skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but since you're promoting Warp as "written in Rust!", that really makes the confusion unfortunate. Even worse if you ever opensource the fork.
I suffer EXACTLY with your wonderful affliction!

The way I deal with this is constant invention, however I lack the forethought of journaling...

So I am changing this, I have a number of physical paper graph-paper-based journals that I capture my thoughts in now.

I FUCKING REGRET that IU have not been journaling all my life. 45 years down the drain.

The best engineers I know (Looking at you JDB) all keep good journals.

Write down everything you have done each day - even if it is *"slept on the couch and got a killer nap"*
If I was starting with such a broad set of interests and evidence that I will come to find almost anything rewarding -- honestly I'd think about who is served by the work I'm doing and whether it allows me to live in a location I like comfortably by whatever definition you use for that.

Consider working with a non-profit, your breadth of interest can be a huge benefit to a small team. Small teams often lack the headcount to realize when they have a problem with a simple alternative or how to tackle certain kinds of more specialized problems like surveys or non-profit taxes or heck, when I was a kid I remember learning to typeset newsletters because no one else really knew how... like any underfunded small team you have to fill in the gaps as well as you can.

Stuff that you find trivial might seem unattainable to others there and a breadth of experience can provide a lot of context and research directions that would otherwise be missed. And if it serves a social good that you care about all the better.
I really prefer the Hipmunk interface to anything else, but being able to select multiple airports is a killer feature of Google Flights for me, and Flight Penguin won't be able to get my business without it. Being able to select a metro area is not a viable substitute: I live in the middle of nowhere, but about equidistant to two airports - one to the East and one to the West. But they're not in the same metro area (or the same state, or the same time zone).
Hmm. Can you give some examples of those missing libraries? I've been developing and running a large SaaS for the last several years and never found lack of libraries to be a problem.
Unfortunately, psychiatry / psychology is currently barely a science. It still doesn’t have a repeatable theoretical model yet for some odd reason there are people who treat it as a science with real laws. Will it mature one day into a real science? Sure, but it’s dependent on several other fields maturing so it won’t be overnight. Consequently, I don’t blame anyone for doing more research or going with alternatives, especially since the economics of mental healthcare also go against the welfare of those who need it.
Ah right, youre right it's probably the interleaved bits (aka Morton code) in actuality. Or more likely, something tuned to the specific cache sizes used in the GPU.
I respectfully disagree to this very common argument against ifdefs, and will also point out that developers who hold this anti-ifdef belief hold it quite strongly! I generally prefer the ifdef-style.
> As burnt out as I was, I worked even more, clinging to this promise of acceptance, hoping that I could somehow work myself into being enough.

The perfect worker for them oh god lol.

The term "airfam" is such a weird thing, people saying 'Thanks fam!" these days... I am not your family, I will not lend you 20,000$ if you in a rough spot, I will not take care of your kids if you die. Maybe I just take the word 'family' too literally hah, maybe a bad habit from expecting variable names to do what they are called
DNS over Dedicated QUIC Connections
Symbian OS was weird, but extremely efficient. It would run circles around Android, as far as performance goes. I miss it.
I've been enjoying an alternative approach to a Rust terminal called Starship and the performance improvement is tangible. It is also cross-platform. https://github.com/starship/starship
MP3 has fatal flaws on some audio and can't compress it transparently at any bitrate - notably happens with cymbals. Some of this is because there's a maximum bitrate above which it's technically out of spec.

There is a reason we don't use it anymore. AAC/Opus don't have these problems.
Google Play crackdown makes Amazon, Barnes and Noble pull digital purchases
I am not conflating the two. If the terminal can run programs connected to the internet, then the terminal has internet connectivity. The host system would not be able to tell the difference.

Warp could certainly promise not to include any phone-home functionality in their code, but unless it's open-source and everything is audited, it could easily call the host system's HTTP client and still phone home.
I think we know now that issue is not about lack of resources[1], it is more about the destruction of the environment[2]. If we want to keep coexisting with other forms of living.

[1] Once generation IV nuclear powered is mastered, that is.

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/04/ipcc-rep...
Rather misleading - and seemingly insulting to the people who created and use Smalltalk and Squeak - that it doesn't say "Smalltalk" (not to mention Squeak) anywhere on the front page.

They should really give credit where credit is due; growing the Smalltalk community seems like a better idea rather than pretending it's something else and implying that Smalltalk is somehow something bad that they need to hide.
You shouldn't be downvoted for this - you're not entirely wrong. In my workplace, this kind of "bps gaming" has been a real thing the leadership has has had to take a stance on and fix with better processes and tech to measure cumulative impact.

On your second point, though, if all you focus on is building new features, you are losing out on tons of unrealised gains you could've had by making an old feature work better. At the scale a bigco works in, small percentages add up to quite a bit.
They are trying to “close the achievement gap” by limiting achievement. It’s a crime against humanity of a different kind.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/us/california-math-curric...
Feels like it tries to solve everything with links.

