skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Long term? Probably not.

> If companies are sensible and have learned from past issues, yes. But I live in the real world, so no!

In my world, more and more companies learns from past issues/failures. They also live in the same world as you do, which sees a decline in both number of Perl programmers and a decline in general usage of the language itself.[1][2][3]

> Reference: the COBOL programmers pulled out of retirement en-mass in the late 90s to perform Y2K audits/fixes.

That was 20 years ago. Plus, it's not a good thing that people are "pulled out of retirement" to fix things.

[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2011-01-01%202...

[2] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=perl

[3] https://www.statista.com/statistics/793628/worldwide-develop...
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Yeah on a second reading I didn't want to come down on Perl too harshly even though I still have memories of that moment where I had to listen to someone telling me "What, awk? We're doing Perl these days!" plus 3 not-so-pleasant projects over the years where we had to re-implement Perl systems.

OTOH there are a couple of Perl tools that I still use (or whish I'd still be able to use), and I'm grateful those exist and Perl 5 is being maintained: Norman Walsh's SGML DTD documentation generator, the old citeseer code base (infinitely more useful than it's today), Debian's apache a2enmod/a2ensite management tools (that I've partly rewritten in shell) and apt tools. I even wouldn't hesitate to use RequestTracker tools (ticket management over mail) today even though it might not scale all that well.
The new UX on the site is unusable. I don't use anything except old.reddit.com and if they ever try to get rid of that, I'll surely stop visiting the site altogether. You have to wonder how long they'll continue to maintain two different web frontends for the site, though.
Hey Sawo, the product seems amazing,would love to see a live demo of this for better understanding.
retired https://youtu.be/T2e0xSOHd-0
The father was hired after his arrest. To me, that's troubling. It suggests bad judgement...and the Greens and Lib. Dems both agree with me.

Further, I don't believe in the existence of a 50 year old man who one day decides to rape and torture a 10 year old child. I believe he's guilty of more than that though I have nothing to support that assertion except my priors about how pedophilia works. Nevertheless, I'm fairly confident of those priors and so is our justice system: there's a reason sex offenders are forced to register.

Progressives seem unable to ferret out deeply troubling behavior as long as it is associated with certain minority groups. I do fear for backlash against innocent people by those with the opposite bias but that's no excuse to downplay what's going on here.
My partner and I have worked most of this year from a little 13 ft Scamp travel trailer all across the U.S. and we're currently building out a van to get a bit of extra mobility. I'm a staff engineer for a consultancy with lots of meetings with our enterprise clients, so solid internet is a major concern.

The hotspot I use is called "Glocal Me". It's run by a company out of Hong Kong, and sells fairly expensive U.S. data packages. I chew through a lot of data on that, but the price is worth it to me because there doesn't seem to be any throttling during periods of high consumption, I can scale back what I pay for when I have other options for access, and the data purchased works on all major U.S. carriers so I have a much wider coverage area than I would trying to tether with my phone. It works internationally so I'm looking forward to using it for trips abroad where I've generally relied on putting a local sim in my phone and tethering.

In a trailer this size, the table converts to your bed, so having a good desk set-up is tricky. I've landed on a usb-c external monitor that goes in a claw I mount on the table each morning to provide an eye level monitor. I use a small mechanical keyboard and wireless mouse, so the whole set-up is easy to store each morning. I can't recommend working on a laptop all day every day, I'm young and fit but maintaining that posture for long still really messes with me and most other folks I've talked to about it.

For power, we're just running 200w of Solar when we're off-grid (which is about half the time in the West where boondocking within cell-service abounds.) My partner and I are able to power our laptops with USB-c adapters so we can run off 12v directly without the waste of going through an inverter.

We love doing this enough that we're putting a ton of effort into building a van out right now. A primary factor in that choice is that with an RV or a trailer, you're much more limited on where you can park. We've had days where we haul our bitty trailer into town for meetings to get better service, but people certainly look at us funny when we're posted up in some parking lot working on our laptops.

