skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Given that most cities have spent the last several generations making automobile transportation as efficient and cheap as possible it would be very hard for a few bike lanes to convince.

I agree but would phrase it as "externalising all the costs of automobile traffic onto other people (and some of those 'other people' are other car commuters who in turn externalise their costs onto other drivers)"

The kind of nerdy efficiency argument free-market libertarians would make if they weren't owned by fossil fuel interests.
99 Percent Invisible put out an episode about a similar problem Toronto has facing with their raccoons:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/raccoon-resistance/
I don't think you can do better than the original
https://www.amazon.com/Test-Driven-Development-Kent-Beck/dp/...

To summarize:

1) Write a failing test
2) Make it pass as quickly as possible
3) Repeat and refactor as necessary
It sounds like Samsung's marketing on the phone side. Wasn't there a time when they competed on having more cpu cores? And they were caught overclocking them when benchmarks were run, leading to power consumption and heat that was unsustainable in normal usage?

At least Intel is doing this with a desktop CPU. If you can afford the electricity bill generated by said GPU and the A/C to cool the room.
I always thought that the 6502 was the hard one with all it's zero page shenanigans.
Here's one writeup: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/03/hacker-reduces-gta-on...
That’s awesome! Thank you for sharing
I bet you as a child had been born with full knowledge of world. And not for heroic effort of your parents and sheer dumb luck.
Also Swift and Go, IIRC.
Having to program down to the bit (not byte) sparks a little something for me. I feel proudness in the craft, even if this is a bit (pun!) far frow nowadays’s constraints.

I just learned the hex decades (1, 16, 256, 4k, 64k, 1M, 16M, 256M, 4G…) and now if I need to generate a 1M empty file I know that `head /dev/zero -c $((0x100000)) > 1M.bin` would do without having to multiply 1024 three times. This kind of little things. :)

Nevertheless, it can still be useful if you write Linux device drivers or some other low-level tasks. Microcontroller programming, too, but without having to buy them in the first place (MCU shortage…).
Food imports to China are pretty important. Surprised to see India as a major food exporter. And Russia. Soviet Russia was a major importer.
That’s how it should be. That’s how I interview candidates now, too: applicable situations not highly conceptual intellectual navel gazing.
>I would bet most people can't tell what's been AI-generated from what hasn't.

This has literally never been the criteria for what art is.
djb didn't fall into line with accusations that many in the security community support. So everything he says will be assumed bad intent.
It's important to remember that the IPCC, the UNs group of scientists who study climate change say that the worst case scenario is that growth in GDP will be 4% less by 2050 due to climate change.

Growth. Not actual GDP. Over the next 28 years that means if the world GDP expands 100%, so doubles, unchecked climate change will mean that is only 96%.

That is not the apocalyptic situation that is constantly in the media. The world won't die in a fireball. It's a problem, that needs to be dealt with, but we need to keep context. Covid and the Ukraine war have already had a worse impact on humans worldwide that climate change.

And there are a million other black swan events we could be afraid of that are just as likely as climate change, yet we don't care about them because it's not on the BBC. Supervolcanoes, asteroids, tsunamis, more deadly viruses, etc etc.
Very few of the catches are usually known to the owner.

It’s tricky to study since you pretty much need to introduce cats to areas with stable bird populations. We’ve had birds relocate and start new nests elsewhere because they see cats around though, and even magpies are extremely reluctant to eat food put out for them near the yard where the cats sometimes hang out.
Reminds me of those models which are so sophisticated you can fool them into thinking a cup is an iPad by putting a post-it that says I-PAD on it. I'm not sure if this was real or a joke though, can anybody find it?
Amazing quality but might fail a job interview for not using a PR template (and no TDD). Too many fixes in one commit.
Because those are shorthands for “do on” and “do off”. Then again, don and doff are regular verbs — donned, doffed.
Modula-2 Compilers on CP/M
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What actually matters is that those breaking the constitution, be it written or not, can be held criminally liable. Can you be held criminally liable for breaking "a set of customs and principles" in the UK?
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Dissatisfaction is the engine of change!

I suspect every right and freedom each of us enjoy in our respective countries is the result of people unhappy with their country seeking to better it. In the UK we even had a civil war over the monarchy centuries ago! Why didn't Cromwell just leave??

Also it completely ignores that people have family, dependents, friends, history that they may not wish to abandon.

For some additional context, in the UK, "why don't you leave" is a particularly toxic argument often directed exclusively at ethnic minorities - including those who were born here, or are eg third generation Brits. You'll typically find it paired with calls to "go back where you came from".

You have a overly-romanticised vision of the UK based on a few visits, which I'm afraid doesn't quite match the reality.

So perhaps dial it in?
Your team needs to edit high definition images of bank notes?
I still work in the EDI-parser software but retiring to the mountain has never been more appealing.
Now it seems like there is less news from that region.

