skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lua. Let me walk you through my experience:

Google for "Lua SQLite", click top link.
http://lua.sqlite.org/index.cgi/doc/tip/doc/lsqlite3.wiki
Go to download page, ok.
http://lua.sqlite.org/index.cgi/index
Download latest version, unzip it.
It's in C. What? I thought this was a Lua binding.

Back to Google. Second link.
https://makoserver.net/articles/Lua-SQLite-Database-Tutorial
Umm... part of some Mako Server thing? I just want SQLite.

Back to Google, third link.
http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaSqlite
"LuaSQLite is a Lua binding for SQLite." Alright! Goto website and...
http://luaforge.net/projects/luasqlite/
It's a dead link. Uhh okay, back to previous page...
"Other SQLite wrappers include:"
Three out of four links dead. Only working link:
https://github.com/maxdoom-com/lsqlite
It's C again. What the hell.

Baaack to Google. Fourth link.
https://mroth.net/lua-sqlite3
"Lua-Sqlite3 is a binding of Sqlite3 for Lua." Excellent.
Download latest release... Finally, Lua files!
Uhh there's a lot of stuff here. Documentation?
"These parts needs to be written: ", "Please be patient... ", "Last update: 2006" uh oh.
More C code... Prebuilt binaries? Nope!

Fifth Google link is a Lua plugin for SQLite, the inverse of what I want.

Sixth link, "(Yet Another*) Lua wrapper for SQLite"
It's more C. No prebuilt binaries!

Seventh link. "LJSQlite3: SQlite3 Interface"
No download. It's part of some large scientific computation package.

At this point, all I'm thinking is "this isn't worth it".

I know I could use LuaJIT's FFI to make my own wrapper to SQLite's C interface but at that point I'm not saving time anymore. Best to ignore the whole thing. Serializing data to/from files shouldn't be that complicated. I'll stick with my "piles of files", no matter how "awesomely engineered" SQLite is supposed to be, if it's this much pain to even start using.

The next best thing I have is this dead simple:

local blob = filewriter()
blob:write(literally_any_data_i_have)
writefile("filename", blob:tostring())
One question i have about working at Google - a bit embarrassing to ask, but does one's Google account/search history come into play during the application/interview process? I'd rather not be grilled about why I was Googling how to hack Wi-Fi passwords in 2012.
Well said. I'm overweight not obese and it takes a very great deal of effort to keep it that way. I don't have problems with lazyness, stupidity or being weak willed in any other aspects of my life, but once I start eating I simply cannot stop.

Fasting has taken me from obese to overweight, not eating is the only thing that works, but when I start up again, I eat for two!
What is the Australian government misunderstanding? They wanted a better deal for domestic news media, they are getting a better deal for domestic news media:

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/google-nine-agree-...

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56101859

The Australian government's approach is working.
Hi kenm47, I'm not sure what your request is?
This is incredible. Thank you!
Will be interesting to see the social impact on this. I kind of wish sometimes there was a plug-in that could just block news postings on facebook, since I don't go to facebook to see what friends are saying about the news
It makes me wonder if they will learn their lesson this time around.
I can certainly see a lot of parallels with Oculus / Facebook.

Perhaps unusually, I actually wanted FB to impress itself more strongly on Oculus post acquisition because, frankly, Oculus was a bit of a mess. Instead, Oculus was given an enormous amount of freedom for many years.

Personally, nobody ever told me what to do, even though I was willing to "shut up and soldier" if necessary -- they bought that capability! Conversely, I couldn't tell anyone what to do from my position; the important shots were always called when I wasn't around. Some of that was on me for not being willing to relocate to HQ, but a lot of it was built into early Oculus DNA.

I could only lead by example and argument, and the arguments only took on weight after years of evidence accumulated. I could have taken a more traditional management position, but I would have hated it, so that's also on me. The political dynamics never quite aligned with an optimal set of leadership personalities and beliefs where I would have had the best leverage, but there was progress, and I am reasonably happy and effective as a part time consultant today, seven years later.

Talking about "entitled workers" almost certainly derails the conversation. Perhaps a less charged framing that still captures some of the matter is the mixing of people who Really Care about their work with the Just A Job crowd. The wealth of the mega corps does allow most goals to be accomplished, at great expense, with Just A Job workers, but people that have experienced being embedded with Really Care workers are going to be appalled at the relative effectiveness.

The communication culture does tend a bit passive-aggressive for my taste, but I can see why it evolves that way in large organizations. I've only been officially dinged by HR once for insensitive language in a post, but a few people have reached out privately with some gentle suggestions about better communication.

All in all, not a perfect fairy tale outcome, but I still consider taking the acquisition offer as the correct thing for the company in hindsight.
I’m continuously surprised to learn about all the little ways Google makes my internet experience worse, even though I don’t use their services.

