skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with this but I hope the games become educational. Imagine getting paid to take English class via a game. Right now it cost thousands to educate a kid. Imagine a time where the kid gets paid for learning grammar, math, whatever and education costs plummet because the basics can be taught using a game. It's a win win situation.
Still use JQuery all the time as a WP dev. And ftp too.
Seriously. The constant praise and expectation that I'm "soooo smart" was terrible ego-bolstering and false-confidence-building I didn't need or want. I have a lifelong problem with taking on challenges that I might not succeed at or easily crush, even as I near the age of 40. I've had to work REALLY hard to suppress my instinct to avoid failure and just face challenges head-on. It's seriously a constant battle.

That said, nothing could have changed the fact that during my entire childhood, I saw everyone around me struggling with (or not breezing through) things I found super easy, and I got very used to finding everything easy. I had extremely few opportunities to fail, relative to anyone else around me. If something was hard, I basically just wouldn't do it. That's nothing to do with praise, and unfortunately a much harder issue to even spot, let alone mitigate.

After thinking about what I've just written here, I feel like the praise issue is like the surface-level problem but the "only knows how to succeed" is a deeper and probably more-important issue to look out for.
Thanks for the hint, I am a KDE plasma user, but I will keep this in mind for Gnome users in my circle.
> better, more experienced teachers

Well, you will need teachers who have mastered algebra themselves. Other than that, I don't see why they need to be better or more experienced.

The profs I had in college were never trained as teachers, nor were they particularly experienced at it. But they knew the material to the point that it was trivial for them.
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Practical implications: merges are 100% predictable and deterministic, this isn't always the case in Git, sometimes lines are shuffled around (look for "associativity" in the manual).

Also, you can actually cherry-pick.

And rebases are not a hack.
By looking at gaps and listening to people. If you hear their complaints and see what are they looking for, what are they missing and what features they would like to see in already existing products, then you will be able to add your two cents and build something people are looking for and at the time they need it.
Swanky equipment is entirely unnecessary for GT instruction. All that is needed is a teacher and a blackboard.
And thank whatever deity you may or may not believe in that this changed. Yes, it sucks for these traditional websites, but advertisers abused it so much it hurt.
NetBSD on the Atari TT030 (workstation from 1990)
> I am completely baffled by folks defending Marak...
> I think he would have been well within his rights to...

I think this is the crux of it all. I (and many others it seems) disagree with the actions he took and think they're shitty, but also think he has a right to do this with his code that he provides and publishes for free.
The big difference is you read a book once or maybe twice; same for a movie (maybe three times if it's "cult"); but you listen to a song hundreds of times.
Strange, I'm in the UK as well but everyone I know and meet uses WhatsApp. Got a few friends who are on Signal and Telegram also, but those are only in my more technology-oriented circles.
Where’s the guestbook?
My Minimal Monorepo Setup with ZX
If it's cost you’re worried about there are some creative options:

- Use Cloudflare mail beta with your SMTP

- POBox.com (fastmail lite in essence)

- Migadu

- Servermx

- Host your own solution on a VPS and use for example postmark for sending e-mail.
Indeed, very surprising to see it below 50% given iPhone accumulated market share over the years.
I was under the impression that at least the british knew, but keep quiet so that they can use the situatian in their favour later. Just like happened these days with Belarus for example.
I live outside U.S. and I had a few iPhones in the last years… I almost never used iMessage. Mostly because 50% of my contacts use Android or other apps on iOS (WhatsApp).

About the apps, I am forced to use WeChat because some of my friends live in China and that is the only communication channel they have… but it is the worst experience I ever had. Even Viber was better. And in China it’s heavily controlled.

