skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not convinced that GraphQL (which, spoiler, this article puts forth as the winner for client/server communication) is a win for most cases, unless you're literally at Stack Exchange scale.

> In client-server communication, latency is high. We want to be able to get all the data we need in a single round trip, have flexibility in what data we fetch for different views, and have powerful caching

You can (mostly) get all 3 of these with REST, if you sacrifice a little flexibility and add some backend filtering. The upside is your stack is simpler than using a GraphQL library and keeping it patched (oh yeah, graphql library security vulnerabilities are a thing, sorry for the nightmare fuel)
This trial was first posted 2 years ago when vaccines weren't widely available. The purpose of this trial would have been to see if nicotine reduced infection but there's no need for it now, since we have very effective vaccines.
If someone accidentally deleted the Schwarzenegger table in a database, I would expect all movies to no longer reference him.
What stops the GFC operations team from delaying, re-directing or blocking the packets for this wireguard tunnel any differently than they do, for other VPN solutions people use?

I mean sure, its good to have a sane partner inside the economy to manage things and be a helpdesk, but government has to govern. If they don't WANT you to send packets outside the boundary, then surely these "partners" have assets which will be seized if they continue to bend the rules?
With the month long discounts they are offering they aren’t that far off from furnished rentals, but with a lot more flexibility.
I hope they pay you very well. The value YC has gotten from HN has got to be immense and I imagine that without you HN would be a very different place.
I’m not entirely certain humans are any different though. We’re essentially very sophisticated pattern matching machines, based on our past experience.
There is a joy associated with acquiring a high value product. There is a different and greater joy associated with acquiring a high value product which is made be people that have fully enjoyed making that product. From what I can gather you were not alone but made an outsized contribution to this product (HackerNews), and while I can’t know your experience, it sure seems that there was a lot of joy experienced in its making. I’m happy we can both be served by this equilibrium :)
IIRC, one can't chime in unless credentialed on there
Based on past experience it's either free for you or at least many tens of thousands. I was involved in a cubesat group and that's a big issue we had, we couldn't make an innovative payload that would get us sent for free and none of us had that kind of money sitting around.
Yep, that looks like what a few seconds of my vim typing looks like but tossed into source code. Ill take the wall of tailwind any day over that.
There’s a method which involves using a raspberry pi https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-apple-carplay-hack-updated-v...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06x8Wf2r2Mc - at 10:52 Simon Peyton-Jones talks about life of programming languages.

Ruby, having at least million users around the world, is in immortal category.

What fascinated me in the original post is "...data model on the principles of the Value Object, introduced by Martin Fowler."

I mentioned Haskell because there is a long, long history of the use of immutable objects in computing science, dating back to Church and Turing's communication. The immutability is what differentiates lambda calculus and Turing machine.

That is why I remembered Haskell and the video above.

Yet, it is "introduced by Martin Fowler," for some reasons.

This is very sad.
May I ask what your "final project" is? I'm curious what you've identified as important or close to you in this way. I've felt like this before as well, like might as well dedicate my life to a project, but have never been able to keep up the motivation for big goals like this.
IANAL, but you can bet a lawyer would have told him to STFU so he doesn't incriminate himself further.
A story of a broken synth made worse by self inflicted harm but combined with a stubborn resolve to get to the end - a working synth. Mortals would have given up - really really want to congratulate peter sobot on sticking with it and learning a lot in the process and being willing to share the whole ordeal.
This seems entirely justified. Tiktok apparently shares more data than any other app (e.g. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/08/tiktok-shares-your-data-more... )

I am curious how close we are to a panopticon at this point. Tiktok could conceivably be argued to perfectly hack people's dopamine systems at this point although the same was said of instagram etc. in the past.

