skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I moved to Ottawa in 2000 to one of the few defense companies there. The boom was happening and folks were being given 10-15% pay rises, just to try and stop the bleeding to Nortel, as they were paying huge salaries for software engineers back then. Needless to say, when Nortel imploded, we were hiring for a new development program (C++, VxWorks, real-time, DO178B etc etc)and I interviewed dozens of ex-Nortel folks, of all kinds of levels and skill-sets. Now, telecoms isn't airborne software, but we found some absolute gems of engineers that were cast-aside by Nortel. Nortel's loss was our gain in some respects, and another upside was bringing their development best-practices and Nortel engineering experiences with them. My god, we even got to know their product structures after doing so may interviews, e.g. OC-192 architecture always seemed to be particularly good interview rabbit-hole.
Human psyche is not rational. Reason takes work that most are not willing to invest in most of the time, regarding most things. Not even scientists, whose job is to be rational about things, live their lives fully rationally, or even "50+% rationally". Yes, it's not rational to feel good when doing good things for someone. Yet, most people do feel good when doing good things for someone. It's called empathy. And while that feeling is not rational, it is very handy. I don't see how you could have humanity as we know it without it. Whatever the reason for its existence, I'm glad that it exists. Who knows, maybe that's just the anthropic principle in action here? Maybe without it, you really wouldn't have humanity to wonder about it.
true, it's mostly a matter of altitude on the abstraction ladder, and not dealing with textual notation (it's all graphs underneath anyway)
> If you think that human behavior cannot be reduced to equations, then you think it cannot be predicted mathematically. I can only interpret this as a claim that there is something about human behavior which is supernatural.

You’ve reduced the question of whether our universe is deterministic, something the greatest minds in physics have debated for a century and continue to debate, to a sound bite. That’s disingenuous. There may be phenomena we cannot accurately model and predict for fundamental reasons that have nothing to do with the supernatural.

We are so far from scientifically understanding consciousness that we don’t even have an agreed-upon empirical definition for it, let alone a way to measure it. That gap in understanding undermines any claim that it can be modelled this way or that.
Open source financial data API
Lofi beats with nice bass to listen while you code, study or work
I remember encountering this as one of the layers of a heavily obfuscated script (with DRM-related purposes, not surprisingly...) many years ago --- fortunately, there's a corresponding unobfuscator for it:

https://enkhee-osiris.github.io/Decoder-JSFuck/

The same script also featured both of these equally-amusing obfuscations:

http://utf-8.jp/public/aaencode.html

http://utf-8.jp/public/jjencode.html
Thank you! This looks nice, and I like how you work with Maildir instead of IMAP
> evolutionary hunter-gatherer behavior and other various strains of pseudo-scientific bullshit, but all of those are equally as faith-bound as religion given that there is no possible way to devise reasonable (or ethical) experimentation on how past humanity

What past humanity? There are hunter gatherer bands roaming around the Amazon right now. They seem to exhibit at least as much "upstanding behavior" as the evangelicals sloshing around the US.

Scandinavia is fairly secular and has many nice attributes, the US is off the charts in terms of religion, violent behavior, gun deaths etc. I don't see how irrational beliefs about burning bushes, virgin births, walking on water, resurrections result in "upstanding behavior". If this were the case evangelicals would be the epitome of "upstanding behavior", but they are not.
So you are suggesting that in order to help the poor buy fuel, we need to increase the price of fuel?
I got 2 of these today, yet I can’t even send myself email from my own domain through Twilio without google silently dropping it from transit. I would be happy to get into spam, at least that way I could add custom filters.
Flatpak doesn't get in the way of theming at all. (I wrote support for flatpak to literally help auto installing themes...)
> It does not depend on a browser, so you can even run it on Node.js.

wow this is exactly what I wanted!
I'd forgotten Hotline (I was only 8 years old in 1998 and never used it) but the logo looked familiar.

GLoarbLine PhareRouge seems to run on Mac OS 10.13.6, but I don't know any IP addresses to connect to.

https://hotline.fandom.com/wiki/Clients

The closest spiritual successor, I suppose, would be SoulSeek.
> a screening system in place before people can use it that will filter out bad drivers

sure? if that exists, why not just wire that up to the DMV?
It's both... nobody wants to make 5 packages.
I had a friend in uni whose dad was somewhere in R&D at Nortel. I really wish I got to know them better so I could know more Nortel lore.
Obviously; AI is similar in complexity to the global supply chain and billions of R&D that outputs a digital camera.

