skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks a lot! The product already goes beyond plain monitoring of several platforms. With existing features you can already:

- Get background information about your community members & the companies they belong to and manage them with tags and automated segmentation

- Analyze your community, create custom metrics, organize them in reports and share them publicly with your community, your investors, or your team

- Use webhooks to automate routine tasks

- Detect relevant conversations and publish them in a community help center to reduce duplicate questions and get your community's content listed on search engines

- Monitor dev-focussed community platforms to find relevant content to engage with, helping you to gain developers’ mindshare and grow your community organically

You can find more about it in our docs: https://docs.crowd.dev/
You can easily identify natural caching locations and mock quick tests to approximate ballpark time costs. Existing code is likely to be helpful for overall estimates and you can consider relative performance of user terminal to your own test bed. All sorts of ways to get informed on basic performance parameters ahead of time.
In the beltway they're telling themselves that war will be a boon for the environment: https://www.politico.eu/article/vladimir-putin-war-ukraine-a...

"By launching a bloody invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has done more than almost any other single human being to speed up the end of the fossil fuel era."

The ebullience of that article actually kind of made me feel sick.
Oh certainly - the world was so desperate for computer people and there was no time to build up college courses for this stuff (it was way too new) that anyone who could do anything computer-related could easily get a decent job. This lasted until the 2000 crash, but in the right areas continued on for quite awhile.
Thanks for digging a bit. Interestingly, your source actually points towards dark mode being safer long term. My gripe with the parent is that it implies dark mode use risks damage (the lens becoming less scrunchable). I am unable to find any literature that alludes to this.
Before Google, and before there was actually content on the Internet, it was the MSDN documentation CDs and about 20-30 very large books.

People scoff these days about stack overflow, but we were more reliant on examples in print that sometimes wouldn't work. Stack overflow is just a resource only slightly les trustworthy than a first edition manual.
On the flip side, most coding was quite simple, but for internet work you needed to know perl or c++ as well.
Dumb downloader that scrapes the web
If accounts are permanently deleted, I could see there being fallout
> "Earlier it was crashing every 10-20 seconds and now they have suspended my account for no reason," another said.

This sounds like the app was in a crash-loop. If it was getting far enough to start authorization, it would generate traffic indistinguishable from a hack attempt. An automated circuit-breaker there is probably best-practice.

There are a lot of places where automated "moderation" is a terrible idea but it looks to me (somebody who is generally anti-Meta and more generally anti-social-media) like a good circuit-breaker doing its job.
Process reflected that; our team just got a stack of
paper (brief) and that’s it; go away and implement.
Then after a while, you brought a cd with the working
and tested binary, went through some bug fixes and
the next brief was provided.

Oh my god I wish I could live in this world for a little while. Like you, I'm not sure I enjoy this any more.
learning to use perl is not hard. any language is easy when you only learn and use a subset of it. and perl is very powerful. you don't need to learn all of it in order to write code.

what makes perl hard is to learn all of it and deal with code that uses features that you haven't learned yet.

perl is like english. easy to get started with, but the more you learn the more complex and more difficult it gets
I have strange feeling about these nodejs server based and the direction of the web and the chaotic of Big|VC-backed corps playing chess. And that also causes effect on web job market. .. what's your retirement plan?
Source ? Also, have you seen the former ministry of environment Ricardo Salles in the April 22, 2020 video of the ministries meeting with Bolsonaro ?
Why do you need to submit driver's license photos to contest a ban?
It is fun! The Windows crash screen made me laugh.
Side note, anyone who likes Gen Z humor should take a read through the CPSC's twitter account.

For example: https://nitter.1d4.us/USCPSC/status/1585307603558486034#m (random nitter instance because the main one has an SSL error).
A pirated copy of Visual Studio 2005 started my career.

