skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it would be less than 1" of paper (remember green lined fanfold?)

I must have been writing very verbose code then. The frame-based reasoner I was coding in C (long story) was at least an inch thick itself (it's in my loft or I'd measure it).

> It was possible to actually know all the software that you had at your disposal at the byte level

I don't think this was true of the dev tools I was using on the Vaxen I had access to.

> There was no internet, you needed to either find a more knowledgeable buddy or you had to go to the library, read magazines or book.

Well, pedantically, there was an internet but you are right about the need to use dead-tree reference material - and the man pages.

What was missing compared with today was software libraries and frameworks. My development environment was vi and cc. If I needed a hash table or a queue, it was a case of reading an algorithms book. The journal of the British Computing Society was still happily publishing papers presenting new sorting algorithms.

[Edit] - the other big thing missing was deployment tooling, VMs, containers, etc. Admittedly I was coding in academia, but at no point was I introduced to version control tooling.
I believe the most important difference between then and now is you no longer need to purchase expensive toolchains to develop commercial software.

Well into the 90's every developer office was adorned with the 6" thick Borland box, proving they had their license. Opensource toolchains and languages took time to mature, but are ultimately responsible for the today's prolific programmer.
sincere question: what are the better alternatives?

Do any have a (different) key technological component or do they mostly rely on other non-technology-based trust channels like a notary or a lawyer, as other comments have mentioned?
> You have to go to bios

IMO, a computer should work decently without needing to tweak the BIOS. If a feature is "experimental" and is likely to cause problems, it should be disabled by default.
There was a report on HN recently that said crypto’s 2021 worldwide energy usage was roughly the same as Argentina. I don’t know where that puts it as a percent of energy usage worldwide.
The most popular Wordpress plugins for the past 10+ years are for complex forms, incl. appointment scheduling.

That being said, I also know a doctor who created an MVP of a specialist look-up service using FileMaker(!).
The Tagesschau explicitly rejects gendered language: https://www.24hamburg.de/hamburg/ard-tagesschau-will-nicht-g...

More than two thirds of the Germans reject gendered language: https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/gendergerechte-sprache-m...

The Bayrische Rundfunk even explicitly discourages employees from using the asterisk and/or double colon: https://taz.de/Oeffentlich-rechtlicher-Rundfunk/!5791847/

The Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) also reports that more than 65% of Germans disfavor gendered language: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/sprache-mehrheit-der-deut...
"Mimoza Kusari-Lila, an MP from the ruling Vetevendosje party said that “it is a matter of weeks” until consumers in northern start paying their own bills for the first time since the war ended in Kosovo in June 1999."

"Serb consumers in the four northern municipalities have not paid for their electricity since 1999. According to Radio Free Europe, the total cost of the energy used in the Serb-majority municipalities is around 12 million euros per year."

Whoever really believes that people who haven't paid their bills since 1999 would magically start paying in 2022 is quite naive.
Then I'll give you the sciencey answer. Global warming was so called not because of higher expected temperatures, but rather because there is more energy in the atmosphere. For scientists, broadly, when talking about a system energy is almost equivalent to temperature.

The excess energy is manifested is more extreme weather - including more extreme cold. This is especially true for the US, as the changes in weather patterns move the Gulfstream further north. This pushes the colder, polar air right onto Canada and then the US. For the past decade there has been a trend when the US has these cold snaps, the polar regions are a few tens of degrees (pick your scale, doesn't matter) hotter than what is generally expected historically for that time of year.
ye but right thing wrong reasons is still right thing. I think its fine.
FYI, Chipotle CEO makes ~14 million a year. A normal salary for CEO could go a long way to improving stores and pay for some.
The "Alioto Law Firm" who wrote this press release can't spell the word "its."

This makes me wonder about the whole firm.

> "The complaint claims that the means used to effectuate the non-compete agreement included; (1) Google would share it's search profits with Apple;"
It’s a tough question because manufacturing equipment is just stupidly expensive (a good end mill can upwards of $500) and usually out of reach for the average consumer. But if I had 15K to buy equipment I would probably buy a CNC plasma cutter and a Tormach PCNC. But if your budget is 15K, you need to save at least 5K of that for material and consumables. Especially if you’re trying to scale, you’re going to have to account for rejects.

