skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have programs written by me in the 80s. They were written in North Star BASIC and COBOL. I also have C programs written by me (say) 10 years old.

When it comes to working out what the programs really do, and how they do their work, the COBOL programs are a breeze. The C programs and the BASIC programs, not so much.
This comment just reads as "I find Americans or American-related politics annoying".

It's particularly ironic on HN; Internet companies are world wide, and the DMCA is used by them frequently. The OP was entirely accurate with his wording, and you're very off base here.
All gov't has control over land via eminent domain, property taxation and regulation to the point of making land useless and the ability to seize your assets, which includes land.

If you say 'well I control the gov't via democracy'! Well you would control that same 99 yo gov't lease holder too about just as much.
> mind bogglingly slow Python is outside of its optimised numerical science ecosystem

Granted, but inside its optimised numerical science ecosystem, Python is, in fact, fast enough. If most of your program is calls into numpy, Python will get you where you need to go. In my experience, one scalar Python math operation takes about the same amount of time as the equivalent numpy operation on a million-element array. Linked against a recent libblas, numpy will even distribute work across multiple cores. So much for the GIL.
Writing scrapers with it is also amazing. All from the puppeteer code, response interface and casting to a local class model. Very time saving indeed.
The false promise of "secular" therapy is that it will give you the view from nowhere. A scientific, independent perspective untainted by beliefs or bias. Unfortunately, anyone who has met a person knows that this kind of independence doesn't and can't exist in real life. So a "secular" therapist will still have all the same individual bias and beliefs, but they won't have them articulated and enumerated in a creed or a body which can be scrutinised. It will all be pushed down into the subconscious, with just as much impact but far less accountability and visibility.
You can read the financial statements and see that this is mistaken. The latest is https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2019/
> just pointing out that interoperability as a counter to wealth/power concentration is insufficient

Interoperability moves the world towards less concentration of wealth and power. So it's a step in the right direction.
I'm sorry if it came across as "flaimbaity". It's a sincere question. Weighing the benefits and costs of things is a common thing to do when considering whether to do those things, and in this case, I just can't help but feel that they completely brushed over that aspect. But I will read your link.
How about Apple work on iPhone features to do what I tell it and not the other way around.
You’re downvoted but I have a similar point / question.. there are many ways to share personal videos privately (text message, cloud photo sharing service etc.); YouTube is a terrible choice for this (despite some forays into that world long ago).
So would not being able to get fuel because there isn't enough of it because no one allowed supply and demand to work.
Damn, those sword examples on the front page look like ass. (https://www.vizcom.co/static/media/weapons.143795cb.png)

I suspect half the use case of this is "this does a quick and dirty shading that gets you 75% of the way there" but man, I would paint over everything about those sword examples.
You're confused about affordability with inflation vs. affordable house.

Sounds like your real question should be can anything is affordable in a hyper-inflation time.

Housing is anchored in inflation, no better or worse. Therefore housing built in with wealth as inflation doesn't hurt housing. By destroying wealth it doesn't make house affordable, only make worse hyper-inflation.

Come on, thought this is ecom 101. What do colleges teach these days?
The Theory of Constraints works well for me: at any point in time there will be exactly one thing you can do that will have the most positive impact on what you want to achieve. So do that one thing as much as you can. And only do the rest when you are too tired to do #1 or are blocked. The rest you can do in any order without stress. For example optimising when you are taking garbage out is so far from being #1 that you shouldn’t even think about it. It has zero importance. And when #1 is achieved or you have the habit/system in place, something else will now be #1.
It is legally useful since it fits with our current understanding. When this changes, the laws will change. Your scenario is completely hypothetical at this point and also kinda extrapolated from things we know now.
https://archive.is/95WNA
This reminds me of a blog post about using pure lambda calculus for whiteboard problems [1].

I'm always fascinated by these "minimum viable language projects", since I think they sort of get into a fundamental concept: what is computing exactly?

