles "flowing" text in it isn't that good of an idea. The article only recommends storing all separate blobs of styled text in tables (it also sidesteps the whole problem about flow text across multiple pages by simple using slides as an example ;=) ).

Lastly I'm against using a "stock"/unhardened sqlite version, not sqlite in general. Ironically on of the features I would disable for now is related to text search but I don't remember the name of it so I can't really use it as an argument :=/.

So if you ask me:

- Change containers to a different format then zipped sql files, consider sqlite but use a hardened feature limited sqlite version.

- Change the inner representation away from XML(1)

(1): Ok, there are ways to safely use XML but this isn't useful for this discussion and they require a bunch of thinks which all reduce usability (of the XML library) and performance and only work for certain use-cases where you e.g. do not need fully stable serialization and de-serialization and might be limited to a subset of XML and don't rely on the verifier for anything "safety" realated and preferably don't use C/C++ to write a parser... so it's easier to just not do it tbh.
This is easily managed by changing the url based on the source of traffic (e.g., the omnipresent ?camId=foo on so many links). Heck, back when I published a magazine, I did this in analog form by using slightly different addresses for mailed in subscriptions (adding a Dept S to the address for the ad in Step by Step, Dept H for How Magazine). It doesn't take intrusive user tracking to be able to measure this sort of thing.
It is: https://cuiab.ca.gov/board/precedentdecisions/docs/pb39.pdf
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TBF, Jetbrains IDEs do feel sluggish at least on macOS compared to the alternatives (like Xcode or VSCode) on my mid-2014 13" MBP. I don't know if the JVM has performance problems specific to macOS which would explain why big UI applications feel so laggy, or whether other systems with more recent CPUs simply have more reserves to hide the lower UI performance though (the latter is probably more likely).
That rings true for me, but with a slight adjustment; once you have fill your brain with knowledge you can then condense it to the simplest model, from which the rest can be derived if needed again.
> Thank you UN for not being able to do your job!

The UN is simply a forum for countries to meet and discuss international affairs. It is not a global governing body, and wields no power not authorized by its constituent member nations.
Porting games that have successfully run on multiple platforms for years to new hardware is different than non-functional console ports of a PC game.

Doom and witcher 3 run reasonably on the switch, which is arguably not true of the console ports of Cyberpunk.
I note two things:

- This seems to be research conducted in China. I'll let everyone's imagination fill in the blanks

- It looks like each individual Drone builds and maintains its own SLAM model which is then merged by hand for the YT video. But ... getting the swarm to do its own automated real-time merge is likely next on their agenda. Seeing around corners FTW!
That still suggests a _machine race_ could have sent it.
I read the comment you just flipped out over as suggesting that the developers weren't tuned into to the current performative hypersensitivity and outrage that is fashionable among members of the American Left and those who pander for their clicks — not that Poles as a people are somehow more misogynistic or xenophobic than Americans.
You might like to try Write yourself a Git [0] (discussed here previously [1]). YMMV, but I find the best way to learn something deeply is to get hands on. Less of a chance of convincing yourself you understand something that you really don’t.

For less of a time commitment, Git from the inside out [2] is a really nice explanation of the internals, from initializing a repo and the files that creates in the .git directory, all the way to pulling from and pushing to remotes.

[0]: https://wyag.thb.lt/

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19386141

[2]: https://maryrosecook.com/blog/post/git-from-the-inside-out
Could this all be summed up to "know your fundamentals"? I get the nuance to the rest of what he says, but I think it still falls under the "know your fundamentals" umbrella.
> Google Amp doing essentially the same thing

Iframe is a security trainwreck. You could clickjack Google's login widget iframe to steal account details as late as 2018, maybe even later.[1]

Whatever legitimate gripes you may have with AMP, it's not the same as iframes at all.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17044518
I guess AppCode and Rider aren't included. As a Linux user I completely forgot they existed :).
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All that "valuable developer time" didn't make any difference - AMP did.
This really resonates with me. I'm becoming jaded as well.

My most hated thing about the industry: the amount of people who do not give a shit.

These people try to do the least amount of work possible. They actively try to stretch a day's worth of work into a month. They do not want to learn anything, even on the company's dime. They have zero passion and pride. Often they are vicious; they will act so kind and diplomatic but they are sneaky snakes that will take credit and control communication. They would shoot their own mother to look good (apologies for the morbid exaggeration). I know that this might be common elsewhere but I feel like our industry has seen such demand, and 90% of that demand was filled with awful people. The poor visibility of actual work done allows these people to continue feeding of the flesh of true, honest, hardworking devs. I've been eaten alive once too many and I'm sick of it.
Part of the problem for example is the story swings between "good" and "great" only if you are on a particular path.

The corpo path for example is a bad one:

1. in the intro you litearlly do nothing, you only hear an NPC explain a mission to you, and right after that mission is cancelled and you are thrown in the game proper, you literally do nothing except hear people talking about stuff that later is completely irrelevant in the rest of the game.

2. The main quest seemly assumes you are a street kid, your character talk with street kid slang and all, the few times you can talk as if you were corpo, not only the character style of talking changes, even the volume changes, it is very jarring, whenever you click on the corpo option the character personality, talking style and the volume of the recording of his voice actor changes.

