skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nowhere in this article or discussion is any mention of the extremely relevant farm runoff pollution. Particularly from cotton farms. Any progress there? I don't have the answer.

There are many aspects to reef conservation. Looking at one aspect in total isolation and claiming anything at all about it with respect the health of the reef is just idiotic.

There would have been very, very little reef tourism over the past two years. Any effect from that?

There will be others as well.

And right there is the risk of using "The reef is nearly dead because global warming" scare campaign lies to try and motivate people to do the right thing. It backfires and ends up encouraging people not to care because they've heard this chicken little stuff before.

Lying for the greater good and those who do it just need to be treated with something beyond contempt.

Context: I'm pretty worried about global warming and have been hearing the reef is nearly dead because global warming for decades now. I've become totally cynical about the reef being used as evidence of global warming for good reason - and it may well be under very deep threat because of global warming. Just stop with the damn lies.
There are some interesting interactions between emacs and the rest of technical computing that might be interesting additions here, or at least footnotes. For example, me recollection of the first version of Linux that was worth running instead of 386BSD was 0.12... not as-posted, but with John Kohl's patches to make the select() syscall work well enough that you could actually use emacs... I wasn't the only one who saw that as a benchmark for "Oh, huh, this linux thing might actually be worth a look, if it runs emacs" (Note that it didn't have TCP yet :-)
> This is apparently only for one particular kind of fast-growing coral

Plus a bit of evolution for that coral, I'm guessing. Nature will eventually adapt to whatever we throw at it, but I'm not so sure if it will be fast enough for humans to survive.
I prefer asphalt maths, myself; just sayin'
A demand side platform (DSP) is a platform where you as an ad buyer can buy advertising space on one or more platforms. The ad spaces are standardized.

There are also supply-side platforms (SSP) where media companies sell space to advertisers. In this case the ad inventory is already there on the platform looking for places to get deployed.
I don't think we need to trust these entities in order to interact with them. Unfortunately some information has to be leaked to engage with modern society, it is just a matter of trying to minimize it to the extent possible. It isn't trust, it is an exchange.
Probably true? v2 came out in 98.

Winamp3 came out in 2002 and it may have had the feature. It was total rewrite, added a bunch of stuff, but killed off a bunch more and a lot of people (myself included) never used it. Nullsoft was basically forced to keep the v2 edition alive since it was what everyone stuck with and Winamp5 was supposed to unite the userbase (it was based on v2) but I never bothered with it since by then Winamp had been owned by AOL for a long time and I didn't really want AOL software on my machines.

Winamp Lite was pretty popular too and helped to bridge the gap

https://download.cnet.com/Winamp-Lite/3000-2139_4-10788894.h...
> Why on earth AWS doesn't have their own first party emulators for everything

Because they want you to pay for local development, not only production.

Google offers an emulator because otherwise no one would and they need to catch up with AWS, which has, what, 4x their market share?

AWS offers local emulators for services they need to catch up, like Lambda and DynamoDB.
Other than some sanitation woes in their factory, they produce a decent product.

You had one job...
Ever been a fan of a pro sports team? They probably flew to some away games in a private jet.
> I’d be especially interested in feedback from anyone within a good understanding of the topic who’s read the O’Reilly book.

You're winter project is constructing a 3000 word amazon review on the book that will amass 500 likes across the next 20 years. you can look back on it when you retire and smile.
I have the exact opposite experience, and strongly recommend AirPods Pro as the most cost-effective upgrade for online meetings - it improves voice quality without any physical or aesthetic impact, has great audio and decent battery life.
> For one I have a sort of budget for how much javascript I will tolerate. Some is fine, like your standard wordpress config probably will fly, but not much more.

What about sites built with React, etc? Like would you be filtering out cool things like Ableton's "Learning Synths"[1] or do you mostly mean third party scripts?

[1] https://learningsynths.ableton.com
Dollar share of a market is 9ne measure of market share that can be used; and a large enough market can be split into segments when applying monopoly tests.
I agree, more transparency is good. Baseband transparency would be a good thing.

But even more important is a sound architecture. Lots of people believe that 3rd-party firmware running on iPhones can read and write any memory on the phone (and also that "DMA" means "god mode", like it did in 1997). The fact is that Apple (and Google, for its flagship phones) spend a fortune on internal and external design and implementation expertise that all starts from the premise of "code we didn't write is suspicious as fuck" and works back from there to a secure design.