If you want to learn more about manufacturing techniques , this is the book I used in college which had a great breakdown IMO https://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Modern-Manufacturing-Mat...
The problem of discrimination black people face is very real. Four or five years ago I was traveling to DC and booked a room in a home for a week near the outskirts. I'm white. The owner was black. He had a white wife, so they could have done things differently, but he wanted to make sure that anyone coming in his home was comfortable being around a black person.

I found this out when he thanked me for coming to his home even though he was black. Basically thanking me for not being racist. So we got into a whole discussion about it. Super warm dude and one of the best hosts I've ever had.

It boggles my mind how much race still matters in America.
That's pretty close to 50%. Which makes me wonder, what percentage of teenagers have obesity? Maybe it's 61%?
I think there will always be a boundary with these tools where if you are building something complex you will reach a point in the project where you need something more advanced than the tool you're using can provide. For me at least, that was the spark to learn to code in the first place. You could call it the law of conservation of code, but I think there is a limitation on how complicated the output a no-code tool can create before it eventually becomes a code tool.

That said, for the chiropractor who needs a website to list his phone number, address, and services, I think a future where he doesn't need to hire a web designer and potentially get scammed (I've seen this a number of times) is a bright one, and I do think we're headed towards a future where the tools are good enough to make very basic front end dev work for situations like this obsolete.
How so? And by Westerners do you mean NA + EU or NA?

What about Australia?
> One of the surprising features of the crypto boom is the discovery of places where the price of energy is directly subsidized, or otherwise broken

are you really arguing that letting the market work on energy instead of having somewhat democratic state run utilities works well? i think the evidence speaks for itself. what do you see?

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/04/10/texa-a10.html

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/01/texa-j01.html

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/08/texa-m08.html
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Have you considered ICANN? Or USA-based DNS providers?

One letter, from the right agency, can do a great deal.
That is most likey a Linux problem in general. Linux is known to have worse energy management. TFA explains the owner had to enable deep sleep and hibernation:

> One of the initial caveats with installing Ubuntu is that deep sleep and hibernate are not enabled by default. Deep sleep is easy to enable. Hibernate takes a bit more effort, but it’s straightforward. Once configured it works like a charm. I noticed about a 2% drain in 3 days of hibernation. If this power loss is linear, it can go for weeks in hibernation.
SWE with 6-ish yrs of exp. I get good annual reviews, have been promoted consistently, good feedback overall from not only peers but from higher-level managers, business folks, designers, legal, content /copywriters.

But according to leetcode and the FAANG interview process, I am not worthy of employment at any of big tech companies, and I failed a lot of those interviews. I love coding and tech, but leetcode makes me hate it.

If I lacked self-esteem, I would not be in a good emotional state, which is something that does concern me - being rejected by many companies can take an emotional toll on a person's emotional health.

The good news for folks like me is that there are enough companies that will interview me on relevant skills and $200K-ish TC is enough to live well, especially with good work / life balance.

FAANGs and start-ups are shooting themselves in the foot with the interview process - they are effectively:

1. limiting their new-hire pool by having too high of a hiring bar, and

2. hiring candidates that may not have the expertise that they need bc they are not interviewing for that expertise (you might be desperate for AWS / cloud skills, but testing for dynamic programming will not help you find that candidate).

Big surprise - there is a hiring problem. This is a big enough problem that the tech companies are doing unusual things:

1. Amazon has been reaching out candidates that were given offers within the last year, and trying to entice them with higher offers, and

2. Apple (and Amazon will in April too, according to Blind) has been giving big pay increases (40% ish IIRC) to keep top performers from testing the market.

^^ There will be more anomalies bc the skills gap will get worse.

Good news, folks - likely we will all get paid more, leetcode or not.
I’m iPhone & Pop_os! . There are some obsidian forum threads that can help, I think this is the one that I used for my setup (1).

It is not completely obvious in the UI, but the basic idea is that you use a iOS git app (I use the excellent Working Copy) to just push and pull everything to GitHub, working around some inherent iOS limitations. As a bonus, you can setup the Shortcuts app to auto push and pull with closing and opening obsidian. There’s a git sync extension for obsidian, makes it all pretty seamless once it’s set-up.

