skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
btw, Yuval Noah Harari repeatedly warned that advances in informatics and AI might actually solve the problem of central planning. The Soviets tried to do central planning without the means to transfer and process information cheaply. They didn't even have Excel (or Lotus 1-2-3 for that matter). If they failed only because the tools weren't good enough, it might be due for a comeback especially when AI systems could now plausibly take over those roles...
After firing so many of their browser, browser engine, and docs employees to ensure their CEO got a bonus I don't really trust either the motive or the longevity of this.
Yes...but ~every politician and sleazy executive knows this trick:

function Accept_Designated_Firefox_Donation( $Amount ) {
$Firefox_Designated_Budget_Allocation += $Amount;
$Firefox_General_Budget_Allocation -= $Amount;
$Crap_You_Hate_General_Budget_Allocation += $Amount;
}
Unfortunely that isn't always a choice that we can influence, project => language, and in some cases that implies using a language that we dislike, regardless of how we feel about it.

One can go job hoping as alternative, but then good luck jumping jobs everytime one has to deal with stuff we dislike.
If the OP read the article they would have realized the author wasn't a "tech type"....
Just wait when Go gets 20 years of existence and enterprise use beyond devops.
This was 2011-2013, everyone knew. Epstein was already convicted and served time in 2008-2009.

Melinda met Epstein once in 2013 and said that she "wanted to see who this man was". [1] Of course her spider-sense was tingling in the presence of a known predator. The meeting cemented things in her mind, and as a woman/wife she didn't understand why Bill continued to meet with him.

Bill of course had no problem with Epstein. Gates regularly put aside any sense of morals/ethics for his own selfish financial interests. There was money to be raised here.

Melinda's main problem with Bill was mainly his character, multiple affairs, etc. Combined with other things (like his decision to do business with Epstein), she eventually came to the conclusion she couldn't trust Bill any longer. Not surprising, given what we know about Bill's ruthlessness and general inability to stand by his word.

I'm all for Bill bashing, but there doesn't appear to be a smoking gun here, just a lot of clickbaity speculation. I'm open to any evidence to the contrary, but all I can find is that Bill met Epstein several times, flew on Epstein's plane once, and he never visited Epstein's private island.

I worry that Gates misdeeds are being diluted with time and good PR, and he'll simply be remembered as the guy that did a ton of good (with some unsubstantiated allegations of misbehavior, which of course all dog all powerful people), and not for the person he actually was.

As they say, history is written by the winners.

[1] https://people.com/human-interest/melinda-french-gates-did-n...
"Only results from opened files are shown. Full project search to be enabled at a later date."

Rather useless at the moment. I at least can't really work around in a codebase without project search.
You're not renting to poor people ... and you're rationalizing.

poor people don't have 3x income to rent ratio, middle class people do. poor people don't drive $30k+ vehicles, middle class people do.

The only thing you got right is that poor people make bad financial decisions. Often times they're forced into it, although not nearly always. Poor people trade time for money.

People are often predatory towards the poor because there's a combination of money being there but not having enough to protect yourself from the bullshit.

Personally, the one group of people I have absolutely no sympathy for are landlords, and I say this as someone with a 6-figure income who rents. I grew up dirt poor, to the point of being homeless.

And the number of times I've had a landlord try to pull some shit only to be shocked when my lawyer got in touch is entirely too damned high. Only for the problem to magically go away.

And why? Because you would never imagine my resources by looking at me and how I live. landlords do this shit as a matter of course and only back off when they realize not only CAN you defend yourself, but you WILL defend yourself.

Think about it like this.

There are laws on the books that very explicitly state if a landlord makes a persons property inaccessible before they're legally required to move, that person can sue them for the value of everything lost.