Is there a reliable way to tell if an account is forwarding to Gmail? That way, you could reserve your spammer tools (not judging you for using them) for gmail users, and treat the rest of your subscribers with the respect you clearly intended.
Isn't that exactly what the submission is about? It seems to be a tool to convert any newsletter into an atom feed by creating a fake inbox. This lets everyone consume the content in their preferred format. Sure it would be nice if newsletters were available as news feeds too, but in the meantime this is a nice hack.
Allow public oversight - the reason people from the uk are unimpressed is because we have no trust in this governments ability to not give large contracts to friends and donors rather than actually talented engineers with good ideas. The tories have a long and storied history of mishandling public science and technology funding in this country.
Mostly because afaik the law prohibits Google as it is from delisting news content specifically like Facebook is doing now, so it was either efforts like this to last-ditch prevent the legislation from passing or face a complete shutdown in Australia.
Jumping back into abandoned media/technology can work out well because you have no competition - for our IT company we get a lot of value from our USPS letter advertising.
New Docker Desktop Preview for Apple M1 Released
Elixir is not weakly typed, it has strong typing on the contrary. The word you're looking for is "dynamic". Javascript and PHP are weakly typed, neither Erlang nor Elixir.
What Has The New York Times Got Against Ayaan Hirsi Ali?
> In the worldview of Stallman, your argument is analogous to saying that advocating for democracy is flawed because if an authoritarian regime or slave society provides a better product, people will choose it over worse democratic ones.

Except that's exactly what human behavior does.
Facebook restricts the availability of news on its platform in Australia
SATs, Once Hailed as Ivy League Equalizers, Fall from Favor
Except we all know the real option will be to buy game X from X's own app store for $39.00, so the only thing the consumer has gained is extra friction in exchange for the developer pocketing a larger share.
I've been to Machhapuchhare base camp. You can see the mountain from further out on the way up, and when you turn a corner several days later right up close. It's easily one of the more beautiful peaks in the Himalayas.
Thunderbird lets you select by image domain, which can be telling. However it is still guesswork.
That might be a CAN-SPAM violation you could report to the FTC
Any way to do it with an older type of USB token? Like Safenet eTokens?
It likely depends on your friends or the games you play. I don't think my friends care to know that I am playing the Witcher, Cyberpunk, Battletech, Mechwarrior, or Jotun. Friends might care to know that I'm online, and be able to message me, but to be honest Discord or other social networks (Steam, Blizzard) already cover that. I've actually been quite happy with GOG's interface, for example.
So disappointed that Google is caving into a government-enforced shake down.
Can you combine those two to get rid of privacy breaking stuff like tracking pixels? First sign up with Kill the newsletter to convert to rss, and then use rss2email to get a scrubbed version of the email?
I do whatever I can to best support the team. It is practically never coding at this point. My team would likely end up frustrated with me (and rightly so) if coding comes at the expense of other things like sourcing, hiring, coaching, distilling and communicating our plans, refining and scaling our processes, etc.
I suppose at some point everyone becomes a nationalist. Like with the vaccine situation now and the mask situation in March/April last year.
>The problem is the choice is taken away from you though

All Apple has to do is compromise on the 30% number. They've taken it to the extreme and demanded 30% of everything, 30% of subscriptions, 30% of every dollar.

It's outrageous and developers who are perfectly capable of either self-hosting or finding a solution for cheaper than 30% OF ALL REVENUE deserve to keep the 25% of that revenue that is pure profit to Apple.

Apple created this situation for themselves and they will have to give up sooner or later.

Steam makes plenty of concessions for the 30% number and now allows basically pass-through games so that a much more wide variety of titles can appear there even if they aren't paying a full tax to the storefront for appearing.

I mean, could you imagine a world where Wal-Mart was the only store your Toyota car was allowed to drive to, and Wal-Mart charged their suppliers 30% of all revenue to appear on the shelves?

What is happening with the App Store monopoly is truly outrageous, it's an unimaginable amount. 30% is why Apple is going to lose here. If they were willing to be reasonable, it wouldn't get to this point.
ungated: https://archive.is/mAkcR
Are they? Surely Australian companies are now also forbidden from sharing their stories on Facebook.
I thought about posting a meta thread, but I forgot to take screenshot of the those comments(which I intend to do next time) so I had no evidence since the mod already cleaned up the thread.

Do they have track records of deleted comments? Based on other comments on this thread it appears SE do not track deleted comments.
> I think it's reasonable to assume that not everyone is going to like everything that you say.