I believe there's a problem where people try to resolve everything with a single theory.
> It inherited a lot of the unique Smalltalk features

Because it is a version of Smalltalk.
My thought is that the author has discovered that a relationship can be represented as a link. That they therefore “are all you need” is logic I don’t grasp?
They don't let you put stuff on Wikipedia just because you happen to know it's true, right? You have to launder it through a source first.

I suppose he could get away with nobody adding the [citation needed], but that'd be against the rules.
I find that exposure to a broad range of concepts expands cognitive breadth and the set of things one can quickly comprehend exponentially, even in /complete/ absence of expertise or competence.

Single-field people tend to be hilariously bad at diffuse reasoning relative to what you'd expect from a person that competent.
This was my exact thought as well.
There was just something special about customizing it and using it as your digital media console.

I feel as if everyone was always excited to show off what skin they were using.
https://skins.webamp.org
What michaericalribo said in sibling comment. Sorry for the poor wording with "don't be afraid".
Tencent is a large investor in Epic.

From Wikipedia: Tencent acquired a 48.4% outstanding stake, equating to 40% of total Epic, in the company in 2012.
What we really need is the next Twitter. It is time.
I seem to remember that VisiCalc didn't follow the dependency graph among cells; it evaluated across the rows and columns something like left to right, top to down.

That could work reasonably well, even in a new spreadsheet today. At worst you may need to iterate where the graph would settle everything in one round and you don't have to think about circularity since you're already having to iterate on acyclic situations.

Spreadsheets are often structured to mimic the flow of calculations in paper documents: top down, left to right data flows. A spreadsheet whose cells never reference anything to the right or below would calculate in one round.
The correlation vs. causality is, as always in medicine, a huge question, but aside from cardiovascular health improvements, I can see at least two other plausible causal chains. Possibly all three work at the same time:

Causal chain 2: fewer falls in older people. Breaking your hip is about as deadly as having progressing cancer in old age. Sedentary older people will lose bone density, muscle mass and sense of balance, thus being more prone to dangerous falls.

Causal chain 3: training for the immune system. If you walk so many steps every day, you almost certainly walk outside, too. Which means exposing yourself to heat, cold, frost, sleet, sun, rain, wind etc. all year round. That may be a good training for your immune system.
I know there are other comments about nix and I agree that its a pain to setup. It doesn't give you the ability to pin versions, and good luck if your dependencies are not available.

But, I would encourage people to try out NixOS. Its much better than the package manager, yet it follows the same basic principles.

- Uses a simple DSL language

- 1 config file describes your entire environment, you basically use nix the language to tell your computer if you want wifi enabled or not, or if you want sound, or if you want i3 etc.

- Its easy to roll back, since the config file is versioned (like git)

I personally use a mac machine, running nixos in vmware fusion and I can't believe how long I had been using a separate machine for development and another for personal use.

I get the best of both worlds with this setup; my messages and notes are here, I get world class hardware (come at me bro), and I get to control every single aspect of my development machine.

I still use docker inside nixos, and yes I know its almost supposed to replace docker and all but I will get there one day, right now is not it.

Areas for improvement: - They should have come up with a better name: nix, Nix and NixOS are confusing (language, package manager and operating system - in that order. Yes, they went with an upper case letter for the pkg manager) - Docs NEED to be better, this is not an easy task. The language is shared between every component. - Give playgrounds to beginners, I shouldn't have to download the minimal iso and boot it on my machine to get a sense of how powerful it is. There has to be an easier way.

End of my rant. I started using it a month ago, I have run into issues with dependency pinning but I remain optimistic.
I use color coded Post-It notes to track my tasks. Red for high priority tasks, yellow for medium, green for low. Orange and blue for subtasks. Stick them on a whiteboard near your workspace and then move what you want to tackle into a row that acts as your queue. Finished tasks go in a stack you can watch grow.
Simple and useful. I’m working on some PCBs which will need mouse bites and had no idea what the standard was.
Cool. Thanks for links
The Silver Currency of Cannabis Country (2019)
Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (2004)
>"Tide goes in" and "tide goes out"*

Shouldn't that be "knife goes in, guts come out. That's what Osaka Seafood Concern is all about"?[0]

Just sayin...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Minutes_over_Tokyo#Them...
Would that be the "side" which has been busy denouncing their political opponents as Russian traitors, for the past 6 or 7 years?
This is something that needs to change ASAP. Drones are the worst kind of modern pollution -- acoustic, visual, and surveillant pollution all in one.
I used sc to calculate my timesheets for a year or two before migrating to LibreOffice out of convenience. The office manager found it amusing that I'd print off the sc files on a dot matrix printer that was still kicking around, but occasionally I'd accidentally "put" instead of "write" and the .sc listing would come screaming out of the printer for a few pages.

