skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can see that through Cyberpunk. People will think that if a world like that exists it’s exiting it’s full of challenges and amazing. Instead of having to leave a “boring” life in a “boring” world with all these limits.

The creator of Cyberpunk said that during the hype of the video game he was so sad to see that people really wanted to see it happen in real life because when he created this universe it was suppose to be a critic what the future with technology can bring instead of wishing it to become true.

I have to say Elon Musk and his fans doesn’t help.
Maybe there is something alien and unnatural about driving that makes people more aggressive in general. Road rage is definitely not limited to targeting cyclists. It's just much deadlier if you attack a cyclist with your vehicle than if you do it to a driver.
Thanks - didn't know that. Interesting. Might be a solution for a client of the team I work in (but not my client).
I disagree with this, but only under certain conditions.

The standup is meant to be a quick meeting, 10 minutes tops.

It's not there for deep advice between lead and each team member.

Instead it's there to get everyone on the same page.

The deep one-on-one meetings still happen separately - when needed.

And as you say, the added benefit of daily standups is that sometimes a team member has great insight into someone else's issue.

Of course, standups that take too long are terrible.

But if done right, they're helpful, and a lot of fun.
Will We Ever Colonize the Oceans?
This article and thread got me to just install NoScript finally and start using it. It's not only part of an adblocking regime, but also am sick of the persistent nagging over consent walls (me being in Europe), adblocker walls, etc. If the content is meaningful enough, I'll subscribe (like my local newspaper, my only news subscription.)

Simple JS and site analytics is perfectly fine for me (and to be fair, not just because I work on analytics software myself, site analytics is a useful tool), but having it bundled in with constant nagging on top of heavily bloated sites and pointless (and sometimes slightly offensive) advertising that even leaks through adblocking gets on my nerves a lot.
> But I understand the business need to measure the effectiveness of marketing money spent.

Why? They are not able to track TV, newspaper, billboard or radio campaigns but still spend a lot of marketing money on these.
I think the trick is to change the puzzle very often or produce 1000 puzzles and randomly assign one
> We're still attending stand-ups every day with non programmers telling us when we can and cannot refactor. It's nuts to me that a skilled profession - that not many can do - lets themselves get micro-managed like this.

I mean, that's really doing it wrong. (yes, I know people call everything "standup" even if it as here has nothing to do with the idea of what its supposed to be, but still...) This is not universal in software.
That assumes there are equal weights to the factors.
I'm not entirely sure this is more than a matter of degree. I liked most of your point but I think you devalue aspects of this mode of work discussion. It's important to discuss work and holding yourself to account in a shared endeavour is not of itself bad. I have little doubt it's also used as passive aggressive bullying sometimes.
True. If you compare Hungary / Poland and for example Ireland and Portugal, the difference couldn't be greater in terms of effectiveness of government.
My biggest cycling friend in the US convinced me not to where a helmet for this reason.

Where I am - there's pretty good bike infrastructure - and I can get to and from work and anywhere else I bike on good separated but not completely protected bike paths.

I'm assuming not wearing a helmet was proved to be good on an individual level? Does it mean you're less likely to get in an accident? When you get in an accident, are you also less likely to be severely injured?

Also - are there any stats on how likely you are to be injured on different types of bike paths? Like just sharing the road vs separated paths vs protected paths?
Comparing tracking with "dumping toxic waste into rivers" is comparing a breeze with a hurricane.

> Google could potentially come up with ways to make a Google Analytics that does abide by the law

I personally know of no way to have legal analytics under GDPR, as advised by multiple lawyers.
I started to code 35 years ago on a Commodore 64. The beauty of those machines was that you literally had to write code to even load a game (LOAD, RUN, etc.).

As such, the barriers to start exploring programming on your own were low: the development environment was already there, you were familiar with the interface, and it booted in an instant. I haven't seen any modern day technology replicate that ease of access for beginning coders.
Start on season one of Greys Anatomy.

Or season 1 of deep space 9.

It will keep you busy for months.
Buy commodity computer parts and build a PC. If it's strictly storage, then a cheap pentium/i3/Ryzen 3 would suffice. If you want to do more, then spec for a higher CPU. PCPartPicker should be able to give you the list of compatible parts.

Then depending on what you want out of the device, do one of the following -

1. If it's strictly storage and you want the niceties of ZFS, install TrueNAS
2. If you want expandable storage without ZFS + VMs + Docker with a nice GUI and are willing to pay for a license, install Unraid.
3. If you want ZFS-backed storage + VMs and no docker, and maybe some datacenter-style capabilities, install Proxmox
4. If you want all of the above and are willing to manually configure everything, then install Ubuntu Server + Cockpit for managing the machine headless + Portainer for managing a large number of docker containers.
The substance of an idea is more important than the identity of its author.

