skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This is induced scarcity and I hate everything about it.

I mean, I "hate" having to pay for stuff in stores too (markups and all). Like it or not those "zero marginal production cost" products don't have zero cost to develop, so "induced scarcity" (aka. charging the user) is basically the best way to recoup development costs.
Sorry I was not clear, it was not the fan base that turned me away from him. It was the way he treated his workers during the start of the pandemic, forcing them to work. Along with other workplace controversies.

That's just my opinion, but I don't admire someone that prioritizes profit over human life.
> It was not immediately clear what impact the approximately 90 shots of COVID-19 vaccines, which were from different brands, had on the man’s personal health.

I believe the vaxes are safe, so the real question is another one. How it helps against the virus?
Yeah I get it, and I think this is the most common way of thinking about it. Here's where I ended up though:

I was taught that the government acts on behalf of its citizens in the interests of its citizens. I largely don't think that's true, but if it is to any extent, then to that same extent we are culpable for its actions. If not then we're knowingly casting away our responsibility, essentially the bystander effect on a grand scale.

If it's not true at all and the government doesn't act on my behalf or for my benefit, then there is a coercive, violent force acting in my name without my consent.

Either way, whether or not I am responsible, I must oppose its violence.
It's factually incorrect and unhealthy. Plenty of science out there on the subject. Bans can cause backlash - it's better to just leave Twitter yourself so as not to be exposed to that particular "reality" which is not at all similar to the one that exists in meat space. Or, at least, to admit that you may be incapable of deciphering truth from fact with that much misinformation around and so many others happy to believe it without applying rigorous examination, vetting sources, etc.

Also, believe it or not but there actually are people who believe the Qanon nonsense. It's been widely reported on.
I would second this one, to add, just finish what you start. (be reasonable with what you start)

e.g. I want to speed run Super Mario Brothers using code

Just finish at least a working version, screw the quality of the code, screw the results — just make it run/work once, then quit afterwards if you feel like it.

Side Tip: Less talk about what you are doing before you've did it, generally™, helps to complete it. (completely anecdotal)
Until iOS 6, every bit of editable styled text on the system was a web page
Pfff... getting more colors on screen than you have palette entries is not a stunt at all... not on a thoughtfully designed system with raster interrupts. On the Amiga you could even program the copper to do this work for you, freeing up the CPU for other tasks.
"It's a private company" has been the excuse for the abusive censorship. Are you saying if someone has right wing leanings on free speech that politicians will now change their tune and threaten it?
Because those types of people want power, and even when you're the richest guy in the world, there are things you can't do unless you're head of a country.
Collapse, The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav M. Zubok is an excellent political and economic history of the end of the Soviet Union. It isn't long on technical details of the kind the posted article refers to, but covers the personalities, goals, strategies in the political and economic areas very thoroughly (and is unsparing of both the leadership and actors in the former Soviet Union, the Eastern European nations, and the West).
It’s definitely their anti money laundering (AML) detection system kicking in. However it’s clearly getting false positives and their internal AML team is getting hit with a high amount of them thus causing the delays in resolving them.

This is why you don’t build your own solutions to well solved problems.
Ok, non profit then. Have some neutral org not chasing profits improve what it has instead of shoving dark design patterns and closing APIs in order to sell more ads.
The enterkeyhint is brilliant. Yet it's sad it can't affect physical keyboards because it would be an ergonomic boom for all the non tech savvy people (input order and submission is often slowed down and confusing due to that, yet something that was leaner in old as400 terminal UIs).

Maybe keyboards will have a few lcd keys, or for cost cutting a colored led keys to match these kind of hints
Limit your consumption of news (including Hacker News).

Paradoxically, there was a thread about this on HN recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30830772

> The news does not matter. It has little, if any real impact on your life besides what you allow it to have.
It does - some people always browse in Private Mode or have History off
What? Why would he care about that?
> Of course not. It's an arbitrary line, because the line has to be drawn somewhere.

It's not a "line". Some choices are presented to the user, and some aren't.

> Most people don't care one way or the other.

If that were the case, then great - no-systemd by default.

No, the point is that the _people involved with the distribution_ care.

> How is leaking internally-facing political issues into the out-of-the-box experience in any way acceptable?!

Either people come to an agreement about a default; or they have a fight and split up; or they let the user decide.

