skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Digg vs Reddit also comes to mind.

https://www.reddit.com/r/business/comments/d78wi/digg_loses_...

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2005-01-01%202...

https://mashable.com/archive/reddit-digg-traffic
NASA discovers first clear evidence of carbon dioxide in atmosphere of exoplanet
Your work sounds very interesting. I work in the space (IPR's mostly). If you have more information do share some links about your projects!
Wow. I kinda have to respect their position in OP but I don't understand this at all. How can the originating airport matter that much?
> Microsoft Teams is almost too professional

Teams target is Corporations so it should be professional?

Microsoft has tries to make Teams "less professional" or more causal and people hate the changes. They recently changed the theme of the emoticons "Microsoft Fluent Emojis were brought to life to embrace expressiveness and play" they seem to be well received by non-professional users, or even professionals in "creative" fields, but for traditional corporate users they look terrible and are not well received at all, the feedback asking for the return of the traditional emojis has 10's of thousands of votes.

for work I want a professional platform, I want teams to be a professional tool for professionals
That just brings us back to not properly communicating or understanding the terms of the interaction. If you get it at cost and the shipping company wont cover the damage, somebody will. In this case the recipient will cover shipping to the service center and pine will cover the actual repairs. Thats the deal. Not understanding it is one thing, doing so and demand otherwise later another.

edit: again, not defending their packaging skills here.
Lethal USB chargers.
On the one hand, I met my partner in a community that uses Discord, so I can't disagree that developing relationships there can work.

On the other, the flip-side of free-flowing conversation is endless rounds of "hi guys, new here, <novice question>" "check the pins".
> Hackernews armchair linguists seem to think an ideal language for world communication can somehow be engineered from some small set of primitives, like Scheme

I see we have met. My ideal computer language would be Scheme in Ido. :) I guess to do real work one needs a ~980 page spec like Common Lisp which consumes half of their available neurons--in English, which consumes the other half. The R7RS spec is ~98 pages, for reference. A few extensions do not remove that much cognitive availablity (see Jaffer's Slib and the SRFI suite). As a matter of fact, speaking of minimalism, I was using MIT Scheme Version 7.4 Edwin today, an Emacs compatible editor written at R4RS (with a few extensions).

Seriously though, I really wish like the universal translator in Star Trek that I could understand all human language with deep context--but my puny U.S.-public-school-trained brain limits me to a few.
The top level structure of this argument is: the argument I gave above can only be correct if: all the companies producing software at the present typical quality level are operating as monopolies.

You support that stance by saying the only way to account for the present level of software quality is if it were the case that no competition existed for the companies producing the software.

So the argument would be invalidated if there were another way of accounting for it, which there is: it's possible that the present typical level of software quality is not bad enough for it to require that the companies producing it have no competitors.

So to make this argument compelling you'd need something to establish that the typical level of quality actually is bad enough to create that circumstance. Otherwise the argument is more simply resolved by the possibility that your perception of where typical software quality is, may itself be incorrect.
> those articles aren't about facts, they're about books

I linked to the articles out of convenience. I could just as easily have linked to the Amazon listings for the books.

> they only prove that these things are descriptive of the reality we perceive

Maybe you should actually read them before you start pontificating about what they do and do not prove.
> A company would be perfectly justified in settings standards for appropriate use of email.

Most companies do. And yet, the problem persists. See the points in my previous comment to understand why.
macOS already does fallback for this just fine: if an application requests authentication with the Secure Enclave, I'm prompted to touch the touch ID sensor if my laptop is open, but if it's closed and I'm using a docking station, it just asks for my password instead. No reason why remote ssh can't work the same way.
He gives a definition of cyberpunks in the first sentence (people who use all available data input to think for themselves) and elaborates on the role they have in society. Its a nice frame he paints and might be nice for some peoples self image and perspective onto reality.

I am very cautious of recommending anything, peoples time is precious. And different people will find different things interesting.

I think its relevant on the topic (Learys interaction with the digital), but further then that its up to the interests of the reader.
The lack of accidents is due to a lack of accidents. Part of it is training, part of it safety interlocks. There are near misses but nothing that would really scare anyone who knew how these things work.

The Russian reactors on the other hand… let’s just say a lot of those guys die of cancer.

They aren’t maintenance nightmares for technical reasons. More for regulatory reasons. Still, they always manage to get underway on time.
Stop using chat for things that you want to keep long term. It's not just about retention. Even with long term retention, it's nearly impossible to find things in a huge dump of unstructured conversation.