The person who pushes the shutter button is the ‘inventor’ of the picture.
This "bug", can definitely also be known as a feature ;-)
I probably deserve to get downvoted to oblivion for this but... I've deployed JSFuck in production!

We wanted to obfuscate this bit of code, to make life just a little bit harder for reverse engineers. We made this huge function where we pretty much passed in all our application state, and it would run this JSFuck code, and spit out a token. We even made a few tweaks to the code so that you couldn't just reverse it back into JS with something like https://enkhee-osiris.github.io/Decoder-JSFuck/.

Performance was surprisingly alright, and it has never hit an environment where it couldn't execute. All in all, a fun few hours setting it up, and I haven't had to touch it since!
At this rate, there will be a shortage of tubes soon.
http://algostrategies.io

A FE only solution to find trading strategies. Paying only for domain, lives in Amazon s3
Its because Canonical hired employees to do packaging and outreach, as well as supporting a wider range of application types (cli, server tools), and lastly having no QA so all packages make it in (barring basic automated checks).
I agree, but there's a certain amount of matchmaking being done here that requires more disclaimers about the project not being able to guarantee anonymity for patients or providers. I understand the former, but I don't see why you'd join this as a therapist but try to keep it secret.
Why don't they just quit doing it illegally and get a warrant.
I’m about to be 30 and wanting to break into development from IT. I already feel like I’m late to the party. How was it for you?
The internet at the turn of the century was something special.

What we have now, I don't know, feels inauthentic.
Sometimes there is no distinction:)
The answer, obviously, is 42.
I can tell you marketers are freaking out. And it’s delicious to watch.
Didn't work with the example on JSFuck page
I agree. Thinking about it, probably to do with discovery. In those days, the idea of just mindlessly flipping through content didn't really exist, except on TV or radio. So we had to ask for recs, google for top charts and new albums, etc to know what to find, specifically.

Today it's too easy. Why research, Spotify/Netflix and the like will dump more in your face than you could handle in a lifetime.

Added to that, there's not much concept of 'building a collection' anymore. It used to be a personal point of pride. I have 3000 songs! Today the model is to just stream everything on the fly.
If you ask a typical parent with an infant, dry paper isn't quite enough, but wet-wipes are; they're just more expensive and not flushable.
Secular philosophy has failed to produce enough value for ordinary people living ordinary lives embedded in the ordinary matrix of threats and opportunities presented by every day life. Religion has done that for thousands of years.

There are zillions of ordinary people living ordinary lives all over the world who are largely areligious, especially in industrialized countries so this doesn't seem very accurate beside coming off as somewhat condescending. Additionally, for most ordinary people over many of the thousands of years in question, participation in the dominant religion of the time and place was compulsory.
Every 4-5 years I buy a new phone. I manually move all my data from my old device to the new one. Many tens of gigabytes. Nothing has ever been lost. I still have every single message, photo and video I've ever sent or received since I first installed WhatsApp about 10 years ago. I have backups too.

None of this cloud storage stuff is necessary. It's nice to have the option to use it but it should be optional. I'm sure these companies are smart enough to automate this process without requiring third party servers or even an internet connection.
Granted what I'm talking about is far below the level of the major music labels, but I still buy music on CD. Then I rip it to my network drive when I get home. The reason is that my family is into music that's way off the mainstream, and we've asked the musicians directly: "Which way of buying your music nets you the most actual money?" The answer is still buying their CD.

I'm a musician myself but have no interest in recording or selling music.
My experience with Buddhism was that theology was very much not the point, but most people still consider it a religion.
They just want NDA signatures.
Data leaked due to a hack? Wouldn't it be best to have social and traditional media suppress it, in case it was done by a foreign actor trying to manipulate US politics?

Not that it matters - the US is a systemically racist and white supremacist country, so these trolls should have nothing to fear from exposure, right?
Personally I feel that Minority-Report-y predictions are foolish, because is ignores the human aspect in the name of glitz. Specifically, how tiring it is to hold your arms in the air all day.

I think the example of mail is instructive. Contrary to some "zeerust"-y predictions, we don't buy virtual stamps from the virtual store to virtually lick them before virtually walking to the virtual mailbox. Even with the vastly improved capabilities of 30-40 years in 3D technology, the concept is immediately bizarre.

In practice, we instead boiled away most of the extra bits and ended up with e-mail, which tries to minimize even the body-movement needed.
I'm pretty openly in support of gatekeeping. I'd have set the bar a bit earlier, but most people are going to set it in a way to include themselves anyway.