The news industry is a business like any other. Journalists don't stop reporting on things when the things stop happening; they stop reporting when they feel the reports aren't driving engagement with the audience, eg revenue.

There is only a loose correlation between what's happening in the world and what's being reported in newspapers and journals when it comes to long term trends.
What's modern or mainframe about this since the entire application is transpiled COBOL courtesy of MicroFocus (which I have memory of from another non adjacent decade) and the underlying VSAM record structure which is simply ETL'd?

Before submitting this I double took because I first encountered Microfocus migration tools in the early dotnet days, because I was wondering if I missed the possibility that AWS has a JCL runtime. Then I realized that the portability claims meant that everyone would need a JCL cloud runtime, which is unlikely, and you can find the Microfocus JCL documentation here: https://www.microfocus.com/documentation/server-express/sx51...

This is still a CICS implementation. I happen to think CICS, sanity checked, is invaluable. But licensing costs are commensurate with IBM philosophy. MTS Microsoft Transaction Server that appeared in NT 3.1 and justified learning to lock down the object interface security of every dll we had on disk back in the day (NT group permissions all the way down to SYSTEM heterogeneous masking of what can possibly talk to what. Wanna run notepad.exe without written sign off, nah. These boxen were on public IPs.) Such was the licensing value proposition. MTS has long been deprecated. But it's impossible to quickly appreciate what free transactions with mainframes meant in 1995. This should be leveraged again for the current multi systems and legacy parity cloud.

Microfocus JCL runtime I think is unique, deriving from a Seven Dwarfs hangover reverse engineered codebase.

Thus nothing here is open or cross anything without Microfocus licensing. Not inexpensive iirc. And I couldn't imagine that without support even if my experience was recent.

Edit invaluable not invalid about CICS. How is Chrome changing the literal meaning of my writing with complete word substitution /after/ I've seen my original intended word on screen for minutes and made no change in my text whatsoever? :: Ed2 added question mark.
> we average 5 commits per dev per day.
Does that mean anything?
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Doubt. Strong doubt

As much as people are glued to their devices, looking away is still a thing

Nobody will want ads or distractions in their field of view (maaybe in very exceptional circumstances but even then)

It will probably also be illegal to drive using an AR device.
they already are, but actually most COBOL stuff is pretty safe as far as job security goes.

As with anything, its not about the programming language, its about the business context. COBOL outsourcing means having great documentation so they know what the fuck is actually going on in the codebase. Also, COBOL has less boilerplate than for example java. The boilerplate is not standardized and usually unique to each company, again highering the difficulty to outsource everything offshore.

Most succesfull approach seems to be to import 10 indian guys on premise, and have them work along your existing team.

Dont underestimate the effectiveness of a 59 year old cobol programmer who knows the program in and out, and knows exactly where to adapt something without breaking anything else. There are no dependency checks, linters or unit testing for most of these programs. You basically want 5 newbies working alongside one of these senior level programmers for a year or 2 before you confidently can let them retire.
> mtime is one of the inode fields, so whenever mtime changes, ctime also changes

Not in my experience.
Can anyone create an NFT for AWK or put AWK on the blockchain?
nieve -> naive

Just a small typo, article is good. Clear examples and good explanations.
thx, appreciate it!
still need to figure out what this okaku domain does though...
Yeah I am doing an apprenticeship at a large bank currently (20 Years old) and I am learning Cobol.
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I used to work at a small shop and we would sell stormshield small-biz routers. The typical time we'd sell to the client was 10 years, and the old routers we would cycle out were about 7-12 years old (by that point considered really old). If i sold a router to my client and 5 years later it's EOL, that client is not gonna be happy with me.
In terms of legal sense, since you asked about that specifically - all films shown in the UK(in theatres or released on home media, or for streaming/download) have to be approved by the British Film Commission. If something is approved for release, anyone would have an extremely hard time getting the author arrested for the content - they can still be sued for a number of different reasons, but making a nazi salute in a film with nazis would be allowed for artistic purposes.

A random guy making a nazi salute for a joke and uploading it on youtube is more like documentary evidence of a crime, not an art form. There is a reason promoting nazi salutes is a crime in most of Europe, and it really doesn't matter he did it as a joke - it's simply not a laughing matter. Yes to American ears it might sound weird - that there is a topic that cannot even be joked about or you risk getting arrested. I don't really have a reply for that, other than the fact that it feels right to me, given the attrocities comitted by Nazis against our people - I think doing a nazi salute publicly(and I count uploading videos on youtube as "public"), even as a joke, is not acceptable at all.
> True, but the business context always changes.

What about the regulatory context?