EDIT - and stop using things that are invisible to search engines.
Gold here, thank you! How do you get your SF clients?
That's utter bullshit.
I bet it was great being foreigner in USSR. And foreigner cozy with communist party at that (there weren't other kind).
But for natives it wasn't all this rosy communist USSR propaganda you're trying to convince people who lived it.
So, Element/Matrix it is, then? I'm not sure how it holds up to slack, having never touched Slack myself, however it fills the Discord niche for me.
Gatwick is considered less prestigious than Heathrow in certain circles.
I had no idea coal and natural gas consumed so much water. I wonder what it works out to in gallons per kWh.
They were also more than a community. They became massive sources of niche information.

Often incredibly detailed, and incredibly specific to a niche (1980s BJ74 landcruisers in Canada, or Halo 2 mods for Soft modded xbox 360s, or pedal steel guitar - latest favourite)

Some of these still exist. But if they disappear the world will be worse off.

Thankfully some remain in the archive, but once they’re inactive you can’t just jump in and continue the thread.

Some have been going for 10+ years, sporadically. Real time communication is not required for a community. And it’s a really poor way to create information that will remain useful for years or decades to come.

Google seemed to discount forums at some point, and what filled the vacuum is not as valuable to the user.
Thanks @mtmail for your feedback, will take a look and figure out what heppened to perl.

It might be because of our training data, as perl gets less popular, our training data might simply not having enough good data. : )
Reading their latest announcement makes me question how alive they are. Feels like an announcement from 5 years ago.
Heh, I flew Delta from SFO to ATL a few weeks ago and ended up diverting to ABQ. It's my first diversion in a commercial jet in nearly 50 years of flying. At the time I thought it was a fluke, but now it's looking like more of a pattern.
Or just use a popular, stable, free IRC network such as libera.chat.

A lot of very good IRC clients are available for free.

IRCCloud is a good starting point for a lot of people: excellent UI/UX, a free tier, and a very inexpensive paid tier (around 4 USD/month).

Create as many channels as you like.
yeah, tell us how great USSR was /s
As I see (but I'm not from the US) you also have energy shortage problems. Granted, not as we have in Europe, but the problem still is starting to appear. How much does it cost a company that doesn't produce because it has no energy or the energy is too expensive to be economical?

Also the main alternative to nuclear are fossil fuels, that have order of magnitude of cost higher than nuclear, only that it's not payed now but it will be payed by future generation: the cost of climate change, that cannot even be quantified (while the cost of nuclear, even if high, can!).

Lastly, fossil fuels are not only bad for the environment, but for the fact that oil companies are involved, and with their power they control the economy. Usually nuclear power plants are run by government own companies (and thus the country doesn't depend on others for the energy)
Good call! The scientific patriots will whisk you away for any sort of wrong think.
My wife and I have used slack for years for our personal chat. The multiple channels made categorizing the messages easy (ex. #house, #kid1, #kid2, #coding, etc). The change in free retention meant we'd lose important messages so we've given up on slack and moved to a different service.

I'm sure our small usage of it won't matter to slack, but the money grab and their insistence that this change was somehow better for me because it was "simpler" when I reached out to their support really soured my opinion of them. I wouldn't recommend them to others in the future.
Legitimate question— is the guy’s name really Jo Blow, or is that a joke?
Ukraine disagrees with you. They’ll be building more nuclear power after the war. There are much easier ways to terrorize people than trying to cause a radiological release from a plant like this. And that is already happening! Witness the constant shelling, bombing and missiles strikes a of civilians. Of the friends that go missing in occupied areas and are found tortured weeks later. Of the children that are being abducted and filtered into Russia.

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Ukraine-planning...
In what way does crap spillover from other subreddits? Are you talking about the new Reddit GUI (I use the old one) or mobile app (I use RedReader) spamming posts from other subreddits, or a more cultural aspect of site-wide conflicts?
Ty for the shoutout <3
Any pointers on how do this at home? It’s the basic premise of “zero trust” but also managing phones etc seems a pain for home use.
Isn't slack a bit heavy for families/houses/groups of friends? Why not something like Telegram?
I'm not good at describing my thoughts in English as it's not my native language, but I will do my best.

Based on a reply from Mike Pall [1], the creator of LuaJIT, he made me appreciate assembly a lot more than I thought I would and I really wish there were more resources - books and videos - to teach us the good parts we should have known in the first place around low-level stuff.

The most common reply I read nowadays is of the following nature:

avoid premature optimization, unless your code creates bottlenecks that causes serious performance problems; therefore, throw hardware at it (more CPUs and RAM) and be done with it".

I mean...I get it, but should not we have faster applications nowadays that consume less memory resources and energy, thanks to lots of factors, such as multicore CPUs and RAM that run on incredible speeds?

How badly designed libraries are, that need so many resources anyway?

I have the impression I'm missing something here...