I'll have to check out sc-im. You had me at CSV!
How does professionalism help if they don't have any choice in parameters? AC3 streams on DVD are constant bitrate and there's only one encoder, as far as I know. It's technically fairly similar to MP3, and mostly gets away with that by being used at higher bitrates.
It's very clear from Musk's prior speech and behavior that being a "free speech absolutist" is unrelated to buying Twitter.

He's an authoritarian, and authoritarians always need to hide behind some higher-purpose ideology (socialism, libertarianism, protection from invaders, etc.)

If he were really a proponent of free speech, he would lobby to break up Twitter and decentralize broadcast power, not buy himself a piece of a centralized broadcaster. There is nothing but self interest here.

He could even have started his own platform himself or just boosted Mastodon or something like that, but he didn't. He doesn't want to democratize anything, he just wants to get away with doing whatever he wants.
It’s quite insane the amount of nice tooling people have been building thanks to Rust. I’m wondering why is it that Rust transitioned us to a new era for open source. My bet is the package manager.
What happens when a best seller loses its language support? Isn't XNA deprecated?
One thing I've done with myself is taken up the hobby of playing prediction markets, and which I now do for a living since the pandemic (though I really want to get back to 'normal' coding job).

It involves a wide set of skills and approaches. The subject matter is basically anything that exists. It doesn't require money and you can play for free on sites like gjopen.com. I recommend the book Superforecasting by Philip Tetlock as a good introductory read.

You may find you're good or terrible at it, but most people can get better. I'm biased, but I do think more fields/levels of leadership could benefit from understanding how to get better at probabilistic thinking---or at least to have a respect for the arts of prediction and seeking out better counsel.

One thing that might be good to learn is how to find the interesting aspects of any subject, and how even within fields there can be quite a lot of breadth to the knowledge. Because to do useful work often you're going to have to focus on some area for a long period of time. If you can also develop good people skills, then being able to appreciate a bigger picture can make management another path to remaining stimulated.
> What's unacceptable about it (or any other software for that matter) closed-source?

Lots of things. Lock-in for once. Warp's VC decide they want an exit and Warp becomes 50usd/month sass or some sanctions block you from using Warp. You're hole workflow, scripts etc are basically dead. Also, what is in that closed source? No one can audit it and it's literally the environment that contains all of your secrets.
Don't quit your day job - ya gotta pay the rent. And in the meantime, if you gain satisfaction from satisfying your curiosity about myriad things, go with that. It doesn't have to have an end or a greater purpose. Everybody you know has a head filled with things they'll never "usefully apply" to the greater world around them: it's a fact of life. So if you end up on your deathbed with nothing having really clicked for you - no celebrity, no fortune - then that's how it goes. There is always your family - don't screw that up.
The world's a mess and so are most of the people in it so don't sweat it. Sturgeon's Law applies.
But by all means gather friends around you with whom you can have civilized, intelligent conversation - it's important.
Hmm use mac and win heavily, not found that to be the case nearly as much on win10/11.

On the rare occasion it is truly just win, it's usually made clear far more than macos only.
When I was seeing Musk complaining about twitter I kept thinking: "you know, there are alternatives out there... they're just not popular". As you say, imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars in twitter stock he had instead used it to boost these sort of alternatives? It's not even a couple million, it's billions that he spent to buy twitter stock.

But I really don't think he cares. He probably sees a business opportunity here more than anything else.
As an example (someone can correct me), I believe Alan Kay’s background in biology helped his contributions towards object oriented programming and UX.
I stand corrected. In my defence I was using it happily thinking it was as closed source as notepad!
I stand corrected, my information was a couple of years out of date. Thanks.
You absolutely can, I agree. But you can’t read their mind.
Ways a parent can introduce programming to a child
Not on this planet. This sounds like how you talk to your accountant, not your friends. You don't burden your friends with details this specific.
I would not discount NLP tasks just yet. In practice, they are still used to solve problems like spellcheck, autocomplete and even words and text rewrites.
Thanks for reminding me this existed, these are all hilarious. Too bad they aren't doing them anymore.
it does using virtualbox and Windows
I agree with your question.

It's not "raised".

It's chunk of business sold and chunk of control lost and now business got a bunch of new bosses who will dictate what and how things are done.

No glory.
Flash

HyperCard

Two flawed but amazingly empowering tools that expanded the world of computing.
Just because it's a dystopian hellhole doesn't mean thousands of pedestrians and tourists can't walk around :D

It is pretty bad, especially the underpasses even if it's not as bad as the worst place in SF (Tenderloin).
>still runs on today's PCs

I guess it ran on 1999 PCs but not 2022 PCs. It won't run for me on Windows 10.
And that is a large part of why I have been scaling back my usage of Microsoft tech over the last decade. These days the windows computer I have is only a game console as all other tasks has been moved over to Linux.
Who'd have thought a terminal app is worth a $17m series A? No surprise its loaded to the hilt with spyware. Gotta pay for that VC money somehow.