1. https://forum.obsidian.md/t/mobile-setting-up-ios-git-based-...
There are some rather compelling theories positing that ancient Egyptians discovered how they could make a type of glass that they moulded in to a lens at least 5M in diameter. At that size, the focused light from the sun gets hot enough to melt granite (among other things).

I thin you’re right that they likely would not have had the clarity to make those smaller optics useful, but it feels interesting enough to add here.
I get what you are saying, but specifically with Bubble[0], I've been able to walk a far longer part of the stretch from low code to full stack code than it was possible in the past. It's crazy how easy it is to hook in custom JS components, etc.. I'd recommend it to anyone who is still in the validation phase of a product.

In the end we still had to ditch them, as the low-code cowboy coding didn't mesh well with the need for multiple environments and running tests in CI and backups, etc..

[0]: https://bubble.io/
To answer your question, neither Git nor Perforce will cause a merge conflict. You’d need a SCM that isn’t line-based for that.

With large teams, you need code review (which this bug can elide), great test coverage (the tests will likely have a merge conflict) and very importantly, a commit-by-commit build health indicator after merging. You can also do this in batches and bisect to find poisonous commits should a batch be broken - flakes notwithstanding.
> Does Airbnb offer other alternative methods of identifying riffraff?

The newspiece mentions a problem of racial discrimination based on checking profile pictures and how a name sounds. Do you feel it's appropriate to equate someone's ratial background with "riffraff"?
That makes sense given it's 37% of your leisure time.
The aluminium smelter also requires collocated skilled labor which is another factor.
Looks like software developers will become luddites too if their job is threatened. Big portions of development not just UI development will need little to no human input after artificial general intelligence becomes common place.
Jimmy Carter had zero shot at beating Reagan, with or without the oil shocks.

Carter and Ford were both extraordinarily weak candidates. Ford was a Bob Dole tier candidate (ie incapable of winning the Presidency in an election), with the Republicans still mired in the consequences of Nixon, and Carter still struggled to beat him in 1976. Reagan's carry of California was a near certainty, and it guaranteed the end of Carter with or without the energy problems. Carter was a weak southern Democrat that couldn't pull Texas and couldn't pull New York - there was nowhere for him to win from, there was no angle of victory.
On the other hand, I'm much more effective at the things I actually wanted to do with the computer in phase 3. I think there's roughly two tracks for people who got into computers early: people who enjoyed fiddling with computers and people who fiddled with computers to get to what they wanted.

I just wanted to play Wing Commander. The range of things I want to do has expanded, but none of them involve working under the hood (software or hardware).
Yes, by country under sanctions I meant Iran.

You don't make your economy more effective by having incentives to remain ineffective. This sort of arbitrage (crypto-mining) is a direct consequence of misguided subsidies: If electricity is essentially free you have no incentive to control your electricity consumption and that attracts heavy users, which pushes consumption up in a vicious circle and can lead to shortages.

Iran has oil so they can probably afford to keep energy prices very low but that does not help them over the long term.

A ban on crypto-mining is also very difficult to enforce, IMHO.
Yes, within the established rules of German grammar. This allows constructs such as "Studierende" ("people who are studying"), "Mitarbeitende" ("people who are employees"), but forbids constructs such as "Mitarbeiter:innen" or "Student*innen", which deviate from the purpose of the double colon or asterisk.
> Coding is like physical construction, unbounded by the rules of physics and therefore MUCH MUCH easier then engineering a boeing 747.

No, this is exactly backwards: engineering software is much much harder than engineering a large airplane. The latter is bounded by laws of physics, which acts as a global coordinator between parts and teams. There are no global constraints in software engineering and therefore coordinating modules and teams are very difficult. We have to come up with a set of constraints to achieve these goals, but the search space for the correct constraints is almost infinite. Enforcing these constraints is another issue.

> Try learning building a 747 from a bootcamp. You can't. Coding bootcamps exist because it's freakishly easy to learn programming while engineering a 747 is freakishly hard, hence the lack of bootcamps for building airplanes.

This is a false equivalence. Coding bootcamps are akin to learning to assemble parts --- nothing like engineering software.
I wanted to get deeper into software development and better understand how to design new complex systems.