1. How do you think I know that (they gave away 2 of my pets, reptiles)?

2. Why did that law need to be passed?

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I'm sure there are landlords that act in good faith as decent human beings, but it seems as if there's something unique about landlords that makes it difficult. In all the time I've been renting I've met a single decent property manager, and no decent land lords.
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/web_ide_beta/#known-...
With how political Mozilla is I highly doubt they will make a non-toxic platform.
Similar performance by Jacob Collier and the audience:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KsF309XpJo

Quite exhilarating.

I think at some point it was combined to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg3U7TPZxbI
Tell that to average Mastodon user.
They’re certainly good at silencing children permanently.
My point is that the “obligatory” link is getting annoying when tallying up the total amount of fines over the last 4 years across all companies is still less than the yearly profit of the single biggest offender.

And yes, the news you mention are welcome but I’m not holding my breath - they’ve been allowed to brazenly breach the regulation for 4 years and one of the regulators even ended up being corrupt and collaborated with them behind the scenes.
Every single bubble and corresponding stock market crash, shows markets are inefficient and market participants can't correctly judge companies valuations.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/inefficientmarket.asp#:....
Unfortunately this only seems to be available for repos you own yourself and not if an org owns the repo, making it useless in a company context until that is expanded. Great for personal stuff tho.
Though this led me to believe this was a boring status update with a punny title, when in fact it's a work of festive poetic beauty:

> John Mastodon took the queue hash, and up the chimney he stuck it.

> The Hachyderm crew was too tired to fill out the report and said “fuck it”.
Plenty of software has been written on languages without generics, but they have the excuse of coming up before generics were a common feature in mainstream languages.

At least that has been finally fixed.
That sort of already exists in AWS, where Lambda allows you to just write business logic inside the browser without having to worry anything about hosting, and Step Functions allows you to do drag-and-drop various other AWS services into a state machine. Granted, I'm not sure how much utility you can derive from Step Functions if you also don't write Lambda functions.
My personal favorites:

On the cruelty of really teaching computer science: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd10xx/EWD1036.PDF

How do we tell truths that might hurt?: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/ewd498.htm...

The humble programmer: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340...

The notational conventions I adopted and why: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd13xx/EWD1300.PDF

The Mathematical Divide: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd12xx/EWD1268.PDF

Why American Computing Science seems incurable: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd12xx/EWD1209.PDF
Why is nobody giving slack to the horrible UK laws but instead go on how bad ThreeUK is. This is a prime example why traffic filtering breaks the internet and causes unfair advantage.
Show HN: Learn with Lucy
(HN crowd, before you stop reading, I know this probably isn't for you. You can figure Excel out. But it might be for a colleague or a family member, hence this post.)

My partner (Lucy) and I have spent this year creating an Excel course. Yes, we chose to enter perhaps the most crowded of markets. We might be idiots. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Why? Most Excel courses are ... meh. I've never found one that I loved. And if I see another table of sales figures...

At the start of the year Lucy was using Excel as a 'neat grid' that she could type numbers into. I actually caught her using a desk calculator to figure out her tax. She was then typing the result in to Excel. So she really did start from scratch. Now she's VLOOKING-up like a champ and using phrases like 'catching errors' and 'using the wrong type in an argument'. This course works.

I meticulously planned these lessons. We never talk about a topic that hasn't been introduced. No knowledge is assumed. And we were careful never to talk about anything off-camera. Everything Lucy learned, she learned in this course.

She likes to learn slowly, so we took it slow. We found many of the online courses were too fast and didn't really explain concepts. We start with data types, and then we pull apart the concept of a formula and build one from scratch. There's 14 hours of video here, but we figured we'd rather build the last Excel course you ever need rather than rushing it. It's taken me 20 years to get this good at Excel. It's not something you can learn in a weekend.

There's a full money-back guarantee so there's no risk, and this link is 50% off just for HN. That makes it just under $US100, or there's a 3-month payment plan or a subscription option. (It's all hosted on Thinkific, which we love.)

