skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's useful when e.g. Roger Dingledine who represents the entire Tor Project wants to make a public statement. It's pseudo-intellectual BS when some random GitHub account with edgy repos like https://github.com/studentmain/fuck-signal-tls-proxy does it.
> No other language has async built in at such a fundamental level.

I'm not sure that that is true. Rust and Python both have built-in async; while they both have their own takes on what that means, I wouldn't say JavaScript's “syntactic sugar on top of promises, which are object sugar on top of callbacks” is any more of a fundamental level.
Robinhood sued by family of stock trader who killed himself
A lot of my friends (thankfully not my family) lives downstream a dam like this. Whenever it rains I'm anxious about it and how much it sucks to live in the shadow of such raw power. Whenever I can I try posting stories and sharing articles and signing petitions on doing something to fix it or spread awareness, but most of it is futile if the people in power do not fix it. How do I live in peace with this fact that it might break any moment and a lot of people are going to die due to negligence?
>You can't blame them for taking time exclusive money, they are a business afterall.

Yes, I can blame them for that. When running a business you have to decide what your core principles are and which ones, if any, you are willing to compromise for money.

>And its not like they support their practices.

Taking their money and listing their game on the Epic store is an endorsement of Epic's business practices, just like listing your app on the Apple App Store is an endorsement of Apple's business practices.
i think a point that everyone is missing is as this: before the dams were built the area was sparsely populated because of the fear of flooding, lack of water etc. Now that they have been built, large amounts of humanity have taken advantage of the space and moved in. Due to the population increase over the last century, to remove these dams would involve displacing large populations and destroying a huge amount of infrastructure. It seems we have dug ourselves into a very deep hole... (i understand that this only applies to a minority of dams but it must still be a big problem)
The first users of computers _had_ to acquire skills in order to get the machine to do whatever they wanted it to do. If you didn't learn how to use the CLI, you couldn't use DOS, for instance. You needed basic computer skills for doing even the simplest thing (remember how pleasant was installing a CD-ROM driver in MSDOS?).

Growing up, I had no internet, and the only stuff I could do with my computer was tinkering, buying books and magazines, and experiment. Nowadays you have the internet and an infinite amount of entertainment coming in as soon as you open a browser, so you don't really get a chance to get bored anymore.

Most kids nowadays will grow up with extremely limited machines, like iPads or Chromebooks, so they won't have a chance to do stuff we could do only because our technology was much less sophisticated. Owning a PC is something that's not mandatory anymore in order to do any sort of computing.

The newer generations will know very well what a computer does, but will have a much harder time learning _how_ it does it.
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None of those is justified, no.

Where you see me using the wrong tool for the job, I see myself using a tool that may be flawed but is good enough for what I need right now.

Where you see me succumbing to fads and hype, I see you as needlessly conservative, or see myself as trialling a new piece of tech.

Where you see me forcing a tool down your throat, I see myself standardising on a compromise solution so we don't have ten approaches to the same problem in one single codebase.

On any one of those situations, either of us might be right, wrong, or (most likely) somewhere in between. It's important to keep that in mind before loudly denouncing others' opinions, especially when the alternative is to just argue for your own opinion and letting me decide.
ReactOS foundation is located in Germany - https://ev.reactos.org/index_en.htm

The project did not receive any serious support from the state institutions of Russia
The author might as well be spitting into the wind. No one cares about your pedantic opinion on a common and grammatically acceptable usage.
And that comment was removed by the author a few minutes ago.
How do you live comfortably on a $40k salary in San Francisco?
Why just obligate them to? They do not play nice, we should not play nice either (yes, obligating them is playing nice). I instead suggest nationalizing them, or close them down and arrest at least the executives.
Everyone who has ever received a negative review has grounds to sue for libel, if the person who left it is unable to defend the truth or reasonable belief behind their claims. This has always been the case.

A defence against libel is that the accusations are true, but if you don't submit any evidence to support that, the judge's job isn't to try to prove that you were telling the truth for you.
That’s what she said?
Yet on the internet there are astronomical levels of 'griefers', people who just want to see the world burn. The internet magnifies this tremendously. The internet offers the appearance of anonymity. This is a dangerous combination. Drunk drivers are in the accident too. They take damage. Not so for a hack.

In real life, the internals of a water plant are behind locked doors. Not everybody from Nairobi to Nantucket can get in and do as they like.

I'm afraid that trust in the public is definitely not the way to go with infrastructure and networked control systems.
Reminds me of the old prgmr.com:

An easy to understand price schedule: $4/month per account, and $1/month for every 64MiB ram. Please note; this means all plans come with $4/month worth of support.
Strict type checking does make your code bulletproof. Unfortunately, TypeScript doesn't provide anything close to that. It's easier to mask errors with TypeScript than auto-detect them. Its strict typing should be considered hints for the programmer.
> Using Yubikeys to store SSH keys requires yubikey-agent

No it doesn't. Even before OpenSSH added support for U2F there were multiple ways to use yubikeys to store RSA keys.