I'm surprised the state owned devices allow free app downloads though. That's a surprisingly more lax security policy than a lot of corporate laptops - but I've never had a company phone.
that sounds... way past terminal death throes of a company. That sounds like the terminal death throes of the workers
I wrote a browser extension that will send weekly digest of bookmarked links to complete your reading list. It's open sourced at https://github.com/joelewis/readmelater

I used to have a hosted version running at https://closetab.email but couldn't keep it running. Will look into hosting it again :)
I read about them in the 70s. Bundles of smaller rockets, lots of venturi and sea launches. Hard to compete with state actor rocketry at the time. And multi-nozzle rocketry was still a minefield then (I believe it was said to be why the Russian giant launcher failed, where Saturn V succeeded by being brute force simpler to engineer)

In some ways, OTRAG feels like spaceX three decades too soon.
Universities.

Politics, knowing where bodies are buried and entrenched bureaucracy can be just as much "tenure" but for staff.

It can be pretty bad, and often is.
I've always wanted to be a lifer, but I just haven't found the right place. I think my current place might be it, though.
I got 80%
What do you do if you don't mind me asking? Are you not able to use your network to find permanent work or do you just not want to?
Read Ecclesiastes - he feels your pain.
I would prefer to use US senators who refuse to ratify the Mine Ban Convention. They won't need any particular skills or training, just have them wander around possible UXO sites until they find one with their foot. The great thing about this is, US senators are a 100% renewable resource.
Please Look at My Metal Credit Card
no effort was made by twitter to have a coms team
The Slippery Slope of Sales-Led Development (2018)
Yeah, exactly. It was I think the third that I found as I looked at 'new' and I got annoyed.
It's it just me or why isn't the total build time and percentage presented? Without that the time savings seems relatively irrelevant?
it absolutely is. I do a lot of embedded programming, and tmp is used heavily in libraries to offload as much as possible to compile time.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33797476
Those Java Enterprisey guys as Martin Folwer is the reason i stop caring about Enterprise. Shitty stuffs get complicated for no reason.
Recent version also added a toolbar button with a box you can just copy text into and get a translation, which is awesome.

The first release translated endless twitter scroll inline perfectly. Unfortunately, this stopped working for me - either a Firefox update or a translations update - so I actually have to use this box often.
Foundation was actually great if you just skip all young-adult Terminus crap and watch the space soap opera about genetic dynasty family issues. I could watch cloned Cleons all day.

(I'm rooting for them and I hope they'll crush those terminus rebels and keep the empire from falling)
Have you heard of America?

The cognitive dissonance here is astounding
Forgive my ignorance, what is TC?
By new forum software, do you mean Discourse? Like: https://forum.openwrt.org/

It took some getting used to but now I'm actually starting to prefer it to phpbb esque forums. Apart from the terrible space utilization that is.
Samsung added a maintenance mode enforced by their Knox hypervisor you can enable before handing a device off for service.

https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-releases-maintenance...
A run a handful of sites I just toss up on Github Pages that are only HTML and CSS. The dynamic stuff is .Net in the background.

I feel like I've time-travellled back 20 years sometimes, but this is now perceived as "cool" and given buzzwords like SPA SSR.
I don't think I've seen any examples in real life of this actually working, even though it seems to be the normal enforcement mechanism.
I've used megahash with great success:

https://github.com/jhuckaby/megahash
I would say that there is indeed a problem with modern tech companies where things matter even less than they should. It's not a problem of being raised in a context where everything matters, but that many companies, especially tech are totally care free with their vc money, and we can see that changing in the last months of downturn.

Raising children to care is good and takes lots of effort.

Raising children to leave parents alone usually means the children end up not caring or worse.
Disagree.

Asimov himself matured as he grew older and that improved his writing. In the original Foundation trilogy women are mere props. Things happen to them, they don’t make things happen. In his later years he was capable of writing a strong female character that actually did something. She’s easily my favourite character by Asimov.

The 2 prequels are fascinating to me also because they explain why the creator of the Foundation did what he did and how he managed it. For example it’s taken for granted that the galactic empire was declining. But how, and why? It adds richness to the story by exploring this dimension.

