skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Allow more vertical building.

The rest maybe, but this is a core issue. And I don't know how you can read that quote and go "that's increased spending".
Somehow the EU is good when it promotes GDPR but bad when it touches crypto?
Sublet it? I mean it's possible that someone really dedicated writes a bot to reserve a room for themselves, but more likely it'd be done by someone who will list it somewhere else for an even higher fee.
I encourage anybody who enjoys Martin Kleppmann’s writing or work to check out his Patreon.
I've made a (simpler) web version of CLOC
I've made a web version of CLOC (a lot simpler).
Tried the new file system access api, makes massive use of web workers and some animation tests
Note that the "cockroaches" slur originated from Queensland police: https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/police-...

I won't be giving QL my tourist money in a hurry.
Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it ;)

In the beginning, there were tens of text processors with rich text encoding syntaxes (troff, TeX, IBM pre-GML, DEC stuff, WordPerfect, etc.) Then came SGML with customizable meta syntax and vocabulary to unify those. A large part of HTML is actually contained in ISO 8879, as "folklore" elements <p>, <h1>-<h2>, and so on. Then came HTML as an SGML application, and later XML as an SGML subset. Then people forgot the aspects of SGML not in XML, and invented ad-hoc syntax such as Markdown and MediaWiki syntax (both of which can be partly represented as SGML SHORTREF syntax), and Ian Hickson (WHATWG) started to specify HTML parsing rules in an informal ad-hoc way, based on the tag omission/inference rules of W3C's HTML4, and what was called "real-world" HTML (nevertheless also inventing new elements <main>, <article>, <aside>). Then, due to presentation as prose and mere enumeration of element names, the basic construction of HTML as a formal DTD grammar was lost, and WHATWG added elements and rules nilly-willy, without being informed by a DTD grammar or other formal mechanism to ensure parse-ability.
To put it in the larger historical context, in the 1970s, octal was the preferred number system due to the prevalence of 36-bit, 18-bit and 12-bit architectures. 0xFFFFFFFF is elegant only for a 32-bit machine, for a 36-bit machine, 0o777777777777 is more natural.

A generation of programmers from the 1960s and earlier were trained to use the octal notation. This can be seen in the original Unix assembler - all numbers were assumed to be octal by default, no prefix is needed. It's also why the C programming language uses a single "0" to detonate octal numbers because it was considered convenient.

The IBM S/360 (1964) was the first major computer systems to break this pattern, switching to a 32-bit system with hexadecimal as its preferred notation, all the official documentation was only written in hexadecimal. This extremely successful machine was highly influential, and was likely the first exposure to hexadecimals to many. The standardization of ASCII in the mid-60s also marked the beginning of this transition from a 6-bit byte, which was the previous status quo, to an 8-bit byte. Then in the 1970s, several popular 16-bit and 32-bit minicomputers started to dominate the market. PDP-11, for example, was a 16-bit machine. Although octal was still its officially preferred number system due to habit and the fact that its instruction encoding was designed with 3-bit subfields, but the departure from 36-bit and 18-bit meant the days of octals was numbered (no pun intended), hexadecimals are simply more natural for dealing with integers.

The final death blow of octal was the microcomputer revolution. After 8-bit and 16-bit CPUs started to dominate the computing world in the late 70s and early 80s, the octal notation has gone and mostly fell out of favor. The x86 was a natural product of this era - it's officially documented in hexadecimal (although, like the PDP-11, octal was natural for its instruction encoding).
I don't understand the snarky feigned confusion around the term "digital nomad". If you move around while working online for extended periods of time, you're a digital nomad.

I usually just tell people "I travel while working with a startup remotely" because I'm aware of the term's reputation, but it seems to be an apt description to me.
I wish libreoffice would have some sort of editor to edit a document using markdown.
I did the same. I also didn't have a computer.