Sure but it's really not that hard to keep things under control in the work place. I have my own opinions, sometimes I share them at work, sometimes people may disagree, however, I don't "rack up multiple HR complaints" like this guy did.
Isn't this par for the course for constructive methods though? I agree that some things that are easy in a classic constraint-based CAD package are a huge burden in OpenSCAD. However, I don't see how signed distance fields would change that.
>The deal likely marks the death of a proposal from the Australian government to force Google and Facebook to enter arbitration with Australian media companies forcing them to pay for not only excerpts of news articles, but also simple links to news websites. A number of major backers of the plan, including TV networks Seven and Nine, have agreed to be featured in Google’s News Showcase over the past week. With News Corp now signing its own deal, only a few Australian media companies remain as holdouts, including Australian Community Media, publisher of a number of regional titles, and Guardian Australia.

I have read several articles in various publications about this, and I still don't understand it. Perhaps I'm being incredibly dense.

What exactly is Google paying for? The right to index news content? Sure, Google benefits from indexing quality information. But to force them by law to pay to index seems more like a parody of rent seeking behavior than something I would expect to happen in real life.

How is Google "stealing revenue" by showing me links to news articles? I still have to open the links to read the content, at which point I can be paywalled or shown ads.

Has my brain been melted by exposure to technology? I truly don't see what's controversial about this. It seems so absurd that I wonder if I'm misunderstanding something essential to the story. I don't even see what the harm is to the news service? That they didn't get ad revenue from running a search engine?
Just look at the first image on the Wikipedia page, showing the extent of the blackout. This is far smaller than the footprint of the eastern interconnect. The control software at the time made some simplifying approximations which left the grid vulnerable to problems cascading between operators. I do not think they have quite the same problem anymore.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003
Yep, this is indeed very little detail. To me this PR is the PR you send when you just discovered you're late, but try to retain the clients' attention.

They felt the wind turning, saw the market ask for it, saw companies like UPMEM having a lead.

If you want more details, UPMEM has more. If I recall correctly they etched their own core right into the same silicon as the DRAM.

Here is a link that I think will satisfy your curiosity: https://www.upmem.com/nextplatform-com-2019-10-03-accelerati...
Should we force Nintendo as well to allow people to side load apps ? Because I don't see the difference with Apple.
I smell an entertaining loop!
The thing you quoted literally said it was "unfair" for employers to expect passion from their at-will employees. I guess you're saying it's fine for employers to "desire" passion but not to "expect" it? OK, sure.
> "I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure."

Brilliant quote illustrating schadenfreude: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude
How is this different from paying to remove ads altogether? It will start out true to the idea, but then over time the companies will slowly start to double dip, re-radicalizing the content because that gets more engagement.
Interactive tour of the D Programming Language
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24222045
From your link:

> I would rather this be read by a few people motivated to take action than by a broad audience who will find it merely interesting. In that vein, if you find yourself wanting to share this on Twitter or Hacker News, consider instead sharing it with one or two friends who will take action on it. Thank you for indulging me!

You maybe shouldn't have shared that here, but thanks!
I don't think those points really link together.

1) This argument is about negative reinforcement argument. Specifically how increasing levels of it haven't fixed the problems that lead to high crime in those neighbourhoods in the first place and in some cases has made those neighbourhoods more dangerous. We already know tough on crime policies don't work. It's why we don't chop off the hands of thieves. It's why states with the death penalty still have plenty of murders.

2) The argument isn't against negative reinforcement it's that marijuana shouldn't be illegal in the first place.

3) Implies the people you're arguing against are in favour of at least some negative reinforcement.
Cool, but.... no Ada, Pascal, or Delphi...

R.I.P. : (
Facebook will ban Australian users from sharing or viewing news
This is exactly what we do on our newsletters, but to be fair "not loading images due to privacy concerns" is an edge case and I could understand a lot of mailers not thinking about it or not caring about it.
The gall of FB mentioning the importance of news in a democratic society. They have arguably done irreversible net bad for democracies. Let em bow out.
It seems to be an underappreciated point that the only alternative to challenge trials is to wait long enough for a sufficient proportion of the vaccine and control groups to be "naturally" exposed to the virus. You can either intentionally expose volunteers to the virus with X% probability, or send them back into the world and wait for X% of them to be infected. You aren't preventing infections by forbidding challenge trials; all you're doing is allowing millions more people to become infected while you wait for results.
Probably one that is created by a reliable, trusted entity. If Apple created a crypto currency, for example, I could see it being pretty popular.
My preferred solution has been git-subrepo: https://github.com/ingydotnet/git-subrepo

Basically is what (I think) submodules should have been. Creates a vendored copy with metadata about what commit it came from. Normal operations like clone, commit (even touching multiple main/subrepo files which subtree struggles with) are unaffected (normal files from git's point of view).

Pull, push, branching all work as expected on main project (most devs don't even need to know there's a subrepo). If you want to pull/push vendored changes from subrepo, there's a new command, but that's it.
Exactly. It is natural when "human resources" treat their company as a "salary resource".
Worth noting that Substack already publishes feeds at YOURNAMEHERE.substack.com/feed

There are other newsletter publishers, of course, but that seems to be the one I get the most from.
Actually, it seems the plaintiff sold calls at $100 and then had to buy them back at a higher price.
Oh my god this is a real thing...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/07/australian-pm-calls-en...
Maybe a “click here to receive future emails” button in gmail that basically added your sending address to their spam filter allow list, and sent you a feedback loop email.