Among my contacts in Europe, Telegram is widely used and becoming almost “a standard”… only a very few use Signal.
This makes me think of the Drake meme. Making billions of dollars by selling cannabis (until recently): bad. Making billions of dollars by selling opioids: this is fine.
Why Liquid Haskell Matters
Well, it's sticky, but not sticky enough that it's known as the "lingua angli". It will probably outlive QWERTY, but I'm not so sure about the calendar, and it'll die long before base 10.
I like to think that Java and .NET is the closest we got that far, but so much is still missing from that whole experience.
We prefer to call it "appropriate for the key demographic".
I usually buy sourdough rye bread in the supermarket because that's the cheapest form of bread and I like it. It contains no "chemicals" that the legislator deemed necessary for inclusion in the ingredient list, save some sodium acetate as pH regulator and preservative. Sure, the artisanal bread at my local bakery is tastier, but it also costs about ten times as much.

To my knowledge yeast doesn't touch gluten at all and only breaks down the starch. I really doubt that there are measurable health benefits of artisanal bread. Do you have any studies to back up that claim?
Indirect relevance and maybe direct because Russia and Ukraine both are disproportionately relevant to the world of security. The activities in this article will imply impact on cyber posture too, and an impact on people and tech companies working in Ukraine of which there are many.
I appreciate the thoughts here behind the idea, but this really seems pie in the sky. DAO and blockchain won’t replace corporations anytime soon until the legal system catches up here.
It's not the military.

Most people really learn English because of economics. American companies are big trade partners, customers and of course, employers.

Many of the others learn it for cultural reasons, as said. Cartoons, movies, TV series, songs, etc.
I love this! Netscape 3 was a pretty tough browser to get stuff (especially JS) working in.
Also in Europe Netherlands its mostly whatsapp and sometimes facebook messenger when going out and adding people. But the talk usually transitions to whatsapp after exchanging phone numbers.

But i prefer telegram more it actually feels like a modern chat application whatsapp feels like a early 2010 app.
Maybe, but recorded music became widespread 50 years ago, and what you're describing has been true for the last 20 years at least. Yet something feels different now.
I browsed a bit and found this nice index on Neocities:

https://districts.neocities.org/

It's almost all content and little "make the web old", yet it still draws on the old and fun aspect of the early internet.
Cinematically it’s gorgeous and I can’t really fault the casting either. But the romance elements they’ve a added are distracting and unnecessary.
The downvotes are because this person is unfairly presenting a single perspective on what the "woke" term means. If you aren't willing to present other perspectives and engage with them in good faith, then you're a propagandist.
I thought something similar.
This sounds like aging managers hiring aging managers to do something aging managers think is needed.
Well earlier in the war France and Britain were considering sending an expeditionary force to Finland to help them fight the Soviets. Sweden did not allow them to use their territory to pass, because they feared that the Allies would occupy the iron mining center in the north of Finland (which would have basically brought Sweden into the war against Germany) and the Winter war finished soon after anyway.

At the end of the day they might have made the right choice. Who knows what would have happened if the allies went to war with the USSR, their alliance to Germany might have lasted much longer.
Agreed, jQuery felt like an anachronism given the style of that web page. At most I'd expect a "remember DHTML?"
The music is actually straight to the point.
Every time I see a new note taking app, I get excited that it might finally be the one that will satisfy my desired workflow. But every time I end up disappointed that nobody seems to think about this space in the way that I do.

Here is my basic premise: I want all of my notes to be dated, and I want them to tell a story of not just what I was thinking, but when.

Time is so fundamental to note taking. A note is never "This is my canonical position on X", it is always "this is what I am thinking about X today." But note taking apps rarely seem to bring time to the forefront.

Think about an issue tracker like GitHub issues. When you view an issue, you see a timestamped history of everything that has been added to the conversation and when. It tells a story of how the understanding of that issue evolved over time, and specific actions that were taken at specific times. I find this invaluable, and I want my own personal notes to work in the same way.

"So just use GitHub issues in a private repo." Well, GitHub issues isn't exactly what I'm looking for. Specifically:

- I want to use #tagging. If I click on a tag, I want a GitHub issues-like timeline view for all notes that include that tag. That way I can categorize notes across multiple dimensions.