... actually, there could be another option, which is a "mixed strategy", i.e. the installer flips a coin instead of asking the user. That could also be a compromise, which doesn't require bother the user. It has its own detriments though.
Billions in quarterly revenue doesn't allow Apple to solve the halting problem. I can't begin to imagine how they would do what you're suggesting. They need to detect when a website changes in kind, but ignore day-to-day changes or normal UI revamps.
Yes! ;-))
I think the tracking bot goes quite a bit further than simply being free speech.
> can’t for the life of me find the motivation to do it. Check with a Dr if it’s that sort of thing!

To be clear: Stimulants are not motivation in pill form. The motivation boost is a short-term side effect and tolerance definitely develops quickly.

I think a lot of people get the wrong idea after seeing people use stimulants to cram for finals in college. Long-term treatment won’t do anything like that. It can improve focus and reduce distractability, but you’re not going to become a code-writing machine for the next decade on stimulants.
You keep framing this issue as if it only affects trans people.

The biological definition of man and woman is a category that's pretty relevant to everyone. And pulling the rug out from under a biological concept, and then saying "Oh how strange that you all are thinking about this, it must only be because you are a transphobe, or a pervert" is an extremely disingenuous argument at best.
Thanks; I am better-informed. I suppose my opinion was based on Genghis's non-invasion. I hadn't heard of Godan before.
I wondered what you meant by Shapes, so I googled "Freya Holmér Shapes" and found this, which is awesome -- thanks for the tip!

Shapes: A real-time vector graphics library for Unity by Freya Holmér:

https://acegikmo.com/shapes

>It has bothered me for a long time that for some reason, html5 canvas is better at drawing primitives than Unity.

I know, right?!?

I was quite frustrated by the fact that it was so much easier to draw 2d stuff with html5 canvas than with Unity, that I integrated a web browser with Unity and used it to do 2d data driven drawing (graphing, data visualization, text, and ui widgets) with JavaScript / canvas / d3 / etc, and then blitted the textures into Unity to display in UI overlays and 3d textures.

One advantage to that approach is that you can use any of the zillions of excellent well-supported JavaScript libraries like d3 to do the 2d drawing.

And I wanted to write as much of my Unity application in JavaScript as possible anyway, so it was easier to debug and (orders of magnitude) quicker to iterate changes (and possible to live-code).

UnityJS description and discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22689040

Shapes looks really wonderful, and would have been perfect for some of my Unity projects, so I'll check it out and consider using it in the future!
Or maybe people can like him even if they don't believe that he makes his choices based on twitter polls. But I guess that just a crazy thought.
My dad was an RPG programmer until he got into web in 97. Always interesting to hear him talk about it.
One highly consistent signal is the growing feeling of "I absolutely cannot take a break right now", entering the burnout phase when I start feeling frustrated or angry when someone else suggests I need to take a break. I suspect this signal is reliable because it correlates with how much I'm over-indexing on the Current Critical Thing, leading to reactive & pigheaded actions and the loss of broader perspectives.
That's already early Rennaissance, stabding mercenary formations started to show up around that time. Feudal armies tended to be passants being called to arms centered around some highly trained knights and professionals. The Mongols were a standing professional army, something that played an important role during their campaigns.
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You seem to be lost.

Here, let me refresh your memory with the original trope:

> And war has historically been the impetus for much technological investment.

Yes, war also brings innovation. The only question worth answering as a follow up, is, does it bring more than peace?

Because otherwise it makes no sense glorifying war, which this line of thinking is fundamentally about.
I would seriously warn you that if you have to quit it later, you will not find it fun at all. Actually it was a nightmare for me because I did it cold turkey, but from what I read people who tapered off also found it quite difficult. You can expect to totally lose productivity at least for a whole week.

Also when you're off it even a day, hypersomnia is guaranteed. You're going to be sleeping 16+ hours a day.
This is something I learned about iron recently. We're not running out of it, thankfully. The planet is mostly iron, after all. But it perhaps helps drive home the sheer scale of modern industrial civilization.

More steel was manufactured per year [1] in the 2010s, than humanity produced in its entire history up to World War I. The whole century of the industrial revolution -- from the Eiffel Tower, to the steam ships, railways -- is but a drop in the ocean of material production by today's standards.

Most basic resources have a similar looking chart. And not everything is as abundant as iron.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/VBIN1RF.png
Adding to the offline thing - I think it's great to find a hobby or sport that you can set goals in outside of your main gig (I'm a programmer, I chose disc golf and indoor skydiving). For me this led to feeling more confident generally, getting exercise/out of the house, and being in a space where I'm the primary learner, not teacher. It can also help enforce routine. IMO routine is even better if it's not the same thing every single day.
Can you elaborate? The bot is collecting and publishing public information.
>> Our ever increasing population and consumption will cause the price of energy and materials to increase as the low-hanging fruit is picked.