We didn't have internet at home, and I was still in school, so the Knowledge Base articles on the MSDN CDs pretty much taught me.
Reverse Engineering the Hacker News Ranking Algorithm (2017)
I deleted Instagram from my phone a few days ago and I am so happy with my decision. You know, there is no need to share pictures of my food with a random collection of mostly strangers and no need for me to look at pictures of people's filtered lives or endlessly scroll through that TikTok rip off they added.
Oh interesting. I guess it speaks to the baseline performance of the M1?
This is a weird comment to me, the guy is clearly exceptional. He's written security exploits that have been seen across the industry and in publications and has touched various spaces across engineering. His insights on self-driving in particular were just far ahead enough in their time that now Tesla Engineering is doing what he claimed was the only practical way to deal with SAE level 2 driving, without radar.
So what? This is akin to crowdfunding, or patronage. Many people were happy to have early access while supporting the project.
As long as he keeps on with the tinygrad Twitch streems I don't care. I got far more value of him doing live programming than $5/month.
>I'm certain there's a good language in there, but it's so rarely used during my time in the industry (I'm in my mid-30s), that it's just never been worth the effort. I'm sorry, Perl.

No apology needed, I'm sure even Perl realizes it was a little stagnant while the rest of the industry zoomed by.

I used Perl in the mid 90's, so I suspect I'm ~20 years older than you. ;) Back then it was a jack-of-all-trades language, good at parsing logs or text files, pinched hit for php if you needed add scripting to websites, etc.

Over time, javascript improved, python gathered mind-share, and perl still worked but wasn't keeping up with new libraries.

I'd like to see Raku do well, although I doubt I'll use it professionally - seeing as how I've got around ~8 years left until I retire.
If you’ve ever experienced the feeling of "this theme is almost perfect except for one thing," then VS Code has a decent way to address it (not sure about other editors/IDEs).

In your user settings, you can override a good number of styles in your current theme. Examples: make comments more visible, remove italics (if you don’t want them), make the active tab more prominent, darken/lighten the editor background, etc.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/themes#_custom...
I think 'we're first' is unlikely, but the universe is so unimaginably large that we could well be first in the little bubble we can readily observe. Alternatively, another civilization has come and gone, and we've yet to spot it's remnants.

I don't buy the whole idea of 'we just can't see them'. We're very good at detecting signal from our physical world, and any advanced civilization is going to be noticeable as they start harvesting the power of nearby suns.

Maybe you're right though, maybe 'dark matter' is the mass of other multiverses and gravity is the only force that bleeds through.
Yes, if you're in the store page, you can look for an icon that confirms whether the game is verified for the Steam Deck.

https://www.steamdeck.com/en/verified
Geohots actual track record isn’t that impressive though, he’s just one exploit dev with an OK portfolio.

>edit: apparently this is a hot take to some, but no real substantive refuting of what's being said- only appeals to greater authority. "Well so and so was smarter"

Do you happen to have substantive evidence to back up the original claim?
I don't mind Perl, and I like that it's installed on every Linux distribution I'd ever use by default. The problem I have is that I find it unpleasant to work with text files. Examples:

https://perlmaven.com/open-and-read-from-files

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1045792/how-can-i-list-a...

I simply cannot remember that stuff, and frankly it's too much hassle. I want to make one call to a simple, built-in function to load a text file, and similarly for looping over the files in a directory. I find Bash plus other Linux tools to be easier than Perl, even though most everything else is easier in Perl.
agree in a sense - autonomy could take a generation to deliver, and it isn't clear how a small "traditional" startup can really participate

and everything in tech attracts wannabes and grifters making a cashgrab
why use throwaway?
replit employee here. the team who built this is very small (less than a dozen, including non-eng roles for the go to market), and went from idea to general availability in 8 weeks
The challenge is that the eventual winner in the AI space might not be a company that exists today. Say that you build a portfolio that's 60% interest rate swaps and 10% each into DeepMind & 3 other hot AI companies of the moment. In 10 years, we've solved the labor shortage, but the eventual winner is a company named ConvBrain, founded 2028. All the capital you allocated to the AI space is tied up in DeepMind and the three other incumbents, so unless you're watching the space like a hawk (in which case you might as well be employed in it), you would've missed the ascendancy of ConvBrain and picked the losers despite the space as a whole being a winner.
> and when on Unix RCS

And SCCS was available before that.
My headlights were shooting straight out when I picked it up (Oct 2020 Y) and I needed to lower the angle myself in a settings menu to not be blinding to oncoming cars.