Plenty of poor people in pubs have come up with ideas that could've done well on HN.
> Digital Nomads wouldnt be anywhere near as common if property/rents werent sky high back home.

The vast majority of digital nomads I’ve seen absolutely /do not/ have money problems. They’re all really well-off with good safety nets.

Moreover, potential lack of privilege in their home countries is not really comparable to the massive privileges that come with this kind of nomadism.
No true scotsman would confuse “your” and “you’re”.
"golden age of sun stations, the BIOS was written in forth"

And your user interface was all in PostScript!
We should stop because it bothers them that the "clever" ways they try to undermine democracies and the EU aren't that clever at all and easily observable.
Being a digital nomad is not that hard as to be unattainable for non-western people. Well, it depends what you consider "the West" to be.
Of course. For instance when you have an embedded controller with limited ROM size and you run out of space, compressing the message strings that are sent to a till roll printer or display might be the only way you can get enough space to add a feature.

I had to do this in the early '80s. The alternative was scrapping the boards and redesigning them to allow double the EPROM size but that would have been a lot more costly than writing the decompression routine and manually compressing the strings. It would also have delayed delivery.
I was thinking about something. There is belief that Old Boeing died when they 'bought' McDonald Douglas, with the result that MD's cancerous bloated failed defense contractor management then injected itself into Boeing.

Hear me out. Google bought Doubleclick in 2007. And Doubleclick's sleezy amoral management culture injected itself into Google.
Simplewall: Simple Tool to Configure Windows Filtering Platform (WFP)
Good luck being both visually impaired and autistic...
Captchas are great when not needed and horrible when actually needed.
Using a headless browser would muddy the waters then.
It's like a person walking on train tracks - the train is the big, dangerous fast-moving thing, but the danger comes from mixing the two. You expect to see trains on a train track, indeed they can't go anywhere else. Pedestrians should walk on the pavement, not the train track.

That's the "pro-car / anti-bike" angle, I think. If cars had been invented first, it would probably be illegal to ride bikes on the road. They basically were grandfathered-in.
Hybrid Test Framework
This is great. I will use it with my python chaining approach: https://github.com/tpapastylianou/chain-ops-python

My only grief is that decorator, which forces you to wrap existing functions anyway (same way I had to define lambdas in my example anyway).

Do you have any insight on that?
> That's true, but EU governance is byzantine to say the least.

That's largely because the fight for primacy between continental authorities and national ones is still ongoing. Unlike the US, where (beyond the occasional tactical posture) Congress, Presidency, and Supreme Court, have long been established as fundamentally supreme to their equivalent in local states, for the EU this has not yet been the case in many areas. Even the courts of one of the pillars of the union, Germany, recently refused to certify such primacy, and are currently in the process of being sanctioned.
>Manuals. Nothing can replace a good manual.

"One of the questions that comes up all the time is: How enthusiastic is our support for UNIX?
Unix was written on our machines and for our machines many years ago.
Today, much of UNIX being done is done on our machines. Ten percent of our VAXs are going for UNIX use. UNIX is a simple language, easy to understand,
easy to get started with. It's great for students, great for somewhat casual users, and it's great for interchanging programs between different machines.
And so, because of its popularity in these markets, we support it. We have good UNIX on VAX and good UNIX on PDP-11s.

It is our belief, however, that serious professional users will run out of things they can do with UNIX. They'll want a real system and will end up doing VMS when they get to be serious about programming.
With UNIX, if you're looking for something, you can easily and quickly check that small manual and find out that it's not there. With VMS, no matter
what you look for -- it's literally a five-foot shelf of documentation -- if you look long enough it's there.

That's the difference -- the beauty of UNIX is it's simple; and the beauty of VMS is that it's all there."
-- Ken Olsen, president of DEC, DECWORLD Vol. 8 No. 5, 1984

[0] http://www.anvari.org/fortune/Miscellaneous_Collections/3696...
If there is a "golden age of tech", it is right here, right now. I would never in a million years go back to the tech I've used in the past.

This kind of empty nostalgia is the epitome of intellectual laziness.
In the same vein: The Sacred Rac https://laulima.hawaii.edu/access/content/user/millerg/ANTH_...
Sometimes, that’s exactly what you want though: you don’t care (and the user has bigger issues if their email is compromised) if the email is compromised. In the terms you might say “access is granted based on access to email that you register with” and if someone loses access to their email, you don’t need to do any id verification or “proof” to recover the account. You can just say “tough.”
Yes, the locals who work in industries that directly benefit from the influx of foreign spending love it. The criticism will come from a few directions I think:

1. The same people who are highly concerned about economic inequality and "social justice" within western countries today.

2. Locals of developing countries who do no benefit from the foreign spending or are even hurt by it (e.g., middle or upper class locals who lose their relatively privaleged status to foreigners).

