skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mine would be my DM42, which is a SwissMicros remake of the HP42. I do have a few others within reach, but I do like my RPN, so that's what I go for first.

I'd love a mechanical calculator, though.
I had the exact same experience with this book as a kid. Those diagrams were fantastic. It opened up the whole night sky for me.
The full title is “Apple’s iPhone Privacy Feature Could Be Banned After Phone Companies Complain It Stops Them Tracking People”, but I couldn’t fit that within the length limit. I tried to editorialise as little as possible to retain sentiment.
Exactly. I forget where I just saw this. It seemed like a particularly absurd example, but the examples are numerous. Torrent sites don’t have the copyrighted content either, but they get shut down all the time.
Came here to say this. UPnP is a security vulnerability, not a feature.
I once wrote a popular browser-based tool for a popular game. Other tools existed in the space at the time I started the project, but I felt the need to go at the problem my own way, and I managed to add some mathematical sophistication that the other extant tools lacked. I did all of this purely for my own benefit: I was playing this game, and I wanted this tool to exist to aid in doing so.

I threw it online for other people to use, and it quickly gained traction. I'd estimate that it has had over ten thousand users, possibly multiple tens. Some of these users expressed, unprompted, an interest in giving me money for providing this tool. I simply set up a page on a payments website that caters to creators, and linked it from the tool. I provide no benefits for contributions; it is purely to provide an avenue for those that wish to do so.

If you total up the amount of work I've put into the project, and the total amount of money I've received, I would estimate I've earned somewhere in the vicinity of $1/hour for my work.

I didn't do the project for the money. I did it because I wanted the thing I made. It is an entirely selfish project. That others find it useful is gratifying, but the motive wasn't profit, and to try to pivot to a profit motive would be nonsense to me. (Not to mention, I don't want to insult the developers of the game for which the project is an aid, by charging money off the back of their work.)

Some things just aren't businesses, you know?
It must be because I watch sci-fi more than anything else, but things have gotten more colorful for me. Compare Babylon 5's CRT-targeting colors with the vibrant lights and colors of Foundation or The Expanse. Though even Babylon 5 is brighter than the examples in the article.
You can decide for yourself. You cannot decide for anyone else. The point of the GDPR is that companies cannot make that choice for you either -- which incidentally increases the value of those that do want to sell their data, so you should be happy about this regulation because it increases your net worth.

Can you give me an example of a company that actually wants to buy your data and remunerate you for it?
Same experience here. Despite tools provided by the Angular team, the migration was really, really painful. I spent a significant amount of time moving a large AngularJS app to Angular, and despite all the effort we were still far from completing it when I left the company.

These days I use Vue or React instead.
I feel you. Some people are saying that, if it works, it's not shitty code, but it's not the truth.

I made a service that was reliable, but only because there are a lot of ifs inside the code that fixed bugs. It was really shitty code that somehow worked reliably.

The service was replaced because someone else rewrote the whole thing in another language.
I have one single-file single-function spaghetti monstrosity running one non-critical service since 2009. I've contemplated rewriting it, but... it still works. As long as the db is there and the file itself is there, it'll keep going. And there are users using it. It's become my favorite wart. It will die with the server it's on.
This is a self-inflicted wound. The EU needs to look to China in order to fix this. Impose draconian laws to clamp down and control the tech industry.

Anything else WILL lead to loss of sovereignty. Control the data.
Except it is - sadly - not 15.000 at all. It diverges and gets messy around a few hundreds to "PS4 cleaning ..." and "Fridge Cleaner Equipment ...".

Hashtag ≠ Content.
As a software developer, if anyone asked me something like "Should we hire this person, who has had 5 jobs in 10 years?" I would suggest caution. Not immediate rejection, but at least caution. Especially, if all they talk about in the interview is, how they introduced new tech xyz at previous employer. Even more so, if it is about some frontend framework of the month. For me 5 jobs in 10 years would still be some kind of an at least yellow to orange flag.

Many people just want to try out new tech and when that fun is over and they have introduced the cost of complexity for that new toy, they run off to the next job. "Improving" the world in another place.

Fun for them, maybe, but bad for the employer. 2 years is often barely enough to have experienced maintaining the full system of the employer for a while and have felt the costs of complexity. Someone who runs from that every 2 years ... I would be careful with that. I am not saying, that this is the case with everyone, who follows the 2 years strategy, but often it is.

In comparison, if I was visiting interviews and if someone interviewed me and asked something like: "So you haven't learned anything new or been in a different environment in 10 years?". I would probably start to laugh and mention to them, how I had a major hand in basically everything that was developed in the whole organization, have done everything from dev-ops to backend and frontend and more in my job and I have maintained it. If that is nothing to them, then they are probably do not value experience or have no idea what to look for.
Wordle is cool in its simplicity and focus on 'once per day' but the mechanic is literally a clone of Lingo already (the UK gameshow version at least, which I think is also a clone of the American Lingo gameshow).