[1] https://www.jtolio.com/2017/03/whiteboard-problems-in-pure-l...
I've also been suspicious of his audiophile opinions because his hearing must have been damaged by decades of loud music, so how can he hear these fine distinctions?
True! It says "Modification date: 26 Oct 2002" at the bottom of this page:

http://gernot-katzers-spice-pages.com/engl/Spil_acm.html
https://archive.is/1G2yn
Nobody predicted GDPR or the need for multicloud.

Wonder what the big new grunt work for 2030 will be.
The browser does not host or provide content. Messengers like Telegram however do. Public telegram content can be found direct with telegrams in-app search.

Also everyone knows that browsers are excluded form most of these store rules because reasons. Browsers dont have to pay a fee for ads shown either for obvious reasons.

BTW you can use web.telegram.org to circumvent apple blocked content on telegram because this runs in a browser they dont have to comply with app store rules (for now).
And you can use F-Droids Telegram Fork or the APK form telegram.org to circumvent googles blocked content.

In case of a bot that is turned off however this does not help because its turned off at the backed.
Buildings are actually a deprecating asset, even if you renovate them, outside of maybe some rare heritage art pieces or other similar rare things. The only reason why RE 'goes up' is the value of the land underneath. You can easily demonstrate this by two neighbor buildings on similar kinds of land with equal sqft, the newer building usually sells for significantly more than the older 50 yo one.
Walmart Worker Quits over Loudspeaker in Epic Telloff [video]
Just go for a 45 min walk without bringing your phone (or if you have the discipline simply don’t use it). I solve most problems that way.
Open wouldn't hurt, but I'd submit that price, specifically "free", is the bigger problem. It doesn't really matter which platform is dominant when they're all advertisement driven.

If our data became worthless, because of say, regulation on its use and a right to be forgotten, then we'd see more than just "one business model under different names".
https://archive.is/B714n
What are the laws on fuel storage there?

In at least some states in the US it is only legal to store it in approved containers, although I don't know if the gas stations would stop you if you tried to fill up a bucket or plastic bag.
> tends to make Apple a patsy for local government interference

It feels like that's part of their business model. Apple (and Google) can have more business if they follow the dictates of dictators. Dictators can "buy" suppression of free speech from Apple/Google.
This is an interesting and well thought out response but I have a few issues with it:

> Secular humanism, by contrast, emphasizes development of the self, and discourages social enforcement of moral norms

I don't think this statement is true. For example, secular society provides the legal framework that reinforces the social practice of marriage.

> single parenthood rates is the single factor most highly correlated with low economic mobility

Poverty is a much bigger driver behind low economic mobility. Poor people in the west tend to have less stable family structures, it has nothing to do with social norms and everything to do with money.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/44127459

> But we are often myopic about the benefits of social structures to the majority

If this means what I think you are saying (please correct me if I'm wrong) that we should turn a blind eye to the injustices fomented by a big religious institution like the Catholic church, because overall they appear to do more good than harm, I would 100% disagree.

The Mormon example is a bit of a weird one. Utah has a higher GDP per capita but I'm not sure you can ascribe that to religious practices. It might be just because Utah is better farmland than (say) Nevada.
https://countryeconomy.com/countries/usa-states/compare/neva...
Most creative people have about 2 hours of effective time per day. The rest is thinking/noodling/playing/recovering/… time.
Napster is one of the two or three products that spawned a completely different world, entirely tossing established and antiquated rules on their head.

Of course, very directly, Spotify would not exist without Napster.

But a step further, it opened the eyes to end-users about their collective power, and the beauty of distributed distribution. It was the first proof that "regular" users would buy into such a thing. Napster, in many ways, gave birth to BitTorrent, Bitcoin, and all of the derivative work thereof.
This analogy breaks down in deprecating communication, in at least a couple of ways.

Firstly, communication only comes last in a dire emergency, and otherwise, it is often key to avoiding dire emergencies, which is why communication is mandatory in class A, B and C airspace.

