skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well it suited my purposes very well, which was fetching data from MySQL and then doing transformations that were cumbersome in SQL.

The thing about Emacs is that it’s rarely the best tool for the job, including when that job is text editing. Where it shines is the ability to integrate and automate entire workflows. There are some real advantages to having your email, IDE, notes, terminals, and whatever else all integrated and seamlessly working together, even if it’s not the very best at each of those things.
I suspect I'd wager my life on that (here in winter at least) before some of your African scenarios. My neighbour is just finishing a Simpson crossing this week actually, though four-car convoy so has easy backup.

I turned onto the Oodnadatta Track the other month (going up for Tourism Australia shoots) and got two flat tyres with one spare as the sun set. Same trip, one of my drones got taken by a wedge-tailed eagle. Diesel at $2.70/L. Not a cheap trip. The surrounds were very wet when I went through, but looks like you copped it muddy.
But the new codec won't be used if the computer/phone being used for the call doesn't support Bluetooth 5.0 correct?
Google Buzz (which was their social network built on open protocols) was excellent and grew organically for a while.

It picked up where FriendFeed left off when it was acquired by FB. But then was killed by the G+ project.
Isn't 50% of IT replacing creaky, lashed-together spreadsheets with code?
Women are attracted to stability. You can be a stable and trustworthy poor guy and be attractive to women. Women find unstable psycho rich guys hideously unattractive.
It's been a while since I read up about it (and it's a tad hard to Google for), but I almost want to put some information about AlphaWindows to share. It was an odd windowing system.

From my understanding theirs still a commerical implementation exists, though God knows who's paying for an obscure windowing system that only ran on select terminals.

If I can find a supported terminal and some sort of spec (or possibly some level of reverse engineering, but I don't have the patience), I'd love to work on my own implementation. There was one HP 700 series terminal that might be easiest to get my hands on.

There's a rather sparse Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaWindows
Is pornhub actively sourcing child porn?
https://www.google.com/search?q=fres%20small%20too%20many%20...

Once I lived in the city, it was too big and noisy

So I moved to the country to stop and smell the rosies

All my city friends joined me and put up nice new housies

Now it's too big and noisy, think I'll move to the country
Fun one today: https://www.google.com/search?q=is+fortigate+open+source

Prompt: "Is Fortigate open source?"

Article: "Based on the parameters we compared, it seems that pfSense is the more favorable solution because it is open source and also offers great features."

Google: "It is open source!"
Googles strategy is to find innovative people who can code well, but it's way easier and faster to determine the latter. So they hire a TON of people with these interviews and then wait for the sharp and innovative ones to float up while the not so innovative ones stay at L4.

Whether that is working or not is harder to say, but i can at least say that high level googlers have all been quite good in my experience
What if you misspelled an offensive word?

Maybe clippy could popup and say "it looks like you are writing hate speech" and offer some suggestions.
If you give me the choice between being able to buy a loaf of bread and having my payments private I'm feeding myself ten times out of ten.

I'm not saying that privacy isn't important but I don't think it is the main problem compared to people being unable to use currency.
For Google's sake I decided to assume this is not sheer stupidly but rather some intricate psych A/B testing.

It's like one of those Z grade films which are so bad that they become so good. You know, the "artistically" bad. I think Google is going for that.
Show HN: Nomadic, a node Postgres migration tool
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Meet is installed on all Android phones as part of the Gmail app. It just doesn't have an app icon.
"Semantic web".

Tried and failed.

How would that prevent spam?
how do you embed comments in protocolbuf data? It's binary!

And if you are adding a field specifically for comments, you could do the same in json. For example, a field that has a question mark as the prefix is a comment field (a convention i like).

The advantage of protocol buf is, i think, the version being built in. You can make it backwards compatible to older clients. While the same could be done in json, it's manual and requires work and careful design.
> They've gone backward and the "spirit" of the old Google was literally killed when Sundar Pichai took over.

What? That happened with Eric Schmidt. Coming from old-school Oracle, old corporate. He said "Brands is how you sort out this mess" and killed the variety in google search by prioritizing big brands. That's why you get search results from only the biggest corporate outlets in every other category. He succeeded in bumping shoe shopping searches and sales for Amazon etc, but killed the independent web.
I grew up dirt poor, but scrapped together enough money that I bought a friend's old 286. (1995) I took a Pascal class, hacked a bit on my TI-85, but QBasic on that computer was the first place I did any programming of substance on my own. Even bought a QBasic book, the first programming book I ever owned.
> If you're a woman and you object, just don't follow that convention. Eventually it won't be a convention anymore.

> PS I’m a guy

Yeah dude, that’s redundant.

> They just look too fake with all the stuff.