Let me know if you've got questions. I've been having a blast with this way of living and have met a bunch of people doing the same this last year. I've really enjoyed sharing the experience with people.
There's a nesting pair near my house these days. Majestic looking birds, and they sound like seagulls with brain damage :)
Hey folks - OP here.

Part of what I'm doing here is trying to illuminate VC for those on the outside. The switch to 506c means I can blog a lot more openly and answer questions. Normally you only see "we closed" announcements, not a fund in process.

If you have questions or comments, I'd love to hear them.
Software is made by people.
Do you know how actively free expression was repressed in Soviet Russia? Do you know about the gulags?
In some senses, it's just a rehashing of the old "bread and circuses" line. Except this time it's iphones and a starbucks latte.
Haha, I remember this coming up 45 years ago. One of my teachers mentioned that as the nearby suburbs encroached on farm country, it only took a short while until those moving in complained about the smell of their farm neighbors. They tried to get them zoned out of existence.

So, yes, people move into farmland and immediately complain that "Somebody's got to do something about the smell."
That's an excellent point actually. I think as a language D could work well for indie games but even there... if you're an indie developer do you go with D or with Unity (which uses C#)?

That said, in principle one could imagine a version of Unity that used D instead of C#, and I think that would be a pretty neat combination.
I used to be someone who did programming outside of work, but I don't have time with a kid, and further I don't really want to spend time fixing anything electronic any longer. I just use a console for gaming, my computer sits unused and I only use my work pc for work, so I barely even go on the internet.

Parenthood takes a lot of time, and I fear I'll never be able to find a new job because i don't have time to jump through interview hoops.

I'll certainly never work at Google or wherever, because they interview for so long and have so many requirements that it's impossible for me to even think about applying. The tech interview process is openly hostile to parents.
So you're saying Apple should pull Chrome's permission to run on macOS anytime there's an accidental zero day or vulnerability?

If Google wants to act like a platform, it should have some form of escalation with the developer to fix issues instead of complete removal without warning.
CBRS is a 3.5 GHz band that's specifically designated for shared use. Priority licensing is available, but in places where there are no licensees or other priority users for a particular channel, it is available for general use on a first-come-first-serve basis, with explicit reservation (over the internet). This does not require a license for the operator.
This is a little more nuanced than you imply. In the end, it seems they fixed the automod rule, but sub's are still actively blacking out as we speak. We'll see how far it goes, I guess!
I would be interested in seeing normalized comparisons, data allowing - e.g., X deaths per person-protest-hour, that sort of thing.
We're in an RV, so the dish wouldn't be a huge burden. Wouldn't want to do that at a hotel, but I also assume wifi is easier to manage at hotels or airbnbs.
PinePhone doesn't need to become a mainstream smartphone to be valuable just like Linux OSes don't need to become mainstream to be valuable.
Aaaah. Could have just said "don't feed the troll" :-)
I think that washing the roots and planting the tree without damaging the roots is a really hard trick to pull off.

I think that you don't want the rootball to be limited to the old pot outline, so opening it up a bit gently (so a few shakes and a little digging around) and encouraging a bit of a spread of the roots is the best way to go.

You might incentivize the tree, you might kill the tree... I don't think that this is a good plan :)
It definitely has gotten much worse in the last few years. From Spez silent-editing users posts, to reddit employing an "Anti-Evil Operations team". I've been using reddit since ~2012.
I moderate a reddit community with ~200k users, and if I didn't use strict filtering along with a slew of Automoderator rules I'd spend half of my day removing spam, shitposts, and submissions that break our posting rules. A few posts a day get caught by mistake, but it's a lot easier to free those posts than it is to remove the dozens of bad ones that would have made it through otherwise. I think it's at least plausible that the same type of thing happens at a site-wide level.
I had always wondered why intel hadn't been actively fabbing chips for other customers - it's not like they destroy a fab completely when a new process comes on line (if you live in the Portland area, you can see the rapid and constant build outs of fab space), why not sell that process to others? there does happen to be a global chip shortage after all.

nice to see someone addressing that. I welcome technical leadership back to intel.
> Keep in mind that they're stuck with the Hong Kong police even if they are allowed to become independent

It’s worth noting that a lot of the “Hong Kong police” that were involved in breaking up protests seemed to come from the mainland and only spoke mandarin, not cantonese.