But I suppose that’s not for everyone.
Edit: To make NYC car-friendly...
Your long term memory and embodied sense of purpose are good places to explore this premise.
A lot of people in tech could retire or downshift in their late 40s or 50s, so in early 40s you could almost find your last significant role.
Jokes aside, then maybe your code cache size is too small ;p
Too much retcons, and shoehorning his three+ laws robots in it was beyong meh.
Agreed, it’s not perfect but has plenty of good parts, and Lee Pace is excellent in it.
There isn't much to explain. Existing medical data is processed by the AI. New data is collected by means of electronic questionnaires. Questions are chosen in succession based on past responses.

People who have learning disabilities, or disabled in other areas - sight, hearing, or generally unable to interact with the electronic system will require human assistance. The global literacy rate is 87%, and there is room for more than one system so we can cater to everyone's needs.
29/30. I've spent far too much time playing with StableDiffusion though, and those anime-style illustrations seemed too easy to pick out. I think the quiz could have been better with some more variety with the AI imagery.
> 800 year old institution

is this a university?
By all means, stay if it is going good. Just stay for you, not them.
That's still very small. Pretty soon, we'll have universal translator chips installed in our heads.
Not in the BBC breathless:

"Second death linked to potential antibody treatment for Alzheimer’s disease

Woman’s brain hemorrhage while receiving Eisai’s widely heralded lecanemab heightens concerns overs its safety
27 NOV 2022•8:00 PM•

"Rudolph Castellani, a Northwestern neuropathologist who studies Alzheimer’s and conducted an autopsy at the request of the patient’s husband, called the case “very dramatic.” The report, co-authored by Castellani, concluded that the woman, like the other person whose death was linked to lecanemab..",
https://archive.ph/FkYss
> and shown in the order you opened them.

They know better. They really like to rearange windows in the win 10 taskbar.
My thoughts always get to their mothers. Having to use this (insert profanity here) 8 hours a day is too much.
> Never give devs a tool you don't want to be stuck with forever.

That's right. You can pry the <layer> element out of my cold, dead, hands.
Nope, not if you live in any major city.
When it comes to innovation, Europe is a desert. There is no European Apple, Google or Tesla. Indeed, Tesla’s market value is four times higher than the entire German auto industry.

That’s why it’s difficult not to conclude that Europe’s blame game is really about something else — envy.

Despite America’s political divisions, the country has never been stronger in terms of its military might or its economic muscle.

Europe, meanwhile, has become more dependent on the U.S. than it has been since the Cold War, a circumstance that is fueling both resentment and the blame game.

(If you enjoy these and many more broad brush assertions, this is the article for you.)
"Molly is a mercenary, who was recruited by the same person as Case. The character is supposed to resemble Trinity from the Matrix films" - I think it's the other way around.
>Index funds are pretty much the only thing worth investing in, so in a weird way by trying to avoid "good" investments you probably saved yourself a lot of money.

On the other hand, I also used to joke “someone’s gotta adjust the Vanguard” back before I knew “Vanguard” was also the name of a neo-nazi group[1].

Someone has to at least pick high level things like the ratio of stocks to bonds, national to international, that sort of thing… and I’d remarked to many people in many contexts that one downside to index funds is that folks selling off shares might have a disproportionate effect on the market.

Especially if the person selling explicitly mentions they’re purposely selling over 10k’s worth to trigger a report to the feds, because they feel they’re facing persistent issues with irrational actors, so it’s time to get cash into your checking account in preparation for emigration, since the state refuses to honor its promises unless you make them think the alternative is… well go look at the returns for VASIX[2]since about October 2021 and use your imagination :-)

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguard_America

[2]https://fundresearch.fidelity.com/mutual-funds/summary/92190...
He’s definitely in with the pickup driving crowd right now. The top selling vehicles in the US are pickups and the Cybertruck is close to production. Maybe Elon is playing 4D chess? Time will tell.
>As mentioned by GGP, the Google Translate app for Android (at least) allows you to download the model for a given language (pair?), after which you no longer need any kind of Internet connection to translate.