Thanks for listening! And have a lovely holiday.
Allow videos to play when phone is locked (Android)
OSC is just a way of packaging messages with an optional timestamp, despite its name, nothing in OSC is specialized for audio applications. There is no pre-defined convention for "Note-On" messages, "Note-Off", "Sustain Pedal" etc... If someone had taken the time to define these messages maybe it could have been a replacement candidate, but without this it offers nothing more than json.

Also OSC is typically transported on UDP messages (because it is easy to do), but that's a terrible transport since it is unreliable, and messages larger that some OS and network dependent size are just discarded, so you can only use it reliably for message bundles smaller than a few hundred bytes.
Your take on devs isn’t quite fair, as if being a real engineer magically makes one a much better duct tape plumber who can ship their bathroom on time, in software. There’s also hordes of regular engineers who generate and produce nonsense, you can tell it by just looking into appliances or computer parts.
I find it strange that individual persons still think of getting into open source as a profession. If the motive is to share something you built with others with no expectations (except attribution, maybe some bug fixes, a user community) in return, then by all means you should get into open source. But what rational person would think that working on open source full-time is a sustainable way to make a living.

Imagine a doctor who only does pro-bono consultation. Would they be able to make a living?
Then use an AOT compiler, plenty of those for JVM since 2000.

While one can excuse themselves that they were commercial, GraalVM native image, and OpenJ9 offer free beer alternatives.
Many of the metal water bottles come with a plastic liner to avoid the metallic taste
Because they can't intercept HTTPS.
Thats a lot of pushups. I wonder if they are in proper form though because I can do quite a few "half-baked" ones every day.
Many Asian cuisines (that have fed ppl who have been very poor) feature a dish that is a beaten raw egg mixed through rice (the hot rice then cooks the egg a little). Rice & beans etc are good staples but the experience of extremely poor people that is reflected in these cuisines is that it's good and worthwhile to add some extra good quality ingredients to these staples.
Glitch.com is the close to this (not the visual part).

Divjoy and others have a nice drag/drop - there are variants on this theme.

Maybe someone can bring this all together.

Kind of like "nocode-at-first-but-really-there-is-code-if-you-need-to-edit-it"

Or as you say: VB.

Or better: Access for the modern web.
> A union? Sure, fine. But I was talent. I was creative. I was an individual.

Seriously, this is the right attitude. We need to find a regulatory framework for capitalism that works with this mindset.

The OP seems to advocate a more “Swedish system” where (almost) everybody is unionized and that mental framework is applied to all work (except e.g. sports and literature where everybody understands it’s impossible). As a Swede I’d like to caution against this in the strongest possible way. It is the road to serfdom for every talented and ambitious individual, regardless of background. It just perpetuates the class society.
IMO, it's a bit weird they would even host their source code on open-facing GitHub. Of course I don't know the whole story, but seems like a company dealing with security would benefit from hosting their on VCS, perhaps GitHub enterprise, behind a VPN..?
>>No one wants to tax wildlife reserves.

So we should ensure that animals are only allowed to live on government approved 'wildlife reserves'? Where do said animals get their permits, and the directions to where they are allowed to live?
Dolphin Progress September, October, and November 2022
There are AOT options for JVM, just need to learn how to use them.
I don't know if this is intentionally funny, but "govno" in some Slavic languages means s#*t (excrement) :D
My only experience of school bullying is purely anecdotal, from parents of kids suffering from it. The problem seems to be that a kid gets bullied, tells parent/teachers and the school then does everything it can to pretend it isn't happening.

