skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the downsides:

* Getting information and help was difficult. At best there was c.l.c and such if you had a modem, but there was so much gatekeeping going on that it was hard to get a straight answer on anything.

* Source code was hard to come by. Everyone was so damn bent on keeping their precious code secret that you could only learn best practices if you happened to be in a job with good leadership.

* Hobbyist embedded systems were all but impossible unless you rolled your own. Working on an embedded platform meant using crappy tools, expensive and clunky in-circuit-emulators, and proprietary toolchains. Otherwise it was time for a homebrew etching tank.

* Storage, backups, and code versioning were a problem. Sure, we had CVS and eventually SVN and sourcesafe, but man did they suck!

* Hardware was super expensive. Software was super expensive. Getting anything done on a tight budget required a lot of creative thinking.

* Spending all day squinting at a small monitor sucked.

* Software (especially development environments) was chock full of sharp edges and required arcane knowledge and incantations. They were called UNIX wizards for a reason.

* Data communications and interchange formats were TERRIBLE (and always proprietary)

* Multilingual support was an exercise in madness.

* Bash was one of the nastiest undead languages ever invented. Oh wait, it it still is...

* "If it was hard to write, it should be hard to read and understand" was the mantra of the day.
> It's the developer giving an analysis of the cost and benefit of a refactoring (it will take X time, but will save Y work in the future). And the manager factoring that into all the other circumstances, and deciding whether it's worth the current cost.

This has been the ideal theory for decades and I really wish people finally stopped to think for two minutes, look around, read some history and finally understand that it's not working.

Is it really so hard to accept this reality? I am periodically mind-boggled by the amazingly resilient illusion that you can plan things as tidily. It never happened, not once, in my 20 years of career.

Estimating these costs upfront is more or less impossible. It's usually a can of worms that opens other brand new and exciting sub-tasks, the same kind that gives managers nightmares.

IMO you might have projected a little bit and arguing against some imaginary "us the programmers are better than everyone else". Meh. Only kiddos think and say things like that. By and large, almost all experienced programmers I've ever met are quite moderate and humble.

Problem is, they are too moderate and humble which leads to predatory businessmen micro-managing them to oblivion. I've personally witnessed high-profile programmers firmly saying "No!", putting their foot down and making a thing their way with more time budget. Their project and code was used, almost untouched, for 10+ years afterwards -- it was that good.

Many of us are expert artisans. You don't go to a professional blacksmith giving him wisdom how can he accelerate a certain process.
Poland's political landscape has also changed since they joined the EU, perhaps in a less spectacular way than in Hungary.
Both countries are democracies, current leaders were elected in democratic elections.
It's the adherence to the rule of law that's an issue in both cases.
Any website can ingest data and then pass it off to another 3rd party. This has been possible since the dawn of the internet and very common. There is absolutely nothing new here.

The technical workings of how data is collected on websites is completely orthogonal to legal doctrine that protects user privacy.
That's true, but EU governance is byzantine to say the least. I realise that this is a political necessity, but at some point people have to understand that we're losing a majority of the benefits while increasing costs in having such a cumbersome arrangement.

Maybe with Russia being so aggressive people will realise unity and cooperation should be a priority.
99% sure OP is browsing with some shady VPN
I think your interpretations are cynical, and therefore correct ;)
Keil RTOS. You can also use C on bare metal without an OS. I hope you won't claim next that CPU's are UNIX like OSs.
> That's the ironic part, machines are able to solve these just fine so they defeat the purpose entirely.

I wonder if the strategy is to create such a large number of different tasks that it becomes practically difficult to build solutions for all of them individually.

For instance, detecting 'sad' music is an easy task, but what if that is only 1 of 500 possible Audio-Captcha types - which also include 'select the angriest speech' and 'identify which music was played on a record player'. Individually these are probably moderately easy to solve, but if they can write/create new Captcha types quicker than people can solve them, they would stay ahead (unless someone can generalise them - but generalising is a much more difficult challenge).

It's effectively the WarioWare approach to Captcha's - an individual WarioWare game would be trivial to automate/solve, however automating the full WarioWare series would be a real big task (again, unless some sort of generalised AI can be used).

They could even employ some interesting strategies with who/when they show particular catcha types to in order to throw off bot writers.
Also in the UK - I've noticed a gradient in "aggression around cyclists", i.e. it's most awful in the south and gets progressively better the further north you go.

(I've never had issues when cycle touring in Scotland)
Sorry, I should be more clear. This is a line from the header linked by the parent comment that reminded me of this story.
In my experience this has zero advantage over LaTeX since converting your markdown to formats other than LaTeX will be just as hard as converting from a LaTeX source. It's even harder because you have to deal with an eclectic mix of LaTeX and markdown, and various errors and restrictions in pandoc.
I agree that it's not ineffectual. It's very effective at imposing austerity, privatisation and deregulation, especially on the periphery countries. It's also effective at encouraging foreign ownership of industry and exploitation of migrants.

