skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it still looks too much like SQL to me.

My idea is to make procedural looking code, but is relational all the way.
I believe it's possible and would limit the issue a lot of people has with SQL/relational.
The people involved with Diablo are surprisingly honest about their initial pitch being take Moria, Nethack, and Rogue, and bring them into the 1990s with fantastic graphics and sound. ^^ Ask them again and they talk about Telengard and Legend of Zelda, ask again and they call out MUD and D&D. Their strategy resolved around naming many inspirations, thereby removing the idea that they copied a specific one. I truly wish our culture would not favor deniability due to fear of litigation over honesty and giving respect and credit.
Kind of off topic but I sometimes wonder how many unhappy marriages that should end in divorce for the benefit of both parties don't due to financial hardships. Which might also explain why the trope of rich men being on their 3rd or 4th wife exist as there is no financial hurdle to them staying in a marriage. They are able to decide that the marriage is not working and just end it and start again.
Ah yes azimuth... there was a program for that as well for the c64 in which the lines were straight after you aligned the heads with the screw driver... fun times..... saving the games with Turbo made it much better .. instead of 30 minutes it would take 3 minutes to load the game

And I also never made it past level one on Zaxxon either....

See also a bit here https://sqlservercode.blogspot.com/2016/11/what-was-first-co...
I think there's a balance to be had. I used to write shitty(er) code, and often when I have to revisit it to mod for a slightly different purposes my thought is something like "that lazy ass, I'm going to have to nearly start from scratch to make it work for what I need now"

So now, unless time crunch is so bad I have no option (and even then I push back against it to try & get more time to do it right) those are the time I'll cut corners on robustness, readability, etc. I also put a comment in at the top with a deep apology to the angry version of my future self with a reminder if the circumstances at the time. It helps me not pound the keyboard so much in frustration.
> That's not going to stop takedowns, they don't care about if it's technically on your site or not.

Yep.

"The underlying mistake is thinking about this like a game where you can make up rules for the government to follow." - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29913036

Also the assumptions here kind of remind me of domain fronting: https://www.zdnet.com/article/amazons-aws-latest-to-give-up-.... Basically, it's assuming IPFS will protect it from the authorities, but what might actually happen is it makes IPFS a target of the authorities. Now that probably won't happen with this because the authorities don't actually care that much about torrenting/piracy, but the error is still there.
London heads for bumper year of venture capital investment after record 2021
Dragon’s Lair was really impressive first time you saw it, the local arcade had to stack another TV on top of the cabinet so the crowd could watch the gameplay. A week later there were several regulars who could play the game through which was also a spectacle. It was a few months before you could walk in and play it freely. The arcade owner must have made a mint - I believe it was the first game I played that cost fifty cents.

It is unfortunate that neither the laserdiscs nor their players have held up well - none of the arcade museums I visit have a functioning cabinet - but the emulators work and there is a version for iOS that plays well also.
It depends. I understand that ad networks for example take identifying data (such as IP addresses) without consent. But if I sign up to Facebook and I put there my name and my face, it's because I want to. No one has put a gun to my head. And I don't see that it matters whether that data is in a hard disk in the US or the EU. These regulations seem a power move more than anything else.
The expulsion of US tech led to a native Chinese tech industry fully compliant to Chinese law. They didn't go back to the Stone Age (which was the prediction of US experts at the time).
Ben is British, as per English Understatement[1] "a bit terrifying" is a major statement of alarm and "immensely cursed" means "I sure am glad I don't have to do hardware security"

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_understatement
I think at the point they're making the transaction, they're already locked in. It's not like someone is going to buy a new phone and replace all their apps when they're purchasing an Uber subscription.

Plus, I think another commenter pointed out that the end user is still getting the same price on Android - I don't know if that's because Apple mandates something or a business decision on the company's side?
> In this case of GMail, all your inbound and outbound emails are “read” and that information is used to augment your digital footprint and (advertising) profile.

As I will continue saying until I am blue in the face, _this is not true_ . Ads that are displayed in consumer gmail are powered by your web activity same as any other ad, but not your email. If you are a paid user, even more stringent rules apply and you don’t see ads in gmail.

If OP wants to run their own mail server because they don’t want to support Google, totally fine, and it’s great to have articles about doing that. But that’s a lot of work, and people who don’t want to do that shouldn’t have to worry that their emails will be read.

(Disclosure: I work at Google, used to work on Workspace, which Gmail is a part of)
Especially cool for London-based developers: "London ranked fourth globally for VC investment in 2021, trailing only the San Francisco Bay Area ($98.5bn), New York ($46.3bn) and Greater Boston ($28.3bn). "
Oh this brings a lot of memories. I remember writing a DSL for visualization of logs that we collected when we were working in a hyper local geographical search engine. I was fresh out of college and this was when Google maps had yet to penetrate my country.