Maybe this is a more common thing that people need to adjust...
vim? emacs? where are those. Didn't find them.
> Additionally, all of the CentOS users were still "in the Red Hat family" and at least kept the door open for future conversions/sales.

How? When Ubuntu tried advertising Ubuntu Pro via apt-get, everyone was outraged, and rightly so. How else could Red Hat talk to a CentOS user to convince them to pay up?
It strikes me as surprising that George Hotz is religious. Very few people I’ve met with similar personalities are.
> seemingly reasonable assumptions/estimate

I challenge the idea that all the assumptions hidden in the claim that life is ubiquitous are seemingly reasonable. For instance, we don't have the faintest idea of how likely it is that eukaryotic life evolves from prokaryotes or if prokaryotes can themselves become complex life forms. Next, we don't know the likelihood of complex life becoming intelligent. It's not like this is some natural goal of evolution, at least as far as we know. It may have been an extremely rare accident here on earth.

There are many more such assumptions, some of which Fermi could not have known about. But we shouldn't ignore all the progress we have made since then.
Unless you like JRPGs, in which case the Switch is a first-class console.

Except for a few AAA-scale action RPGs that launch on PS4/5 (e.g. FF7R, upcoming FF16), the vast majority of JRPGs being released today come to Switch first. And when Switch exclusivity expires, many of them only get a PC release beyond that with PS4/5 and XB1/XSX releases simply never happening.

For a good chunk of JRPG players, the question is "PS5 or Switch?". And if you're like me and specifically prefer turn-based JRPGs, you can forget about anything that launches as a Sony exclusive so that leaves the Switch as your #1 console.

Though I guess the comparison to the DS works well here, as the DS was to platformers during its heyday what the Switch is to JRPGs now.
Is this a thing, did people make lists of people they felt were wrong and are still upset about it?

Most of this past summer I saw no masks or significant recriminations.

Maybe this is something more about online discourse or some specific community / social circles thing?

I found most folks are just happy to be done with it.
George Hotz is my canary for the question "is there still adventure to be found in computing". I hope he finds some, because if he can't, then there is probably none.
on the contrary, I find this article to be excellent. none of this stuff was ever taught to me in school, which is nuts given that the school I went to was specifically tailored toward video game development, and had[0] students create their own game engines almost entirely from scratch in C (a helper library was provided to do basic graphics things) during their second semester, and then had students create their own game engines, entirely from scratch, in C++ during their sophomore year.

again: nothing like this was ever presented to us, except as some sage wisdom from upperclassmen who had figured it out on their own. you learn malloc/free when you learn C, then you learn new/delete/RAII when you learn C++, and you get a brief overview of how garbage collection broadly works in higher-level languages, and that's it, that's the education about memory management. I had never explicitly heard of the concept of a "lifetime" until Rust started gaining traction. it wasn't until working on my sophomore year game engine that an upperclassman explained the idea of building a memory-managing array-like data structure that, instead of reallocating when the capacity is reached, instead leaves the existing items where they were and allocates a new "page" of memory, so as to ensure pointers to existing items remain functional.

hell, I'd never even been exposed to the idea of a per-frame "scratch" pool allocator until I saw Jon Blow talk about having such a thing as a built-in feature of his new programming language. once I saw how it worked, I was floored—it's such an easy-to-explain concept, infinitely useful, basically gives you "garbage collection for free" for any number of one-off things you need allocations for in a given frame of a video game (or other interactive application)—without the need for Actual Garbage Collection!