On occasion, the EU does something that is accidentally useful to most people. But in general, it's bad for all workers and even businesses of the periphery countries.
I don’t think GP is questioning whether those dying infants’ lives were valuable. I think their point is, those lives were valuable, so how could a benevolent, all-powerful creature allow them to suffer and die merely due to a genetic bug.
They literally do this on Roblox, I've seen over 20(!) hard puzzles and about 10 seconds to solve each one: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/impossible-roblox-captcha/3214...

For some challenges, this is so impossible that people give up with logging in until it calms down in a few hours, even Roblox employees and full time developers

People have told me that Arkose pay people to run their captchas and present lots of fancy metrics of attacks they've stopped which is why some websites seem to be ok with destroying user experience by running this
I don't consider this entitled. The highest income tax rate kicks in at around 55-60k EUR and any amount above this translates into miniscule increase in net salary. Then EU companies during recruitment use the same tools and platforms as US companies who pay >>100k. No Amazon and Gloglle and silly startup in Berlin, with the salaries available over here I'll not study 2 months for your cutthroat tests and assignments.
The DSU shouldn't be for non-technical people. They literally should not speak at all during this daily meeting if they are even there.

It's for Devs only to make sure they are not blocked and they are communicating what they are working on. In my last company the non-tech people weren't allowed and the DSU was only for engineering.

It is not a daily status meeting!

If it has turned into this then it should be scrapped because as you say it'll lead to people leaving as they feel they are being treated as low skill staff.

Btw I wrote this in a DSU that had non-tech people yabbering and which was basically a daily status meeting.
This pops up regularly, but AFAIK it's not correct. The law is much more fine grained than the USA PII concept. IP addresses are only personal data (PD) if you are capable of using them as identification mechanism. If you don't they are not. This also means that something that is not PD for you, can become PD when you give it to someone else. Or that 2 items which are not PD themselves, become PD when you combine them. Or that being hacked turns non-PD into PD.

Even as PD, using IP addresses to maintain a website is fine, even without consent. Using them to track individuals is not fine. Having a log rotation policy and a sane security policy so you can demonstrate when you throw them away is a good idea.

To be short: Install debian, drop nginx on it, then let it log as it wants. This is legal. But don't you dare mine the logs for abusing PD.
Are there any tutorials you could recommend please?
This. Windows 7 is a sweet-spot that I cannot leave. Few sites/apps/dev-tools are dropping windows 7 support, but It is still as usable as it ever was. You can always try downgrading your OS!!
I started at around 10, but there are plenty of programmers I look up to that didn’t. It’s an indication of intrinsic motivation and genuine interest, but there are plenty of people who find that much later.

Even today, 25 years later I feel like I learn things more effectively than when I was a kid. Certain types of skills benefit from experience and networked thought. Time per day/week is a much more limiting factor though.
back in the day everything wasn't a means to sell ads or collect rent or promote yourself. tech wasn't about disrupting the marketplace or the industry but about solving problems
Ikea was founded in 1943, so there is not 70 year old Ikea furniture anywhere.
My guess would be that at least one reason is that they figured out that bigger screens are more addictive?
Clickbait remover for YouTube: a FF addon to normalize video lists
One other thing that would be great that sometimes people use the preprocessor for is having the names variables/enums as runtime strings. Like, if you have an enum and a function to get the string representation for debug purposes (i.e. the name of the enum as represented inside the source code):

typedef enum { ONE, TWO, THREE } my_enum;

const char* getEnumName(my_enum val);

you can use various preprocessor tricks to implement getEnumName such that you don't have to change it when adding more cases to the enum. This would be much better implemented with some compiler intrinsic/operator like `nameof(val)` that returned a string. C# does something similar with its `nameof`.
> No it can’t, not in 3D... it is just a turn

Not if it is chiral. then whatever turn is defined as right is not left
I definitely have some nostalgia for audio cassettes. I remember listing to the radio with the tape paused on record waiting for a song to come on to make a mix tape. Floppies I can't say I miss much. They were always getting corrupted. The only good thing I can think of is that AOL sent out free ones.
Not to understate what Disney did, but I feel like most of their characters don't have much depth.

I recently rewatched 12 angry men, and was surprised at how quickly and efficiently they introduced 12 characters. Off-hand remark by one character, an expression by another, the way they stood and moved around; in around 5 seconds you knew the characters without even knowing their names.

Contrast to Marvel's characters, which have hours of development each, yet don't really feel alive. All of them have tragic backstory, all of them are heroic in the same way, most of the male characters are snarky/sarcastic/have big egos.
Before the whole brexit issue, even most ardent EU supporters would admit that the institution was terribly dysfunctional and would need to be reinvented to survive the next few decades.