There Will Be Bugs! I just hope people recognize that they haven't outguessed Apple and Google simply by noticing that third-party firmware developers ship blobs instead of source repos. It's a hugely interesting space for security development and research, and I wince when I feel like it's getting oversimplified.

Which you didn't do! It's just a hobbyhorse.
I was in the US Navy, and spent an awful lot of time on a deployment hacking away on our ancient laptops to write QBasic programs to automate some of our completely-not-computer-related work. For instance, I wrote a little program to format short text messages in a particular way and write them to a floppy. Then I could hand that floppy to the ship's radioman, and he'd run a program to load the messages and broadcast them over a packet radio to the MARS radio network. Some ham operator in the States would call the recipient, read them the message, transcribe the reply, then radio it back to our ship. I'd pick up a floppy with those replies, bring them back to the medical department where I worked, and print them out.

At the time, the quickest way to contact home was to buy a calling card for the onboard satellite phone, which cost something like $5 per minute to use. The alternative was to write a physical letter, and if you were lucky and the person wrote back immediately, that would be about a one month round trip. My little program was free to use, and shortened the round trip to about one day. I can't exaggerate how happy this made my coworkers and bosses.

One day, a particularly enlightened boss sat me down. "Why do you lie to yourself that you want to be in medicine?" "Uh, because I want to be a doctor?" "Stop kidding yourself. You want to work with computers. We both know it." Whoa. It was like a lightning strike. Well, of course I could go to school for that thing which had been my obsessive hobby since I was tiny! Why hadn't I thought of that?!

And so I got out of the Navy, enrolled in comp sci, and here I am today rattling on about it.

Thank you, QBasic. You weren't running on my beloved Amiga, but you were in the right place and time to kick off a career that I've loved every step of the way.
I loved discrete calculus from that book; pity it's not taught/used that much.
Links to learn? (awk specifically - I know some sed because of vim, and grep is easy)
China launches secretive reusable test spacecraft
Awesome idea. Execute.

Could start with the existing system of international cargo categories and order of magnitude production emissions and packing assumptions based upon standard containers (refrigerated or 40" TEU or whatever). Then add trucking, storage and distribution metrics.
As with the loss of old-growth forests that's happening today, we risk species loss, and hence biodiversity. Re-population is predicated on an extant population, a return to suitable conditions, and for the pioneer species to die off. The problem is that, in sustained adverse conditions, the pioneer species may outlive the surviving population of the threatened species.
> Excel may be the most influential software ever built.

I believe this to be true in business. Other tech may be more widely used eg “email” but the software is created by a variety of different companies (Google, Microsoft).
In a professional context I'm known for telling people "we don't care what editor you use, but it's where you're going to spend most of your working career, so there's a lot of payoff to picking one and obsessing over it." (Of course, I also recommend people learn to touch type...)
Not even close, on average
Back in my day we had a language for transferring data between systems in a human readable format and it even has typed schemas, and provided you're not reinventing the wheel, it's easy to work with programmatically too.

XML is the language of the gods.
I used to work at a summer camp. Campers would sign up for various activities, the longest time slot for which was one hour each day, commonly used for extended crafts or sometimes a movie.

One week, a friend and I ran the activity “Friend and greggyb tell a joke.” We strung together a half dozen of our favorite shaggy dog stories, interweaving them and putting off the combined punch line until the last ten minutes of the third day. We handed off to one another every 15-20 minutes. At the end, the 30 or so campers agreed that they could not be angry with us, because we did exactly what the activity said, we told _A_ joke.
Get comfortable being uncomfortable, and you'll never be uncomfortable.

Whenever someone starts to talk about their own problems and shortcomings, and then tries to get _you_ to agree that those shortcomings aren't really _their fault_, be careful; not only are you being lied to by them, but they are also being lied to by them.

And if they get _you_ to concur, then the defense against change has succeeded. The status quo remains untouched.

If this lady ever starts swimming more often, it won't be because a bunch of other people agreed with her idea that discipline is the enemy; it will be because she found some.
I have observed Oracle engaging in structured overcharging in Toronto, many years ago. This took the form of excess licence numbers issued, but not actually needed/used. Not sure how they did it, but it ended up in litigation = huge payola to politicians scandal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_Computer_Leasing_Inqui....