This isn't true. Google claims this, but it just doesn't work that way: I've had many, many cases of trying to translate stuff with a bad cellular data connection and it doesn't work, even though I have the language pack downloaded.
IMO because they don't sanction nearly enough
Most software devs won't make it to 67 unfortunately.
Without a major (really major) cultural shift in the job market mid 50s seems to be about it for most software devs - by then ageism and burnout (which happens among others because of ageism) show most tech workers the door.
When companies talk about diversity they don't mean age diversity...there's no virtue signaling in hiring a mid 50s white man.

This maybe less of an issue in Europe but its still an issue there for sure, this is a young industry that likes young people, tolerates middle aged (40-50) and hates anything above that.
This is beautiful.

I made something similar, Write.wtf

https://www.producthunt.com/products/retiring-write-anonymou...

Lack of interest killed it.
African giant pouched rat. Cheek pouches. (not marsupial). Poor eyesight so the sniffing is presumably evolutionary advantage for the niche they'd normally occupy.

Given enough time, I wonder what other social adaptive qualities could emerge in a species like this? Domestication of dogs and cats had huge longterm upsides for both species and humans. Most rats by number are now co-occupants of human space but by species I'd be less sure. I had no idea how big the genus is until I dived into the rabbit hole.

(If you like large rats, look out for the Rakali or water-rat: web footed, and quite large. They live in the lake of Canberra amongst other places. I don't think they are trainable or economically exploitable beyond nature tourism. They are very very cute. Like Otters sort-of, but .. rats)

These pouched rats are very cute. And doing amazing work.
Focus on getting out the house first. Experience the world. Try meditation. Exercise - not for muscle or aesthetics, but because of the endorphins that will make you feel better.

Don't set goals. The only goal should be to undertake these actions regularly. Life might still feel intellectually empty while doing these things, and that's okay. The point here is to start with your body as it'll feed your mind and you might start to feel a bit better.
The thing about that is, now instead of just printing cards and some rules, interested parties now need to program at least a large portion of the game logic to make this work which increases their cost a large amount. (Not to mention that most trading card companies would not have the in-house capabilities to do that.) The thing that makes trading cards so popular for kids is that they are cheap. When I was at school the Kaiba starter deck for Yu-Gi-Oh was $30 and I got 50 cards, a mat for the game area, instructions and some art. A 2" e-ink display is like $10-15 wholesale which means for the same price (even adjusted for inflation) I'd receive maybe two cards at cost price. That would not be enough to keep 11 year old me entertained and as a parent I would not buy things that can be easily broken for my kids.

For what it's worth, the actual Yu-Gi-Oh trading card games has rules and the anime uses a very loose interpretation of those rules.
Exactly.

The first Foundation books were mostly men in rooms drinking whiskey, smoking cigars and congratulating themselves on how perfectly all their plans went.

Then we get a time skip and GOTO 10, with some of the men now dead and new ones added.

The YA-Terminus and over the top ST:Discovery-style cry-acting is a bit off-putting, but Lee Pace is so good it doesn't matter.
Maybe I’m phrasing poorly. More like you learn someone’s deepest hopes and dreams, the psychic “initialization vectors” that allow you to predict how they’ll act.

(And then by extension how large groups of people with similar backgrounds will act.)
We're watching something similar possibly play out with Twitter. Musk bought it at its peak price and scared away a lot of big advertisers. In the near-term, it's not clear if he cut headcount enough to offset the loss in revenue. In the mid-term, we'll see if he can maintain its relevance. The long-term bet is he can find something to bring Twitter to 1-2B users that Twitter overlooked for 10+ years.

For someone who many see as a business genius, he's made a very questionable bet, and it's a reminder a lot of these people are more lucky than good.

Or maybe I'll be using the TwitterPay in five years to buy a Feather tablet so I can watch Vines.
Immutable pages
Nate Silver definitely is aware of these betting markets. He regularly mentions them in articles and podcasts (though he usually calls them “the Scottish teens” for some reason I assume is quite funny).
My advice is this:

Become a different person.