The Brexit debate seems to have polarised the whole issue into either you hate the EU and everything it stands for, or you think the EU is perfect and if it wasn't for these damn national governments then we could live in utopia.

Unfortunately my country is no longer part of this project, but I hope that pro-EU people take on board some of the valid criticism of the institution and make the necessary changes. Otherwise, what happened here will inevitably happen elsewhere.
“If the economic conditions change and investors decide they don’t like tech companies anymore, many of them will inevitably close. Less companies hiring also means less demand.”

This is a cyclical phenomena, but most likely the factor listed to have the greatest impact on developers.

As for high developer salaries, scarcity of knowledge with newer languages and frameworks along with the demand for experienced candidates with those skills certainly has an impact.
> Sure, a "bad guy" could use that info and blackmail her

This is the place where I lost OP. How can anybody be blackmailed with publicly available info?

On the topic: I believe that the serious level of anonymity makes life extremely inconvenient and uncomfortable. Always using VPNs, keeping small hosts in different places as exit points, checking and rechecking everything when connecting to WiFi or roaming. Keeping separate hardware, for that matter.

I don't see how all this parafernalia justified. Identity stealing? Just use 2FA for your key service accounts. Don't reuse passwords, use a password manager - those are today's basics every schoolchild knows. Use debit card instead of credit and never keep it's balance above $100. Turn on 3D-security on all your cards. Don't get involved into drug dealing. Things like this.
I thought it was clever and fun and reminded me of when people added creative touches to their websites.
I said that for that C would be more than adequate. And, yet, Go's GC can be tuned. Not for an AAA game, ok. As for C, C + SDL2 would be a good backend for any PC gaming engine.

And if we had Go instead of C++ since mid 90's, today's Go
compiler would be much more performant, for sure.
> If that's just a response it took quite some time to come.

The commission is a slow moving machine.

> Perhaps it's a reflection of the weakening of the US power.

I don’t think, in this instance. This applies to almost all countries.
Use Free GPU on VS Code with Google Colab
I also strongly agree. Members of HN like to silence views like this, but it's a valid point that is growing in support.

You may not see it now, but views like yours are part of the problem. We can't keep destroying the planet. Change comes at multiple levels, whether it be from the individuals with their purchasing power or governments forcing reform.
The time of the day is reflective of broad geography, generally.

So some UK or EU specific topics will appear, be commented upon but then disappear later in the day.

It would be interesting to see what kind of topics are commented on from different places.
I realise this is probably obvious to most people who're familiar with the author's work, but I was looking at the README trying to figure out if this is just a VS Code thing or not. It doesn't say (though it has screenshots of VS Code, nothing in the README says it's a VS Code extension). It does say it in the "about" section of the repo, which I rarely actually look at on Github.
I think the time factor is likely the most dominant when it comes to learning new things. The beauty of being a young learner is having much more time to do so due to having less responsibilities.
I don't get why people think that old movies have more value than modern ones. To be clear I do watch old movies but I don't think that watching old movies is more constructive than watching new ones. And btw what does even classic mean this days, the matrix is certainly a classic now. Would you prefer to not having watched it back when it came out and waiting until now?

Also not everything has to be constructive/productive people need to wind down.
The fault of EU is to not be better prepared for the worst. I'm not claiming the EU is responsible for the creating a refugees crisis in the first place. But it seems they seem to start thinking about these issues now: https://euobserver.com/migration/154391
Partly what attracted me was the open-sourceness of it, usually a requirement for all things here on HN. I’ve only dabbled in Figma but it seemed significantly different to me in ui?
The new FreeDOS 1.3 is now available for download
If you are participating in discussion forums under pseudonym, you quite easily give quite many bits of personal information over time even if you try to be careful about it.

You give hints about your age, where you have lived, maybe about hobbies, education, work history, time when you are online. Each individual bit is not much, but when you combine few of these, they actually identify you exactly.
I personally know from a charity Lands End to John O'Groats ride a few years ago that drivers in Scotland can be really lovely people.

I specifically remember truck drivers cheering us on in the highlands. Magic! :D

Sadly I've seen reports in the news of people in Scotland getting rough treatment there too.

Luckily, it's just a minority though. Most drivers, like everywhere, are just normal decent people.
They don't log by default, but were legally compelled to do so in this instance.

Which is about as good as it gets. Unless you know of a reputable email provider that ignores court orders? (bit of an oxymoron)
> Every single one of them (all professionals, like I said) were adamant that they would leave any position that managed them no better than a burger-flipper.

Such entitled garbage. Restaurants manage people much more tightly, and often with very abusive practices and wage theft added in.