Once pressed, it would replace the “spam” UI element with “unsubscribe”.
I use FB as an easy way to garner news from several locations at once. Of course FB uses that to litter my 'news feed' with junk (eg suggestions of all kinds). So I'm two minds about this being a problem for me (an Aussie).

However, when I read this sob story by FB :

> publishers willingly choose to post news on Facebook, as it allows them to sell more subscriptions, grow their audiences and increase advertising revenue.

...I know that's not the truth. A lot of the news I read is the same as the free-to-air news that I get across all tv channels (sbs, abc*), so this notion that they'll be losing money anyway is a bit of a misnomer.

*abc is the same as the US's pbs
Much like John Oliver's show paid to have "informative" commercials run on Fox news in the DC area specifically targeting the US president. It is perfectly legal but expensive.
This was an implementation issue that bit them briefly at launch, and is now resolved. hCaptcha is quite a big supporter of privacy, and has been coordinating closely with ECI.

(source: work on hCaptcha)
Avoiding being marked as spam, even if you're legitimate, is much a "dark art". At any one point your reputation could take a hit because you did something, and no one will tell you what you did wrong. An ISP can just start redirecting your mails to /dev/null and you'd never find out about it until a user asks you why they haven't received a mail from you in 2 weeks. Malicious actors can also try and get you flagged as spam by artificially generating spam reports on you. There is no rule set you can follow that guarantees you're safe from ever being blackholed, it's all very fuzzy.

Once you're hit with a ban, it's very hard if not impossible to recover.

If you've been at HN for a while, you must have noticed that every now and then there are stories from Google users being mistakenly banned from their account for violating some rule that they don't even explain to them. These events happen to mailing lists as well, but there's even less of a recourse for mailers when this happens. Considering all this, I'd rather err on the side of caution and implement most of recommendations by Google, than increase my risk of being marked a spammer, and risk losing the whole project.

> However, an occasional confirmation (say, once or twice a year) as they suggest would be just fine. You could even restrict those to just those subscribers who do not trigger the tracker.

What is fine to you, is annoying to others. Just read the other comments on this story, where people commonly complain about receiving an email asking to reconfirm their subscription.
I think you're misinterpreting the sentence, I did too when I first read it. He's using plain old, as a reference to normal or regular.

Like, I just wore a plain old shirt to the concert. Meaning, I just wore a regular shirt to the concert.

In this sentence, it means, "or just the regular reason of 'you're not doing a great job'."
IMHO if you don't use the header that makes it easy for people to unsubscribe then you don't get to complain about people Marking Spam instead.
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In case anyone's missed it, that's this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26162513

- from the BBC article 'Spy pixels in emails have become endemic'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56071437
Specific instances aren't really part of the point I'm trying to make. It's clear that there exists a non-zero number of people in positions of power expecting sex in exchange for opportunity and a lot of people just accept "that's how it is".

There is a surprisingly large number of comments here trying to justify this by redirecting focus towards the people who ultimately decided to give sex in exchange for opportunity. That's a completely separate debate that isn't even very controversial. It's those comments, and their upvotes, that concern me. Especially when they're high karma accounts on a site targeted at entrepreneurs that might be in a position to coerce someone towards choosing to give sex in exchange for opportunity.
This is how I've felt about Disney and Pixar for a long time. As a kid, I liked them for action, adventure and comedy. But as an adult I like them for the animation, storytelling, and good emotional/moral lessons on top of everything else. As a parent who sees lots of content for kids, it's not easy to find things that legitimately appeal to multiple age groups like that.
I know you mean well, but this post is genuinely idiotic and the definition of a straw-man argument.

That, or you did not even bother clicking into the link and see what it is.
This is mostly because at (a lot of) these places - there is no reward for doing any work. You don't get promoted if you do a good job. If you get a raise, it's like an extra $1k a year.

You get little more than a pat on the back.
Planning of invention part 1: Burton Klein and Dynamic Economics
https://fr.audiofanzine.com/

is a 20 years old French audio/music gear website featuring an exhaustive product database, reviews, newsletters, forum, social network, and marketplace.

Most musicians / producers in the country will be aware of it, including probably some famous ones.

I don't know of an equivalent in the Anglosphere (gearslutz.com would be the closest thing in terms of forum/community, but lacks most of the other features).

Audiofanzine does have some English content, but I don't think that ever really caught on.
Persuasion is dying but it's not dead. It has morphed in this age of echo chambers. How do you persuade someone who is stuck in a situation not hearing opposing viewpoints?