> This appears to be wrong. Population growth is inexorably declining, and with renewables charging hard energy prices are going to be declining, not increasing.

I don’t agree with all of the article’s premises but this is not wrong. Population is still increasing, even if population _growth_ (first derivative) is declining. And energy usage is skyrocketing, according to the EIA (https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/).
Oh absolutely, apologies for connecting them

Checking with a doctor, even if just to rule things out, is my recommendation in that scenario - not the drugs!

Yeah they have helped me so far but may not help everyone. Also it is true that while I’ve managed to set up some systems and processes so I’m no longer floundering, the direct effectiveness does peter off quite quickly over time.

I’ve got the option for a higher dose but I’d rather try burning in some new neural pathways before trying a possibly constant increasing (until it doesn’t anymore) dose
If you make a curated list, you become responsible for it ?
I wonder if their system, by virtue of being modern, is too good and catches a lot of fraud that would otherwise remain undetected by legacy banks' systems? Not to mention, opening a Monzo account is much easier and can be done remotely, thus it could be attracting a lot of malicious activity that just wouldn't even reach the legacy banks because the laborious account opening process would filter those out?
Oh I know all about this, but definitely I prefer reading about it not in this tasteless format and not from out of context half truths and injected propaganda.
indeed: you're typically not interested in the optimum, but only in something that's good enough.
Jd is not open source.
Doing meditation also helps a lot too.
Yeah, row-oriented is good for WHERE queries and column-oriented is good for SUM (or other aggregation) queries.
I struggled with the same thing for years. For me the key to getting it together was moderately increasing my caffeine intake, only consuming caffeine first thing in the morning and eliminating alcohol. I also upgraded apartments and bought a new mattress pillows and bedding which helped me get better sleep.

After I made these adjustments I had the boost in concentration and wellbeing that I needed to take on some of the other adjustments suggested by other commenters.

These adjustments made a night and day difference to my ability to focus. Maybe none of these things are a problem for you, but definitely check in on these areas if you haven't already.
Asking my engineers to learn a completely new DSL (HCL) with its own quirks to change infrastructure felt like it ran against the spirit of IaC. If they were tweaking infrastructure every day, that’d be one thing, but it’s fairly hard to commit a language to your long term memory when you’re interacting with it only on occasion.
It's looting if your enemy does it. And yes, passants, and generally civilians, are always in for bad times during war.
Meditate and do it properly, for at least 15 minutes a day. Focus on your breath. You will hear sounds, feel sensations in your body, and have thoughts come and go. Observe these things but bring your focus back to your breath. I think you will begin to see the benefit after a week.
Has Putin actually broken Twitter's ToS like Trump did like a billion times?
Here's one of the more central files that ties into how a Jd database is laid out:

https://github.com/jsoftware/data_jd/blob/master/base/common...

Not that I claim anyone in particular can read it of course. Jd uses a hierarchy of folder, database, table, column that's handled with an object system to share code between them. A folder is just a place to put databases and hardly needs to add anything, while the other levels have a lot of extra functionality. As an inverted database, Jd stores each column in a file, and accesses it using memory mapping.

https://github.com/jsoftware/data_jd/blob/master/base/folder...

https://github.com/jsoftware/data_jd/blob/master/base/table....

(I designed this system when I did some of the early work to turn JDB into Jd as a summer intern)
My point was just about the ambiguity of the word progess.

I agree that development/forward movement is not always good (or inevitable, and a deep rooted bias)

And that "good" needs context or is a simplification.

I'nt language fun: it's both logically correct and incorrect to say that progress is always progress. ;)
A woman I met in the late 80s had been programming for twenty or twenty-five years. As I recall, she had taken some kind of an aptitude test at IBM, then been put through training.
Anyone who thinks he is doing it to remove the flight tracker is dumb. It is literally based on open-source data and anyone who can be a threat to Elon can likely access it without following that Twitter account.
It looks like you've single-handedly dismissed all the pixel art created today by saying that.

The art direction was simply chosen based on the available technology.
You don't get much power if you only end up owning only small part of the business in the end - same for influence compared to now.

Popularity, well maybe. But I think it's only a part of what motivates people today.
I’ve always thought it was an interesting footnote how a work of science fiction got at this essential essence of the internet in 1960:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deathworld
Free speech does not mean that private and personal data can be made public.

Posting your bank account statement on Twitter is not free speech.
Not safe to consume seafood? As long as it's alive, you can eat it.

Maybe it lowers your lifespan. That's not that big of a problem, humans have lived like that for the vast majority of their existence.