Stand-up is nothing compared to having an underpaid alcoholic yell at you because you leaned against the wall 2/3 of the way through your second double shift in a row.
Would you work for him?
Individual businesses aren’t stalking anyone if their CCTVs are watching out for themselves. But as soon as there is a centralized company offering the service and gobbling all the data, and that company acts like Google does with regards to web tracking, then it’d be in some sense no better than stalking (or even worse, stalking at scale).

If it only obtains the data to provide you the service of knowing who comes in or out, and deletes the data as soon as it’s not needed anymore, there would be no question; but that’s not where profit is in a double-sided market.
By using Cname uncloaking that uBlockOrigin can do on Firefox. It should see that the real domain is Google Tag Manager.
Thanks for the hint. I didnt know that one needs co2 to get rid of lactact

And to that question as said I am nonexpert. Imho sport after a certain (1h or so) time is a mix of both and should burn most calories in a healthy way. As far as I know there was a downside to having too much lactat. And burning calories aint synonym with burning body fat. Short intensity anerobic training is not atacking bodyfat in my opinion. It only uses the reserv in carbs we have anyway ( around 2000kcal)
Biking is the best exercise for bodyfatburning in my opinion. If it is more than 2h.
> Having Siberian Huskies I once tried to figure out if I could live off the back of a sled and have the huskies be my means of transport. The sled would have needed to be 5 meters long and about 2 tall so I abandoned the idea!

perhaps you just needed a few more huskies. is there anything like a rocket equation for dogsledding? e.g. each husky requires some mass of supplies which must be hauled which implies additional huskies.
1943 was 79 years ago, so theoretically there might be?

Jokes aside some IKEA stuff really is pretty good quality and lasts decades. Other stuff is cheap crap but you don't have to buy the cheap crap.
Thanks, interesting stats. The average length of staying in one place 71 days, still pretty short compared to the norm, living somewhere for a few years to forever. The stats don’t really mention how long people keep up this lifestyle though—only that there were no respondents older than 44!

For me it’s hard to imagine living this way because I like to feel connected to where I live, and that takes more time and investment. And I feel it’s better for where I live, because I can get involved in local initiatives, learn the language etc. But I think that’s a common sentiment, that’s why I wonder about how long people tend to do the nomad thing.

I do know plenty of people who have one place as a kind of base station and often end up working in other places for short periods, that might be a nice hybrid model.
Within a string, most CRDTs will keep both changes effectively concatenating them.

If you have something like a Int value and need to handle it more gracefully in your application than the arbitrary selection by the CRDT toolkit you can keep it within an array/list and then handle the merging yourself. So it starts off as [10], each user when changing it would delete the value and append a new one. That way if you have two users simultaneously change it, one to [15] and the other to [5]. The resulting synced value would be [15,5], you can then handle how to combine the values yourself (addition, average, etc) in a determinist way.

I haven't looked into it but some CRDT toolkits may store Ints by keeping track of changes to it, but the above allows you to do it yourself.
bad news: 1943 is more than 70 years ago. (probably still almost true though)
GCC/gcov code coverage data extraction from the target, without FS, OS, or Libc
Or just ddos'ed.
Not if the signatures are uploaded and shared.
Why the NFT Market Will Collapse
Germany, Denmark, and even Netherlands after the initial 5 years discount... list me one country where it doesn't apply...
The bit you're replying to here hasn't yet introduced the problem of marketing teams.

The kind of tracking in the first section is "understanding how people use your product", and is usually introduced by the product team, rather than marketing. And most product teams i've worked on fiercely fight back against the addition of excessive tracking. Whilst the goal of a business (and therefore a product team), is usually about maximising profits, it's not exclusively about that. I've worked for businesses that literally have a social charter in their articles of association, but they still want to measure how people use their products.
There have probably been better character analysis done, but I think Sofia did not have the time to "soak in" GF1 and GF2 to give her character any specific nuance that we could love. It's difficult to separate "blandness" and purity in her rendering of the daughter of the godfather, but consider also this: she was not a seasoned actress, and there were very few ways you could interpret this role in a great and memorable way (because of the unreachable success of GF1 and GF2, as others mentioned).

TL; DR: it was a hard first role for a young actress
That's the moment I'd recommend you to close the website and book a hotel.

The whole pandemic reminded me I miss staying in hotels.

Not having to worry about groceries, lunch, cleaning ... A great hotel experience turns your holiday into a holiday experience. The older I get the whole bnb experience feels like a premium stressful hostel.
I just don't use netflix to pick what to watch. Make your decision using imdb/reddit or whatever else you use and then check if it's on netflix/prime/etc. and if it's not repeat at the top.
Interesting thought. I wonder if the combination of forward posture, slim aspect ratio and fluid, fast movement is triggering some bit of neural wiring adapted to look out for big cats. Do the magpies particularly go for roadies?