skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was an interesting choice to include the Compucolor II emulation. It was a very quirky machine with some interesting design choices, but not very popular.

Ops website references https://compucolor.org, which I created. I'm glad someone was able to find something useful in it. The site has an in-browser javascript emulation of the Compucolor II. I've written one javascript program in my life, and that emulator is it. It has languished since 2014 other than a bug fix here and there. Eventually I'll refresh the code, and hopefully replace the display generation logic with webgl.

The core emulator was quite simple to write, but 90% of the time was spent getting the code to work across browsers and dealing with the infuriating differences in keyboard handling. Maybe things are better now.
Sure. I am interested in new economic models and Slow Money gave me a chance to explore investing with accredited and non-accredited investors into local enterprises, particularly those in or adjacent to the food system. This felt new to me, though it is a variant of impact investing which has been around for decades. My time was before the 0% interest loans, which is a new model that I haven't participated in. Woody has been in the financial and non-profit world for years, so this was a golden opportunity to get the chance to work next to him.

I believe you have a few levers to make change in the world:

* your livelihood
* your free time
* your spending
* your investing

I invested because I wanted to see what change we could accomplish with this group of investors. I learned how hard it is to properly evaluate lending to businesses (from many angles, including recruiting businesses to apply for loans, even low interest ones). To be blunt, the end results weren't good in terms of capital return. I do think we impacted the local food ecosystem in a positive way, but there's a reason risk departments are not run by committees of volunteers.

I'm excited to see the new experiments the Slow Money folks are working on. I think that is room and need for some new economic models and am encouraged smart passionate folks continue to work on this.
> A higher vaccination rate would not have "ended" this sooner.

Because this never ends. COVID has killed, what, a few snow leopards?

I mean, this thing is forever. Life is way to short to spend the rest of it in fret of Covid. But that isn’t my call that make, nor is it yours or the governments. We have multiple vaccines, treatments, etc. COVID is here forever. It’s no longer anybody but each individual to decide how to deal with that.
It's on my list. The reviews have indeed been rapturous. Before "Dawn of Everything" (his final book) was published this year, Graeber (an anthropologist with a specialty in economics) had already been long acknowledged as one of the world's best and biggest brains.

Something that I have read, and highly recommend, is Steven Pinker's latest book, his 17th: "Rationality." As a person who considers himself to be coldly rational, I found the book quite humbling.
Phineas Gage[1] would have limited ability, it doesn't mean he was genetically destined to get a rod through the brain. Weston Price[2] photographed and studied people around the world and wrote the book "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration" arguing that modern diets lead to physical development problems.

Not that it can't be influenced by genetics, or that people can all be the same; very few people will be Von Neumann reading a 46-volume world history series in his fifth language at age 8.

But saying "these people are failing at school, it's genetic" is a handwavy dismissal; a giving up on them. If it is, what should it change about teaching?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage

[2] https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=nutrition+and+physical+dege...
They do, yes. Thank you!
Non-Fiction

* A mind at play - Jimmy Soni, Rob Goodman

* Show the work - Austin Kloen

* The effective executive - Peter Drucker

Fiction

* The 7 and 1/2 deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton

Technical

* On Lisp - Paul Graham
> procedures updated and social adoption of masks can occur and any other handy measure

So forced masks forever?
I 100% am onboard. I think this article still undersells how vital a shift it is, whether you are using a programming-oriented representation JSON, or the web's de-facto and de-jure representation of information HTML (un-discussed but key to me is RDFa and Microdata semantic-markup). This article is so good, draws a very clear picture, & yet it's still no-where enough in de-lineating just how key it is, how vital it is, that the actual web medium- HTML- be able to & be used for expressing information. It at least makes a solid go at trying to show how JSON is arbitrary, where-as HTML is definitive, declarative, expressive.

Back in DHTML days we talked about "data islands", which could be either JSON or XML/XHTML/HTML, either embedded in the page, powering the JS & webapp. Allowing the data & page realm to remain separate is a huge mistake. It overlooks the reverence & respect we ought/need to have for the core source of truth, for the real medium, HTML. Programmers need to take a knee & respect the vital, core, discoverable, honest truth of the web: HTML >>> JS. JS is supposed to just be a tool. As a agnostic/near-aetheist, it still feels non-contradictory to me to say we have fallen away from god in our march towards JS-driven applciationization. We have served illegitemate interests.
> I’ve referred to empirical studies that strongly suggest the adoption of particular practices, but experience, anecdote, and context have usually won out over evidence

like...what? which practices?