In December of that year, the city acquired 10,000 Oracle database licenses, again through an MFP lease. This turned out to be a serious overestimate of the city's actual needs. Actual needs = less than half. The consultant was hand in glove with Oracle and they well knew Toronto was overpaying.
Ever since then I am wary of Oracle.
My group writes software that runs manufacturing facilities. Pandemic showed us how ridiculously effective we could be at most of our work and how ridiculously inefficient, ineffective, and all around worse not being able to go to the factories where our software runs.
The brain controls things other than muscles and also doesn't stop in sensory isolation. If it's a high dimensional function, it's not one between sensory input and muscle actuation.
Yes. Discipline is purposeful pain seeking. Procrastination is pain avoidance. Accepting that pain is inevitable is not easy, and it gets harder in an environment that caters to comfort.

Surprisingly, I have done my best work when depressed: I knew I would be in pain whether I was procrastinating or not, so I sought the fleeting euphoria one gets when a task is completed.

When I'm on antidepressants, I feel almost no emotional pain, and I avoid tasks that can be painful, which means I don't achieve much. I just want to continue feeling no pain.
Why did you post this again? Speak to Google this is not a support forum for awful companies
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[1] https://www.quippd.com/writing/2022/07/19/MBNA-stops-support...
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I saw this happen in Ko Phangan. By pure luck I was there for the first really big Full Moon Party. Watching the beautiful sleepy little town be engulfed by 30,000 locusts was an experience I’ll never forget.

I passed back through a few months later and barely recognised the place. Wooden chalets has given way to hotel rooms and beachside stalls to night clubs.
Are they using real binary protos yet, or is that still only a third party game? Years ago the dcodeio libs were much better than stuff Google was shipping for the web.
In this context I’m interpreting DSL to mean “domain-specific language”
Is Google search a DSP or SSP?

Can you give examples of each?

Thanks.
QBasic and QuickBasic weren't my first loves -- that spot is reserved for GW Basic -- but I sure spent a big chunk of my time experimenting with them. And like many others are saying here, they are a big reason why I ended up a programmer.
It’s true but it’s worth keeping in mind that there are some underwater rocks that OGs didn’t tell anyone bc they had better things to do
> Replacing TeX is pretty easy since it is a fairly small language.

Conceptually, easy. In practice, it can go sideways. Take JMathTeX, for instance:

http://jmathtex.sourceforge.net/

The code had (has?) a particularly nasty bottleneck. An exception is thrown while parsing for every single character in a macro name until the macro name resolves to a known TeX command. In Java, throwing an exception requires filling out a complete stack trace. I forked the project to fix that issue and then optimized the font glyph to SVG path conversion algorithm. The TeX library went from non-real-time rendering of a few formulas to real-time rendering of 1,000 formulas.

https://github.com/DaveJarvis/JMathTeX

Here's a screenshot showing the JMathTeX fork integrated into my text editor, KeenWrite:

https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/master/docs/scr...

See also the build instructions for Knuth's original TeX:

https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/576314/2148
> you could subtract the losses instantly from the gains, unlike in the US

I'm not sure what you're saying about the US. If you have a capital loss, you can and must offset capital gains in the same year when computing your gross income. The nuance is this:

* Capital losses can offset an unlimited amount of capital gains, but only a total of $3,000 of other income per year.

* Unused capital losses can only be carried forward into future years. You cannot apply them to income in past years.

So if you realize a large gain in year N, then a large loss in year N+1, you still owe the full tax bill from year N. The solution is to set aside cash to pay the IRS instead of risking it all.
The Qbasic GUI community was super tight knit back in 2005ish.

Classic hangouts at jacobpalm.dk, reviews by Todd Seuss at Data Components.

Halcyon days.

I got my start writing one of the guis that was reviewed by MystikShadows on Pete's QB Site... Making things appear on the screen was so exciting. Now I kinda do the same thing, but with Jetpack Compose in the automotive space.
As an aside, 15 years ago I spent a week in koh lanta. It was a lovely time and having returned to briefly visit other parts of Thailand in the years since, I am pleasantly surprised to learn that koh lanta still has some of the charm from that long ago. I too look for koh lanta in every beach town I have visited since then
> Later on I found the quickbasic version that let you compile executable (it may have been VB 1.0 IIRC)

Your memory betrays you: QuickBasic is the version with a compiler. QBasic lacked one, though.

I remember this feeling like a big deal for me back then.
At least two countries, I think. You're probably thinking of the US, but SMS is alive and well in Canada. (FB Messenger is #1 but far from monopolizing Canadian habits.)
“Google is awful for the long tail.”

Exactly right. Big opportunity.
Edit: while writing this, my understanding was undermined by an adjacent comment. If sibling comment is accurate and I’m not, I apologize and agree that the concept is needlessly opaque.

