skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> rather than be censorable

By definition, it's not censorship when a private company does it on their own platform. Censorship is only something governments can do.

> Do you have an example that's not quite full-on hitler

But that's the point, it's only the extreme things that get banned.

> How do you think this should work with MAGA hats or shirts?... "Coffee, which you may drink in a DEMOCRAT ONLY dining room"

Nobody's doing that, that's a straw man of your own creation. The whole point is that social networks and coffee shops kick out only the extreme/abusive/disinforming/conspiracy fringe.

You're worried about missing that "some politician took bribes or that a public policy isn't actually evidence based" but absolutely nobody is moderating those messages. That's 100% a straw man.

This topic is about private moderation of what are in practice extreme fringe arguments. We don't need to worry about a slippery slope to banning mainstream political speech of half of Americans, like a nonsensical "DEMOCRAT ONLY dining room", simply because it would be atrocious for business. Banning customers for mainstream political views is business suicide.

Private moderation of extreme views is a free speech protection afforded to the private owners of spaces. End of story.
What is a bug evolution? Do you mean a bug fix?
While I very much welcome new ideas and proposals for radically changing C++, I'm not a fan of this one. Removing support for unsafe `union` and pointer arithmetic makes the language largely pointless.

And, just to also quibble on the syntax: using `:` for identifier types, lambdas, ranges, and scope resolution is deeply unfortunate.
What you're observing is not the rise and fall of best practice and good engineering. All you're seeing is the hype cycle.

Best practice and good engineering in web dev is the same as it is in any other software field: the best stack is the one you know cold.

Unfortunately, there are many popular stacks, and all of them have something to say about all the others. And 80% of learning materials for any given stack aren't from official sources, but are instead blog posts and videos and tweets from tech influencers. When they parrot those same criticisms, it lends the air of a grassroots shifting of the whole community.

The fact of the matter is that despite the huge levels of hype flux, large, popular, stable apps are still being made with technology "boring" tech.

Despite SPAs, rails and Django apps are still built rendering server side templates and sprinkling jQuery where necessary. Despite GraphQL, REST APIs are still the state of the art for most APIs. Despite kubernetes and docker, many apps are still deployed to heroku or VPS providers.

It can be intimidating for newcomers because it can be difficult to separate hype from fact. My advice is to pick something, the more boring the better, and know it cold and ignore all claims of its death.

To address concerns about projects dying, that is pretty legitimate. Unfortunately webdevs deploy trusted code into a highly untrustworthy and antagonistic environment. New technologies do come to play and requires adapters and plugins to be written. I wouldn't worry about overall size of community as long as security issues are getting addressed.
Why Is Diet Coke So Fizzy?
> But that is the point; "union" is supposed to be a POD

no it's not. it's fine to have non-POD unions - but you have to be careful to call constructors and destructs of non-POD's explicitly. thus, variant which automates that.

Also, I didn't talk specifically about unions, but about sum types. There is a need for saying that an object X can be of type A OR type B, no matter the properties of these types.
>Heck, if the war in Ukraine gets out of control, it may become a necessity

I agree with your incredulity at phones being able to translate cursive, but on your second point, if you're alluding to another World War starting and our technological world being destroyed, then frankly being able to immediately and quickly read old letters between grandparents & older generations will not be of a high priority...
Is the a general “news anchor” general dialect that anyone can understand? Like on Rai Uno for example?
The only productivity hack is to not be terminally online.

Every year there are new apps/tools/"systems". There is an entire industry catered to making you "productive"
In the hyper-connected, globalized world of today, the experience that comes from a world of constraints is lost. The world now is radically different from the world 20 years ago, and even more radically different from the one the author writes about. It's difficult to convey the change in the human experience. But the author does a fantastic job. He paints a portrait of a smaller world, a world built around people and relationships. A world where Faxes were the best means of communication, given their constraints. A world where his parents could see the cultural changes associated with Asian-American immigration in real time. A world that was wholly and completely unprepared for the silent revolutions taking place in California at the time. Revolutions we're still struggling to grasp the effects of today. A world where the music industry was not the manufactured beast it is today. A world before 9/11, when it felt like we were in the cusp of huge, positive societal change.

The piece is both a love-letter to those times, and to the author's strongest influences (hence the title of the piece). His father seems incredibly kind, thoughtful, and supportive. It must have been incredibly difficult to reconcile this with the fact that he chose to live separately, alone, thousands of miles away.

As algorithms and AIs start to dominate our entertainment and curation, and as major publications struggle to adapt to this climate, it feels rarer and rarer for a piece to capture the Human Experience. This one did. It felt True. Whether you derive any value from it is up to you. But I assure you the value is there. The best stories are written from experience, and an autobiographical account is as close to the experience as you can be. And this one is fantastically written.
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I was thinking tax, and available spaces and geography specific things. Thanks for the offer though.
It's always been around. In fact it's been very popular in games like the Modern Warfare series, which have major popular appeal.
You missed the substantive portion of the post.
If it earns 20 million + each year, I'd leave it alone.
^^ This is literally the only comment here that matters.