Women don’t exist to be sexy for you. Whether they’re dressing for a standard you like or one you don’t like.
Wave was never really pitched as a social network - although some people sort of talked about it like it was.

It was more an intergrated workplace thing - sort of a predecessor to Notion+Slack in a single app. But it was very flaky to use.
There is a difference between being nouveau rich-ish Vs being nouveau riche. The author is comparing two different wealth classes.

When you are middle class, it’s lower middle class, middle class and upper middle class. Only the UMC has being rich aspirations/possibilities.
That would likely require frequent filter replacements, which would could be quite costly.
Google search is closely linked with Google Ads, Google’s own advertising service which allows advertisers to place search results for their website on search engine results. Google also allows Advertisers to let the ads be displayed on their Search partners as well.
Technically speaking, Google Ads is a DSP.

Google search is a place where ads shown along with Search results.
What? No one has shared this link yet?

I was sure the whole content of the article and of the discussion here would boil down to this:

https://m.xkcd.com/1667/
Africa's own electric motorcycle, the $1,500 Roam Air
I think the trick here will ultimately be to add a layer of indirection. Mindgeek could launch a bazillion internet bodegas that sell gift certificates that happened to be redeemable at Pornhub and their other properties. They could operate their ad business over regular banking networks. Basically anything and everything ti make it more complicated for Visa and Mastercard to simply look up Mindgeek and block the account. It would also provide some relief to Visa/Mastercard since they could say truthfully that they don't do business with Mindgeek. You can also counter the bad propaganda by pointing out that Visa/Mastercard are still very active selling alcohol, tobacco, narcotics, gambling (half the US states allow you to buy lottery tickets with credit cards, all the casinos take credit cards), guns, and pretty much every other vice. Though I don't think their role in purchasing guns makes them accomplices to murder anymore then processing a payment for a porn site makes them an co-conspirator to anything related to that. But if they want to make the case that they are then that sets precedent they are co-conspirators for everything else as well.
If you give me the choice between a government that tries to force me to cede my autonomy and my privacy in order to buy a loaf of bread or go hungry, I'm sharpening my pitchfork and lighting my torch ten times out of ten.
If you're stretching "market power" and "consumer substitution" this far it seems like a whole lot of fashion brands would be "monopolies". Tesla. The BMW/Mercedes/Audi luxury German auto bands in the US. Google Search. Macs. Thinkpads. There are SO MANY market sub-slices where some brands have pricing power over others. Where do you draw the "how often do people have to switch" line? Some of use have switched multiple times between Android and iOS in the last decade, after all.
How is that a better option? The people pushing these anti-porn movements by dragging payment processors to court also have massive influence within the government, they would simply forbid any use of their currency on unapproved items.
If I’ve remembered the relevant studies about average penis length correctly, self reported penis length averages to a value between one and two inches longer than clinically measured lengths average to depending on which studies you pick. Which is definitely indicative of that endowment anxiety as a widespread issue.
Your QB64 link at the bottom needs to change. It's no longer the .org one.
Because if Apple does ads and Google does ads then it would be categorically stupid to still pay the "halo tax" to Apple with incredibly inferior software and services. How about that? Or maybe for the blue bubble?
Enjoyable, thanks!

The yellow colour is barely discernable on my crappy old Android, could stand to be more distinct. Orange or pink, perhaps?
Openjdk seems to be more c++ than c according to GitHub anyway. In particular the "interesting" stuff (so hotspot) looks to be all c++.
When I was a kid learning how to code on a C64, I found a book on C64 assembly language programming. I forget the name, but it was aimed at kids.

The author joked that he had suggested additional CPU instructions to Commodore that weren’t accepted, such as LGN - Let’s Get Naked. In a kid’s book.
How many consoles will let you run games published without licensing enforced with code signing or such mechanisms? Bit harder to make an unlicensed game now than it used to be.
>I think scraping websites that don't require authentication is legal in the US nowadays.

The LinkedIn lawsuit resolved to that conclusion, though I think LI is appealing again.

It basically says the site can't take legal action against scrapers of public (non-auth protected) info. Still, there's nothing that says they have to make it easy for you, to include deploying anti-scraping measures, rate limits, redesigns and moving data behind auth.
Seems like an industry that could actively use some oversight honestly. Good?
Oh, I'm going to listen to the whole thing for sure. John Carmack's interests line up very well with mine.
Our general approach to this is "Show, don't tell".

We feel the ideal way to learn design patterns and SOLID principles isn't to read about them or be told that they're good. It's to make the mistakes yourself and then see how things could be cleaner had you used one of those techniques. Much like code review. You first do things your way, then a reviewer points out how this could be better if you did XYZ instead.