You can use PIV:
https://blog.habets.se/2016/01/Yubikey-4-for-SSH-with-physic...

Or gpg-agent:
https://blog.habets.se/2013/02/GPG-and-SSH-with-Yubikey-NEO....

I use the PIV way, and it "just works" on Windows clients too:
https://blog.habets.se/2018/03/Yubikey-for-SSH-on-Windows.ht...

Also: you use agent forwarding with no touch-to-use? Yikes!
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As with many things, I think from a pure UI perspective every Windows/Office release made things worse. Win95 was pretty solid, even improved on a few things that they took from the state of art at that time (Nextstep, Classic Mac, OS/2). The Taskbar being a good example.

I'm still not sure that the move from actual buttons on a button bar to just a flat series of icons was right, and many such changes happened after that (culminating in the horror of the ribbon bar).

The big items Win2K/XP brought to the market was stability outside of the NT niche (I really enjoyed NT4). On the UI level, the downgrade continued, especially with that ugly blue standard theme and the bisque semi-rounded UI elements.

But boy, would I like to see some "distro"-fication of that. And I'm not talking about just using different themes or "shell" replacements, but about putting the core parts to good use. It could be amazing to what some dedicated minds could do with COM, OLE, VCL and VBS. A much more modular environment, similar to what OpenDoc promised and didn't keep. (And maybe add some Amiga stuff)

Not that my hopes are very high in that regard, as Linux and the BSDs didn't manage to do that either, despite having most of the technology and even doing some half-hearted attempts (CORBA was a part of early GNOME)…

A Windows shop these days isn't that much different from any other enterprisey shop. Cloud, VM language, web UIs with enough whitespace to hide Moby Dick. Not that many of the smaller shops around that did custom desktop apps for small businesses.

Oh, and as a final note: If you like the aestheticof 90s-ish Win, check out Serenity OS[1]. It's pretty awesome what they put together. A not slavishly POSIX-ish system with a Win95-like UI. Even the starts of a remarkably capable browser…

[1]: http://serenityos.org/
What’s the proper way to quote someone who uses square brackets in what you are trying to quote? It seems as if this could get as thorny as the problem of escaping quote marks in quoted strings that besets programmers.

For example, in Scocca’s first specimen, how do we know he’s referring to the use of square brackets, or if the square brackets that appear are his own interpolation? The context makes it clear, but in other places it might not be.
Ah, I've set it to private.

A better way is to look through a list of public multireddits:

https://old.reddit.com/r/multihub/

Start with a topic that interests you and work from there.
geez, where is this coming from? the NYT is a national treasure

maybe a design problem? user interface issue?

differentiation of editorial content vs. the newsroom?

I'm genuinely curious
The article also claims Pickwick Papers was published in 1936 and refers to the "Great Exposition", which I'm pretty sure is the "Great Exhibition"
I do not think that anyone is against this project (except maybe for privacy reasons).
Kubernetes. Docker. AWS and its gazillion impenetrable product names. The days of security updates, pentests,
honeypots and captchas you have to go through in order to put up a webapp that won't be commandeered by (insert
bad guy here) within hours. The endless cycle of breakage on your server because LetsEncrypt or whoever have
upgraded their crypto libraries to fight against (insert bad guy here).

The need for a lawyer to write you a privacy policy before you can let people log into your site. The endless
bullshit of dealing with "Log in with Facebook/Google/Apple" because that's what people expect these days. And
even then it's better than dealing with email verification because Gmail/Hotmail will kill your emails anyway.

I've often heard the term "If bridges were built like software..." to show the fragility and ad hoc building of software.
But let's image "If bridges were built like software" to survive pretty much any kind of malicious attack (like in
"WTF? Why did the bridge collapse when those crazy guys bombed it?").

So maybe, just maybe, not everything should be a web app, and be connected to everything.

EDIT: Corrected typo.
> instead of forking and building solutions

What would you fork? The signal server code that hasn’t been updated in almost a year[1]?

If that is truly the same code that we use with signal today, would your fork work with this same network? Or would it be it’s own 1-server network all alone?

[1]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server
Predictably, people have flooded trustpilot with negative reviews after this article was published. I guess they weren't expecting this to make the news.
This is its abstract, in case you want to read it before loading the PDF:

"This study analyzes the impact of COVID-19 deniers on the spread of COVID-19 in Germany. In a first step, we establish a link between regional proxies of COVID-19 deniers and infection rates. We then estimate the causal impact of large anti-lockdown protests on the spread of COVID-19 using an event study framework. Employing novel data on bus stops of travel companies specialized in driving protesters to these gatherings, and exploiting the timing of two large-scale demonstrations in November 2020, we find sizable increases in infection rates in protesters' origin regions after these demonstrations. Individual-level evidence supports the main results by do cumenting that COVID-19 deniers engage less in health protection behavior. Our results contribute to the debate ab out the public health costs of individual behavior that has detrimental externalities for the society."
You can still write PHP and jQuery. Most clients don’t care what stack you use as long as it works and it’s fast.