“stop talking about it and be about it”
Quite nice. I enjoyed the distraction.

Unsure if it's a new "type" of puzzle. Virtually any game with multiple characters, buttons and doors plays like this, and can be reduced to a similar graph.

Despite that, I don't want to discourage you. Originality doesn't matter that much. Keep making puzzles like these.
He's one of the few self-help promoters who actually still has a real job and yet stays productive.

Everybody else has turned hocking productivity advice into lucrative careers.
Weren't all the multiplayer heists in GTA Online basically coop GTA?
> Funnily only apple and its ad network now has access to the list of installed apps.

Of course Apple can program in apps that look at your list, but do you have a source for this being used in their (upcoming?) ad network?
Let's start from step 1: What kind of game do you want to make, and why do you want to make it that way?
While it won't be to everyone's taste, NakeyJakey has a rather in-depth video about Rockstar's game design and how it falls short in some ways. I loved RDR2 but the missions were definitely the weakest part. Exploring the world was the best bit by a mile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvJPKOLDSos&t=1932s
Suggestion: make the dog eat the rabbit if they occupy the same space.

(I solved it without doing so because I assumed that was a constraint.)
This outrage against the invasion of our privacy is good. I just wish Americans would consistently extend this to US BigTech too and feel the same level of outrage. TikTok is not doing anything different than what Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta and Amazon do. Over the last 2 decades, Windows, macOS, ios and Android have been harvesting every bit of our personal information from our devices - the file name / metadata of every file you create on your system is transferred to their servers (either as part of their "cloud" feature or under the terms of their malware detection system), the OS continously monitors what applications you run and when you run it and informs on you, your geographic location is sent every time you start your OS and repeatedly when you connect to the internet, every time you connect to any network (bluetooth, wifi, LAN, internet etc.) the OS relays this information to their creator along with the devices involved, and so on ...

I am not saying this is a valid excuse to condone TikTok's privacy abuses in any manner. Just that we shouldn't lose focus that these types of abuses are becoming more and more common, and TikTok is just another symptom of it. The solution is not banning TikTok or some other company tomorrow, but a strong privacy preserving legislation to cover BigTech and future startups (irrespective of their origin country). This is a human rights issue - not a chinese or US BigTech one.
I was surprised to read the supposedly generous base salary was just $920 per month - I was under the impression tech salaries in India are rivaling (and sometimes exceeding) those of Western Europe - is Pakistan that far behind Indian salaries, or is there some other explanation?
This is what I found when trying to understand the history of Fraktur. It’s complicated to say the least:

"Fraktur is often associated with being the official Nazi font and is still being used by Neo-Nazi groups in Germany today. The fact that it was, ironically, banned by the Nazi Party is just a part of its long and strange history"

Source: https://www.typeroom.eu/a-nazi-font-banned-by-nazis-fraktur-...
I believe this is the canonical reference. At least I've seen it on multiple people's desks:

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-powerpc-architecture-a-spe...
How to debug deadlocks in Visual Studio
Neologisms is the term for new expressions.

- List of some of the mechanisms that create them:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2016/fe...

__________

If anyone is familiar with new word discovery algorithms and has links to notable research, code, etc. — I would be interested looking at them.
The connection between calculus and the quality of subcontractor work is dubious.
Yeah i'd agree here that GTA is not a shallow game, it's got multiple levels of openworld interactions that you can chose to interact with or not.

What it doesn't have is strict or difficult obstacles that give a perceived difficulty. The game's difficulty hits a plateau quite early on and then it's really an exploration and narrative experience. Which most people prefer. GTA online is a different beast and probably where this one will focus. More live ops and changing / persistent world, more like fortnite's map would be my guess.
Sounds like a specialized productivity tool would be of little help there, since no tasklist can withstand the problem of just not being able to get started on a task. And something like GTD is only going to be another burdensome and anxiety-inducing task for someone with executive dysfunction.