I'm thinking of banks, for example.
How about the + operator in CSS?
It's real; here's an article about the issue: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/mar/08/typograph...
Once vehicles are outputting less toxic fumes, semi-enclosed outside spaces make more sense in both hot and cold climates.

Pedestrian subways is an idea overdue for a revisit as are bike routes that pass through parks and indoor malls.

Do any of these "city of the future" projects explicitly address this kind of thing? Seems kind of obvious.

Though I think its obvious that bicyles would be really handy in a zombie apocalypse (or any kind of apocalypse really) and that seems to be generally ignored by our modern culture too, preferring hot rods, trucks and helicopters.
Curious to hear more about other alternatives to building it internally, lately I've heard a few people claiming that they built it in 1 - 2 days. Still don't know how.

There are good open source solutions that let you plug and play these enterprise features (I am biased here). But instead of thinking about the problems with implementing Single Sign-On, I think we should focus on a bigger problem: How can we make security accessible and simple for developers? I am not saying don't charge for SSO, I know it helps startups be sustainable, but here is where I truly believe that open source is one of the key answers.
> Anyone who thinks this should grab their nearest google engineer and talk about privacy controls internally. Privacy is critical to the company …

Better grab a top level business executive, who tracks company sources of income. Why engineer? He is far from money flows.
My half stray used to bring boyfriends and they ate after she did.
Which ones are the interesting ones?
In what way? Precedence of what?

"What happened before" in the UK has for thousands of years favoured (to put it mildly) the incumbent powers-that-be.

Seems like a convenient way to perpetuate inequality.
> DNA is really simple. It just consists of small parts that are being used in a chemical reaction. It's very simple to understand the chemical reaction because it's only based on four chemical bases. Sometimes DNA is really long, but it's easy to understand what it does because it simply does what each of its parts does.

I guess it's easy to see the difference between "easy to read a line" and "easy to understand a whole program" now?
Perhaps we should spent more money trying to mitigate the outcomes rather than have those few regions that do limit their co2 output become entirely dependent for industrial goods(steel, concrete etc) on those that don't? It seems so obvious that it begs the question if all the officials that made for example EU's industry so dependent on Russian hydrocarbons in the past, and East Asian steel/other goods going forward do this because of stupidity or are they serving self interests? I propose the latter.

As an example, take one decision to shut down all of Germany's nuclear power plants in absence of carbon neutral alternatives. In short term it benefited Russian regime and allowed it to conduct its barbaric war on Ukraine in full knowledge the most powerful country of EU is in their pocket. In long term destroying EU's industry serves Chinese interests.
I didn't mean it as an analysis of his personality (how can you do that from a blog post?), it's just shorthand for "I dislike this writing style in this specific way".
> What about the regulatory context?

It's probably even worse
Also don't underestimate the potential damage of NOT having that 59 year old programmer.

talk to some people who work in banks, they have stories which could make your toes curl.
I’ve been on the iOS 16 beta for a while now. The Weather app is still hot garbage compared to Dark Sky:

1. It’s never up to date, and there’s no way to tell when it last updated. This has always been an issue, and it’s still not fixed in iOS 16. As I write this, Dark Sky says it’s 70°F outside, while Weather says it’s 68°F. Dark Sky is closer: it’s 71°F. There’s no way to get the Weather app to refresh. The temperature predictions in Weather are out-of-date. In a few minutes, it might randomly update.

2. There’s no way to see the precipitation probability in the Weather app, despite that being a very basic feature. Apple brands themselves as an outdoorsy lifestyle company. As someone who actually spends a lot of time outside, I consider this an essential feature.

3. Custom alerts are gone. Really, most alerts are gone. “Next-Hour Precipitation” alerts exist as an option but don’t work. Dark Sky’s precipitation alerts are almost always correct, but I rarely get alerts from Weather, and when I do they’re unhelpful.

4. Historical weather is missing from Weather.

I’ll be going back to using the NWS website once Dark Sky is gone. At least it’s better than the Weather app.

I don’t understand how a company that brands themselves as an essential component of an outdoors lifestyle could ax a feature like Dark Sky’s precipitation notifications and replace them with “next hour” notifications. That might make sense if you’re just using the app to decide whether it’s a suitable time for a jog, but that’s about it. If you’re going to be outside regardless of the weather, and you want to know whether to cover your backpack or temporarily take shelter, sorry, you’re out of luck.

I’m curious whether they made similar mistakes with the new Apple Watch Ultra. Once the cool factor wears off, is it actually going to be as versatile as Apple claims? Is it really for use outdoors, or is it just for showing off at parties? Anyone who’s tried to use an Apple Watch in the rain or water on a regular basis has probably experienced usability issues at one point or another; for example, if you’re swimming, Apple Watch might repeatedly prompt you to select your type of exercise, despite the fact that you’ve already enabled water mode and can’t interact with the screen. Rain can land you in a similar situation.