You can see the official apps here:
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/lingo-official-mobile-game/id1...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.twowayme...

There's tonnes of clones of those too in both app stores.

I also made a web based version recently, with unlimited words and choice of words lengths between 4-8 characters.
These movies don’t look even vaguely realistic though. It’s winter in North America right now, but walk outside even vaguely close to noon and colors pop in a way they just don’t in these films.

The article brings up a great point, it’s just lower effort to make dull films which minimize how much people notice digital effects and mistakes in general. In full sunlight you notice where shadows are which stands out if you want to stitch together shots across hours. Makeup and wardrobe mistakes similarly standout when things aren’t simply a big blur.
This is true, but not quite the full truth. You will fall on the minimum tariff, and both unemployment and social security cover your health insurance. IIRC, they will cover it retroactively for those 3 months, even if you quit. However that last line is from a conversation in a bar.

And yes, if you earn below 450€ a month, you're generally covered by your spouse or family's health insurance with many little rules and exceptions. None of those exceptions are deal breakers though.

This page (https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/german-health-insurance) explains more, and has a very accurate calculator that takes those edge cases into account.
The Americans should use this to pressure the government in fixing their surveillance laws.
> However, most of the time, user simply need some kind of BASIC

"most of the time" is THE problem here. Once users approach a barrier (missing language feature) they will complain and push you until you implement that feature. After several such features some developer in basement of your building will say "ok, fine, I'll do it" and now you accidentally have a compiler.

Edit: I know because I've recently made a "almost universal data watcher" which can react to combination of measured values changed in different devices and execute actions. Simple solution, but I fear the day when someone needs to execute other recipes in response to data and creates loops.
The Netherlands are quite windy, but both wind and hills are negated by electric bicycles.
Perhaps I’ve been unlucky but my experience at big tech has been marred by churn and burn culture - high pressure tactics to get the most work out of employees and discarding them when they inevitably burn out. Average tenure was 1-3 years. Amazon was particularly bad at this. The only modicum of power employees have is in quitting and now that they’re exercising it the employers are acting like their throats have been cut.

Edit: a story I like to tell people about what it’s like to deal with Big Co. is that I solo built a $50Mp.a. profit data science artifact in my first year. They offered me the highest once off bonus on offer $30K stretched over 6 years, no promotion (those were used to keep US citizens). I said, give me the same bonus as my manager for for ‘managing’ my project ~$150K in one year or I’ll quit. They said no so I quit. The artifact was extremely difficult to build and written in Scala, it took a lot out of me, no one understood it after I left. They rewrote it in Java which made it even harder to understand. It atrophied over 5 years and now it doesn’t even work at all. I’m in contact with my former colleagues and keep offering to fix it for 7 figures, but no dice. They’ve now convinced themselves it is impossible to do. That’s how committed they are to maintaining the status quo.
"There was a time that engineers were willing to trade years of their lives for the lottery ticket of stock options. I find that, as more companies try this approach, and it becomes more common, more engineers are becoming literate as to the downsides. More bluntly: more people are starting to understand that stock options are frequently worthless."

What's interesting here is not the engineers becoming wise to the poor value proposition, but rather, the market's failure to respond with alternatives. In some cases, there is an inability to pay (e.g. "startup X cannot match FAANG company Y"). But in many others, perhaps the optimism of the person making the equity offer is blinding?
There's Forth. Many would argue it's not a full blown programming language, it's more like a toolkit to make DSLs.
Yeah except of course they do not actually need most of these. It’s all BS and it’s my favorite pet peeve with port forwarding guides. For whatever reason they almost always put all ports for both incoming and outgoing traffic in a list and call it a day.
This is debatable - the license is pretty clear about it being a requirement, but it has been patchily enforced:

> The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable [emphasis mine].

Even in the infamous TiVo case, customers of TiVo had complete access to modify the Linux kernel or any other GPL binary - the proprietary TiVo software would just refuse to run if any modification had been applied this way.
Getting a 30% raise yoy, is something even the most optimistic entrepreneur starting up out there would salivate at.

Even going from 50 -> 300k, is no easy joke. Its not even worth starting a company if you can make these kind of 6x increase in fortunes in years.

Imagine going to the stock market and claiming to have 30% return yoy.