I still haven’t found a good use case for React and I’m doing just fine.

SASS is great, I wish native CSS was like that, but it’s not that nice to be worth a preprocessor.

Same with typescript. Sure would be nice to have optional types in JavaScript, but not important enough to go through all these hoops.
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> the story's exactly the same on the backend

I don't think it is, for the business-logic code portion any way.

For backend, the hiring is typically "you know Java" or whichever $backend_language.

For frontend, your job application will be terminated in the early stages of the pipeline because you do not know the latest 2 year old framework (that is written in JS that you know extremely well).

10 years of JS and web experience amounts to nothing because "you do not know Angular". I do not think this applies to backend at all, they just see a "langauge-X developer".
This. The quality of developers has gone down in the past 10 years and it's really hard to teach maintainable Javascript to developers. They just don't understand even delegation and how to do complex UI's in plain Javascript. Either way you wouldn't really want to because it just turns to crap. The frameworks have been great for companies.
I wonder if there is a business to be made out of taking these pay to play mobile games and straight up cloning them (not ripping off the graphics, that would land one in legal hot water, but just making the exact same game) and sell them for a one off payment. If there were companies that did that, and they would be known for making high quality puzzle games that are not pay to play, I would buy from them without even trying out their new games (after they gained my trust with the first few games). Technically it would be easy (most of these games are simple), you need graphics people who don't mind just grinding out content without needing to be very artsy, so I would imagine part of the lost revenue that the lootbox companies do get, could be offset by not having to spend a bunch of time thinking about what sort of game you really want to make and make decisions about gameplay etc. Just copy from existing games and sell to the 'don't like pay for play' crowd.

Maybe there just arent' many of us who don't mind paying for games as long as we don't have to buy hearts and diamonds and coins and what not.
Except Snowden said he uses the app everyday and is still alive. OTF money doesn't come with strings attached, if you can _prove_ otherwise, you might actually have something valuable to contribute to this conversation, but now it's just words that should be dismissed as conspiratorial.
Look up Tennessee Ernie Ford, "16 Tons" and company stores.
In honor of the circle of life flamewar currently going down on my local nextdoor.com thread, I thought this paper was interesting.
Trump brags about trade war with china. Virus gets released that the only cure is shutting down our economy. Event 201 was the prerun.
Usernames are coming.
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I'm not sure about Europe, but in the US it's very rare to see bitrates even a large fraction of that. (I don't see a minimum bitrate on the ATSC Wikipedia page, and it wouldn't surprise me to find out that it's often lower than 6 Mbps.) Worse still, in a bunch of places the cable companies still deliver MPEG-2 video, which is going to look pretty atrocious at anything other than an extremely high bitrate. It's a big disadvantage compared to Youtube. Plus a whole bunch of programs are in 60 fps, which need a higher bitrate anyway.

I plugged in my cable box for the first time in months to watch the Super Bowl, and was shocked at how terrible the video was. I could see obvious artifacts without glasses on, and I can't even tell 720p from 1080p at that distance. Some of my relatives have those MPEG-2 channels, and I remember them being significantly worse.

Not trying to say that cable TV can never be better than Youtube's quality, of course, just trying to give a general impression of my experience with various American cable companies.
Would you not then need to wait until they were mature enough to have extracted a large enough quantity of Co2, and then chip them up and bury them back underground where all the oil came from in order to net extract Co2 before planting new trees in their place and going for another round.

Otherwise the Co2 will be returned to the atmosphere once the tree rots or is burned for fuel.
Bootcamps are good for exposure, not learning software engineering
There are very few Factorio stories in the game dev world.
>So if it did become popular it would eventually be a serious problem and would need to be fought against.

It already is.
Are there entry level positions in game dev outside of the, notoriously horrible to work at, AAA studios?
Does CERN create a magnetic anomaly when the LHC spins up?
No, intent is in my head only. When I say something, I know the intent, you guess at the intent when you listen.
Another alt-space game, roguelike on the surface of a klein bottle, http://songseed.org/exhibit/20120318.srd/kleinrl.0.4.zip
In some science fiction, life forms exist at a much higher rate of thought and action than we do. I like to imagine such folks could make practical use of a metal that lasts only 250 days. Perhaps as part of exotic thrusters for space travel etc.
>You could always publish the solutions in a separate paid ebook

Yeah that's an option too, especially with gumroad/leanpub providing version/packages for such cases.