Edit: Reworded some excessively snarky comments.
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This was the topic of the parent comment. Also, there has never been AI art before now.
Maybe a public conversation about extreme privilege which is backed by the military, the police, the media, and politicians of all stripes. Throw in a discussion about who owns "public" spaces and the laws governing how many people can gather there to do what.

For starters :)
LetTheKidCode
Can you provide a source for that number? I didn't find it in the IPCC reports and googling the impact of climate change on GDP gives _very_ different results: https://www.reuters.com/world/climate-change-putting-4-globa...

Edit: to be clear, that's not the only thing dubious about your comment. The IPCC does not study climate change but aggregates climate change studies. Asteroids are obviously less "likely" than climate change which shouldn't even be a category because climate change is already happening and already has a real impact. "The world won't die in a fireball" is a red herring, the world will be fine but people will be far worse off, especially poor substance farmers in sub-saharan Africa, who also – to come back to you original point – don't contribute a lot to global GDP but are still humans that matter and shouldn't starve to death.
You know there are more important things in this world than the economy? I'd argue everything is more important than a man-made system that solely revolves around money and commerce, especially nature and bio-diversity
Portland cement isn't called Portland cement because it comes from Portland. It is called that because when set it looks like the stone that could be quarried from Portland. It wasn't originally extracted from Portland.
It is by default, but it's completely possible to switch to another init.
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Time to switch for Gandi ;)
It is actually "Godard", not Goddard.
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I wonder if the banks are getting cold feet and pushing PR articles about how "kids this days" should get off their behinds and learn COBOL because "someone needs to work on this mess and we can't find anyone"

Yeah, no thanks.
If OP is me, then errrrm... no :)
That's the "hoodoo mechanism" which is also mentioned in the article: on a bigger scale, when you have a layer of harder rock on top of softer rock, you get hoodoos (also called earth pyramids or tent rocks): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoodoo_(geology)
Wouldn't it be cheaper in the long run, easier and more future proof to just electrify the damn track? The tracks themselves need maintenance anyways. Having overhead electrified tracks allows you to make the electricity for it anyaway you want including hydrogen. You are also able to purchase practically any electric locomotive and the costs for those are much lower as well as maintenance.
There are many people bypassing the limit using hacks or on some cheap chinese kits just by going in the settings (usually a button combo, knowledge widely available on the internet).

Yes it is illegal but in the same way the 50cc mopeds are supposed to be limited at 45kph (27mph) and all the kids always modified them to go faster. I believe there has always been more unrestricted 50cc mopeds than legal ones in the street. Only some old people kept them restricted.

Most people are willing to take the risk of not getting insurance coverage and a fine once in a while to gain a few minutes per day and be the king of the road. Most only have third party insurance anyway and a bicycle or a moped don't usually create that much physical damage to other vehicules. It only becomes ugly when people hit pedestrians but thankfully and for obvious reasons it is a much rarer event than car drivers doing it.
Not to forget the critical point that the 59 year old probably knows why something is done like it is better than most people in building.

The code knowledge is secondary to the arcane domain knowledge.
Here it reads much more critical than your statement of just a small reduction to the GDP:

https://www.ipcc.ch/2022/02/28/pr-wgii-ar6/

We talk about a world with more human losses, dry spills interrupting businesses. Spending much more money on rebuilding destroyed infrastructure.

The heat wave in Germany threatened plenty of critical water ways.

Mass live amount of animals just died.

Do you wanna live on an empty planet?

And we don't know yet how bad it can get.

Take a really bad long heat wave in a big city (we have a lot of them) and guess how many could just die in a mass city death event based on cascading issues like to hot for streets, no longer enough water etc.
I prefer commenting out the entry referencing the server/node directly in the haproxy.cfg or even better, the code used to generate it und version control (Config-as-Code).
"Absense of carbon neutral alternatives"?

You mean those things that most people now consider cheaper than both nuclear and fossil fuels despite the billions of dollars spent creating conspiracy theories to undermine them? By people with a vested interest in gas prices being high? Their absence seems more political than technical, an argument that is often used for nuclear.

Fossil fuel producers on the other hand really don't like those things.

China for example rolled out nuclear but also more wind, more solar, more EVs, more Hydro and so on. Seems like a sensible thing to do if you dont want to be beholden to fossil fuel suppliers.
> Where was this fella when we needed him in parliament?

There's no obligation to protest everything you disagree with, why would you suggest there is? Furthermore, how do you know they _didnt_ protest the PM? The PM may not have been voted for, but a crucial difference is, unlike the monarchy, the position of PM is not handed down by hereditary lineage.

> including the agenda to reduce freedom to protest and other basic rights of the people.

Don't you think perhaps these two events are related? You chastise someone for protesting, whilst bemoaning the right for protest being eroded. A strange contradiction.