I'd like to believe even at FAANGs these mad salaries aren't common. And I would be very wary of hiring anyone with a yearly jump trail on a resume, with a high salary. That resume is basically signalling the candidate does no work apart from hopping jobs. Hiring a non performer one has to replace in 10 months is a non starter.
this is the crux of the matter - relative definition of “shitty.”

i’ve been told i wrote shitty code because i didn’t use abstract types or generics or i wrote overloaded methods that repeated themselves. but i knew the domain and i knew the task and my code fit within the domain and accomplished the task.

i’ve also supported code that was beautiful, idiomatic, flexible, and downright professional-looking, but it tried to do too much or it had severe antipatterns (especially in data access layer) and was a nightmare to troubleshoot. also, the lead developers on these projects seemed to be far less open to feedback than the people whom i’ve supported who wrote code like i did
Digitally Altered Body Images Bill
I second that... IG Metal companies have nice deals
35h/week is the norm, 30days paid vacation and a decent salary for germany...
Doesn't seem worth it.

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=UPnP
And yet subscription scams abound on the App Store. Apple makes it INSANELY easy to start subscribing to a $7.99 per week subscription that there is a load of scummy apps that try to trick you into starting one and people would be a lot more cautious if they had to manually enter their billing info.

I think there's a better middle ground somewhere.
> FWIW, this was simply an example to refute the absolute claim of the parent and the article that only the savings rate matters for when you will be able to retire. This one counter example disproved that.

But you don't have a counterexample, not unless you can show someone actually succeeding in retiring on a different savings rate. Plenty of people think they'll be happy to live more cheaply when they've retired, but experience suggests that this isn't actually true, which is what the article is going by.

> The other 4k are used to finally be able to go to the museum with the kid, buy them some used skates so they can go skate in the park in winter whenever they want instead of renting skates once per winter etc. While I agree that this is "a lifestyle inflation" I wouldn't say it's one that affect the retirement in the way you mentioned.

Of course it does. You get in the habit of buying things for the kid. You get in the habit of going to these places. (I don't think it's bad to spend money on things you enjoy, especially if what you enjoy is helping others, but it's important to be aware that it's extremely habit-forming).
You’ll have to switch between them
College Prep Software Naviance Sells Advertising Access to Millions of Students
I think that it would be more efficient to do so NOW, when a lot of people rely on his product, than in 1 year, when most people will have found something else...

As this product will stop working, people will move on quite fastly

I think it's just responsible. And maybe he dosen't want to be the one that allowed triggering a lot of porn ads on people that trusted him (and his domain) to avoid ads
Who has UPnP enabled anymore?
Can you offer them to pay with your unused connects thought? They seem to regard them very high!
I don’t think he’s foolish or wrong not to monetize, but at this point the opportunity cost of not doing it is truly enormous.

I understand he has a personal feeling that this was not meant to be monetized, and I can respect that.

But even so, it would make a lot of sense for him to put a tip jar on the site. He’d probably make $100,000 over the next weekend, and he’s certainly earned it.
To my knowledge, Fathom Analytics is the only analytics app that has bothered to hire actual lawyers and navigate EU isolation.

They wrote about it here: https://usefathom.com/features/eu-isolation
But how can he know which steward to trust? If you want to be sure your users won't get sold out, best to simply shut down.
Yes, but the vast majority of games on Linux now run through WINE and the world is moving to Wayland. (notably Valve's Gamescope which will be used in the Steam Deck[0]).

[0] https://github.com/Plagman/gamescope
String turns your Phone into a secure portable audio recorder, making it easy to capture and share personal notes, family moments, classroom lectures, and more
Definitely not codified anywhere, and not in any of the routers I’ve used (to be fair they are more prosumer).

The main dhcp server used in most routers, dnsmasq, also assigns IPs using a MAC algorithm by default for consistent IP addressing of devices in a LAN. You would need to explicitly configure it for sequential first come first serve.
"Low drama code" is now officially the term I'm gonna use for reliable code.
This is unfortunate as it makes things unreadable for screen readers. I have seen many tweets from companies and organisations that use these characters to replace funny "fonts" or create emphasis effects in the text, rendering them inaccessible in the process.

In my own service I plan to offer users the ability to define a "stylised" nickname and an alternative text for screen readers, should they be interested in it (like an alt text for images). If Twitter had such a feature, I'd use it because I really like the effects, even if they're cheesy. :)
> There's four excellent examples of things that were better 10 years ago before this practice was instituted.

FWIW, I interviewed with Google in 2009 and the interview was 100% pure leetcode (not even design/architecture questions). It was exactly a series of four back-to-back 1-on-1 meetings, which consisted of "Hello" followed by an algorithmic puzzle.

If anything they seem to have broadened the scope of interviews since then.
I feel like there's a big difference between $10M and $1M. At $10M you're free to no longer work because of high returns from that money, you can effectively never worry about money again and live a comfortable life. At $1M that isn't true, you still need to work full time to maintain quality of life. $10M is obviously more life changing than $1M in terms of opportunities you can safely pursue.
>Also, part of the reason why it's not that hard is that the GDPR is pretty much one of a kind. Imagine the US and maybe some countries in Asia having similar but different implementations of privacy laws, and you having to work with them simultaneously.