The reputation of a school trumps anything else, it would seem?
Yea - but that's offered by all modern languages, and they're not tied to one particular IDE since LSP took off.
Consider when you’re tempted to ‘what about’ an issue that there’s an important distinction you’ve missed rather than see it as evidence of some grand injustice - in this case that GMail processes orders of magnitudes more email than Tutanova.
That's assuming there's no other extension :-)
You can click on the timestamp of the post to reply next time ;)
What Is a Gossip Queen and How to Destroy It in 1 and a Half Steps
This has convinced me to try obsidian at work. I already use plaintext markdown as daily journaling. So the migration was as painful as appointing my journal folder as a vault, Let’s see if I can make good use of the canvas.
Maybe like musicians, hope you're the one in a million that makes it? As a library author this is really hard. If you develop a user-facing app, with enough hints and messages that you need financial support and according links to GitHub sponsors and Patreon, it might work ok.
Agreed. Most interviewers (even technical peers) have never bothered look at my open source projects and contributions. What really worked, sadly, is the usual sauce keywords you serve (previous known employers/clients, technologies "you know" and how many years of experience you have), "the technical test" you give them back, and "closed source products" that you've worked on and are still online.
This isn't over-complicated, it's just complicated
Relatedly, Linus Tech Tips has a recent video https://youtu.be/4YpRJtvFmP8 about a 3DS dev kit they got their hands on, in that video they also mention that there is a similar device for the DS that was used to capture video for live e-sports tournaments.
You're totally missing the point of the niche in question.
Nope, but you can download it.
You randomly get 4xx or 5xx response codes (can't remember which one)
To those that believe copyright should be limited to a decade or two, what is your answer to Donald Knuth’s The Art of Computer Programming? It has been around since 1962, and yes has had new volumes added over time. Should Donald have been forced to give up his copyright and revenue stream in the 80s for a book that is still popular today? The book is reasonably priced at around $60.

1. https://www.informit.com/promotions/art-of-computer-programm...
> There isn't a country in the world which does this.

My government requires me to have ID, which contains a photo and finger prints and you cannot get a SIM without ID. That's Germany and it's true for many, many countries.
Honest question: isn't Go a bit of a weird choice for a database given the GC? Why not C/C++/Rust?
I'm actually surprised corporations aren't lobbying for this. Instead of coming up with original ideas, they can just take any works of art pre-2000 and just recycle them over and over.

Why spend billions buying Marvel when you can do it for free, why spend billions for parts of the LOTR series, why spend billions to buy Lucas Arts.

I mean Disney is built on taking public domain works and reworking them into their own classics. Imagine if they could do that with the biggest cultural uptake in human history of the 1900s instead of the relatively unknown 1800s stories.

Don't forget streaming services like Netflix who shell out billions to get Seinfeld and Friends. Lobbying for 20 years means they get ALL the 90s instead of shelling out billions.
> that's offered by all modern languages

I see you've yet to meet Scala.

> they're not tied to one particular IDE since LSP took off.

There's at least one language server for Kotlin.

I'm not even a interested in (let alone a user of) Kotlin, but you seem to have a very not-objective view of it for some reason.
Pretty much a carbon copy of what github has been doing for a long while now even down to the keyboard shortcut.
Fine-grained access tokens are available on org-owned repos too, but the org has to opt in (for some reason).
Unbelievable. George appears to have deluded himself into thinking he was an order of magnitude smarter than all his predecessors at Twitter. It's incredible what social media popularity can do to a person's ego.

I'll bet Musk wishes he didn't haphazardly fire so much of Twitter's talent. He could use the help right now.
Might be wise to rethink those instead of trying to be unique. Haven't heard about "custom post vehicle" anywhere else in the world.
Fastmail: My Wishes for 2023
Hi,

I'm a happy Fastmail user, but there are also a few downsides, which I hope they will change in 2023.

I cannot understand that in 2022 they don't have:
- IPv6
- DNSSEC / DANE
- DMARC

Hope some or all of the feature will come in 2023.

And one of my biggest downsides is, that they 'only' have their servers within US.

A few years ago they had servers within EU (amsterdam I think) but they ditched it and went US only. Maybe they think about hosting mails within EU (check 1Password - they also do have several datapoints: US/CAN/EU).