This has me reconsidering my usage of iTerm. What could be lurking in there? Maybe it's safe for now, but will the next update include spyware so iTerm can get its piece of the pie?

Mac's builtin terminal is quite good. Nothing fancy. It's good at what it does and doesn't try to be something it's not.
First to market is awkward. Your early adopters will carry you if you find them
Yes, its an alternative.

protobuf is a lower level specification that supports defining typed services. It does not dictate things like transport mechanism or other implementation details.

There are multiple protobuf compatible RPC implementations, gRPC obviously being the most popular one, twirp being another.
I’m interested in these as both a consumer and a contributor. However I haven’t found many interesting markets. Often are just markets on elections. Additionally many seem to have very small max bet size.

What markets have more interesting breadth of coverage + have decent betting limits? I had the impression cftc or sec limit this to avoid become a regulated security.
This applies to me as well.
I have worked as a display artist, electronics technician, software developer, electronics manufacturing manager, extraction metallurgist (On a diamond mine), tv repair man, lampshade designer and a few other odd jobs.
Be careful, you may end up like me, and have an interesting life.
I am 60 now and looking for the next exciting thing to do, any suggestions?
Python (before Python 3 decided to abandon backward compatibility and burn billions of dollars in code)

32-bit macOS and iOS (before Apple set fire to all the 32-bit games and other software)

Backward compatibility with older versions of macOS and iOS in general

Desktop software in general (before everything became a crappy web app)

Non-subscription software

Smartphone games without horrible monetization schemes

Web sites without adtech
>Perhaps I’ll update this article in 3 months with my experiences and describe any limitations I ran into… or if I gave up and switched to something else.

And? BTW, I've really enjoyed all of your deep dives into DOS software. There is a nostalgia element for sure, but I still think many elements of those UIs were incredibly efficient (e.g. the Lotus 1-2-3 menus system you described) even compared to today.
> Does this make sense to anyone?

Yes, although it could be stated more clearly. The “pages that don’t exist” are conceptually a virtual page for each tag that links to every page that includes said tag. This is pretty obvious to anyone with some experience with contemporary note taking apps since they generate backlink pages dynamically.
It's just a joke :)

I would rarely use mean to discuss societal distributions as they can be very misleading (good example of this is when you want to see average versus median income in unequal countries). Though I think IQ is bell-shaped so mean and median coincide or are close.

Thing is, I would never be brave enough to say "80% of us are stupid". People can be smart in many different ways, I know people who are not very good at numbers but are extremely good at picking up languages; isn't that an amazing ability? Funny people, good musicians, creative people... I just really don't like IQ as a metric of intelligence so to me it really falls flat when applied to the real world.
LightBot is cute
There's a cool one called "GATE" where you program a bot using only logical gates, hope you can find that one
FTP Cube.
An FTP client with multithreading written in Python.
http://ftpcube.sourceforge.net/download.html
> Yes, i meant to say power density rather than energy. My bad.

No apology necessary! I'm well informed on the content of the US mainstream media, and there I've learned that without any doubt all of

force, power, energy, volts, amperes, Watts, Kilowatts, Kilowatt hours, and current

are all just the same things, just synonyms for just the same things!

When I was studying physics, I thought that there were important differences, but now with a lot of exposure to the mainstream media I've learned that I must have been badly wrong!
... as long as you don't want to do fancy IOCTL() work. basically, its the jump table model from 1980s with a few extra twists like templating.

"here, steal this mknod number" is dangerous. It pays to check nothing else is using that value. Thats what registries are for in the end.
Web archiving goes pretty deep, actually. I have no idea what this site uses but the open source tools maintained by the Webrecorder project are rad.
article says:

"The original VisiCalc program that ran on the IBM PC in 1981 still runs on today's PCs."
It even works with the photo used in the article.
Agreed, it's hard for me to imagine a situation where you don't get a copy -- in which case the consciousness "forks", and the loss of either one is still a death. It's like that movie The Prestige.

The only case I can see otherwise is one where a person "melds" with a machine, and over time the balance shifts, like the Ship of Theseus.

Perhaps it's really all about communication bandwidth. I got this idea from Vernor Vinge, I think, but it's also just in the air.

That idea can be tested somewhat by considering the opposite case: Not parts combined into a whole, but wholes severed into parts: People with brain injuries, so that they seem to e.g. understand different things depending on which eye sees a thing.
That's a worthy topic too, but no, the result of the temporary closure is the same — closed is closed, regardless of the reasoning.