Secondly, everything that makes aviation safe is a result of extensive communication between engineers, pilots, instructors, and everyone who has an administrative or regulatory responsibility for facilitating safety.
Curious if any P2P networks existed before Hotline. I recall using it briefly before Napster burst onto the scene, and always considered it to be the pioneer.
Human behavior is 100% able to be reduced to mathematical equations. Full stop. In aggregate and in day to day observation.
Agree. HN is the only website I visit every day.
The lines between "big tech" and "big government" seem a bit blurry these days.
The guy that made Kazaa went on to co-found Skype.
I think this article title says it all "DND may abandon $1B move to former Nortel site because of surveillance bugs"

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/dnd-may-abandon-1b-move-to-for...
> Most creative people have about 2 hours of effective time per day. The rest is thinking/noodling/playing/recovering/… time.

Thinking time is effective time. Intellectual labor isn't typing, though that's sometimes a necessary mechanism for reifying the output.
the health and PII data making its way to log data may give Apple legal cover to ingest the data "accidentally", also.

Recall that Google got to claim their street view cars wardriving was unintentional, and just paid $13M to make it go away, after using the data for about a decade [1]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/22/tech/google-street-view-priva...
Nasty stuff. It'll even corrode solid rock when in contact over a time.
Fallout begins for far-right trolls who trusted Epik to keep identities secret
Petrol/Paraffin: 10L in plastic, 20L in metal, no more than 30L max. Diesel is exempt.

https://app.croneri.co.uk/questions-and-answers/carrying-pet...
And even if it is enough, is it worth doing if it makes you look like a suspicious person and attracts NSA attention?
Tesla being irresponsible about this aside, self-driving cars/transportation have existed for years - it's called rail.

Yes, yes - there will always be room for personal vehicles. But this conundrum is the epitome of excessive and terrible infrastructure design, to the N-th layer.

Look at how much fuss this causes when it's better replaced by competent public transit.

Mark it as another useless invention to paper over a huge crack just so we can continue to sell everyone a car.
first of all, you're agreeing with me, I said I'd want to see proof, and you're saying what the proof would need to consist of.

However, you are not addressing that there has been zero natural origin evidence, but they've all along been saying it's the likeliest, despite the Wuhan lab, and they've not been considering gain of function even though the US has been funding it in China at that lab.
Think about it this way: if you are making a lot of progress then you are not learning anything new. It’s when you are stuck, when you have hit a wall, that’s when you are doing something new. Something where you have to push hard and think hard to make progress. But that is also where you learn and make personal progress. So seek out problems that are hard not easy.
Writing boring chores or repetitive code is amazing. Need to handle all cases in a case in pretty much the same way but changing only one thing? Write the first one, the rest is auto coded perfectly.
Napster had some bootleg content that would be illegal on modern streaming services.
Reminds me of the time I saw a bookshelf in the bedroom of my brother's friend. Half were books I loved and half were books I'd never heard of. I got some new favorite authors out of that discovery :)
>the dumb thing idiots always say
"Defying Silicon Valley" ?

Odd way to describe a company that was incubated by a silicon valley VC firm.
It's not just me then. I deliberately stopped buying it a few years back for much the same reasons.

Up till then I had considered it to be purely scientific, non-agenda-driven. Scientifically neutral.
Interesting Baader-Meinhof phenomenon here: I went down a Wikipedia rabbit hole just yesterday of aviation accidents involving depressurization and subsequent incapacitation of (virtually) everyone on board. In each of the three cases I read[0], while the aircraft remained airborne for 1-5 hours after losing its pilot(s), other aircraft sent to intercept could only observe in vain as the autopilot proceeded obliviously towards the inevitable: each of the three ran out of fuel before crashing and killing all on board.