- I want more control over how the notes are stored (Git is ideal, I can mirror the repo wherever I want).

- I want more control over how and when I publish the notes: if I'm taking work-specific notes, I want the option to publish them on an internal company server.

A Jekyll-based blog fulfills these criteria pretty well, except:

- Jekyll is primarily focused on publishing a website, not local viewing. To view locally you have to manually run a server in the background all the time ("jekyll serve") and there is a lot of HTML/CSS/configuration cruft that is overkill for note taking.

- Since Jekyll is not an app, it has no streamlined workflow for adding notes on mobile.

If anyone knows an app that is a good match for what I'm looking for, please let me know!
More like "an office" these days :D
I think the point wasn't that jquery was old, but it was way too new for the rest of the page. Everything on it screams mid 90s, and then jquery which is a good 10 years later.
Same here. Question for anyone that knows: do I have to pay to keep my gmail account that I only use to manage my GCP services? (Auth)
Amazingly the Homebrew CPU webring is still... Pretty good! The only extant webring I can think of.

https://www.homebrewcpuring.org/
Nah. Autotune is killing music. Has anyone else noticed that modern singers can't sing? They have no tone. Autotuning is obvious, along with various electronic manipulations to "sweeten" the tone for singers with mediocre voices.

Then listen to an album from the 70's by a great singer, like Karen Carpenter. What a difference!
> Simple sound-proof booths could be placed in many locations

yes! the "Cone of Silence"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_of_Silence_(Get_Smart)

We need more of these!
It's full of tracking though.
It’s for sending text messages. Please can we have some apps that just remain simple and don’t have to metastasise into social networks mining our thoughts?

You know what app I never use on my phone? The phone app. Is there any actual anxiety about this? Does it need to morph into a Clubhouse-style swamp of dark patterns trying to turn audio in money? No. It just needs to sit there for when I might need to phone someone.
Yeah, this joke goes a bit deeper than its veneer let on.
aka Disaster Capitalism
You suggested that Python type hints are useful.

I laughed hard at that suggestion.

Can you maybe just show how to type a Python function such that it does the absurdly simple thing of taking a numpy array of integers?

def fun(nump_array_of_ints: ???): ...

Just to show everyone just how "useful" type hints in Python _actually_ are.
I remember when web pages looked like that. I used the same animations and hosted on Geocities.

It's shit. I got a smirk out of seeing it again, but I just felt embarrassed for 1998 me.
It was simple and boring. But boring is good because it worked
I find usually that happens after a couple thousand of lines, so beyond one off scripts the advantage isn't there much.

And some of it is just bad language syntax or culture making it obtuse, not the staticness of the language. It also has an increased learning curve.
Aw I memba.

Yeah, but it looked shit.
Once again, Budapest memorandum has never had any power, as was never ratified neither by USA, nor by Russia and not by Ukraine.

And no, Lavrov didn't lie about what's said in the document, you just need to read its text, not interpretations in mass media.
Google should be the one paying ME to use their GMail with ALL THINGS THEY HAVE LEARNED ABOUT ME from my emails.
Thank you Google for providing me with a free service for a lot of my domains for so many years, and thank you for the final push to switch to Protonmail, which I was considering for a while now, but didn't do because of the price.
I like the show but yeah, it's a bit like ST Dicovery's Burnham (raised by Vulcans no less) crying 6 out of 7 episodes. Sometimes I feel like I'm watching Grey's Anatomy in Space.
I did a deep dive analysis on the article 'On Having Enough Socks' (https://www.gwern.net/Socks) which on the surface is a great tale anyway and a recommended read but when I broke it apart and re-wrote and put it into three different systems (Obsidian, Roam and ZettelKasten) linked out to just about everything I had via the keywords. This one article sparked several rabbit hole gazing and yak shaving parties for me but ultimately led me back to doing root cause analysis of several issues in my life as well as connecting a thread to complex systems and wicked problems. On reflection the article did contain enough information for a deep thinker to work with, but with my distracted edge of attention overloaded brain it helped me to work it through logically using these tools even if it took me months longer for the aha connections to become useful.
Yes Or mms or rcs. Sometimes you could be texting another person on an Android that's just on a different carrier and for whatever reason you can't get the rcs status. And this applies to way more than just texting... Some carriers let calls that stay within their own network sound way better. Switch sims and boom, crap quality.