Still ended up with severe myopia and a less severe astigmatism... Just like my dad who never used a computer and was an outdoor sportsman.
> Using HTTPS + Basic Auth is far more secure, and (arguably) easier at this point.

Totally makes sense...
The bank, or any financial institution receiving deposits from random people, has to ask itself: is it likely that this person disposes of such money legally. If yes, accept them as a client, if not, refuse and alert authorities.

Anyone can dispose of £50 or even £5000. If your bank sees a £2k salary come in every month, they won’t be surprised that suddenly you have £50k in your account.

If you knock on their door and say, I’m a lowly administrator in a country in the bottom decile of human development index, can you look after my $100m, the should definitely dig deeper. In such case, yes you should actually document where the money is coming from.

It shouldn’t be such a high burden of proof. Money doesn’t spontaneously appear like particle-antiparticle pairs. Maybe you sold something, or were paid for some services. You should be able to demonstrate that with ease.

Remember, the bank, other things being equal, wants your custom. So they’ll apply the lowest bar possible to make sure the money isn’t stolen, lest the regulators slap them hard.

With CS the issue was, they basically didn’t even do the bare minimum with any degree of honesty and integrity.
Like that? https://runkit.com
Let's push the idiocracy to the extreme by asking Arkose to add a timeout to their captchas, so people have to solve it fast and make the default puzzle be a prime factorization.

Modern web become so unusable and poluted that I don't think that it can get worse.
You’re listing off that that’s 30 years ago yet we are talking about 20 years ago, and barely 20 years at that. The difference between 20 and 30 is pretty significant (it’s literally 50% more).
But this actually highlights exactly what I mean. What if I simply stood up a plain old Apache server to host my website but that happened to be hosted in the US. No analytics, just a few HTML files and that’s it.

I’m still in this scenario sending PII of EU citizens in the form of IP addresses to the US which are just written to /var/log/apache

It seems obviously different and yet as that ruling seems to imply it wouldn’t be unless I’m missing something here between first and third party capture or something?
What’s odd is that you still have to provide a ton of information via your airline when you do go to the US, pretty much everything you provide with Esta anyway.
It's worth considering that the number of programmers/technologists working in an organisation serves a signal for the organisation as an financial instrument. An organisation wants to show growth in terms of revenue but also in terms of their capabilities, and frequently the "human capital" of the organisation is a metric that is reviewed here.

If you've been in a growing tech company you've probably seen this as colleagues being hire when you're not clear why, and the organisation actually preferring solutions that require many more employees.

There's also just the factor that – today at least – technology management have a lot of social power within their organisations. Most managers wants to grow their little fiefdom – which usually means more headcount.

Anywho, I guess I'm just saying there's a lot of factors completely unrelated to automation that incentivize hiring more programmers. Many of these factors are not rational for the organistions themselves – managers growing their headcount to the limit their structure will allow. Some of them are though! I.E. company as a financial instrument rather than as a business.

The model of a business selling something and optimizing process for maximum profits is in there for sure, but from my experience there's a lot of other factors that end up building a very incoherent whole.
Well, CAPTCHA is more like locking your store and then asking your customers to pick the lock.
Well when a mummy and a daddy love each other very much...

Its pretty stupid having to explain that to a 50 year old.
Yes, it seems everybody has forgotten the meaning of User Agent.
I'm less likely to use a site that offers obnoxious cookie consent forms, and I think I'm better off without them. so yeah, it made the world better for me.

My anger is directed towards the criminal websites that seek to circumvent the spirit of the law (most if the web today)
Really good. I’m always cautious of how I say things on Reddit as to not give too much away. I’m sure Reddit data scientists can build all sorts of models based in comments from users
Doesn't seem to work in Firefox - all it shows is a grey screen and a link to the code. Not exactly a good experience.
> scan paper notes... still don’t have it searchable. Plus notebooks are not that easy to scan

There are notebooks specifically made to be easily scanable, eg. https://www.leuchtturm1917.com/whitelines-link.html

Another options are binders, so that you can just take out the pages, put them into a feeder and scan all of them. ... or you can rip a notebooks spine and do the same thing, but have a ripped notebook.