Take your life and incinerate it. Not literally of course.

I mean completely change what and who you are.

You’re an accomplished software engineer at 30? Great. You’re done doing that.

Go buy a $15k trailer, get a truck, and hit the road. Stop looking at screens, only read books. Stop working a job behind a desk, find something else, or if you can afford it don’t work at all.

I suggest reading CrimeThInc: Days of War, Nights of Love. https://crimethinc.com/books/days-of-war-nights-of-love

Pick up a guitar, learn to farm, meet some nomads. Do it all in another country. Break the law. Do whatever you feel like. Don’t hurt people, obviously, but you’re probably a sane enough person to not want to anyway. Learn a new language. Stop speaking your old one. I mean, really, and truly, break out of the matrix. Go to the edges of your universe, like the “Thirteenth Floor”. Get fit, dissolve your old identity. Become awesome at yoga, or weightlifting, or Jiu Jitsu.

You really can choose to become unstuck. Fly to Europe, buy a bike and a tent, and just go, man. Figure it out later. What’s there to be afraid of, really?
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Depends. If it's some random spot in the memory space, it gets an access violation and the kernel kills it. Otherwise, if it's still a "valid" memory address, it's allowed to access it. Even if it's say, within kernel space.
The grifter ones hate talking to tech people.
Could be a really cool way to play complex "choose your own adventure" games. Like "Hand of Fate" for example, you'd only need three or four cards. Could even do it with two. A game like "Reigns" you could even play with a single card
Apple’s tax has been in effect for years, but apparently is enforced inconsistently. Also there are two EU investigations into their practices. Apple has been fined for billions before.
Ukraine has ratified the Ottawa Treaty
linked above.

I'll note that it only bans the use of all non-remote-controlled anti-personnel landmines.
That can be true, though it can also be a sort of cheap way to sound smart in a group of smart people.
No, because in my experience in order to get adequate compensation over time you need to change job.

I graduated in 2017 and I now earn 240% of my graduate salary. 12.5% of the difference came from internal pay rises, 87.5% came from changing company.

I am very happy where I am now, but on past results I imagine I will have to move in a couple of years in order to keep pace with the market.
Indeed. The higher rates remove all benefits of leverage, and the investment borderline at best. It has worked well for the last 15 years however.
I'm reminded of crytek failing to pay employees for months

https://www.polygon.com/platform/amp/2016/12/10/13908156/cry...
It's a lot more than my little personal server usually uses in a month though.
Or a fish in our ears?
> Apparently some folks, like the people running ccTLD registries, believe that allowing the public to know IP addresses for large numbers of domains is a "security" issue.

There's some merit to this.

Doing the reverse lookup - finding all other domains that resolve to the same IP (or same subnet) can leak a lot of information. For example: what other businesses are run by the same entity, and test/staging/admin infrastructure.

It can also be another way to attack a specific http server, since different names on the same IP can be routed to different applications or even different internal servers.

Actually relying on this is silly security-by-obscurity, but there's really no upside to publishing a detailed map.
Desktop with Intel G2010 [0], 20Gb RAM, 128GB SSD for OS, 500Gb WD Black 2.5". Originally built somewhere in 2008 with A64 X2 4200+[1] on EPOX nForce4, upgraded to SSD in 2012, upgraded to Intel ~2016. Still on Vista.

ASUS VivoBook TM420, Ryzen 3 4300U, 12GB RAM, 256GB NVMe. ~1 year old, current beast of burden.

Lenovo T440, i3-4010U [2], 8GB RAM, 120GB SSD. In my usage since 2016, model is from 2014.

Of course there is X301 somewhere, with 1.8" SSD (probably 128GB?) and unknown amount of memory. The only machine with working DVD-R drive.

> I expect to use this PC for at least 10 years.

On a new $200 PC? Doubt it. It would work, of course, but... It's probably on Celeron?

[0] https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/71071/i...

[1] https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K8/AMD-Athlon%2064%20X2%20420...

[2] https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/75107/i...