Edit: https://twitter.com/AmyWong01217912/status/11822963227720908... is one of many sources
I started using Perl in 2000 to rescue my diploma thesis (which was Java and C). I was working on a piece of software that was to communicate with another system that was the subject of another sister-thesis. The person working on the sister-thesis decided to abandon it. And I could really not demonstrate my work as it couldn't work standalone. In the place of the missing sister-system, I quickly put together something in Perl and was able to salvage the work and deliver my thesis. Compared to Java and C of the day, it felt like magic.

To this day, I have never seen anything that can even remotely approach the ability of Perl to prototype something out of thin air. Usually there is a gap between script-like tools (like sh, sed, awk, grep, jq, curl, etc) with which you can quickly put together stuff and a "real" language which usually needs scaffolding and preparation. Perl can do both, you can write excellent one-liners and you can also write complex software with libraries and frameworks and dependencies and tests.
Your reading of what is copyrightable may not be entirely in accord with the US Supreme Court's, which has ruled that mere compilations of factual data (a telephone directory in the case that set the precedent) are not copyrightable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._R....

If someone is trying to apply the GPL to stuff which isn't legally copyrightable in the first place (as may be the case here), then their copyright isn't enforceable, and neither is the GPL.
This is great news. It is really about the pesticides more than anything else. In my area, hawks are EVERYWHERE. I see at least 1 every 5 miles along the highway (farmland) watching for food. This was not true 20 years ago.
A Hong Kong journalist is on trial for using a public database
Thank you for this! We just started using Go for all of our new and/or updated backend stuff and I love it.

I'll definitely be checking this out. :)
The amount of astroturfing (or just unchecked trolling) certainly seems to have gone up
So you might consider acts such as arresting journalists for accessing public databases as a form of legal warfare, where the strategic goal is to incapacitate any sort of democratic activity in Hong Kong, and abusing the legal system to criminalize the behavior of democracy activists ex post facto can then be considered a sort of "weapon" in an extremely broad sense of the word.
What makes you think that there has been a recent loss of "humans just talking"? Seems like a fairly subjective position to take when I, as a younger person, feel incredibly connected to a lot of society via online communication.

I have also however, never had a good experience knocking on neighbors doors. If someone is being incredibly inconsiderate, like say blasting music at 1am, then why would they be more considerate if I knocked on their door?

A fully grown adult living in an apartment complex should be able to know that sound travels, they have already made the decision to be inconsiderate. Are they supposed to change their mind because I appeal to them face to face?
It doesn’t take long. And it’s always familiar usernames who continues to spread lies and misinformation. The CCP is a virus and need to be deleted from earth.
Pandemic Popularizes Zero UI: Use Cases and How Tos
If the performance is important you can have performance regression tests. If not, then it probably doesn't matter too much if it always generates optimal assembly for this specific line of code.
That's too much work. Is it good? I'll take your word for it.
Look at profitability and developer attention in the app ecosystem.
It Was Apple Garamond That Sold Me (2007)
Not taking a side here, just pointing out the fact that the tactic was known and used well before the Crimean events:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overthrow_of_the_Hawaiian_King...

The current difference is that now it's happenning during a live broadcast, and the actions are being tried to be justified (as "justice") through existing legal frameworks.