3. Some parts of 2, ditto for nomads, for example if you are playing as nomad, and do a certain nomad sidequest, they say "you don't understand our issues, you are not a nomad", because obviously they assume you are on the streetkid path.

4. It is easy to get lost in the story because of bugs, for example many people got quests totally derailed because they skipped triggers of the scripts or something else broke entirely, and also many people got confused because critical information on dialogue was missed because the constant phoen calls about gigs and delamain cars can play on top and hide the critical dialogue.

So even though one specific path of the game, seemly has good story, even then people can feel like the story is crap because the game sabotages itself.
Unfortunately, that comment precludes the Free Software and the Open Source software side of things. In those cases, it is free code under a usually strong license of permissions.

And tracking for the most part, has been a manner of "Do you want to allow tracking? Default:OFF" (thinking of Debian Popcorn)
In the US, poor internet is mainly due to political reasons. We have a duopoly when it comes to telecoms and ISPs. I’m still disappointed that Google gave up on a nationwide Google Fiber rollout.
How Civilization Broke Our Brains
If that's a Natural Radio Emission, then what's a Nocturnal Transmission then?
Don't kill time (David Perell)
Thank you. I have edited the title accordingly.
I think that's the processor only? I'm basing that off the paragraph after the table, which says:

> AMD’s EPYC 7742 which still comes in at $6950

A couple quick searches (Amazon, Newegg) show people selling the CPU-only for this price. Since that's the price they're comparing to the table, I think the table prices are for the ARM CPU only.
It is, but it also takes time to reach those velocities. Every orbital rocket that I am aware of has a period called MaxQ, where it has to throttle back to avoid exceeding air pressure limits. But it only occurs in lower dense atmosphere and usually ends in a few seconds.

So balloon drop from high altitude avoids having MaxQ issues at all, so no throttling required (which could also make rocket engines simpler). But all the other drawbacks make air drop only useful for the tiniest of orbital payloads.
New Evidence Suggests SolarWinds' Codebase Was Hacked to Inject Backdoor
It’s actually navigable, supports offline viewing, and isn’t a weird, messed up approximation of a real webpage the way AMP is.
I don't know if this counts but I want an ARM laptop performant like the M1 but with Linux (not from Apple?)
True, way to go is to pre sprout or activate the seeds by leaving them in water for a day or two.
Anything that's SBSA compliant (supports ACPI, basically)… and ready to run on a massive machine with (for some reason) very sparsely populated huge physical memory address space.

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/d7704f9e75aafd312a...
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/5786fe85813a411327...
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/3ef92b2f0a0ff3f101...
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/1f181d2512f60098ed...
It's difficult to view this as a rushed launch when the game was originally scheduled to release in April, and has received multiple delays, supposedly to fix the last remaining bugs.
This hit different. Exactly what I needed to read today
Repo contains the Stadia instance kernel and build system
If you prefer the "or throw" approach to handling null values, you can write a little helper to get something like it in TypeScript:

function assert<T>(v: T | null | undefined, message?: string): asserts v is T {
if (v === null || v === undefined) {
throw new Error(message);
}
}

function parseFile(file: File | null) {
assert(file, 'File must exist');
// TS now infers type of file as File
}

Check out the TypeScript 3.7 release notes for more on assertion functions: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/release-notes/t...
Any chance that communication could happen _before_ the measurement?

Entangle some matter, give half of it to the space team and then have inter-stellar walkie talkies?
As a PC player, I hope you're right.

Unfortunately quite a few respectable reviewers are calling the story/gameplay "hollow" or "unsatisfying". That doesn't sound like "minor & avoidable" reason.

Another strong criticism is towards the game's AI- police, NPC etc. That also doesn't sound minor.
I mean for any network with that many users if you can get a 1% increase for any single change that's pretty impressive.

I mean Google has invented whole protocols and formats to save small percentages of traffic.
> SQLite doesn't do stored procedures

Link: https://www.sqlite.org/gencol.html

Example:

CREATE TABLE t1(

a INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,

b INT,

c TEXT,

d INT GENERATED ALWAYS AS (a*abs(b)) VIRTUAL,

e TEXT GENERATED ALWAYS AS (substr(c,b,b+1)) STORED

);

Note how you can call functions in the columns. Thats one feature which a hardened sqlite for less trusted documents would need to not have.
There are simple low-tech ways to do this. Differing phone numbers for call-in orders, adding a meaningless suite or department to the address for mail-in orders. Even a slight variation on the URL for web contacts. None of this requires Facebook-style tracking.
> "the media" is a bunch of opinion bloggers fabricating sources to drive "an agenda". In reality, the effort for producing a deep investigative story can be equivalent to an a mid-size software engineering project in terms of person hours and expertise. Three senior reporters working on a Pulitzer-level story can take years, numerous support staff, and legal fees.

You are suggesting these are mutually exclusive.
Google's antitrust mess: All the major cases it's facing in the US and Europe
> It reads that they raised no external funding whatsoever?