> I’ve demoed exciting tools from research, but my team has found them mostly useless, since they aren’t production ready.

just getting teams on board with "classic" tools like static analysis and sanitizers is major. And those can usually be described as 'production ready'
I see a couple of other issues, which share a root cause.

1. A lot of research is based on mining open source projects which bear little resemblance to how software engineering is done behind closed doors.

2. Very few prospective trials (much less randomized controlled trials), which are considered the gold standard of evidence for a good reason.

These retrospective studies are very useful, but to really have faith in a conclusion that X is better than Y you need to assign several engineering teams to condition X and several more to condition Y and then compare.

Nobody has money for that and it would be hard to find even one team (let alone several) that is going to let a local professor flip a coin and decide whether they are going to do Scrum or Kanban. You'd also need quite a few teams because there would be so many uncontrolled aspects.

Researchers in this area are in the very difficult situation where the interesting things are difficult to measure and the things that are easy to measure aren't that interesting. Somehow they still do good work and that's very impressive but I don't envy their task.
We did at my first web dev job. It was a dozen e-commerce sites all tied to the same backend and we would regularly turn Adsense down for a month while we worked on a new layout for one of the sites.

The owner was semi-tech savvy but not enough to be efficient and when I tried to explain I could just copy the site to a new server and clone the database he’d say, “we don’t have time for that.” Was like working at the McDonalds of web development (I think it was 2010 or 2011) and I don’t recommend it.
For those less familiar, Samsung first built Action Austin (nand flash) up in Round Rock about 12 years ago. Taylor is just a bit further north east.

The thing I tend to ask, assuming chip factories consume a bunch of water, is how this will impact Central Texas water availability in the decades to come. You already have the worlds largest waterpark in Round Rock, and the older fab. Taylor is likely more associated with the Carrizo-Wilcox aquifer rather than Edwards.
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I use layers for a more comfortable layout of various brackets, IP address elements, coding symbols and snippets, and keyboard automations (essentially macros).

I use several different machines regularly (mix of Windows, MacOS, and Linux) and it is great to just have my custom stuff with me at all times. Macros are the only thing that is OS specific.
> But from my perspective, where things started breaking apart was with the advent of html5, when sloppy html really became the accepted norm.

Sloppy html was the accepted norm long before html5.
Taylor is just north of Round Rock, so part of the greater Austin area. It's pretty close to the current Samsung facility. I don't think this is East Texas jurisdiction.
There is a button when you scroll down that says "If you're a boomer, you should click here". I feel like that's enough on its own to completely undermine any credibility and gravitas a site might have. I can't imagine donating money to be managed by a group of people who decide to inject generational politics into this for utterly no reason.

Clicking on the link (omg am I even allowed to?? I'm not a boomer!) yields some kind of manifesto about racism, 1%ers, AI, slavery, social justice, and silicon valley? What the hell am I even reading, honestly.
This is a remarkably flamey summary. I would have expected something more balanced from you.

To be very clear, Google did not buy godoc.org at all. The maintainer of godoc.org tired of taking care of it and approached us about taking it over. We agreed, to ensure that this important community resource remained available. We put in significant operational time keeping it running - it was not a zero-maintenance server.

When the time came to update godoc.org to support Go modules, it was clear that a lot would need to change - the old godoc code just didn't expect any of the concepts that modules added. So we wrote a new one instead of trying to evolve the old one in place, and when it was ready, we turned down the old one with appropriate redirects to keep links working.

The idea that we "bought" godoc.org "just to cancel and replace" it is incredibly incendiary and not even remotely close to true. I'm stunned to see you spreading misinformation like this.

As for licenses, Google has deep pockets and does not want to be sued for non-permitted use of other people's source code. Our lawyers have decided that displaying a derived work (the docs) on a commercial site (anything Google runs) is something we need an clear license for. It is not hard to make a clear statement that code is licensed to allow the specific uses that are otherwise reserved to the author in copyright law. The 0BSD and MIT-0 licenses are good examples of clear statements granting the necessary rights, with no actual restrictions on use. WTFPL is very much not that kind of clear statement: it does not explicitly grant the copyright-reserved rights. Google's lawyers do not have any interest in one day having to stand up in court and defend having made commercial use of some software by debating the exact legal meaning of 'what the fuck you want to'.

It also turns out to be fairly difficult, legally, to put something in the public domain. If just saying "I put this in the public domain" were enough, the CC0 license would not be so incredibly long [1]. pkg.go.dev does recognize and display CC0-licensed code.

Yes, godoc.org used to display docs for code using any license at all. That was almost certainly a mistake, one that went unnoticed during the transfer of godoc.org to Google. I'm glad that the copyright violations on that site never led to any legal action.