3. Local men who see foreigners as "stealing" their women.
Should we take the claim that seventy percent of the world's Internet traffic both start and terminates in Virginia data centers seriously? Or is the claim that 70% of the world's Internet traffic either starts or terminates in Virginia data centers? If so, that is certainly not the site of the traffic. Traffic exists where it is in transit, not exclusively at the endpoints.
EU is trying to undermine democracy, atleast in my country.
There's a huge gap between what you said, which I think is totally reasonable, and saying "18 is awfully old to learn something new". Of course learning something when you're younger likely makes you better at it compared to starting when you're older, but an 18 year old is statistically not even through 1/3 of their life.

Not to even consider the amount of people who get into their trade at such a young age. I'll be honestly surprised if they make up any significant amount of the population, and I'm saying this as someone in that boat.
The Daily Mail, in the UK, in particular has some weird anti-cyclist obsession.

The recent changes to the Highway Code are just explicit statements about what cyclists and pedestrians can do (edit - actually what cars should do with respect to pedestrians), whereas before it was implicit - if a pedestrian steps out into the road, would you continue to drive and run them over? Of course not. That's now explicitly stated that the pedestrian has right of way. Similarly with cyclists moving to the middle of a lane for safety, it's now explicit in the highway code.

Yet, the Daily Mail have made it out like it's a war and the end of civilization as we know it.

It's both sad and hilarious reading their faux-rage about lanes being taken out in London for cyclists which are full of far more people cycling at 9am and 5pm than the number of people sat in stationary cars in the adjacent lane (Victoria Embankment). And then taking a picture of the cycle lane on a Sunday, publishing it, and claiming 'it's barely used'.
What, you need more than 3.2f?
AFAIK the canonical way to do that would be a comment containing only the text "(2019)"
If cyclists stop running red lights, people will stop running them over? Am I understanding you correctly?
An MOT is a bad example because they don't do any maintenance at all. An MOT is essentially a safety certificate to make sure you aren't driving around in a car that's due to fall apart and injure yourself and others. How you attain that certificate (by ongoing maintenance) doesn't matter.
> Sometimes I don't get the logic of these spambot creators. Do they honestly believe that creating thousands of fake accounts with links to "hot dating site" in my webshop will help them in any way? These data are completely invisible outside (why would anyone want to present their customer data to the world).

The goal is link building[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_building
That's definitely not trolling, that's just correct. We have nice laws and stuff, but it's not widely enforced and almost all websites do not implement these laws correctly. So why is it trolling? You also need to enforce it and make it hurt.
Don’t carry a phone then?
I genuinely can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic.
Well, it‘s not the only possible reason (but probably the core one).

It will theoretically also improve website performance. I‘ve personally seen some bad things injected by GTM. For now, this doesn‘t actually work for the thousands of trackers by flimsy adtech companies, so I guess that benefit won‘t materialise.

I don‘t think this is really different from what usually happens with Segment and pretty much exactly what happens with (Cloudflare aquired) Zaraz. I guess the problem is that google is doing it and why.

In terms of blocking, isn‘t it good for you when a website uses segment? One script and you‘re done. For now, this looks like the same thing.
Exactly. And the end result might be as bad as antivirus: horrendously slow software with a huge database of heuristics that cause false positives and at the same time let malware through. It's going to suck.
> Could there be something alien and unnatural about cycling that triggers a visceral response in our brains resulting in fear, anger, and aggression?

Probably not, given that there are many places in the world where cyclists are not met with aggression.
John Gruber’s original markdown processor was written in Perl, not Ruby.
The Breakfast Club from 1985? Sorry, I messed up generations. Thought Gen-X came after millenials not before.

Oh well, maybe the ad missed the mark because Gen-X are already so old they firmly started telling themsrlves fantasy that there's something noble about having your body wrecked by age and knowing better than younger generations and dismissing the notion that changing world brought anything of value. And they just hate this ad for trying to pull them back into reality. Then offering virtual salvation falls flat because they already have estabilished virtual reality in their minds that setves them well.
Rent, property and living prices being adjusted to the purchasing power of the western visitors driving the original low income population away from whichever region gets more popular.