I agree that this article is a bit lengthy, but in my opinion it does a great job of setting up the knowledge necessary to understand what it's talking about, so I'm not really sure how I'd do a better job. what in particular did you find condescending about it, especially within the first fifth of the article?

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[0] from what I've heard, this from-scratch game-engine-creation is now gone from the curriculum entirely, and now students just make shit in unreal or unity, which is tragic, imo.
Given the progressive/woke bias of Wikipedia, I am scared to ask what was that money really used for.
Ask HN: How can responsible engineers shape the future of Twitter?
(my first Ask HN attempt failed because I had included a URL, which, I shouldn't have)

These general thoughts came to me as part of a small thread on the Logseq community [1] but a variety of follow-up thoughts came to me, which I thought would share with one of the communities that I connect the most with (I might be wrong but that's how we learn).

I began to ask myself what does a civilised and modern world look like, with this transactions occurring in it.
To see, mainly how we can adapt to this new world of Elon leading Twitter with its high potential and many risks as well.

A number of things change, now that Elon is running Twitter. First off, that's horrible news for many. I hope Twitter HR (who should be under a lot of pressure right now) are doing a good job, handling the logistics there.

In terms of Twitter product management teams though, I think they can get inspired by serious conversations in the community as to what features they will now put forward and to what degree, will they allow for communities to speak freely, which would be a way to actually also test a different layer of claims for Elon, in the lines, the bird is free. I mean, at some point, how free are we talking? Free as in Freedom or Free as in for as long as it serves my purposes.

There are so many other topics I could lay out here. For instance, some food for thought, maybe was Elon's claims as to the discrepancy in the number of human users vs. robots. Well, I'd like to understand the process that will go into creating transparency around exactly how we're going to go about handing robots.

So, while he may or may not have been right about those claims, now we need to hold him accountable for how open his approach is going to be, in addressing those very same concerns.

[1] https://discuss.logseq.com/t/hello-from-sina-from-brussels-a-vibrant-new-member-of-your-community/11988/5

Small side note: Mr. Musk also needs to understand to keep his power controlled for he might fall into traps only a few people have survived in history. Nelson Mandela, Cyrus the great, Darius, was it? Absolute power corrupts absolutely has been the rule, except for three so far. You might argue how we can know that to be three. Well, the answer is that when an individual has absolute power, it cannot go unseen. In most cases, it leads to wars and chaos, but it leads to good things when it is controlled like those three individuals built great civilisations, it so happens.
Löcal.host
I've owned this odd domain name for awhile and wasn't sure what to do with it.

If you've ever landed on a random Apache file server index, you know it's mostly filled with odd vacation pics, odd baby pics, uncomfortable photos of work colleagues, etc. So I decided to try reproducing that experience. All images generated by Stable Diffusion.

no ARG here, so don't go looking for one. just wanted to confuse anyone who might randomly end up on this page :D
MSX-2 and Amiga; I like MSX the best as I understand the hardware (from a hardware and software perspective) best.
It isn't an entitled attitude to refuse to work over the weekend under threat of losing your job to ship a new feature that isn't actually urgent at the whims of your new CEO who has spent the last few months publicly shitting all over you.
Offering a great developer experience (DX) when building e-commerce sites is core to their strategy. DX was a key reason why they beat Squarespace in the early e-commerce days: developers preferred building Shopify sites over Squarespace sites.

It's in Shopify's best interest to maintain that developer love and Remix can help with that. Here are two hypothetical situations to highlight that point:

1. If someone else, say, Swell [1], had better DX than Shopify, we would see Shopify start to lose market share to Swell for the segment of the market where developers can influence the tooling decision (i.e. agencies).

2. If in two years from now, everyone is using Next.js to build e-commerce sites, that would put Vercel (the company behind Next.js) in a good position to promote/partner with other e-commerce providers or build their own e-commerce solution and compete with Shopify.