[1] http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-02/msg00742.html
Problem with turning off AMP, it’s generally replaced with a page with even more ads, so the user suffers in that aspect.
> The supposed inability to enter based on reasonable suspicion

I think this is an issue where the courts and police have not caught up with technology. Two decades ago geolocation technology in-use with cell phone triangulation was so obtuse that you could maybe get to the block where a stolen thing was. A decade ago with GPS you could get within meters, enough to know if it was in a specific house given enough separation, but, not nearly enough for an apartment building with vertical considerations or row housing / townhouses.

Today, with AirTags at least with Ultrawideband stuff, you can fairly definitively say that an AirTag is in a specific apartment and even more precisely. I think many cops and courts still have a view of geolocation as it was 10 or 20 years ago. If something is geolocated with an AirTag and Ultrawideband it should meet probable cause requirements for a proforma search warrant application able to be issued over the phone by a judge.
Those fall during the year-end holidays. The numbers and volume are always aberrant then anyway so what's another day or so...
> Privacy advocates will roll on the floor and scream like angry toddlers

If not wanting my car to be remotely disable-able by a hackable system makes me a screaming toddler, consider me a screaming toddler.
There are other italicized entries. For example, OpenOffice does not print on Tuesdays and Falsehoods programmers believe about time.

It may still be a clever ad, but doesn't seem necessarily related to their font choices.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyouka came to mind, but it has a long vowel (ou) the post is missing.
2.261ms, aka a billable hour!
Not gone at all! There are a bunch of companies working on the current generation of forums.

Discourse need not be the "golden child", the other ones are pushing the envelope of what makes a good community. Discourse often steals the good ideas from the other forums actually :)

e.g. NodeBB (https://NodeBB.org), Flarum, and Vanilla are three in the space.

(Admittedly, I maintain NodeBB, so take my recommendation with a grain of salt)
> none of this has to do with the "article"'s author making offhandedly controversial to the point of being offensive assertions about the history of the Jewish people.

You mean the part where he briefly paraphrases Wikipedia on the consensus view of modern scholarship on the historicity of the Exodus narrative, namely that there isn't much?

It's not even like he brings it up to make some point about Judaism, just outgrowing his own religious upbringing which also involved the Exodus narrative.

I get that dismissing the Exodus narrative as historically false can fit into a wider project to deny the persecution of Jews more generally, and that the denial of religious foundation myths can sometimes be tied into genocidal or colonialist projects of other kinds.

But that is so obviously not what is going on in the OP, and the general expectation should never be that anyone else takes one's religion's narratives as fact, or even anything close to it.
So I have to ask, why use Slack for hobby things instead of Discord? Is that driven by people used to having it at work? I'm confused by the thought of "hobby Slack channels".
> Fortunately Google did not have the strength to complete their design.

Google was telling from the start that AMP was only a temporary solution, and that the end-goal of AMP is to disappear.
No passwords stolen
The mobile web version they replaced amp with is awful:
https://www.baltimoresun.com/education/bs-md-student-voting-...

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-timothy-...

Interstitial pay walls, auto playing video ads that are pinned to the top, useless read more button, horrible tabula ads. It’s a total mess.
Boo hoo. Either use open source of pay for the service. It's bizarre that people think everything should be free and spoonfed to them
It is not sustainable. But it can be more so, under some optimistic, unrealistic scenarios.

This info is based on some projects for tech that hasn't yet proven to be economical at scale. In theory we could replace all reactors with breeders, develop a zero-carbon thorium fuel supply chain etc. but we haven't because it's expensive like hell, slow to commission and still not environmentally sustainable.

What's easier and cheaper to fix, all that or battery/storage technology?
Microsoft is in a tough place in that respect, because its user base is so broad by design (as a default program in Windows 11 now). It can never be fully optimized for professionals in formal environments, nor professionals who prefer more casual environments.

This Pirates of Silicon Valley scene comes to mind [0]. Teams may not be the most optimized software for formal versus informal users, but that doesn't matter because it's trying to have a broad appeal.

https://youtu.be/UFcb-XF1RPQ?t=131
Shit happens, I accept that.
Not OP but counter to what everyone else said, I don’t like mine. I bought the cheapest one available when it was on sale. It validated I wanted a NAS but it was too weak. Any usage would be slow and all the apps dragged it down. The apps are nice with how easy it is to install and get working, but if you wanna use it as a server not just NAS… you get what you pay for.

I still use it but plan to build a server this winter and gift the synology yo my father.
I like, and use, Discord daily, and like it a lot.

But I have to agree: Eventually, management will start to more aggressively monetize it (i.e., "pull the rug from under their free users").