That said, I tried various tablets, galaxy note devices, scanning ... and mostly use paper still. No worries about battery life, free form, nicer pens and the biggest benefit: a big desk allows you to just have multiple pages next to each other, open previous notes on the side and draw freely on all of them. A tablet/ereader can replace one page, but not multiple at the same time. Sure, search, version control, copy&paste and easy backups would be nice, but not enough of an advantage over paper.
They ask you when you fill in esta. It’s optional, but implied you should provide it.
What kind of power do the the 'dictators' you mentioned have?

What you mentioned are positions of power with people that can be replaced and are subject to outside forces.

Actual dictators are people like Putin/Kim/Xi, they can and will send you to labor camps/have you tortured and killed for any or no reason at all.
Have a SPI flasher permanently connected, and a device on the LAN connected to that flasher, and to the LAN in order to automatically detect firmware version changes. When one is detected, dump the firmware update, and reflash your preferred version, and have it match the reported version of the new update. If you have a router in front of your modem, you could even make a killswitch that blocks WAN until the reflash is complete.
I am 100% with you there. The things that could be done to advance the creation, understanding and appreciation of music from that work is staggering. It's sad that it's stuck in amber.
Very few original movies will end up being major successes. You look at the top grossing movies of every year and they are mostly franchises, adaptations, and remakes. This has been true for decades and applies to all genres.

Yes, big movies are in general a risk. Sci-fi movies often have high budgets due to nature of the genre so they come with risk, but I don't think the genre fails at an abnormally large rate compared to other genres.
With PlatformStorage on Android 12, which lets apps share key/values and things like this, it really looks like two steps back, one step forward for privacy if Topics/FLEDGE ever make it to browsers. The cat and mouse games need to stop.

A strong privacy law that cracks down on fingerprinting and lets users opt-out of tracking and delete their data really seems necessary. Even ephemeral data collection online needs to be checked. The user should be in control, and be served context-based or random ads, unless they approve interest based ads. The LiveRamps of the world will still be able to collect 3rd party data offline, but it's not anonymous, and can be deleted, at least if you're in CA for now through the CCPA.

Most users would likely be fine with consented context-based or interest-based ads, but an option for no analytics tracking or other tracking should be respected.
Yes, and:

For personal notes, I find Gemtext even better than Markdown, because it's even simpler.

=> https://web.archive.org/web/20220124235538/https://gemini.ci... Gemtext

I spend less time trying to remember syntax or decide on which syntax option to use, because there is so little syntax. It feels like writing plain text with just a handful of conventions.
In my limited experience with people on wheels:

- cars, motorbikes: always stop to let you pass. They will even say sorry if they look as if they didn't let us pass in a crosswalk

- cyclists, scooters: never stop. You are the one who has to stop, and if you don't do that they look at you as if you need to say sorry to them
We live in scary times. Business used to be partly based on Trust but if people flat-out lie, how can we ever reasonably trust them?

The man can and should be prosecuted for fraud, never mind what people's contracts actually said. The fact that the company is insolvent doesn't remove his liability for fraudulently stealing and lying "for gain"
Interestingly this is one case where I think the technically incorrect version is winning. Many of us who who know that it's "one die" and "two dice" would still say something like "what does the dice say?" or "pass the dice", if only because "what does the die say" or "pass the die" sounds a bit awkward.

This is one I'm not worried about, I'd be more annoyed if "more then" or "should of" started taking off :D
>> It's not for bad reasons that "trying to kiss a girl" has become so cringe.

Oh cringe, is it? I'd say your generation cringing at the thought gets directly to the reason it has no sex.

>> Why are you trying to do something that intimate when you have no clue how the other person will react?

Possibly precisely because you don't know how they'll react. Whoa, crazy right? You might initiate something without prior consent and see what happens? Holy fuck!