I started out with pylex, yacc and then what was supposed to be a quite simple DSL with a few keywords and a few nodes, very quickly exploded to a very complicated endeavor. Alas, I'll never be able to prove that it was Turing Complete. But that doesn't stop me from believing it.
Thanks! Maybe this will help fill the void in my life after The Expanse ends.
I think there's a tipping point. You start with a configuration or markup language. Then you add and add and add and next thing you know, you've built a very simple scripting language.

It's kind of like those people who cobble together a Turing complete implementation of HTML+CSS or Magic: the Gathering game. You can kind of stumble into completeness.
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Just use flex / bison?
I used to use smart keywords heavily. I outsourced the work of maintaining a useful keyword list to DuckDuckGo.
Who defines the market and makes sure they want to contact sales?
Corollary: the documentation must be written to speak to the stupidest person in your team/company who you expect to use the product it describes. Otherwise, you may end up with a documented system that you can’t use or fix.

Fortunately, that’s often me (a supervisor), so I get to be self-deprecating when conveying this requirement.
>>>Oh don't imagine I'm not sorry but HN is not a church confessional.

It is also not a sounding board for sociopaths presenting themselves as victims of ageism.

>>>I'll never pass jobs with DBS checks due to convictions. plus I guess I'll never get a job coding due to ageism
You are confusing the terms loss (revenue < expenses) with not-for-profit.

In the context of organizations, not-for-profit doesn’t mean they are designed to be not profitable; rather, it means their primary goal is focused on other goals than making the most amount of profit possible.

It’s also a misnomer that not-for-profits can’t make profits, it’s just that those profits are not distributed to the capital (owners, investors) of the organization.
> hard to describe succinctly

To me, what it sounds like you are describing is the developer experience. Or "devX".
Related: https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rich-programmer-foo...
> What's the situation like in practice ?

Not sure I want to find out in practice. You can be ruled to have to pay up to what was it? 25k or 50k€. In the past there have been "Abmahnwellen" (literal translation "sue waves"), where lawyers tons of letters to any website superficially not conforming to the law. I wish they were doing that now with GDPR in place, but it does not seem to happen for some reason. Perhaps because organizations can fight back more easily or are less easily cowed into paying fines and thus would be too much work for them. Writing about anything political could be interpreted as "journalistic" and I would actually be breaking the law, not having contact info of specific form on my site. The law is even formulated in a way, that you must put contact info, even if you host your site in other countries or regions, because you "operate" here. In the post cases have shown, that you also cannot use a mail box / post box as contact info either.

I guess you could make a blog on some random blogging site, not self hosted, so that one could not get your name by asking the hoster of your server and by using a fake name and always connecting to it using a reliable VPN service. But yeah, that would be against the law ...
You got it backwards, it causes color correction to be used everywhere. All movies and TV shows now a days are recorded with pretty realistic colors, but in post-production they use "the best color correction tools in history" to correct the colors into the grey and brown sludge that is in vogue. Modern tools give film makers full color liberty, and they use that liberty to apply the same tone to every movie/series because they believe that is how movies/series should look like.

It is the same reason why Mexico is always sepia.
Jonas Salk should have statues erected of him in every city and every small town.

https://www.salk.edu/about/history-of-salk/jonas-salk/
Thanks for this. The galaxy formation seems to give the 30% matter, where does the 80% dark matter come from? I get that you measuring the density of stuff that has gravity to see how many galaxies form, but how do we know there's not more dust than we'd expect to make up for that missing 80%?
Blackmail is new? Of course providing the opportunity for blackmail is one of the primary concerns when foreign actors exfiltrate data. Blackmail is a lot older than the cold war, and has been going on as long as people have been doing embarrassing things.

It would be absolutely foolish to think anything other than that there are many spies for various governments working in telecom and other IT companies. It is likely their primary target, even before infiltrating government positions.
GoT is my case study in why I just simply cannot stand 99% of action movies. They're all so very formulaic.

In the first seasons, working off of GRRM's writing, the seasons literally subverted expectations, just as the books. Then Hollywood had to get involved, because source material didn't exist, yet. At that point, 'subverting expectations' became the meme it is today.