A simple but constant reminder system (perhaps with a smartwatch or phone) can be of more use.
I think "SSO" here maybe doesn't mean "Single-sign on"? Something else?
I've had a few 5.1 systems in the past (energy, Polk audio speakers) but I found while the center channel quality is excellent there's just too much bass. Even at low volumes the bass disturbed others in the home (even after playing with eq, boosting center channel, and enabling night mode on the receiver). Currently I have an LG Gallery TV. I like the ease of just using TV for audio and even after raising the volume it doesn't vibrate the whole house.
I'm a Hebrew speaker, too, and Hebrew nearly always hand-written in a "cursive" form that looks very different from the printed form. It's extremely rare for anyone to write the printed form, except if you're hand-lettering a sign, etc. (And even then, most will be in "cursive")

Here's the "modern" cursive form https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursive_Hebrew
And here's the printed form: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_alphabet#Alphabet

I can do Cursive English, too, easily, because my education was in NY Public Schools. In Israel, where I am several months/year, if I have to write something out in English for a non-native speaker, I'll "print" it, but it never occurred to me I should do this in the U.S. for younger people. I'll take notes in cursive English (and/or Hebrew) when I'm in a meeting in NY.

(My first language at home was neither English nor Hebrew but Yiddish! But this was largely spoken; when written it uses the same "cursive" Hebrew alphabet as modern Hebrew, with a few additions for letter variants.)
Agreed. But then comes along something like The Expanse with impeccable writing, a gripping, high-octane story, with every episode being pretty much perfect, and great set design, and it falls into obscurity and gets prematurely cancelled because it's not being shoved down people's throats.
The key to producing a great virtual event is to understand that you are actually producing a TV show, and lean into that.

The linked blog post makes that point implicitly by comparing to Saturday Night Live. I want to make it explicitly: virtual events ARE shows.

That doesn’t mean it needs to be SNL or Game of Thrones. More like a newscast, probably, for most events. Watch Meet the Press or one of the evening cable shows, or even a network nightly news show to get a feel for the pacing, how they mix monologue, dialogue, and canned video, and any little extra details like lighting or transitions.

The biggest thing is that a minute is a really long time in a TV show. The networks cover all the most important news of the day in one 30-minute broadcast (more like 22 min of content after commercials are accounted for). Why do you need 90 minutes?

(It’s ok to go for 90 minutes but you better account for the value of all 90 of them.)
Even in an optimistic scenario GTA VI is two years from release. Rockstar won't feel at all pressured to rush something out.
I’ve seen it happen quite a bit!
Theory: Because distribution companies for movies made having DTS/Dolby Atmos/Whatever mandatory in the theater, sound engineers primarily focus on that because that takes 99% of the time. Because theaters with just optical stereo (yes I'm aware most theaters use digital distribution and projectors now, that just hammers home the point) aren't really a thing any more they don't really bother optimizing it because "nobody will hear that anyway". Then when the film goes to home distribution the distribution company takes the automatic downmix that is the existing stereo track for the optical stereo on a print and use that because they don't want to second guess the sound engineers or the director.

Long theory short: it's the same reason the Beatles mono album versions sound a ton better than the stereo versions, because that was the optimized version because that's what people listened too at the time. Sound engineers aren't being paid to optimize the stereo or even 5.1 versions of the audio, only the theater version in whatever multi-channel standard is popular at the moment, so they don't bother they let the standard downmix stand.
Lobsters meet neither the colloquial nor the technical definition of an insect.

We do call them sea bugs, sure. Show me an insect per se with an edible white tissue the size of my palm and we'll talk about it.
Txt2mask – automated object replacement in images (Stable Diffusion)
Really cool new feature I just integrated into this python library: AI object replacement. You just specify something like "replace the fruit with gold coins" and Bam! it happens. Makes editing way way easier.
Have fun!
Looks like the hack was made exactly how it was done for EA using stolen Slack cookie: https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kvkqb/how-ea-games-was-hack...

There was a huge leak for Diablo 4 two weeks ago as well.
MiSTer FPGA: Recreate classic computers using modern hardware
Google is almost unusable for searching information these days. Recently I tried to google milwaukee because the redlettermedia guys are from there and it kept giving me links to some power tool company websites. Even the wikipedia link goes to Milwaukee Electric Tool article. You need to jump through hoops just to get to the city of Milwaukee article. Little things like this are getting more and more common with the trash pile that is google search engine. Even bing is better, though switching to that is clearly not a long term solution. Google is a joke. I miss the days when it was good.
I feel like everything today is lazily evaluated through that lens. If the movie doesn't outright tell the audience "x is bad m'kay?" then it will be criticized on the conceit of condoning or glorifying immoral behavior. You know what? You get what you wish for - stupid, boring movies.
+1 for opinionated-tig.
Yes, the Nazis ironically considered Fraktur (whose existence massively predates Nazism, by hundreds of years) a Jewish influence and got rid of it. After the ban, the only place where it survived were tombstones.
I appreciate that the top image for the article is a bunch of things written in completely indecipherable cursive, even for those of us who were taught to read and write it.
It's not from the speakers - it's from your room. Read up on standing modes. Placing the bass producing speaker (usually the subwoofer) in a different spot can help alleviate this tremendously.
The article itself relates the story of nachos being invented in Texas in the 40s.
I used to work on a 15 year old PHP codebase. Everything was mixed in the same file - PHP, SQL, CSS, JS…
These are some things we did

Start using Git

Start doing code reviews, for newer code

Only refactor as needed. Don’t rewrite, it will likely end in disaster (we tried and failed)

Start deleting dead code. If you’re paranoid, comment it out for a few releases, before deleting

It is all about ROI - for example, removing inline CSS might be good practice, but does it really matter that much in your codebase? Maybe there are better things to do.