It sounds strange now but I suspect for most of history this was true of businesses large and small. I wonder when external funding became "the rule" for successful companies rather than the exception?
I think people misunderstand about the advantages of understanding fundamentals. Yes, very few are inventing new tools, protocols or reimplementing known data structures or hash functions. But the point of mastering the fundamentals is to transform the way your brain thinks when it approaches all sorts of computing problems. It's a framework that allows you to deeply think about the correctness and speed of what you are trying to build, backed by tens of years of research.
The Art in Machines
Building a command line tool to convert CSV into JSON
Boy meets girl is by definition a man goes on a journey.
Oh no I dont think so. I meant more that success seems to be more measured by launching features rather than any other metric.
The vacvine injury fund has paid out over $3 billion dollars in injury claims. Safe and effective is a neuro linguistic trigger. See NLP neuro linguistic programming. Megacorp marketing tricks 101
So...

A 'auto-changing wallpaper app' using Electron that has ads and an upgrade to remove them requires either a monthly/yearly subscription or a £30.00 payment? Really?

Beyond disappointing. No thanks and no deal.
Reasonable, but not exciting. Cortex-A72 is quite old by now. Just compare EC2 a1 instances vs. the newer ones.
The above explanation is great but I think the example you selected (git) is rarely the right thing to choose as for most companies git isn't where the money comes from (notable exceptions are companies like GitHub or GitLab). Sorta like the difference between working in the IT department vs Development (for a software company).

Maybe a better choice is something like CSS: there's actually a lot to know about it and a lot of companies need people who are good at it for their core product (even though it's not as deep a topic as say being very knowledgeable/skilled in functional programming).
CD Projekt failed at many things in this project, but the things it failed on were mostly moonshots. Nobody except Rockstar and Insomniac does AAA open-wolrd and story-rich game that was expected from CD Projekt, and these studios have enormous head-start. Some engineering projects are not solved by money, they only get solved and polished by institutional experience.

And in some areas, Cyberpunk was actually trying to do something that nobody in the whole industry has done before. Open-world with such a sense city, with such a density of characters and unique assets, all of which have to work both with high-speed car movement and very close, first-person camera (as opposed with third-person camera, which is used in other open world games). And the art theme and style which is defined by dynamic lightning and reflection!

Yes, they but more than they could chew. But you gotta admire the ambition here, and how much did they get right. I play on PC and just upgraded video card to 3070 for this game, and it truly feels like a generational leap. Rough, unpolished, lacking in many areas, but a leap nevertheless.
The core narrative is broken, I don't want to go into too much spoilers.

I don't know what AI you've encountered but it doesn't do squat it stays there to be picked off with a sniper rifle or a revolver especially if you use the slow time implant it's obnoxiously easy.
In a shopping mall scenario, most people would already have open channels with their favorite stores, similar to how store credit cards work today.

I don't have any "store credit cards". Too cumbersome --- and so are "open channels".
I believe that quotation is originally attributable to George Carlin.
Beefy CPU, couple TB of HDDs and an SSD to boot off of: (comfortably) host your own private cloud. And probably a <whatever social/messaging solution you prefer> instance for your friends & family too if you're feeling adventurous. Via authenticated Tor Hidden Services, for optimum easy-safe ratio.

Now the value of a private cloud is a subjective question, true, but personal experience suggests having it right there on home lan encourages practical use, especially in a shared flat.
Keep in mind that sales engineers usually have a good sized base salary, unlike pure sales people. With that comes a smaller commission than sales people.

As for contribution to society, I don't agree. The big winners is software make some pretty toxic stuff.
I'm not sure there's any evidence to suggest it was intentional. What possible reason could there be for that?
> If Google was smart, they would have invented an algorithm that can tell "your website is a slow bloated popup laden piece of crap" and we're going to officially demote your SEO because of that.

Google does exactly that, which is one reason so many publishers were tempted to adopt AMP.

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/07/search-ads...

However, sometimes a slow site is still the best site for a particular query. There are multiple factors to consider when ranking pages.

> If Google actually did that, rather than granting favoritism to the slow popup laden websites

Again, Google already penalizes sites for popups and interstitials.

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2016/08/helping-us...

> And then they could say, hey, if you're not sure how to make web pages that don't suck, use AMP, which is guideline for the confused on how to achieve a mobile friendly ui that isn't downranked.

That was the reason Google ostensibly introducted AMP in the first place. Unfortunately, it also breaks a lot of standard web interactions and forces publishers to cache content on Google infrastructure.

Looking at your comparison of AMP with React, it's safe to say you are a little bit confused about what it is.
I love these guys. My team adopted IntelliJ when it was still 1.0... 2000, 2001 maybe? Far and away the best Java IDE. I even got to talk them at their Booth at JavaOne in 2008... wonderful people. Very happy to see they have stuck it out and made it on their own.
> How likely is it for another civilization to follow the same path?

Maybe not likely. But for other paths, we don't know what to look for. Presumably, if there are technologically advanced alien species out there, some fraction of them followed a path involving radio signals. And that's what we know to look for.
I agree, this is like trying to optimize a very tiny edge-case instead of improving the general usage case.