This had me wondering several things (as a layman), notably: did the use of autopilot make for certain doom in these cases, as possibly an aircraft without might have entered a state of descent allowing its occupants to regain consciousness; and, what avionic solutions could aid in this type of accident, which seems inevitable given the rapid cognitive toll of hypoxia? A vigilance switch for the autopilot to remain engaged (on some aircraft currently but uncommon)? Controlled descent by the autopilot when fuel is depleted? And especially, remote piloting by instruments, which seems invaluable in a variety of related emergencies?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522 and the two linked in '#See also'
Thank you. I asked in other forums and that came several times. Technical Advisor
Ask HN: What do you enjoy about JavaScript?
I don't find JavaScript fun to work with. I love Chromes debugging tools and realize it a hugely valuable language but I don't find it fun.

There are people that love JS and want to use it for everything. If you're one of them what makes it fun?
Interview with its creator, Martin Kleppe, here: https://esoteric.codes/blog/interview-with-martin-kleppe
>Yes, capital pays for labor to produce a thing, and then owns the thing.

Its not the capital that gives companies ownership of its creation, its the "will made manifest" by wielding said capital.

The company wants the creation to exist, then the manipulates the world around it so that the thing comes into existence.

You talk of companies as if they are not also people. Companies are collections of people.
The content you readily have access to now is far far more curated by others than you realize, largely because it's so easy to use.

It's a bit of legwork and both legally and ethically questionable, but a modern usenet|(radarr||sonarr)|nzbget|jellyfin pipeline makes the legal providers seem obscenely limited.

It doesn't matter who has negotiated what license with whom -- if I want to watch a bit of media, I can usually do so in high quality with a few clicks and a few minutes wait. (rarely more than 30 minutes for the 4k good stuff)
What will programming look like in 2028?
Early ADHD Diagnoses and the Decline of Men in College (Opinion)
Was it FBI agents, about 18 months ago, that were ordered to surrender their iPhones, and most of them wiped them before turning them in?

When I was younger, I respected agencies like the FBI, CIA, NSA, etc. Now I think they are corrupt as hell and we’d be better off without them.
I'm very interested in converting images to 3d models. Really cool tech that feels like it's nearly there.

Have you by chance seen any of the work Facebook has been doing related to the 2d to 3d conversions?

https://github.com/facebookresearch/pifuhd

In an ideal world (for me) the output would be an .fbx file that could be uploaded directly into blender or unreal engine.
For a minute, I got excited that someone was trying to use mRNA against the amyloid hypothesis!
I'm not seeing this 2000 breach, but even then by 2001 they had laid off 2/3rds of their workforce, and faced repeated internal scandals after that.
> Ascribing qualities of being well structured or spaghetti code to programs as tiny as ~40 bits seems an exercise in futility.

I disagree. There are two programs given in the post, each requiring just 32 bits to describe, and the first one is definitely well-structured and the second one is definitely spaghetti. You can see the difference in the control flow graphs.
> Does clojure not have a destructuring match in it's standard library?

Yes it does:

(def my-vector [:mary :had :a :little :lamb])
(let [[_ _ _ _ lamb] my-vector]
(print lamb))

(def person {:name "Bob Dylan" :age 77})
(let [{person-name :name
person-age :age} person]
(print person-name)
(print person-age))

Clojure doesn't natively support destructuring inside def and var though, the latter doesn't really exist in Clojure since there's not real local mutable variable, only local bindings. It supports it in let, function parameters, loop, and everything else that derives from those.

For fun, I just made a macro to support it in def as well:

(defmacro ^:private def-locals
[]
`(do ~@(for [local (keys &env)]
`(def ~local ~local))))

(defmacro ddef
[destructuring value]
`(let [~destructuring ~value]
(def-locals)))

(ddef [_ _ _ _ lamb] my-vector)
(print lamb)

(ddef {person-name :name
person-age :age} person)
(print person-name)
(print person-age)

> are small CLI programs that help me free up mental space, and web apps. Clojure, outside of babashka seems ill-suited to the first

Ya, Clojure JVM is not ideal for small CLIs, because it has a slow startup. Though you can now compile a Clojure JVM program into a self-contained statically compiled native executable, it requires understanding a fair amount of GraalVM native-image, and Clojure infrastructure and all that to do so, actually Babashka itself is such a program. But that's also where Babashka comes in, because now all your effort learning Clojure also means you can reuse those learning for scripting and babashka driven CLIs, where as before you needed to rely on some other language for those, which meant having to learn something else for those use cases. You can also use ClojureScript to write Node.JS driven CLIs and scripts if you want, though I'd say Babashka is much nicer, unless you cared for some Node.JS library.