That's one of the ways Empires grow their periphery regions. Another way is when an Empire spreads its culture and abundance to orbiting regions, so that inhabitants of the periphery get a personal interest in becoming the part of the Empire and bringing a change to their governing bodies to align with the metropolis.
www.reddit.com --> old.reddit.com
Your comment is not making much sense, sorry.

I don't understand what you're saying and you're being very vague.

If you're doing it on purpose, oh well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I wish this phone had slightly better specs for example more ram, but I am going to order it anyway to support this awesome initiative.
>What am I missing here?

I guess you are missing the tendency of most people to decide that a man who was arrested for torturing and raping a child should not be a part of any kind of governmental campaign. I understand he wasn't yet convicted, and that presumption of innocence is fundamental to our justice system. But I also understand that charges like these don't appear out of thin air, and that charges are usually only made by authorities if a conviction is highly probable. And finally, I find it pretty absurd that one could live in the same house as this person and not have a clue as to what was going on.

Just imagine being in the green party and hearing about this. "Hey guys, I chose my dad as my manager. He's currently on trial for torturing and raping a child, but fingers crossed!!!"
I've been following Colin Benders (aka Kiteman) on Twitch for years, he's probably my favourite modular user.
> If 30% are voted out then that suggests more (perhaps 60%?) were at risk of being voted out to the point where it would influence their decisions.

No, that's not how elections in the UK work

> Which is again a big improvement in accountability over what MEPs face.

MPs get to be voted out by their local parties

MEPs in Ireland get to be voted out by the voters without the failures of the undemocratic FPTP system

That's not a problem with the EU, it's a problem with the individual countries. Just like the power resting with the council (like nominating head of commission. The rest of the commissioners are more like US Secretarys who are nominated by the president and approved by congress)

This is a failure with the nation states, similar to the days when states appointed electoral college directly from their senate rather than via popular vote.
Visual Automata: A wrapper for Automata to add more visualization features
> There are a lot of trans people who have no interest in conforming to gendered expectations, but are coerced to by the threat of losing access to medically necessary healthcare. ... GCs in places like the UK ... want to reinforce silly stereotypes like "if you don't wear a dress you're not a real trans woman".

Well, historically, the broad shift from a focus on "transsexual" status and "sex change/reassignment" (focusing on primary and secondary sex characteristics) to one on "transgender" and "gender reassignment" (focusing on some canonical gender expression) was driven by consensus within the trans community.

If anything, the more traditional or "gender critical" POV is that the earlier 'transsexual' focus was in fact appropriate, in which a transfemale person can be transfemale no matter what they express as, whilst "cis", "trans" or "fluid" gender expression is a bit of a red herring.
If you are a qualified engineer in Europe, there are a lot of people who have a vested interest in making sure you think that the US is failing apart.
I did not know that aimee was born in 1997, nor can I find when her father's crimes actually transpired, other than that he was convicted in 2018. My initial impression was that aimee was a transwomen well into adult hood (an adult complicit in these crimes).

This whole thing is going to blow up spectacularly if it comes out that the father committed these crimes when she was in her teens, and she is a product of being a victim in an abusive household.
If you still want to code as a hobby you could do "programming" opposed to "software engineering" as someone in this thread has pointed out. Personally I could see making web apps with a Web 1.0 design as a fun project although probably I would still structure projects "professionally" :)

I get that it's not much fun to code apps (which I did for fun, too) because you need to do some kind of marketing to get a user base because if you don't it's not much fun to have an orphaned app in a store.