Truly free (e.g., IRC) alternatives seem like the only long-term solution, otherwise people will keep stumbling from one commercial platform to another, because they never last.
“Legends of Learning” is looking for educational game developers for those who are interested:

https://www.legendsoflearning.com/interested-game-developer/
> The present state of software is precisely in the neighborhood of where that added utility begins rapidly diminishing.

I can think of several commercial software offerings where quality is and always has been lacking. Quickbooks is one example, it has been extremely buggy the entire time it has been a product. Yet, lots of people still buy it and use it.
Zulip is a much better communication medium than Slack, is faster, has better UX and is open source.

I hope this move by Slack accelerates migration to Zulip.
> What other alternatives are there?

Correctly design your website.

Website obesity is a human problem, not a technical one. If asm.js solved a technical problem, AMP is basically just a very strict and unavoidable linter.
Wow this was actually just the code reference I was looking for to extend decomp2dbg into Ghidra. I had seen ida2dwarf before, but not this sleek Python approach to it. It does still seem though that you need to run this script after every time you change something in Ghidra, which is less than ideal for me. With this, I think it will be possible now for seamless Ghidra support.

Ty ty, I'll be sure to give credit where credit is due. Ofc Robert Xiao worked on this, lol.
I too find his presentation pretentious and his claims suspect. He has released two games in his career so far and an as-yet-to-be-released compiler that he’s been toying with for years: and he calls modern software developers unproductive!

However I think efficiency still matters depending on the use case and to his credit I don’t think he says that everyone has to care about efficiency.

I think the point he makes is that we might be losing the ability to produce efficient code because we’re not teaching these techniques. And that is perhaps why we buy $3000 Facebook browsing machines that don’t feel any faster than computers 20 years ago. Often they are slower.

If we only teach folks how to script Unity and Unreal how are we supposed to get the next generation of engine developers to build the foundations of the technology?
Yeah, I'm old school; most of the time I do my job with simple shell scripts that produce the results I want.

I really live and breathe the UNIX philosophy and works wonders for me.
What they were announcing wasn't a secret.

There were news reports several days before, possibly even earlier.
Nobody died in Germany from this. Yet tens of thousands have died in Germany and neighboring countries from the pollution form its coal plants that is delayed shutting down so it could shutdown nuclear sooner, and now tens of thousands more will die as Germany starts burning more of that that dirty coal again because it shut those NPPs down and even now in this crisis is hellbent on shutting down the remaining ones. But nobody cares about those deaths in Germany, nobody seems to look at those statistics when they think about their anti-nuclear legacy.
If waked terminates unexpectedly, it has to be told about all the registered alarms by all apps again after restarting. Apps need to be notified to provide the info again, etc. If waked would keep a database, then you have a syncing problem, between apps and waked, possibility of desynchronization. If app crashes, and doesn't remove alarms from waked, the phone will wakeup, but there will be no app to present the UI. Sounds confusing.

Automatic resource management by kernel when the app crashes or is stopped is actually quite nice. You just restart the app and setup the timers again from the stored settings. You have to store alarms persistently, in any case. You'll get event in the eventloop of the app that registered the timer, etc. Complexity of the solution is minimal. Less opportunity for bugs and failures.
I live in Argentina and my salary is in that range, the company I work for sell software consultancy services to another company in Europe, and I'm full time dedicated to a single project.

It's a good salary here, though I think some are making more by working directly with clients abroad, but it's difficult to bring your money to the country.
Hasn't been a problem for millions of people using PhpBB. Those things are nice but Discourse UI is disorienting for me. Threads don't feel like grouping of posts, they feel like search results. I like pagination and "staticness" of PhpBB, not a giant scrolling doomswheel that changes under you. The sticky header ensures that those pixels have private property rights and never ever move out of the way. I don't want to give up 80 vertical pixels for a Discourse logo.

Honestly, I am getting old or new UI's don't jive with me. I like borders and boxes. Old clunky things had clarity.
a week is just a quarter month... or that is, it should be a quarter month. months as a time unit are several sorts of screwed up. my advise, if you can get away with it, is to never use months in your accounting.
And the new James Webb telescope runs Javascript! It must have power and CPU cycles to burn.
Good time for NetMeeting to make a return.
Heh! I am the author of that particular calendar. That was long ago. The original is on my website along with a Lunar-Sol calendar...
A cheap VPS could easily host your own Zulip or Mattermost server. Then you can be in charge of your own data.
Neither of these are sane. PDF and DOCX are both built to ape analog paper processes. It's been 40 years of this computer thing, it's time to get rid of the 70s office facsimiles.
My impression is that PAM assumes it’s running in a Linux kernel with the typical POSIX users and permissions system. I could be misinformed though, I’ve never actually coded anything with it.