Even when refactoring, try to do it in stages. For example, simply splitting a large file into two or more files, without changing the code too much might be a good start.

For any new code that is being written have strict code reviews and rules in place, so past problems aren’t repeated
It’s called the Aesthetic. From aisthanesthai "to perceive (by the senses or by the mind), to feel.” , it’s when your senses are working at their peak and thinking goes to the background.

So you can enjoy an aesthetic experience in a far different manner than the unaesthetic, like reading, or figuring out a puzzle, etc.
This 100%. This line is an immediate nail in the coffin:

> This business unit has a pretty aggressive roadmap as management and HQ has no real understanding of these blockers. And post COVID, budget is really tight.

I've been at a company not unlike this... several MLOC of VB WinForms that was total spaghetti, but a highly successful app that brought in a lot of revenue. In our case the majority of the dev team was in agreement that the situation wasn't sustainable, and at first (meaning when I joined the company) we had engineering leadership who mostly agreed. They brought in several rounds of consultants to evaluate the code base and announced plans for a major modernization effort. But the consultants largely agreed with the dev team that the code was in such bad shape that it effectively needed a rewrite. At one point we did a prioritization and t-shirt sizing exercise and came up with _30 man years_ worth of items in the "critical tech debt" bucket. Apparently engineering leadership was not aligned with the C level suite about how much money they were willing to spend on this thing, because within the next year there was 100% turnover of management in the engineering org. A couple of (talented!) people who had been hired for the modernization effort left first, then the other engineers who knew the code base well followed. Last I heard the company was limping along relying on Eastern European and Indian contractors to keep the lights on.

In short OP, you can probably get some wins; maybe some major process improvements like using source control, maybe more minor things like introducing patterns or frameworks so that net new code isn't a total mess. But there is zero chance that you're to do anything like a rewrite or major refactoring without leadership understanding that they're in an unsustainable situation and a willingness from them to invest time and money to fix it.
When you can cram 50 million people into your local cafe, come talk to me.

This law is limited to platforms with > 50 million MONTHLY active users.

People talk about 2nd order effects all the time, here's the really interesting part.

These companies will suddenly be incentivized to clearly identify bots as not-real-people due to this law. Imagine how much power this will take away from those with the platform to scale bots.

You can disagree with the specifics, but the spirit is in the right place.
I think anything without a cerebral cortex is fair game.
That was fun but I didn't see any reward effect at all.
Not exactly clear on your point. Is it to say that anyone who opposes limiting a platform's power to control speech on its services is implicitly supporting this bad policy? If so you might as well complain that the federal government still hasn't outlawed disliking gay people.

At any rate, this would be a stupid and abhorrent policy which would nonetheless not discriminate in the sense described by federal law. The marketplace of ideas being what it is, I'm not sure what kind of foothold such a site would be able to get, having such a stupid policy.
Not the OP, but bad/not up-to-date documentation is worse than no documentation at all, as it might take you on the wrong paths while saying that that's the correct way to do it.
Very funny! imho
Looks like a bit expanded goat, wolf, cabbage puzzle
I disagree. If you can get a few people who are regularly and eagerly talking to you about your idea because they really want it, then it’s much safer to take the dive.
Why do you care what other people care about?
Different areas of the dev world appeal to different people, naturally, but as a web dev since that became a thing (1995), I take a contrasting view.

The web is the most dynamic, most exciting space in software development right now and is likely to be so for the foreseeable future. It touches everyone, in every industry. Web interfaces and technologies are the most used languages on the planet, giving your work huge impact.

Have there been changes in this newest area of computing? Of course! Typescript isn't "controlled" by MS. It's just the future version of JS, available today. It's tremendously exciting for anyone who works with big JS codebases. Electron and other ways of building desktop apps out of the same tools is also a huge leap forward and let's web devs make stuff that's as beautiful and exciting as traditional desktop apps, all of which are incompatible with each other and have huge proprietary libraries.

Bare metal web components and Lit are able to replace outdated frameworks like Angular and React and this is a huge improvement, too. Finally, web sockets gives us an open two-way pipeline to communicate with multiple servers or clients without http.

Taken together, these elements represent an exciting time in web development when we can deliver apps that are beautiful, well written, and easy to maintain. The time for web dev has never been better! But it might not be a good match for you if you prefer working on other kinds of code.
This trope is getting tired, heat pumps exist.