However, I think gatekeeping is overly maligned right now. A fully open community is exceedingly unlikely survive going viral. Influx of new users at that scale is likely to outnumber existing users at a much larger scale, resulting in replacement, or at least dilution of the source community.
This is not about minimal computing. It's just using Javascript's weir rules in unexpected ways.
I remember Audiogalaxy, but cannot remember if it was before, after or basically concurrent with Napster..? Guess couldn’t have been before because Napster was the first right?
https://affordanything.com/is-renting-better-than-buying-sho...
Why do prices always double when a car like this is sold in the EU or USA? Is it a combination of shipping costs and modifications to meet standards or is it mainly that middlemen just raise the price, or all those or something else?
I like "ek", but I'm not a native speaker, so my preference for British English voice might not be the same as for anglophones.
I suspect the languages and tools will look broadly similar. Not because they're currently any good, but because the next 8 years will be focused on different domains rather than tooling.

Writing contracts or transactions (monetary or other property) to a blockchain will become much more commonplace. Terms of service, especially around privacy and ownership of data, will be recorded in immutable blockchain records.

AR, and NLP will be "standard" in nearly all new apps. Apps will interact in more conversational ways using NLP and will trigger more real-world feedback via speakers, lights, video projection, etc. Boring stuff like movie theaters, coffee shops, malls, amusement parks, and some bureaucratic offices (e.g. DMVs) will have ways of personalizing your visit via the interaction between and app and the physical space. A lot of programming effort will go into deploying these systems. There will be at least one bad joke starting with "So a phone walks into a bar..."

Most programmers will be tasked with integrating all the old with this new stuff. There will be APIs, maybe some new serialization formats like JSON, and some new terminology to master, but most of the new will be in user experience.
There’s so many niches in enterprise software just looking for someone to say yes to all of their questions. It’s not surprising really.
Given the ubiquity of YouTube, that may have been the best option for uploading she had. Yes, “we” know there are many options, but when there is a bright, shiny, button that says “upload to YouTube” then why not use that? After all, that should also work for sharing videos with family members.
I don't know why this is #1 on HN right now, but i just came here to say I was a sophomore at ISU in 2000. Go Cyclones.
All my functions ... every one I have ever written in my entire life: the color ass or doo doo brown.
Agreed. Sadly, we will probably never learn to 'price' individual and collective preferences over multi-generational time spans.
For many still like vim I guess.
New release of the simdjson library: version 1.0
> It's nice to have the option to use it but it should be optional.

It is optional. But people choose it because it's a lot easier than what you do.
>>>> "Creationism is true if it will keep my kids off oxycontin."

The thing is, it won't.
Or have your mail client or shortcut attach either pre-defined content or a signature to outbound messages destined for this address.

Ex
Sincerely,
&&&setting.darkmode=true&&&

Or similar.
This is cool and interesting, but for me it's in the same category as photography eccentrics who can develop amazing photos with a darkroom in 2021.

I'll stick with my web interface. When that doesn't suffice, I'll check out the remote branch locally and navigate around with the full power of my IDE.
Pre-Occupied
They don't want to lose their data if they lose their password/device. The only way that is possible is for the third party to have access to the data.

I would posit most people don't care if a 3rd party has access to their data, all they care about is not losing their stuff when they lose their device/password. They don't care about the technology behind it, which requires the 3rd party to have access.
I was one of the first people in North America to create CDs, in 1984.

I was working with a scientist who had connections with Sony Japan, who had 6'-tall rackmount CD writers.

We would mail a 9-track tape to Tokyo with sample remote sensing data, and they'd mail back a CD. Although it didn't contribute to the scientific projects directly, we were able to demonstrate the new technology to various groups at a national lab.

Overall the feeling was that it was very cool to have that amount of data on a device that small.

I'd say the first pressed data CD I saw was the Microsoft Encarta (encyclopedia) CD around 1993:

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

About a year or so later I was one of the first users of the Optimem 1 GB 12" optical drives. We used that to archive large amounts of software and experimental data. It was nice to be able to write your media incrementally. One small project was to copy the world's freeware (about 500 5.25" floyy disks) onto a single optical disk for users to find sample code and utilities.

I printed out an index on paper and distributed that to several programmers, and they would let me know what they needed.
Audiogalaxy had a Linux server as well, IIRC. And it preferred transfers from nearby networks (assuming they were numbered contiguously anyway), which was nice for popular stuff so it wouldn't clog external connections in dorms. Also nice that it showed you all the different versions so you could get both versions when bands made a shame on you release.
This really makes me think. Unknowable is often mistaken as supernatural. Could human behavior possibly be physically unknowable? There are potential unknowables: Non-observable universe, destructed past information, progressively fundamental particles.