Working in the US for a Korean megacorp, who rightfully demanded heavy standardization of manufacturing processes, meant I had basically zero latitude on this sort of stuff. I did manage to get approval for 1 minor development project which was ported back to Korea.

I still consider going back to SAS. I departed on amicable terms. The amount of impact I could bring with my skills today would probably open some additional doors. Working with stuff like Blazor in 2022 sometimes has me thinking about ways I could revamp that factory UX and solve problems that were impossible to solve before.
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> but then XMPP got dumped

by Google and Facebook.
> It makes perfect business sense to use electron.

In many cases, it should also make perfect business sense to use PWAs. I've heard Adobe has brought a significant part of the Photoshop and Illustrator functionality into their web apps.
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Isn’t that just Wix/Weebly/GoDaddy/SquareSpace (and 5000 others)?

That feels like desktop publishing more than coding already.
That has more to do with sudo than cmake.
I didn’t mean cheap plastic in terms of durability, but in terms of how it feels quality wise. They can definitely take a beating
source: https://www.justsecurity.org/79623/crisis-of-command-the-pen...

According to a report released last month, Christopher Miller, who served as acting Secretary of the Defense on Jan. 6, told the Department’s inspector general that he feared “if we put U.S. military personnel on the Capitol, I would have created the greatest Constitutional crisis probably since the Civil War.” In congressional testimony, he said he was also cognizant of “fears that the President would invoke the Insurrection Act to politicize the military in an anti-democratic manner” and that “factored into my decisions regarding the appropriate and limited use of our Armed Forces to support civilian law enforcement during the Electoral College certification.”

So, yes, Miller *intentionally* delayed National Guard deployment.
What externalities, other than the one I already explained?

Only one I can think of is pollution, but that's not even caused by roads, it's caused by burning gasoline.
Gitly – Git{hub,lab} alternative written in V
Multiculturalism in technology and its limits: AsyncAPI and open source utopia
Another nonsense, no I haven't ever bothered with it.

A hack designed by those that cannot be bothered to modularize a build with binary libraries.
Agree that no-code is a buzzword, and one that VC-backed plays like Webflow are using constantly as part of their marketing.

Salesforce and Wordpress are both "no-code" platforms that people have built businesses on. Fortunately they include the ability to write and edit code so you can go past the limitations of its off-the-shelf plugin libraries.
I don't know how you do it.
I just visited New York for Christmas and my wife wanted to stay in the East Village out of nostalgia because she lived there a while back. We were around the block from a place called Katz's Delicatessen. You can see the menu here: https://localmenu.katzsdelicatessen.com/

Looks like the cheapest sandwich is about $25. I never tried to go in to see what the hype is about, but I've never seen a place quite like this before. Every time we walked back to our hotel, the line was backed up at least an entire city block, like a six hour wait to get a sandwich.
Check out the docs: https://github.com/sveltejs/kit/tree/master/packages/adapter...

They even show you how to set up an express server
The existing tool is called `grep`.
I just remember that there were some out of military guys in our program and they never really connected with the other under grads. They had more in common with grad students so perhaps they found more friends amongst that group.
Reminds me of the 5-star WFC code on github:
https://github.com/merrell42/model-synthesis/blob/master/src...

int***** support;

see https://paulmerrell.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/compariso...

Pierre Terdiman from nvidia is doing some experiments using it, for Omniverse level generation:

https://twitter.com/PierreTerdiman/status/147663502794968678...
You probably won't get a good answer. The conception of political "wings" and the current FPTP party duopoly along those wings is hilariously narrow in the US. Our Overton window ranges from "genocidal fascists" to "okay maybe the government should build roads sometimes".
… and did so because a few large companies recognized how much money they could save by trumping up a controversy around a scientific consensus which was largely settled by the Reagan administration. It’s really aggravating now to hear people complain that it’d cost too much to do anything, knowing not just that this is untrue but also that it would have been much cheaper if we’d made minor changes back then.
The article date is 2012 mate, relax
My battery results were with deep sleep. I was unable to get hibernation working although I didn’t put a lot of time into trying it.
They can drill it but they can't refine a lot of it because of sanctions.

https://www.iranintl.com/en/20211025679868