> And when I last tried to do web apps with Clojure, it seemed like everything relied on a lot of self-assembly, and didn't map cleanly to ways I knew how to web apps at the time from Go, C#,or Erlang. I dunno what the situation is there these day

It hasn't changed, familiarity is Clojure's enemy, that holds for frameworks as well. This is another learning curve.

> For Janet, I did lean into the more imperative constructs early on.

Ya, that will be another big learning curve then.
I think p2p was so successful that the music industry had to change. They had to be more convenient or would lose all the control on media distribution. Users of modern streaming services owe a lot to p2p users of early.

Evidence: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/...
> "Creationism is true if it will keep my kids off oxycontin."

I think this highlights that while the specific claims of religion (on the age of the earth, origin of species, existence of God, etc) may well be false, religion nevertheless can be a useful social technology.

But this is a problem, because:

(1) many people who might otherwise become religious adherents can't be expected to beleive what to them is silly bafflegab (they could always just pretend to, but that has its own costs too)

and (2) religions tends to be really keen that new adherents actually do belief in their belief systems.

One solution might be an idea Scott Alexander had, of separating true-with-respect-to-external-reality from true-with-respect-to-human-psychology (https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/05/15/raikoth-history-religi...):

>Raikothin religion, sumurhe in its own language, recognizes two aspects of God, called Truth and Beauty. The existing world is a poorly ordered mishmash of these two aspects, whereas God is the two aspects artfully and perfectly combined.

>Truth includes everything that actually objectively exists, in the exact way that it actually exists. This aspect is mathematical, precise, and completely devoid of subjectivity. It is symbolically associated with winter, stars, the colors blue and silver, and all the hard sciences as well as math.

>Beauty includes feelings, dreams, hopes, personality, meaning. This aspect is numinous, charged with emotion, and fantastic. It is symbolically associated with summer, roses, the colors green and gold, and all the arts, especially poetry and especially especially music.

>This philosophy cashes out into a formalization of two different ways of looking at things, the Elith-mirta and Ainai-mirta (Perspective of Truth and Perspective of Beauty). The sumurhe religion itself is a perfect example. In the Elith-mirta, it is a useful metaphor for the fact that some things are easier to understand using mathematics and other things are easy to understand using native anthropomorphic intuitions, as well as a recognition that religion promotes psychic health and strengthens community ties. In the Ainai-mirta, Truth and Beauty are literal anthropomorphic deities (the god Elith and the goddess Ainai) who are worshiped through prayer and sacrifice and invoked for strength in times of need.
This looks more like a publicity stunt that anything else.

When the AI can generate a cogent argument for its invention being patentable, then I would be prepared to consider its claim. Until then, comparisons to the DMCA seem overblown.
Oh nice, I did not know that, I've been wanting to try Racket for a while, maybe trying my hand at a desktop GUI will be it. Thanks.
Its not just big tech, every company does it because they have to. Quite a few just choose to. And many sell your data for the right price. Others fake data breaches and get paid under the table then collect insurance. Its all an ugly game.
"We'd like to award you this $100M contract but first we need our back scratched"
how is this "educational"? it's about as readable as hexadecimal machine code. What's the lesson?
Yep agree. Focus on the one thing that will have the most positive impact in your life. Ignore the rest (doing minimum to keep things going). What is #1 will change as life changes. But there will always be a #1 that you should focus your energy on while keeping the rest at minimum power.