My understanding from reading the Wikipedia article[1] is that it’s a marketing-specific suite for analytics and competitive ad-buying. As a layperson, I’m understanding it as something like a bidding system for ad space, combined with analytics specifically tailored to that, and designed to be highly interactive/fast paced. Or, a private stock exchange/poker table where the stakes are ad-viewing eyeballs/equivalent.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand-side_platform
I don't want this to sound snarky but I don't know how to phrase it better. How is the excel team going at fixing the calculation bugs nowadays after wilfully ignoring them for deacdes? Do you have the management buy in to calculate correctly given that's kind of what excel is meant to do?

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1198/tas.2011.09076

Sometime in the early to mid noughts I recall MS announcing they'd fixed rand() returning a random number between 0 and 1. Someone filled a page with =rand(), set a conditional format, it recalculate a few times and watched many cells turning red showing a negative number. I replicated this at the time. Still?

www.gnumeric.org is what I've used when needing a spreadsheet because of those issues and the refusal to fix them. Annoying ui changes happened instead...
I'm curious, how do you find a job like that? It sounds kinda fun with clear requirements.
Meanwhile Netflix is hosting soft core child porn.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/net...
“Huge flaw” threatens US emergency alert system, DHS researcher warns
Why don't you think humans will adapt as well?
> This summer is what a 1.2°C-heated planet looks like. But in the future this won’t seem so bad — compared to the 1.5°C-heated planet. If we get to 2°C …

A friend said something to me a while ago that I cannot get out of my head when people are complaining about a heat wave again: Think not so much that this summer is one of the hottest in the last, but one of the coolest in the next hundred years.

I am tempted to replace 100 by 650 to match the article, or just talk about "the past" and "the future". But a hundred years makes it more tangible for me. My late grandparents were born just a little over 100 years ago, and my youngest niece and nephew may live to see the next 100 years.
Unfortunately it's carrier to carrier and not data we're privy to. Carriers get paid arbitrage fees for carrying or connecting calls, so they really have no incentive to stop these calls other than legal liability.
Wasn't this the basis of bitcoin? Pre bitcoin, I remember some whitepaper suggesting that email clients should spend some minute amount of processing power solving a cryptographic problem for each email sent. The theory was that a legit client would barely notice, but a spammer would expend significant resources.
I thought that Europe experienced sustained cold years in the 1600s? You can see something near the start, but the crop failures where close to the end of the century. Surprised this plot doesn't show that.

Maybe this method is heavily biased by the outliers?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age
Hi Philip! I love the idea. I've thought about working on some similar project in the past, too.

Just a feature suggestion, can you please make it easy for people to setup RSS feeds?

Email-to-RSS solutions exist for technical people, but first party platform support for RSS will determine whether a significant minority of the nontechnical-but-literate internet (i.e. people who mostly consume and occasionally produce text) will adopt your service as a consumer.

Wordpress, for example, generates RSS feeds by default at a predictable url. Same with blogspot, hugo, ghost, and even substack.
"The Iowa Electronic Markets is a futures market run for research and teaching purposes. Traders can buy or sell real money contracts based on their belief about the outcome of an election or other event."

https://iemweb.biz.uiowa.edu/
I know plenty of people who live off one income, not always but usually the father.

They’re usually people working trades in the mid-west, but they own a nice house, have cars, and savings in the bank.

It’s still possible. But it seems like few people are interested in those careers or living in those locations any more. Usually because neither is prestigious enough.

If everyone wants an office job that pays enough to live in a trendy HCOL coastal city - yeah, a single income with high school only won’t cut it.
Teddit.net is a perfect read-only interface if that's enough for you
I'm sorry to hear that. May I suggest that you try and record a small session with specific questions? From my small experience with family members suffering from this, they may be able to talk to a small extent about some subjects (not the ones you want but still talk). It'll probably be ungrateful at first, but it may be better than nothing down the road.
So you're arguing that they're using the camo to hide within the airforce?
I love that you used the standard tailwind stuff. I was doing ios apps for the last 5 years coming from web dev and recently started a rails project and made the same decision. I haven't pulled the trigger on the marketing pack or any of the packages, but the hero you chose is the one I am modeling after. Did you purchase the just the marketing pack or the whole shebang? Just out of curiosity. Looks great.

Best of luck!
It seems like accord uses neither bounded synchronized clocks nor a shared timestamp oracle. How does it provide strict serializability then?
Trained me to write sparingly and for the most impact. Also means I can write docs well.