In my case, I provide my ebook for free online (inspired by FOSS and authors such as Al Sweigart and Allen Downey) and charge for pdf/epub formats. Good enough to pay my living costs (and a bit more in recent months). So, I don't mind providing solutions as well.
If you're asking if they are formally allowed to do it, the answer is definitely no.

If though, you're asking if they "can" in very generic terms, yes, certainly - as a matter of fact, this has been a large controversy of ReactOS.

There are no certainties, as everybody has their own side of the story. An MS developer, Axel Rietschin, publicly expressed his opinion that there are wholesale ripped off (low-level) functionalities¹; I personally find it convincing, although it's fuzzy, as he doesn't give details.

¹=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20341933
tl;dr Invent a time machine and go back 10 years.
Shareholder value myth?

From the author:
< “ Investors in these early corporations were usually also customers. They structured their companies to make sure the business would provide good service at a reasonable price – not to maximize investment returns.” >

I have to disagree. Investors in The Dutch East India Co. cared about nothing BUT returns. Both Dutch and Anglo traders helped to invent the concept of shareholder value and stock and trading.

Shareholder value is not a myth. Here are some facts that help to make this argument:

Stock still conveys ownership, so that is not a myth.

Profits are still distributed via dividends to shareholders or reinvested (retained earnings) so that is not a myth.

Workers are still free to choose their employment and they are paid for their work which is an expense against profits—-not a myth.

Laws dictate how corporations are formed, taxed, owned, protected and managed. This is not a myth.

Markets for corporate securities are well-governed by laws and oversight. While not perfect, this is not a myth.

The value of ownership in a public corporation (stock) is determined by the free and open securities markets that act according to the will of investors. This is not a myth.

With all of these facts or non-myths in place, how can “shareholder value” be a myth?

Perhaps the only way it can be a myth is to ignore all of the facts and to redefine the word “value”—-as in “value” is not quantified in monetary terms, but is instead measured in social terms. We might call this “social value.”

From the author: <“ [while profit] is necessary for the firm’s long-term survival, it is not the only corporate objective. Once profitability is achieved, the firm can focus on satisfying other goals, including future growth, controlling risk, and taking care of its investors, employees, customers, even society.”>

Unfortunately, corporations are not formed, and are not incentivized by the free market, to be action/cost centers for social change. They are formed to create value for customers and to share some of that value with shareholders: “shareholder value”.

We have other organizations and all of society’s individuals (“us”)—-many of whom are the beneficiaries of shareholder value—-that are charged with the responsibility of creating “social value.”

We all need to contribute to society, help others, and make the world a better place. When corporations are bad for society, we should find a new place to work, sell our stock and stop buying their product or service.
This. In fact, I am currently in the process and I finally chose to have a generic one with a LaTeX to adapt to company names and recruiters and I wrote specialized when I can see who is going to read my cover letter. The third option I use is when I contact the recruiter by mail, I provide the generic one as attachment and in the mail provided more specific motivation and experience related to the job offer.

And most of the time now, companies don't want you to upload your cover letter but use a form with a textarea box the size of a stamp to write your cover letter without any formatting option.
How to Deprogram America's Extremists
They claim to be experts in Internet law but their website isn't GDPR compliant... https://www.summerfieldbrowne.com/internet/4582280575
It looks like the "community" has taken this into its own hands, see https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.summerfieldbrowne.com

Trustpilot: "this profile has been temporarily closed for new reviews."
That was my first thought - this seems like bullcrap to me.
I never understood why their no support hosting seemed radical, but unmanaged VPS's became an industry standard.
Reddit's the one social media place I retained after deleting Twitter and Facebook, and I'm now asking why.

I think it's because it reminds me of Usenet. It's writing text posts, and typically not getting much of a reaction, and possibly some sort of direct message: a limited ability to track what I've put out there, how it went over, who responded. There's a sort of vague resistance to certain nasty brigading and abusing tactics that would otherwise really control the place, and there's a huge proliferation of little private interests right down to stuff that's by definition not controlled: if a little teeny sub is just dead it's almost definitely authentic, and not of interest to players who'd want to manipulate discourse.

Everything that's bigger and more effective at really bringing all the little meaningless folks into the discourse, is prey for propaganda use. It's the stuff like old Usenet, where there are places that are NOT IMPORTANT, which is capable of being authentic and to some extent 'real'. I guess it's a sliding scale between that and Twitter and Facebook.
As far as I'm aware you can however look at the leaked source code and use those insights to fix or write documentation about the behavior of the APIs and general behavior. You just can't write any ReactOS code yourself because you are tained once you've seen the leak. But I think the overlap between people who can extract insights from the leaked code and people who enjoy writing documentation in their free time (more than reverse engineering and programming) is pretty small.