As for water, it's everywhere. Obviously, some people can run out of it, but then again a minority is always fucked in this world.
I agree. I mean, I love this project as a proof of concept. It runs, it works. It is interesting to see an imp's fireball casting my shadow on a wall.

At the same time, visually it falls in an uncanny valley. As you notied, Doom is polished to its edge. Or in other words, it is in a local optimum. Any small changes (in graphics or gameplay) are unlikely to improve it.

That said, it is clearly prossible to make high-quality remakes.

I recommend a lot Black Mesa: Xen, also using Ray Traciing. It goes way beyond higher res textures, more detailed models, or just ray tracing. It bring a stunning experience!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAIJich73NY
A lifetime ago I did a stint as an Oracle consultant and 100% this. A gigantic sql query was always the answer no matter the question. I remember using sql queries to generate pdf and ps file output that would stream directly to printer feeds. So many “concat”s in that massive blob and nearly impossible to maintain for the next poor soul who had to own the code.

Learned a lot about db best practices to make these systems resilient and reportable but the whole “the database is the system” angle was very much a “every problem is a nail to this hammer” situation.
Fascinating. I know of an organization that abandoned (other than redirects) their original domain name about 4 years ago and adopted a new domain name. The old domain name is in the list (with about 30 subdomains!), but the new domain is not in the list at all. This makes me wonder how (if) the list is updated.
What power do politicians have? I guess you can nudge bureaucratic legislation to favor one group of developers over another and get favorable investment deals, but that just gets you more money.

Or maybe you can elect a district attorney and go after an enemy of yours, but even that's not an easy win. And you can always buy influence for this sort of thing without going through the trouble and cost of running

You certainly can't wave a magic wand and garner favor and respect from people. People hate politicians in the US.

I don't know, I just don't see the "power". It's just an appeal to narcissism as people in the media would be obsessing over you and dissecting every word you say. But that's definitely not power.
As my mom says: Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
Is there cheap reference hardware yet? The micro controller boards are fine for what they are but they aren't very useful for porting desktop or server apps that require a full Linux or BSD system.

The BeagleV was exactly what I wanted, but they kept playing around with the prices and then cancelled it. Last I heard some company is trying to rebrand and salvage it. I haven't heard much else. Still can't find them for sale.
> I will leave Twitter forever[1] and it will be a pity.

Who cares and just leave.

Twitter is beyond repair and it will still just keep running to the ground regardless. Where it is currently going (unless Musk does something) it will never change and it will only get worse.

Also, who cares about Trump these days. He has his own platform anyway and even if he does get unbanned (which is highly unlikely) just block him and move on.

The Taliban, Khomeini, Putin and many other war criminals have Twitter accounts screeching on the platform and I don't see you complaining about leaving. (yet)

Better make that search for an alternative soon then.
The concerning thing is that the other commenter says it took him a year and a complaint to the financial ombudsman to recover his money.

False positives are one thing, but it shouldn't take a year to resolve?
I haven't used the download attribute in a while, but the last time I felt it was a bit too finicky. E.g. only works if the file is on the same origin and there are more differences between behavior in different browsers than setting headers from the server. Think it is still a good enough solution in many circumstances.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a#...
> It is the very fact that twitter is a public company to begin with, that is pushing it to extremes.

I would argue that the drift toward extremism has much more to do with the advertising revenue business model.

Content that enrages, engages. More user engagement = more revenue.
Also good:
"The SaaS CTO Security Checklist [Redux]" https://github.com/vikrum/SecurityChecklists

"The Personal Infosec & Security Checklist" https://www.goldfiglabs.com/guide/personal-infosec-security-...

"The DevOps Security Checklist Redux" https://www.goldfiglabs.com/guide/devops-security-checklist/

... Years ago, I helped develop a checklist app for a hospital (in Python and JS at the time).

TIL checklists usually are justified, and may be the only process for collaboratively improving process controls that a healthy organization handling feedback has established; who gets to send PRs to the checklist, and what criteria should be applied such that evidence-based variations of process are objectively tested?

"Post-surgical deaths in Scotland drop by a third, attributed to a checklist"
(2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19684376
In the same way that "master recording" or "master branch" or "mastering" are somehow not inclusive?
I don't think he would try to take it down like OP, but he did offer the owner of the account $5K to take it down, citing security issues. See: https://www.protocol.com/elon-musk-flight-tracker.
Putin himself isn't on Twitter. The Kremlin has an account that's managed by a team. That's not comparable to Trump's Twitter account who had his personal account and @POTUS.
War is peace, serverless is without servers, anonymized is anonymous. George Orwell would be proud of that finding.