That's why treaties like Convention 108+[0] exist, to provide a common framework for implementing data protection laws.

[0] https://search.coe.int/cm/Pages/result_details.aspx?ObjectId...
> Nobody needs to be a network guy to run a data center.

the complexity from networking at a DC mainly comes from scale.

running enterprsie/dc hardware in a homelab is vastly different from running it in production.
When were we, as a society, so generous and selfless that we created products without a profit (or other reward) motive?

It's great to have exceptions like the wordle guy -- but the norm is perfectly fine, too.
Are you serious lol. Is anti-religion got y'all in such a grip lmao.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_myth_theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus

> Virtually all scholars of antiquity accept that Jesus was a historical figure,[note 1][note 2][4][5][6][7] although not all events mentioned in the gospels (most notably his miracles) are accepted universally.[8][9][10] Standard historical criteria have aided in evaluating the historicity of the gospel-narratives,[11][12] and two events subject to "almost universal assent" are that Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist and crucified by order of the Roman Prefect Pontius Pilate.[9][10][8][13]
Bullshit Features
It’s great when you don’t need to have a huge codebase.IME forth gets out of control quickly from a maintainability standpoint as you go big, but it is excellent at small dsl type tasks. The maintainability issues with forth might actually be solvable if the right IDE paradigm could be found.
where did he say he's not willing to sell or let a steward step in for domain maintainance costs?
What are your thoughts about existing vaccine mandates? They are mostly unnoticed by the general population, because they affect children entering school following an "acceptable" vaccine schedule, immigrants, high risk professions (e.g. military), etc.

Also...

> If they don't, I'd place my bets on a summer of utter bedlam that turns into several years of hot conflict. I'd even speculate there are probably about 20 people in America who if they just said the word, they could mobilize a real armed insurrection that was thousands if not tens of thousands strong in a matter of days. It's that nuts.

Wow.
On a single-user machine, there really isn't much "security" difference between user vs root.

Full access to the user's data, and ability to run 99% of code that one might want to run, is plenty bad enough already.
We were doing this around simple small freelance jobs as well - there were, and still are, websites that will simply list fraudsters, people who wouldn’t pay, or take an advance payment and run away. This, and escrow, are quite typical para-legal means. In many cases you don’t want to go into real contractual stuff because the laws and forms seem to be too complicated, the sums too small, the taxes too annoying to pay, the government to cold and indifferent, and your age is too fourteen.

To be honest, this article is excited about something quite mundane… Have you ever presented an argument against your brother’s actions before your mom? Happens anywhere, in any sizable group of people.

Clicking on the link I kinda hoped it’d be a real shadow court: you send them an email describing how a corporation did you wrong, they ddos it into oblivion. I wish!

World could really do with some decent, non-governmental legal systems to discuss things that are impossible to take to a real court. No matter even if obviously enforceable or not. Just to bring some order into what is done currently by a twitter mob
> Ben, do you plan on playing around some more with these to find out if they can be hacked to run your own OS?

Nope, I'm probably going to use it as a remote monitoring/out of band device when the time comes. The device is useful enough in it's slightly closed source state than as a device for hacking (and maybe a bricking risk)
Poor understanding of the facts! LOL

It didn't wear out over time. The design of the seal was bad from the beginning.
It’s clearly you who are not familiar with history. Hawaii and its position in the US might be compared to Xinjiang and its position in China. But Taiwan is totally different. Taiwan just isn’t a part of of China/PRC. It was before and a some people think it should be again, but today Taiwan/ROC and China/PRC are two separate states.
I know nothing about gradients, but wouldn't dithering provide the best results? That way you're truly mixing those two colours and not going through completely different colours based on some arbitrary numerical representation of the colours.
Yawn. Prior rant from 2010 which circulated at the time:

[1] https://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-h...
> To leak their addresses? Yes.

Privacy is a human right, leaking someone address is not ok, and doing so is illegal in Germany because of privacy rights.

Ironically, this is also why it would be illegal in Germany for the government to "close" Telegram.

However, there are many other laws that must be obeyed, and Telegram doesn't obey most of them in Germany, so it can be closed due to those issues.
Oh I definitely agree with you, and I think the OP's response to this post starts to go into the subjective ergonomic feels territory that is just, well okay everyone feel differently. But there is a technical point that precompiling and building binaries for the simple Float64 case is a bit harder than it should be compared to C or Fortran, so there is still a reason to grab Fortran every once in awhile. It's not unfixable, but it's something we should acknowledge that we can improve.