You aren't trying to do anything against someone's will. You aren't going to kiss the girl unless she wants to kiss you. But when you're 15 years old and you go on a first date, you do already know you'd like to kiss that girl. And you also know she isn't going to kiss you first.

It takes risk. No you don't take that risk if you think the girl doesn't like you, but it's still scary and risky all the same if you think she does. Having no clue how she's gonna react and taking a leap -- that's what you need to do to learn, both ways, to grow up. A lot of the problem with men not respecting women is down to men not learning when they aren't invited for a kiss.

But ya can't learn until you've tried. And when you're 15, trying to kiss a girl you like is pretty much the most important thing on earth. And if you don't know that, never experienced it or don't remember it, all I can say is I feel sorry for you. If you ever go on a date and carry through for a couple hours - and you're still interested, without thinking "how should I kiss that girl"? Then you're missing one of the better parts of life.

In any case, intellectualizing it to the point of obliterating all unplanned activity in the name of policing everyone's behavior and telling them they're dirty or wrong for kissing strangers is a victorian, petit bourgeois fascist little conceit which like most of your generation's ill-formed ideas will be trodden over by your children who are gonna go hog-wild fuckin' every cock in sight in return for your closed-minded, terrified little incel ideas about life.
Palm is still my favorite mobile OS ever invented. It was a joy to use, whereas my iOS and Android devices annoy me on a regular basis.

A few of the apps live on in emulation on my Android via StyleTap. One is the best astronomy map app I've ever used, another a favorite game (from back before platforms like Google turned us into product and incentivized developers to fill their stores with so much low-quality ad-infested in-app-purchase garbage).

I held onto a few models over the years which I kept as backup devices (eg. Palm V, Treo, an Enfora Wifi sled) and local copies of all the software to make 'em work. Quite confident I could bring them back to life for posterity (though secretly wish I could bring them back to life as a daily driver).
The 12972 are in the old source: https://web.archive.org//web/20220201010250js_/https://www.p...

NYT source: https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/main.4d41d2be.js

NYT removed 6 words from the solutions

agora pupal lynch fibre slave wench

and 19 words from the guessable list

bitch chink coons darky dyked dykes dykey faggy fagot gooks homos kikes lesbo pussy sluts spick spics spiks whore

so that's 12972 - 25 = 12947
Drinking with Datalog
Show HN: Running scheduled tasks on Heroku? Use this to monitor concurrency
That's a terrible analogy. Are you saying that once a visitor completes a captcha on your website, they can steal all your stuff? In that case, the problem is with you and your website security.
Teen Skater's Doping Scandal During Winter Olympics 2022
I wouldn't characterise my views on Clean Code using those words but I do believe that Martin has probably done more to damage progress in our industry over the past decade or two than almost anyone else.

I don't doubt that his views are a reflection of his own experience or that he truly believes in them and passionately advocates them. Unfortunately none of that makes him right on these issues and it's never been clear to me what experience he actually has that qualifies him to speak with the authoritative tone he adopts.

Worse is that the way he presents, everything from the folksy nickname to the less than subtle implication that if you disagree with him then you're "unprofessional", is designed to stifle debate. It's like he invokes No True Scotsman on anyone with a dissenting opinion before they've even spoken.

The trouble with this is that the very people he targets -- the younger, less experienced, more easily influenced developer -- are often unable to see these things for themselves. They see widely recommended books like Clean Code and take it as gospel. And then the rest of us have to clean up the mess when those juniors end up working for us and produce junk of the kind Martin has often presented.

And finally, in response to your edit, I don't think Torvalds is an idiot but I also think in this respect his opinion is based on the kinds of software he has worked on. I have worked on certain kinds of algorithms where deep nesting is exactly what you want, and unlike most who dogmatically advocate no more than N levels of indentation, I have years of test and profiler results to prove it. It's true that those algorithms were quite specialised in nature and normally I too wouldn't write code more than a few levels deep.