(Nearly) Every action movie seems just so formulaic. Action movie - hero doesn't want to be the hero for (insert dark/dramatic reason 1). Hero soon finds that being the hero is better for the world than not, regardless of personal consequence. World warps around hero to make sure s/he doesn't die. Bonus points for cool car chase, gun fight, or explosion. Nudity that doesn't move the story forward except to show that Hero likes to have sex isn't required, but will add to the box office, because people like boobies and butts.
The great film "Traffic" (explores drug use and trafficking and implications from many angles) used a similar strategy ... US scenes brightly colored and clear, Latin America scenes washed out and grainy.
It's truly interesting. Think of how much it dominated cultural talk for a decade, then just dropped off the face of the earth after Season 8. Man D&D really screwed it up.
It was pretty clear that they were incredulous from the context and awareness of Google’s ad business model. Generally, I’d agree, but in this case, it’s pretty obvious.
Guardians of the galaxy 2 - RED cameras has color.
Captain America: Civil War - ARRI Alexa no color.
I wish there was a bit more detail on how they're actually doing this. Is it basically a giant blowtorch? Must use a heck of a lot of energy to cut holes in the larger diameter sizes!
What about ANTLR?
NSO Group vowed not to sell tools to spy on journalists. Report proves otherwise
The opening line of that post is priceless.
On my PC I never migrate major OS versions, I always and wipe and reinstall the OS at least once a year. On my phone I never restore a backup to a new phone, I always begin from a factory reset. My last phone lasted 3 years so at some point in there, I completely wiped it just to keep it cleaned up. I'm old enough to remember installing Windows 3.11 from dozens of 3.5" floppy disks, so a modern PC wipe and reinstall barely registers on the drama meter for me.

In the same way that a server should be treated like cattle, not a pet, I also treat my PC and phone OS installs the same way. I don't spend so much time configuring them that wiping them hurts my feelings. I more prefer the speedup and cleanup benefits than I do preserving my (non-existent) deep configuration. Just as an example, on my phone, I routinely have the OS alphabetize my app icons. Trying to keep them configured in some kind of order just seems like more trouble than it's worth.
My point is that "Long COVID" isn't something new, and therefor is unlikely to effect life expectancy. Viruses are harmful, they cause damage that has long-lasting effects. But COVID isn't more likely to cause those effects than the flu. And we certainly shouldn't be making policy decisions based on those effects.
Remote work and the importance of writing
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Pan cookies are a nice compromise - I get the chocolate chip flavor without having to form individual cookie shapes :)

https://www.verybestbaking.com/toll-house/recipes/original-n...
A GPT-3 product exposing GPT-3 outputs by design hardly is "breaking"
"What happened to us, as a society, that creates the expectation that a thing should be monetized?"

the desire to one day retire.
The GDPR doesn't apply to the police, at least not in their capacity as law enforcement.

But it does have sister legislation - the Law Enforcement Directive[0] - that does apply many of the same principals.

[0] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A...
As an ex-AngularJS developer, who worked on porting a LARGE app to Angular - if you're in that boat, look into just rewriting in Vue. It's similar to AngularJS (more so than Angular) but with some extra niceties.
I think that you exfiltrating any and all data that you can access from my computer before you and I have negotiated what is authorized access is not me giving you data "willingly". The mere fact that I connect to your site or service does not give you the right to slurp my data. If you don't collect anything before I get the chance to see and agree to your terms and conditions, or privacy policy, then we can probably work something out. If you start fingerprinting my browser as soon as I connect, then it is not willingly on my part.
But is that because everybody knows them well enough to just be inherent in the way that they break problems down and build systems to solve them or because they've actually been abandoned as a concept?

I.e. we don't need to talk about it because we all just do it vs not talking about it and not doing it.
Haha me and you both. I'll be honest I saw the "amazon pays $300k for rust" comment in this thread and I checked back in to make sure they don't have any remote positions... And I avoid amazon recruiters like the rest.
> Not liking avocado is absurd. It's like not liking peanut-butter.

I'm not American but I hate both. They're bland foods.
The proof of a problem isn't "someone put a gun to my head" - its a meaningful part of our society put behind a rich man's walled garden because only he had enough money to bribe every telecom and buy every competing platform.
> haven't even heard ever of a union for software developers

Now you have: https://prospect.org.uk/tech-workers/ or https://www.unitetheunion.org/ in the UK.

I had colleagues in both at a previous job, depending whether their jobs were more scientific (we'd call it data science now) or engineering.

Both unions are more general than just software/IT.
This present a false dichotomy of extremes: shitty code and hopelessly overly complicated intended to address all manner of eventualities that never materialize.

Both extremes are awful choices IMO. If the code you are writing is truly unlikely to be extended and adapted then it may be fair to relax your requirements for code quality. As for most things I'd say that applying some discretion to your actual context is more valuable than blanket approaches of embracing bad code.

Code can be good without taking forever and without being over-designed. On the other hand the accumulated effects of shitty code upon more shitty code is unlikely to be a net positive.

Well-designed code can be simple.
> so it's probably actually cheaper to produce than some of the other LED bulbs with complex switchmode power supplies.

Nothing wrong with capacitive droppers for things like LED bulbs, my point was more about the quality of the components used in the capacitive dropper.

It’s my own antidotal evidence but I think I’ve had one LED bulb where the LEDs have failed and the rest have been a bad power supply (well not even “bad” more “aged out”). Because of their construction fixing the bulb is often more hassle then it’s worth except for the learning experience.