Its similar to what I call hipsterization. Rich and privileged persons moving to an undeveloped area they deem cool, fancy cafes are opened and real state prices skyrocket.
Solutions for sending micro transactions to websites you visit have existed for over a decade[1], no cryptocurrencies or blockchains required.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flattr
“get everyone on the same page”

Meetings are expensive, even if they are for short periods. A simple email should be typically sufficient for information that is common to all team members. I’ve almost never attended a 10 minute meeting with more than 2 people. They are always longer, especially if they are fun.
This is exactly what I think is the reason. We are adapting for environment that we are in every day. Monitor, phone screen, tablet, books... There is less and less time we spend looking into "infinity".
My office desk is an IKEA butcherblock beech top on IKEA legs, our former dining table. A wedding gift from my mother 33 years ago. I think 70 is entirely plausible. One good sandbank and re-oil and it's good for 40 more.
Plus if you stay in a hotel you don't have to worry about taking housing away from the local residents of the place. I loathe AirBnB for multiple reasons, but that's the primary one.
giving 2 <beeps> about memory. we would need to be very very careful about allocating and then recovering memory. treated it as more precious than gold. thats all lost or at least no one pays as much attention now imo...
I would have expected the Clojure versions of types to inherit from the Java versions. Any reason not to do that ?
Their value-to-money is better because the externalize all the cost to the local community where they remove supply and up the rent for what supply is left.
Usenet was amazing in its heyday. Newswatcher and it’s derivatives were an amazingly efficient way to scan groups to find/avoid the flames or whatever you were interested in.
> Latex is extremely powerful but reading the raw source of a text is a pain.

For the kind of text that you'd use Markdown for, i.e. text that is mostly just text and not math heavy, LaTeX should be almost as readable as Markdown. For example,

\section{Introduction}

is almost as readable as

## Introduction
Technically none. But google helps circumvent protections that would prevent illegal cases where website owners are breaking the law. Now we can't defend ourselves any more. Would be fun to see if any law makers would consider this abedment (?) or even go directly after google for this kind of thing.
Even pedestrians occasionally hit pedestrians and then blame pedestrians. Very high maneuverability makes pedestrians unpredictable. The only way to avoid a collision with a pedestrian is to keep distance between you and a pedestrian, or accept that they will step right in front of your bike sometimes, or hit you on the side, when you're passing them slowly, or bump into you, when you're standing or walking with a bicycle. When on foots, I can avoid a collision with another pedestrian easily, but when I'm on a bike, I cannot do that, even when I drive at pedestrian speed.
> This article is a bit difficult to understand;

Perhaps better not to comment then, because it seems like you didn't actually understand it.

> with the non-crime of "a really bad person has a bank account"

Right off the bat, you are misrepresenting the legal issues involved, which were explained in the article.

The issue in each case was that a really bad person had a secret bank account with a huge amount of money which they could never have acquired legally.

For generations, Swiss banks allowed this, and of course every dictator, embezzler and money launderer took advantage of this.

But finally Switzerland legally prevented this - except Credit Suisse decided not to follow the laws.

IF you are going to continue with this, please familiarize yourself with the relevant laws, starting perhaps here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer
One thing I figured advantageous is kids in the 80s had to learn assembly on say Apple II to make real games. The machine was so approachable at the time so they could wrap their heads around the whole architecture.
Kind of, unless Termux folks come to accept Android's userspace is Java, you'll be doing that on legacy Android versions or rooted devices.

These are the only APIs a NDK shared object file is allowed to call.

https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/stable_apis
>He got quite angry and proceeded to tell me that cyclists "bring it on themselves and deserve what's coming to them" ...and we get on.

I even get it from my own parents when they know I ride pretty much everywhere.
While I wasn't a fan of Windows 95/98 per se, there were some fun hacks where you would strip it down to only a few megabytes and run it from a ram disk. And that was serious feat with ram sizes back then.

I guess my point is that it was more easily understandable and hackable and it wasn't a 10 GB install if all you need is SOME version of windows to run your games on.

Also zero phone home or mandatory/dark patterned Microsoft accounts.
> Instead it's there to get everyone on the same page.

How do you get everyone on the same page if you cannot ask questions?

This whole standup theatre is complete bullshit. It's true it's a waste of time. You say it's only meant to be a quick "status update" 10 minute meeting. What is the point of that if then asking questions is not allowed? If it is allowed then it's true though that for the majority of listeners it becomes a time sink.

The best performing teams I've worked on had no standups. They talked to each other when there was something to talk about and they only talked to the folks who were genuinely interested in the conversation.
> Sometimes with deliberate practice, including reading strategies, playing custom maps to practice certain skills, and watching series aimed at improving level of play.

The article argues that you need more than "sometimes deliberate practice".

You forgot the most important part which is looking at your own replays, and having someone better than you look at your replays.
Head-voice vs. quiet-mind (2020)
I could not live without various physical hobbies that require workshops full of benches, tools, parts, and materials.

I don't just want to own a guitar and a recumbent trike, I want the hobby of hacking on guitars and bikes.

Even the tools are their own hobby. I don't just want to rent a few hours on a 3d printer, I want to hack on 3d printers.

And forget my vintage computers, those are right out. They need shelves full of irreplaceable ancient spare parts, and acessible not off in storage.

Tourism is nice for a while but to be a tourist barely sampling your own life perpetually?