What about your pro/cons and wishes?
Glitch is awesome, however it seems somewhat neglected. I know it's geared towards Node development, but last I looked earlier this year it was still on Python 3.6.

Other than that it provides the best experience of being able to throw up demos and allow people to fork and modify them.
> Something as simple as a signed file at the site's root would let a content creator make paid links to their content but not a scammer.

How does anything like that help though? The scammer can download the file and host it themselves and you're right back where you started, and that's always going to be the case.
Then just use cash.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29024039 for an earlier discussion and details about this.
Today I learned, thank you.
>there will always be demand for the unhealthy

Seems a bit like saying "there will always be demand for cigarettes". Social norms and "nudges" like no-smoking areas can go a long way.

People don't set out to have toxic experiences on social media -- they get sucked in and succumb to bad incentives.

Hacker News seems pretty good. Youtube comments have gotten better.

We're in the early stages here. Only a narrow range of platforms have been tried, and they've mostly been optimized for engagement rather than human wellbeing.
Where's the pricing for your layout engine TALA? I detest the results from dagre so interested in this.

I followed the submission link but found no details of pricing on that site.
Can we agree at least that Soapbox is a much better frontend (as in, it is more suited as a Twitter-alternative, more user-friendly and relies on UX/UI that is more familiar to the general audience) than whatever crap is the default FE from Pleroma?

Alex is also the first one to push for Quoted objects. None of the Pleroma devs wanted, the Mastodon devs even less. Now that Mastodon is reaching some semblance of mainstream, I am seeing every day someone writing about how QT is the one feature they miss from Twitter. For everyone that responds with "Soapbox has it, you should take a look", there will be at least 3 others saying "Soapbox is developed by a TERF, stay away from it".
Giffgaff is rubbish where I am. They throttle down massively during the day, 3Mbit if lucky, even forcing LTE. Found Voxi (Vodafone) to be miles better, at least for my location (which is close to the mast)
Thanks! We actually released a couple weeks ago, and since then it's been almost 100% fixing/improving things the community's surfaced. Long list of stuff here: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/releases.

Re fonts: that README is for contributing fonts. I'm not sure what the best solution is for custom fonts -- whether to just specify the name of a system font, a google font, point to a directory of local TTFs. Some discussion going on here: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/discussions/132
TAOCP is not a single entity; each volume has its own copyright term. The original purpose of copyright is not to enable rent seeking, but to encourage artists to keep making new works. So as old volumes of TAOCP fall out of copyright, it incentivizes Knuth to write new volumes. It would be the system working as designed.
Rust for the Polyglot Programmer, December 2022 edition
So they're missing the niche of "being native", by suggesting... using an AOT (= native) JVM compiler? Meaning making essentially every JVM language native?
Two books that i can recommend;

1) A Method of Programming.

2) A Discipline of Programming.

Browse the EWDs and read those whose titles interest you. My favourites are those dealing with Program Correctness and Languages.

Note that understanding Dijkstra can be hard; so don't be discouraged if you don't "get" something at the first read.
If they're unrelated then maybe they should have posted in a different thread with a different article.
> What i mean is real estate taxes as they are today are not a factor

Right. Which is why the person you replied to specifically mentioned supporting efforts to change those policies.
I’ve seen this on IP lookups I’ve done when roaming - surely this is a bad idea for latency? What’s the motivation? Why would they cripple performance further by proxying to an endpoint that could be half away around the world.
War on wokeness: the year the right rallied around a made-up menace
Donald Knuth is (fortunately) still alive.
But the interface is very cumbersome. Not very productive. To be productive as a developer, you need a lot of other things that VS code provides, but not the Lambda editor.
(edited)

That's actually not too bad!
In Poland, there's "mineral water" where it needs to fulfill those requirements, and "spring water" that is basically bottled tap water. The first one costs like 0,5$ for 1,5L , while second one can be bought for as low as 0,2$.