In our product we cover this by offering "Expert Solutions" for each stage. You'll see a code diff (compared to the previous solution), an explanation for that code diff (_why_ were things done this way, what were other alternate approaches), and where possible we even offer a source walkthroughs of the official codebase you're re-creating (the Redis source code, for example).

We have previews of all these features in the demo video: https://codecrafters.io/videos/demo. You can see the solutions in-app without starting a trial, just navigate to the Redis course, click on a stage and then click on "View Solution". And here's an example of a source walkthrough: https://app.codecrafters.io/walkthroughs/redis-event-loop.
A certain percentage of us gets through the genetic, educational, political, hehavioral, game-playing, and/or socio-economic filters, and gets an opportunity to do something they can truly enjoy and are good at.

The rest of us get to settle for whatever the 'free market' throws at us. We don't have to be too grateful.
From what I can tell, DDG said they were going to downrank known propaganda sites, which meant that, in practice, dissenting results would also appear.

Then, the pro-Russian-propaganda outlets got upset and started complaining about free speech. (As though exclusively showing sites from one hostile foreign government would be aligned with the intent of the 1st amendment!)
Social pressure is likely enough. Most social rules do not require enforcement beyond the outliers.
America is a rich country. But the overwhelming bulk of its property and income is concentrated in the upper class. They drop crumbs for the rest of us.

Sweden, e.g., is much less rich, but its regular citizens get a decent cut. So they are mostly a little better off than the typical American.

That word "whining" is an effective trick. It distracts attention very conveniently.
They've been investigating Crypto Exchanges for about 7 years. Not sure they gotta keep reminding us, I suppose it's because people lost money and they want them make it seem like they're doing something.
The phone guy at MT Tech designed his own boards and wrote a switching program from scratch back in the late 90s in Qbasic while I was a student employee in the computer department there. Same guy who maintained the ham inter college backup route to MSU. I can honestly say most of the people back then and there were a lot smarter than me. Joe I hope you are alive and well.
I don't think "woke propaganda" is a thing in Japan, so it would surprise me if smaller anime studios (which, presumably, have less margin for taking risks) would be "churning out" anything of the sort, as opposed to whatever was most profitable in the domestic market for the least cost. Can you give examples?
No you can get a developer license and run anything you like.
This morning, I had a very new looking 10,000 yen bill at the conbini auto-register that wouldn't go into the register. Looked at it, didn't seem to be folded or missing a corner, which often causes bill insertion into machines to fail. Tried again, wouldn't go in. Had to use another bill.

<Commercial>
If only we went cashless and installed the app, I wouldn't have to deal with bill and coin recognition failing anymore! What a wonderful, convenient world!
</Commercial>

Just kidding. There'd be all the familiar glitches, errors, holdups and overreaches of excessive bureaucracy + automation and the malice and incompetence behind it.

Edit: decided to look up "Malice and Incompetence" to see if anyone else has struck on the idea that Hanlon's razor is a heuristic which overfits us towards thinking malice and incompetence are mutually exclusive. Giving credit to this blogger for coining this word "malcompetence: incompetence magnified by malevolent intent."

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/07/malice_incompet...
It's not Zigbee, but for anyone looking for a smart thermostat that doesn't rat you out to "the cloud," Honeywell makes a Z-wave thermostat:

https://www.honeywellhome.com/us/en/products/air/thermostats...

I have two that I use with a local Home Assistant install, and I have no complaints.
We're improving search results when you use quotes
Congratulations, you just taught Amazon ad engine to show you the ones you “almost bought” for the next two years, in hopes you’ll finally crack and pull the trigger on what you actually did not want.
I'd feed myself nine times and eat leftovers on the tenth.

Privacy isn't the most important thing in the world but it's shortsighted to just throw it out the window. You don't need it 'til you need it.

It's okay to be friends with people who can't keep a secret but you need to have at least one friend who can.
Hugged to death, but it was brief :) Should be back up now!
How could I forget Gorilla.bas? At the time, I had a coworker who was obsessed with the game, always trying to get people to play with him during working hours.

One day when he was out, I messed with the qbasic source and made his gravity concept be a random number. My coworker's winning streak ended as did his constant nagging to get people to play!
Wow, I think that's the first substantial MARS story I've ever read. Heard of it when I was getting licensed but never anything about its advantages. Fascinating, thanks for sharing.
Is the article saying executing plotters in 1930 would have effects on the type of ppl plotting in 2020?

Imho Trump and Jan 6 would not be possible without the attention capture content amplification machine the tech world built. So all these stories about how things will be much better if grifters are locked away, don't matter since the machine behavior hasn't changed much.
The fact that they walked this back so quickly suggests that they either are strapped for cash or have extremely out-of-touch leadership. Both are worrying.
I'm rather a fan of using gRPC in a stack. It has its cons, but you get a generated client/server that is type-safe, even across different languages.