I use whatever The other person wants to use though. Telegram, discord, Skype, email, text, Twitter, whatever
Indeed. The end of autoplay being on by default or not being a setting at all is a blessing far more than anyone worth their salt has even thought it could be a curse.
Coincidentally I just re-read "The Red-Headed League" yesterday!
This is exactly how I feel, and now I'm not sure where to move because I have 8 domains configured and services like ProtonMail want me to pay them for every domain (which just makes no sense to me, I can't figure out how the code that makes this a costly problem looks, my guess is it's a money grab tbh).

Sure I don't often use them all, but it comes in handy at times to be able to quickly use a different domain.

Been looking at Tutanota, but not sure how I feel about being required to use their clients.

Any other good suggestions?
> Bush Sr promised that NATO wouldn't expand into the former Soviet Union

No, he didn't. Gorbachev, one of whose vague comments later about feeling betrayed by NATO expansion into the East beyond united Germany is the origin of the myth, subsequently explicitly clarified that not only was no promise about NATO expansion made, but the issue was never even raised by the USSR.

> Russia can not accept Ukraine joining NATO.

Well, it should learn to accept that it's not the USSR any more and its sovereign neighbors have the right to make the security arrangements they choose.

> Oh, and lets stop starving Afghanistan while we're at it. The last time we screwed them over, Bin Laden came back at us.

Bin Laden didn't come at us for anything having to do with Afghanistan (where are policy benefited his interests), but because he was mad that his home country of Saudi Arabia turned to us rather than his network for defense when Iraq invaded Kuwait and threatened SA in 1990.
> Around 2000 years ago the city of Rome had 1 million people.

And then as now, the urban population was not even reproducing at replacement level. The population of first-century Rome left zero genetic impact on Italy.

It was less of a problem then than now, since the urban population of the distant past was a negligible percentage of the total, whereas for us it's the majority.
>Why are there (personal?) email addresses in there as well? Who sets that as their user agent?

Might be some programming exercise. It's a common network programming exercise to build a HTTP client using bare sockets. But they don't look like student email addresses.
> I’ve been rooting and installing multiple custom roms

You're outlier.
No guestbook, but the number of signatures keeps going up somehow
There s nothing "old" about jquery, quite the opposite. the github projects based on jquery actually work, while almost everything made for the "post jquery" world is abandoned, totally not working, or impossible to develop on.
This is just an additional tool. Use it if it works for you. For years I used to dump my interesting product/research ideas in individual files - now I moved them in obsidian. Even before then I used to put them in a computation notebook with light green graph paper pages. Writing, sketching, drawing pictures on paper is certainly more creative and freeing (for me) but searching through old notes is harder. Now with Apple pencil (or equivalent) you can get some features of both worlds in one place, with OCR and such. There is a recent free app called collanote that seems quite promising. Still, I’d prefer a cross platform app.
Apparently what I was thinking of was in 1.2; nil pointers used to give semi-meaningful (but useless) results when an address was taken of a subfield, like the usual C implementation of `offsetof`. https://docs.google.com/document/d/14DgGJKGQeBTNJDXo3YxnlSwv...

It was before my time so I don't know what the practical impact was, just inherited some code that needed updating a few years ago...