[1] https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.
I work at a small startup right now but our motto is if it’s a 1 line fix we can just commit to master and deploy to prod. Anything that requires adding new logic or anything we run by the another engineer just to have another set of eyes look at it.
How to save merge state in Git?
The reason there's little research is because there is little money and structure in STEM education in general. I have been to multiple name brand uni's that simply do not have basic lab equipment. Some high schools had more equipment and expertise in software than uni's did.

Why? Because education as a business has fundamentally broken incentives. Most educators have never worked in the private industry, or did so for very little time. This means they don't actually know what they're talking about, they just follow courses accreditation allows them to. You will never make as much as a professor in software than you will privately, unless you are in one of the top schools that are inaccessible to the overwhelming majority of the population.

The workplace politics are egregious, because universities are not a meritocracy, universities have created a system where your skin color matters a lot more than your qualifications to conduct your job. For example, someone becoming head of department because they're from India, not because the product of their research or overall conduct in their job was the superior choice. This trickles down, students become the professor, and over time we are now here.

Tech companies are the wealthiest in the world out of any major, yet contribute very little funding. If anything they make a killing off of schools and students buying hardware and software. Look at a company like Apple, that goes out of its way to make exclusivity deals with university chains, yet still charge their artificial $1200 price tag for the mandatory macbook. These students are having the life chocked out of them, why would we expect them to want to keep doing that and do "research"?
Watch the demo, they're not full circle yet. They're intermingling business and presentation logic all over the place. Their data models depend on createPost(), getPost(), and getPosts() style boilerplate methods. It'll be a couple years yet before the JS community reinvents MVC and ORMs (under a really slick name of course), then we'll be full circle.
We had lots of web sites, and it was confusing. Now we have one.
I feel like there is a fair amount of literature on empowering managers to sugarcoat (or not, as this article says) negative feedback.

An alternative point that perhaps a lot of managers have trouble considering – it's perfectly okay to not have any critical or negative feedback if things are going well. If things are fine, just go ahead and say that. Negative feedback or criticism should be relatively rare.

I have noticed a pattern where managers, especially new managers, tend to take articles like this and others at face value, and nerdily try to maintain some kind of weird ratio in their feedback. They feel like they have to say something critical every time they give feedback to their reports. This leads to situations where there is no actual problem but they are spinning minor things into critical feedback just so they have something to say in that "column", which quickly becomes off-putting. It causes individual contributors to think, "I would rather get off this constant criticism treadmill, and work for someone more peaceful".

Story time: I watched a new manager tear apart an otherwise great team like this once; six months after they took charge, 3 out of their 5 engineers had left for new jobs and higher salaries because the manager kept telling them "Weeeeell, you could have improved upon <inconsequential minor point>" every week, when actually they were doing a stellar job under time pressure and hitting all their targets. The appropriate response should have been "Great job, thank you, and please let me write you this large bonus check for year end".
It can’t be not genetic. Just not totally I guess you meant. Or determinist as you said. As above said many factors but push genetic out is also not good.
HTML5 standardized what you get from "sloppy" HTML, so is more an improvement over the before status where each parser did its own thing with not-perfect HTML.
They are Ghost Peppers/Bhut Jolokia. See https://youtu.be/hMdeLv7m7_0?t=60 or you can FF/jump to the 3:00 min mark.
You searched "Rust" and "Drama", this is not exactly compelling.

First comment is referring to something that happened years ago.

Second comment isn't about Rust at all.

Third post is about Steve not liking something that came out of Amazon.

Reading on it appears to be more references to Actix, Amazon, totally unrelated/ irrelevant results, etc.
Because fox news viewers have been duped into liking israel.
> This explains nothing. It's meaningless drivel.

I second this. Leveraging the crypto trend with the term "Beetcoin". The whole site feels like a hippie inspired marketing scam.

> This is probably the best short explanation: https://slowmoney.org/about/principles

This is marketspeak.

> There's a couple of books as well: https://slowmoney.org/publications

Pointing to long-form high level abstracts is not an explanation.

https://beetcoin.org/how-it-works is a nightmarishly poor breakdown.

Beetcoin (some organization) takes donations. The Slow Money Institute (some other organization) then makes grants to local 0% loan groups (some other groups, and local to who?) which matches Beetcoin-donations with donations from other individuals (more donations from where?) to match (or what, it doesn't get loaned out?). What capital is this double-donation loan against?
If you go through the process, it seems pretty benign. Looks like the stationary has an ad for Shortwave at the bottom, and it unobtrusively reminds you that it’s a Shortwave service throughout.