If you are making such products and you are completing in the in the low price point market, shaving cents off the cost of your caps soon adds up. However once you are no longer counting pennies you don’t mind splashing out on better quality caps.
Where are the morals of central bankers? Fed vice chair to resign
On Digital Ownership
What about money in = money out? If an organization pays its expenses - including the wages of its staff - well, why does there ‘need’ to be some cream leftover at the top?

What I am trying to better understand is why there is a preference (morally, legally, societally) for for-profit organizations.

Is it because (most) people are inherently profit-focused, or, that it is just the way things are? Amongst many other possible options.
It's a huge difference when you compare absolute numbers for sure. But also there is a huge difference in taxes. You could argue 1200 is not so bad when you pay 25% taxes instead of 40% for example.
There are two main uses for this kind of thing.

- Legit: debugging/monitoring. Other legit uses are theoretically possible but the device has severe limitations that likely make them impractical or unwise.

- Surreptitious: This is clearly where the value proposition of this device lies. An optic could be "unknowingly" swapped out on an interesting link to snoop on or infiltrate a network.

Swapping out optics in a large network is not uncommon as they do fail. More often they are swapped out as a troubleshooting step where the original optic may not even be bad. This way log messages indicating link flap and replacement of an optic could likely go unnoticed.
Debunking Victorian Vibrators
I second this emotion. We have spent years and countless hours investing in documentation and automation as we re-engineered a very large legacy application into cloud based technology (AWS). The application and supporting CI/CD pipeline is far better documented and supported than most and all of the underlying technology is within 5 years current. There are video based tutorials on nearly every aspect of the platform and machine images to accelerate development environment setup. Yet still, people new to the development pipeline will hand wring over "tribal knowledge" and "deployment complexity". News flash, anything constructed to support hundreds to thousands of business processes and millions of customers is more often than not going to be complex. Sometimes you just have to roll up your sleeves and try to improve the trail for those coming behind you.
I remember when Serenity came out. It was one of the first movies (that I had seen) that had bright, colorful, sunshiny days, with lots of visual effects.

I know that it wasn't the first, but I hadn't really seen much, before that. Star Wars had effects in color, but there wasn't any actual CGI involved.
This is why we went with Fathom as their edge locations are isolated regional (EU). So if I understand it correctly, core hosting is AWS, but on the edge locations run by an EU company in the EU process the data and remove the sensitive data.

For me, it makes no sense when companies like plausible say they have EU based hosting when they pay for hosting from a US-only company (DigitalOcean)
"Whenever I gave even a moment's thought to whether I needed to learn compilers, I'd think: I would need to know how compilers work in one of two scenarios. The first scenario is that I go work at Microsoft and somehow wind up in the Visual C++ group. Then I'd need to know how compilers work. The second scenario is that the urge suddenly comes upon me to grow a long beard and stop showering and make a pilgrimage to MIT where I beg Richard Stallman to let me live in a cot in some hallway and work on GCC with him like some sort of Jesuit vagabond.

Both scenarios seemed pretty unlikely to me at the time, although if push came to shove, a cot and beard didn't seem all that bad compared to working at Microsoft."
You have your groups backwards. The self-centered are the ones demanding society shut down in response to their own personal fears, even if that shut-down disproportionately effects others (i.e. the poor, the young, etc.) The group-centered people are the ones willing to accept a higher degree of personal risk in order to keep schools open and supply chains functioning.
but people sign up voluntarily, right? So the users are actually the ones arbitrarily blocking their own access.
The MTR Corporation builds apartments over railway dépôts; admittedly, this may only be an economy in Hong Kong. There are some quite striking pictures here: https://www.checkerboardhill.com/2015/01/railway-depots-hong....
I think you should almost always build a compiler when presented with a parse then execute problem. It is so much faster to create a small machine that is fed data to specific the program, and a test harness that also drives that machine, then it is to hand code every little case repetitively.

Or maybe I like building little compilers.
Bread machines are easy to find at the thrift store for $10-$15 - that's what I use for pizza dough and it makes it so easy! And if you end up never using the machine, you can just redonate.

I do recommend using bread flour - it has more gluten so it will make for a chewier dough. Though all-purpose will also be yummy - it's hard to go wrong!
HBO’s brand new “Station Eleven” makes excellent use of color IMO. Lots of beautiful nature shots, no conspicuously digital color correction. Color is an important narrative element through cinematography and production design rather than “let’s slather blue here in post to make it dramatic”.
(Excellent acting too. Really love this show.)
Yeah, cercanías in Spain sucks. If you live/work outside a town, you are fucked by 10PM having on train available no work days.
What do you mean? Flappy Bird made a crap ton of money.
I found the same thing to be true back when I invented the car. It’s incredibly annoying and takes away from the conversation.