I have used tagless casting a half-dozen times to deal with JSON vagaries; and overlapping methods today almost constantly. Slice conversions to array pointers is too new to say generally but I had one use-case pretty much immediately.
I wouldn't consider Switzerland a poor country, but it's still the de-facto standard messaging app for all age groups in my circle.
I tend to agree, but this is exactly addressed in the article:

> Some people—especially baby boomers—tell me that this decline in music is simply the result of lousy new songs. Music used to be better, or so they say. The old songs had better melodies, more interesting harmonies, and demonstrated genuine musicianship, not just software loops, Auto-Tuned vocals, and regurgitated samples.

In fact the second part of the article (after that paragraph) is much more interesting than the first. It argues that the music industry tries very hard to bury and hide genuinely new music (and ways of making it), by fear of cannibalizing the old (?), and that it is killing itself in the process.
Goodbye Outstandem
Yeah, poorer countries like Germany. /s (We are trying to switch to something more data protection friendly, but we have not agreed upon the next golden app, and the government is actively trying to ban Telegram, so ...)

It really comes down to network effects - the app that got popular first tends to stay.
they used all kind of tactics, political wars, gender wars, cultural wars; name them all. Thanks to the mastermind Edward Bernays.
Oh shit, you disabled right click?

And a rather modern approach for doing it:

<script>
export default {
mounted() {
document.addEventListener("contextmenu", event => {
event.preventDefault()
alert("Right click is disabled!!!")
})
}
}
</script>

https://github.com/SaraVieira/make-frontend-shit-again/blob/...
Snikket January 2022 server release
It's actually quite interesting to extrapolate our current exponential trends before ICs as a thought experiment. Kurzweil semi famously uses it to push his arguments: https://www.kurzweilai.net/ask-ray-the-future-of-moores-law

I do know what Moore's Law literally says. I thought it was fairly obvious I was generalizing, but yes the text as written is incorrect.

If you're not into the thought experiment, that's totally fine.
users are never going to switch because by-definition-minor-mailers cant reach them
If your data changes a lot, try REINDEX and VACUUM ANALYZE on the tables involved and then test and check if the query planner still wants to do seq scan.

We have a couple of rather large tables with a lot of changes, where is’s needed regularly to ensure the query planner makes the best possible plans.
Well, shit.

My home town has a tiny hobbyist theatre group. Their shows have like 30 people in them max, and half of those are family and friends.

I set up a G Suite for them to handle email, because it was - you know - within their budget of 0€.

There's no fucking way they can start paying 12€/user/month. That's more than they make from a show :D

Any alternatives with reasonable pricing for ~5 people?
Funnily, in my country there's a generation split -- people <40yo use Messenger and >40yo use WhatsApp. Which is funny for several reasons -- Facebook is mostly used by older people nowadays (younger left for Instagram), but the Facebook's Messenger app is the exact opposite. And WhatsApp was never popular in the younger generation, which makes me wonder how the boomers figured out how to use it.

(But the bottom line is, as you can see, that Meta is dominating the market.)
I prefer plastic and other material than aluminum unibody. They are lightweight, solid enough, not become too cool, not edgey, and soft. Don't link aluminum == premium.
Shouldn't it be possible to still achieve auto-play using JavaScript? It's just a tiny bit more effort. :)
But the critical mistake you're making there is calling iMessage a messaging app when iMessage is actually the default texting application. AOL instant Messenger just was AOL instant Messenger. Same as MSN. Skype let you make phone calls. Google talk let you do some things but it was pretty much just Google talk...

There are non-technical people who use iMessage because it's the default texting application and it's not a messaging platform it is something that Apple has perverted and customized into something that is deliberately incompatible with other anything.
> Never before in history have new tracks attained hit status while generating so little cultural impact.

I have this theory that by democratizing music through on-demand services, it's harder for music to hit a critical mass where enough people know the song to sing along at a piano bar a decade later. It's great that smaller artists get more attention, but I miss having the cultural touchstone.
> Under what theory of international relations is it legitimate for one country to invade another because they’re upset that other countries bordering it made treaty agreements with another power?

“Might makes right”.

Though, to be fair, it's not the most popular theory of legitimacy in international relations.