Would love to hear alternatives which do the same thing. I know one possibility is OpenAPI specs generated from Django Rest Framework.
I haven't worked with JSON, so this is probably a dumb question, but... 0 is not a number in standard-compliant JSON? Who what where when why how?
There's some backstory in here:

>"Caesar [Sengupta] leaving was the capstone on a lot of frustration felt by employees. The product wasn't growing at the rate we wanted it to." Sengupta departed Google one month after killing the old Google Pay and making his new app mandatory for all users in the US.

> The new Google Pay app launched in November 2020 in the US, and for about four months, Google was running two "Google Pay" apps: the old Google Pay (which had been around since 2011, first as Google Wallet, then Android Pay, then Google Pay) and this new Google Pay, which was a ground-up rewrite the company started for the Indian market. April 2021 capped off the final death of the old Google Pay service, which had been winding down since January. The two services were both called "Google Pay," but other than that, they weren't related in terms of features, contacts, or accounts.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/google-pay-team-repo...

Further reading:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/10/google-pays-disastro...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/07/google-loses-two-exe...
I think thats the point of the article ... the 'norms about politeness' guide expert opinions rather than the science.
This inequality is considered a weapon in some Kardahian(?) type III civilizations, and a statement of peace in others.
^^^ Didn't read the article
Lots to improve on the videos front - thanks for the suggestion!
I mean, that's what I do all day as a human, so why shouldn't an AI do it too?

DALL-E 2 isn't as good at it as I am, but a decade or two from now?
Passive exercise may benefit postexercise executive function
Thanks for sharing (and writing) the book, Rob. From your experiences, is there a limit to earning potential as a solo developer/small startup? Are there any ways to quantify and qualify product ideas?
Also, nobody got fired for buying IBM. Or Microsoft, these days.
Wish you all the best on completing your city builder game!

Last year I started my own indie studio. [1] The game I have released right now, is an interactive fiction game. Its pretty short - just 15 minutes. I originally created it because I wanted to release a game jam project I had been working on. A first person 3D adventure set in a retro inspired world that was evolving as you played. I ran into a lot of problems because I realized I architect-ed the game poorly in Godot.

But thankfully messing around in Godot leveled up my skills there, so I've been hard at work on a new game. I am trying to launch it right on steam. I'm not really ready to show this one off to the public just yet.

Its honestly been pretty challenging doing all this by myself, I've been trying to release a commercial-grade game since I was maybe like 12 (I am now in my late 20s).

For the other solo developers in this thread, its absolutely hard, but don't burn yourself out, and don't forget about the world around you. Its tempting to pour every single waking moment into your work. Sometimes taking a step back is enough to solve that issue you've been having in your game's logic.

[1] For the Heart, For the Soul - https://heartsoulgames.itch.io/
You are supposed to make a cell phone, now that you can make metals. Next steps are 1) battery 2) light bulb 3) transistor.

I forgot 0) glass. You need it to make a microscope for integrated circuits.

Siege weapons are particularly not period, because you need some substantial infrastructure to destroy.
It is funny for me to see this now. I hadn't thought about how much I agree with the author, and here I am days away from starting a new position on this very space at my current company.
Right, but that $500k is tied up in your housing, so not really accessible.

I wouldn’t discount it entirely, but home equity should clearly be evaluated differently than cash in the bank.
Ask HN: What current Computer Science problems you feel passionate about?
I still use Power Basic Console Compiler.
When the web was younger than it is now, everything on it was a novelty. It was interesting to see because pages would appear that had never existed before. Now it's all corporate influencer recycling with ads slapped on it.
I've not had these problems, either as an AirPods user or when I'm talking to one, and I've been in both positions plenty over the past few years (in fact, I was regularly doing video chats with AirPods even before the pandemic started; they were a huge improvement over more standard gaming headsets with boom mics for all but the quietest speech).
Their comment said it -- SME's (small- and medium-sized enterprises).

There's a gigantic cultural division between SME's where the decision to go Google is a no-brainer (whether starting from in the first place, or switching to at some point in the past 10 years), and large enterprises where the inertia of MS Office is just too great to switch.

What's funny is just how deeply unaware both sides often are of the other -- as both of your comments demonstrate. :)
Are you .exe cool, or just .bas cool?

(Or are you exotic-.com cool?)
Governments don't even have to get involved, we are heading in the direction fo functional cashlessness by the influence of corporations and the market alone. Hope you like incinerating fat cats to doom music, my friend.