Even with indestructible information, combined with locality at the big-bang, combined with a perfect fundamental physics, is there enough time/energy to compute that? Perhaps this is grasping at straws.
It blows my mind that a private company could create their own GPS service.

I wonder if Tesla vehicles could contain starlink receivers that give Internet access plus geolocation service.
How can you put a number on an ephemeral emotion like confidence but not something more tangible like intelligence? Are anecdotal surveys really an accepted form of research in this kind of field? I’m genuinely curious as it seems that a lot of studies of this nature are generalizing quackery to confirm inherit biases and provide un-individualized cheap solutions.
Back in the day I remember tweaking and repackaging a Gnutella client which was preset to restricted its traffic to the university LAN.

It didn't take off though: The first-mover advantage of "that one guy who runs a Direct Connect server which you can also chat on" was too strong. (I just disagreed with the centralization.)
Science deals with “is” and thus cannot answer “ought”, which has to come from elsewhere, but moral precepts don't need to come from religion (and arguably ultimately don’t, instead, religions are invented as rationalizations and tools for communicating moral principles rather than existing independently and providing them.)
I'm convinced FAAMNG are a partisan voting block.

Occam's razor leads me to believe that it's organic behavior and not organized vote brigading. Perhaps employees or shareholders take opposition to negativity more frequently than not. Or maybe negative articles get posted on an internal company Slack and get extra attention.

I suppose they could hire a service that does the same as a form of brand management, but I'm more inclined to think that those in our profession have simply forgotten the importance of privacy and speech when they're being paid not to care.
My partner is a digital artist who makes a living off of freelance/commission work.

I've been on the lookout for tools in this area since I suspect they're going to be a large part of art development in the future -- start with something rough out of a tool like this, and use it to save yourself a bunch of time early on + work on the details.

Will share this!
The Problem of Marital Loneliness
physics/acoustics only go so far when dealing with art

I remember like fm quality more than cd, the involontary mix sounded "better" musically, even though half the details went through the window

Also customers are never in control of the audio processing pipeline. You can have crystal clear mathematics at one point but lacking mic setups, bad studio.. so you'll get clear shit. All this in the possibility that back in the days, before digital-to-digital, people paid more attention on all the links of the music production chain (something I cannot attest but read a few times).
Yeah, that's a good point. Anonymity relies on everyone using Tor as well so they all look the same. If there's just one weird guy using Tor it's easy to single him out.
> If driving behavior is good for 7 days, beta access will be granted.

People pay for software that's supposed to drive the car. Why does it matter how the passanger drives? Well, because the software is a student driver. It fucks up in weird ways. It needs close supervision by an expert driver.
I used napster in junior college and audiogalaxy at my 4-year, so at least for me, Napster was first, but there was some time when both were around and usable.
Secular philosophy (including science) and religion address different concerns, and can coexist cooperatively so long as there is a willingness on both sides to do so. The first step in that cooperation is to put aside the question of which side is not cooperating.
Agree. I seem to remember RE being “on average” an inflation hedge. Though locality of course matters hugely. RE somewhere a lot of people want to be will be bid up. RE in the middle of nowhere can be built and sold pretty much at whatever it cost.
Sure entropy depends partially on how you choose to describe your space but there are limits to how much two definitions can differ.

In particular the set of low entropy states must be quite small, so even if two definitions don't agree they must still agree for quite a large part of the high entropy states.

A cold ant is simpler because the molecules don't move in complicated ways. It's more complex if you ignore the movement of molecules, but then you're changing more than just how you define entropy you're leaving out bits of physics.
I blame object orientation. It is too easy to create useless classes. Funcional programming data types, on the other hand, are much more direct to the point, which makes it easier to spot useless layers.
>What's weird is that nobody talks about WHY Shi Zheng-Li/"Bat Woman" was digging around random caves in Yunnan.

She is an expert on SARS-like viruses, and her research focus is on the threat of zoonotic spillover from bats. One would expect her to be involved in the investigation of an apparent zoonotic spillover from bats that causes SARS-like symptoms. Hell, it would be weird if she wasn't part of the investigation.
Your wish wouldn’t work on iOS. Apple hasn’t so far focused on adding Internet access permission. Every app on the device gets access to the network by default. There is no way to stop one app from accessing the Internet while allowing others.