I think it’s clever, a marketing stunt like this is memorable and makes me curious about the company sponsoring it. Plus, the cost of acquiring a new lead can be pretty high for many SaaS companies. So Shortwave spending less than a dollar per prospect here isn’t suspicious.
> I might suggest that the word “extremely” should be removed not only from the entire repository but all of the user’s repositories.

You've reminded me of this classic, often (mis?)attributed to Mark Twain: [1]

> “Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”

[1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/08/29/substitute-damn/
I feel like testing in prod builds the needed urgency to get things working faster. What would've taken a more winded path through regular unit tests, gets to production quality faster through the more important error cases that surface on prod.

Too many times, the issues we predict are going to happen, are not the most common ones or the ones that we really should have foreseen (hah kinda like the process to find product market fit). The best way to know what's wrong is to simply put it out there faster. And then persistent error-correction to make it better (there's never a best).
>> load and render each component individually

you can do that with Suspense. React doc calls that render-as-you-fetch pattern https://reactjs.org/docs/concurrent-mode-suspense.html#appro...
That’s true but depends on what you’re building. We don’t have a million users or anything yet but I clone the prod db every month or so, change the passwords, and use that for testing. Before we had a staging db and a prod db but they’d diverge and staging would have almost no data while prod would be full of it.
I've been getting into linguistics lately and noticed the fluency aspect in terms of learned difficulty. I am fluent in two languages which adds a slight askew perspective. I find that fluency in spoken language appears to have a harmonias aspect, perhaps frequency related but also culturally harmonic. In terms of tonal sound, inflection etc. serve as probable reinforcement in terms of learned fluency.
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Right, I was using CSS :target and plain links without click handlers.
We're talking purges against the gays here and prison for political dissenters.

Thousands risking their lives on makeshift rafts in the hope of making it to the US.

That sounds like a happy place.
It's not a UI library, so it has no more opinion about what UIs look like than React itself does. You can make it look however you want.
Maybe, I don't feel particularly strongly either way about if it can be applied to the kind of large services you are thinking of. But also wasn't really the point of my comment, I merely rejected the claim that acceptance testing in fields where it is done is the same as testing in prod.
- Republicans will continue to make electoral gains because of a) Gerrymandering; b) the fact that Trump is no longer in the picture.

- Covid will be the same as it is right now; basically a non-factor for a lot of people except that certain spaces require them to wear masks in what feels like a very perfunctory manner.

- Stephen Breyer will die in the middle of the 2024 election campaign and, for whatever reason, the Senate will not be able to confirm someone to fill the vacancy in time...
This is just React.
you sound like a heavens gate member. supernatural is not real and i hope you sober up and face the reality that conception cannot occur without sperm and no one has ever risen from the dead.
Yes, the throw animation for the hands and the new emote popping in.
If you compare say diabetes abd perception of time (another post), you can see the issue of research in many topics. Study need to be relevant and on the ground. But if someone study emacs, vim vs vscode or ispf can this be even master thesis material.
This project crossed the line into Poe’s Law [0] for me. I believe it’s raising money for small farms, but I’m far from certain of that fact.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
As a person that writes my own SQL and hasn't had much/any use for ORMs in the past - I have the imagination that if you were using an ORM you could switch the underlying database without a lot of trouble.

Is there any truth to this?
Nope, that’s not the same thing at all. Those regulations are for required test coverage before things make it to prod. And they only happened in prod before the regulation because it was an unforeseen possibility.

You’re deluding yourself if you think the aviation industry just sells directly to customers new aircraft without testing them.

“Testing in prod” means, “I’m gonna try this thing and I’m not sure if it will work and my test environments don’t cover that so I’ll go straight to prod and see if it breaks.”

The software industry is the only place where that works because shipping to prod is literally faster than test suites in lots of cases and the stakes are so low on failure.

Unexpected catastrophic failures in prod != testing in prod.
Is this really new though? MVVM .NET apps similarly use getters & setters in this manner, except with XAML.
ripgrep guy wants more attention.
To add to that: When the platform is down, editing in production is the fastest way to bring it back up.
Those aren’t tests in any meaningful sense. That’s just telemetry from an already finished product that failed.
these type of things always will be happen till the all gov. will not come together at one platform with strict Punishment like Death penalties for these type of crime (Fingerprints stolen, Rape, Murder...etc)
Yeah, this is basically Vaadin and Spring for young hipsters.
https://beetcoin.org/movement (the original link, actually) has a list of the groups (you have to scroll down; the UX is, well, to say problematic is a bit generous).

It's crowdfunding for local food producers with 0% loans. Another comment mentioned Kiva. It's similar.