There's still a place for fringe programming if you feel the urge. Or go fishing or do gardening.
There are legions of people who would be frothing at the mouth for the opportunity to be given mod on a popular subreddit.
Intel to open foundry services to 3rd party customers
That makes sense. I wonder though how much difference ballast rebalancing can make on this fully loaded ship.
Out of curiosity - why is this a deal breaker for you?
>The size of a car's gas tank has no effect on performance

It has a dramatic effect on performance when you run out of gas -- a little bit like the brick wall you hit if you run out of memory. The GP'S analogy isn't very accurate, but it's not totally wrong
IIRC TSMC is planning on building fab capacity in the US soon anyway, which adds a new twist to that tale.
And the car's inmates are also getting bigger.
I find it amusing the article had to clarify the lower 48 states. In the majority of the United States bald eagles are a rare and majestic sight. In Alaska they are on par with seagulls.
I use ATT Walmart Plan for 8+17 GB for $41/month, prepaid. Hotspot allowed.
> Their manufacturing process for both 10nm and 7nm are now supposedly back on track, and yet they have a large backlog of designs waiting for the new processes to ramp up

From what (little) I know of the industry this isn't a good sign. Engineers working on the fab processes and packaging have to work closely with designers throughout the product design cycle, repeatedly taping out variations to fit onto the process as it is built out.

That's part of why Intel historically used the tick/tock design cycle, designing a new thing to be built on a new process has a multiplicative effect on the time to market because of the way the unknown-unknowns of both sides impact each other, and the large amount of specialized labor to mitigate everything.

It doesn't help that they lost a ton of institutional knowledge over the last decade to their competitors through layoffs disproportionately hitting senior staff.
So now we've reached the point where we're arguing over the semantic meaning of the word "censorship." While we're here, can you please inform us which word we are allowed to use to describe what reddit is doing?
I had the fortune of seeing two bald eagles at a landfill. Apparently they are very common at landfills.
Difference:

US riot - citizens who enjoy democratic freedom protested against republic/democratic government. protest got violent, government handled it.

Hong Kong riot - citizens who enjoy(ed) democratic freedom protested against encroaching dictatorship. protest was peaceful, but then turned violent when police faking as protestors started violence. protest got violent, government handled it (openly and in secret). The dictatorship increased its power at the end.
Sure, fair, I just don't think anyone dredging up this guy's sexual fantasies up and associating them with actual child molestation is taking the moral high ground. There is a difference between watching John Wick murder people and doing actual murders, and it is the same difference between harboring immoral sexual fantasies and actually committing them.
> What can you do, then, if you want to stand out from the crowd? How do you advance your software development career?

I'm sure there are other ways, but one sure way that I have personally used and been fairly successful. Understand your boss and make your boss look good. If you don't understand your boss by year 2, it's time to move on.
There’s a bit of a difference between “working” and “being given the power to moderate teenage-oriented communities and censor/silence all criticism on a mainstream website”.

It’s very humane to forgive, but also incredibly stupid and irresponsible to forget.
I think people are conflating watts and amps, watts measure power, amps measure flow. Watts = amps * volts. High power usage with low voltages results in high amperage.
>why intel hadn't been actively fabbing chips for other customers

Intel foundry have to be a pure play in order to win customers trust. Apple move away from Samsung and now a core customer of TSMC, trust is an issue.
Big as in #1? Yea.
I am gradually getting myself out of the FANG world. What do you do about the duopoly (is that right?) of the A+G? The two of them own iOS and Android. Not sure I can have smart phone today without one of them involved.
Equating the two is ridiculous.

The Capitol Riots were an attempt to overturn a free and fair democratic election in favor of the rioters preferred candidate.

The HK protests are in relation to freedom from the Chinese Government's dictatorial rule.

Democracy is what is most important in both of these situations. The Capitol Riots were anti democracy. The HK protests are pro democracy.
Source please?

During covid a lot of people were isolated. I doubt anyone mainlanders wanted to risk life to confront the protestors. Note how docile Chinese mainlanders are when they travel around the world.
That would likely be even more extreme, wouldn't it? As far as I remember, the protests in HK were massive (as in 5-10% of the population in a single event).
Sure. Wikipedia can also stop anyone from editing anything. Good luck staying alive.
Intel Ponte Vecchio 7nm Xe-HPC GPU 47 Tiles, 100B Transistors