The point in all of these cases is that dogma is not a substitute for understanding. In a field as huge as programming there are likely to be useful exceptions to almost any rule. Teaching the what without explaining the why can be harmful.
Doing things that are annoying, just like every other class of human? Exactly the same way cyclists get pissed at drivers, or pedestrians, or other cyclists.
It comes down to preference. De gustibus non est disputandum

But that said, I generally try internet archive for old B&W. I'm screening "hellzapoppin" and a fred&ginger in the next few months for condo movie night. A lot of stuff is getting really hard to find online.
There are other differences that make it easier to move into tech too.

In my country at least, the number of students that are permitted to study medicine each year is strictly limited.

Similarly, in law to get a decent job one has to complete a pupillage which can be extremely hard to get and is often based on family connections etc.

Finance can also be quite classist/nepotistic.

So compared to these other top professions, software engineering is more meritocratic and accessible.
Yep, as aphant, I can't rotate. Instead I describe the shape to words and look for a match. Something like - the shapes short tail facing outwards, long tail straight.
I've lived through minimalism brought about by moving every few months for a project, and I still miss some stuff that I had to throw away or that got lost. Some important things like documents that could have been filed better, some emotional stuff like mementos and souvenirs, and of course photos as negatives and CDs that were taken before digital cameras and cloud storage.
Yeah, read HN!

There are stacks and stacks of them here on HN that are of excellent quality - I use HN as my 'quality' filter (and I reckon I'm not alone).

Moreover, if one doesn't run JS like me then it's dead easy to avoid problematic sites as HN lists them (Twitter, etc. - and it doesn't take long to get to know the main offenders, thus avoid them).

:-)

BTW, I agree with you it is hard to find good sites these days but eventually most really good sites appear here on HN. Do what I do, when you come across them bookmark them.
We could as well skip the movie and start the debate right away.

>What he dreams about, he said, is creating something like It's a Wonderful Life—a movie everyone goes to see, once a year, forever. “On New Year's, instead of talking about the fact that you're going to give up carbohydrates, I'd like this one question to be discussed, which is: Is the society we live in the only one available to us? And discuss it.”

>>One is her father who raised her, who taught her Latin on his lap and is devoted to a much more classical view of society, the Marcus Aurelius kind of view. The other one, who is the lover, is the enemy of the father but is dedicated to a much more progressive ‘Let's leap into the future, let's leap over all of this garbage that has contaminated humanity for 10,000 years. Let's find what we really are, which are an enlightened, friendly, joyous species.’

Is this a "French Connection" situation and it takes FF Coppola's soul to make it a tradition? HN already has all the infrastructure to establish the tradition of discussing this question. Is this a tradition worth establishing? And if so, what does it take besides making a submission?
The U.S.A. It has the best salaries, the best choice of companies, the best choice of geography, and the best wine.
I doubt Rewrote it in Ada/SPARK would get the same love.
thank you for your answer, this was very informative, I got caught into the ME/CFS rabbit hole for a few days, sorry for the delay coming back to your comment. A lot of things make sense for my situation of feeling tired all the time, even with some breaks and regular off time I can easily go from well rested to feeling like crap.

I'm really grateful to have seen your comment and that you answered me, I will do some experiments and tests to asses my situation better and check if some of the solutions can help.
I think that is correct. "Derivative work" is a legal term in copyright law that the framers of the GPL were wise not to try to redefine in the text of the license. They seem to like the term "derived work", but do not define that either, probably for the same reason.

According to the U.S. Copyright Office, copyright only subsists in derivative works as such to the extent they show some independent creativity, which suggests that a non-mere-aggregation that is a mechanical or near mechanical combination of works may not be a legally protected derivative work at all, i.e. may be the sort of work you can prepare without permission from the copyright holder under Section 106 or some other legal allowance. All assuming you own legitimate copies of or have a proper license for the component works, of course.