The developer market segment is important and DX is key there.

[1] https://www.swell.is/
You show me color swatches, and say its good for code... but you don't show me any code?
I think I'd feel better about the suggestion for a manned mission if it talked about 1) what value a human would offer in collecting samples and analyzing data over a robot 2) how that value would compare to mass of air, water, and food as well as life-support systems and radiation shielding; the additional fuel and oxidizer to move the mass of the crew and supporting systems 3) the ethics of sending someone capable of doing this important research to their probable deaths rather than an unmanned mission and 4) the cost-benefit to funding this versus other non-space exploration efforts.

What also gets to me is that clearly people have done this cost-benefit analysis before - people that know a lot more about the topic than me. It lacks humility to ignore their reasoning (see https://spacenews.com/independent-report-concludes-2033-huma...).
> but IMO the problem is not that people don't read books, but that a good written reference documentation are very rarely written(or are hard to find) for today's new languages.

Ok, but you can get most of Perl5 from 25 year old books at this point. (Wasn't the version number changed to 5 for a book anyway? or was that Perl4?). A little modernization help might be nice, use bytes vs use chars?, less emphasis on mod_perl which doesn't seem widely used anymore, maybe some coverage of Moose, etc. But if you got the basics from a old book, you'd be fine to learn the rest.

On the topic of new languages, I just started somewhere where they use Rust, and read the O'Reilly Rust book and seem to have done ok; lots of style comments on my first diff, and I'm slower than in other languages I already knew, but otherwise seems fine.

I forget what book I read to pick up Erlang; may have been Joe's or the O'Reilly; but that's an older language... It was public for ten years prior to me picking it up, and private for 15ish before then.
Approaches in Cloud Development Ergonomics
Goerge doesn't owe anybody anything. The kid's following his whims. What's wrong with that? I'd rather this than some long and drawn out stagnation of comma.
Not only this, but he's demanding people work 12+ hour days through weekends or get fired "for cause".

He's doing everything he can to make layoffs happen without actually laying people off, which sure seems like he's trying to evade California's 60 day warning for layoffs.

I suspect we'll see him in court over how this was handled.
Source Code for Industry Idle
Previous discussions, all from 2017:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13867739 (349 points, 49 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13857086 (1274 points, 317 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13838399 (70 points, 8 comments)

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As a tangential slightly OT bonus, I also found an informative article+discussion from the same author:

Web Scraping: Bypassing “403 Forbidden,” captchas, and more

http://sangaline.com/post/advanced-web-scraping-tutorial/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13884357

(564 points, 227 comments)
Big respect for this decision. If he feels like it's all planned out and only remains to see if it works or not (it's all about improving the current models and not about big changes in the codebase) I think it's good for him to focus on whatever he feels like, tiny corporation or whatever it will be.
> rather than something that was intentionally done

Normal users cannot even put a link into an instagram post (pointing to whatever external site).... it seems pretty intentional to me (to keep you on their platform)
I've been using gruvbox since moving on from Nord. Nord didn't have enough contrast. The only problem with gruvbox is some of the keywords/etc are redish, so they look like syntax errors in an IDE. I ended up tweaking it to be more orangish.
It's not just the phones themselves, it's the modern social media apps (TikTok etc.). But I agree it seems to be twisting things up.

I think a closely related issue is how everyone, everywhere, all the time seems to be arguing about political ideologies, or making every issue about red vs. blue or liberal vs. conservative or racist vs. antiracist or whatever other way people want to split others up and then talk about it all day.

I get that it's an election year in the US and people have done this for a long time, but I swear it feels like it is reaching an absolute fever pitch these past years that is different than before.

Because it seems so all-consuming, I think it distracts people from work even more than in the past.
Oh hey, I thought I'd checked the first of these, but evidently they have a lot of exactly what I'm looking for. The second one doesn't seem to have any, though?