skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A piece of software I use has google groups as the main interaction point among users & between users and the dev. It works quite well.
Our company is registered in Delaware, we do have remote-office in Colorado where I live
It is not a scam, almost all startups uses Delaware incorporation to be able to raise money
Can't say I've had that problem (5 languages). My problem has been that what I call "language confidence" erodes quickly when you don't use them for a long time. For example, I use English and Spanish on a daily basis. No issues there. However, I haven't used French for probably 30 years and German for 20. I can listen to both and understand most of it, yet launching into speaking anything other than short phrases feels really uncomfortable.

Tangent: I learned some Japanese years ago. The language made sense to my brain. No writing, just conversation. The same thing did not happen when I attempted to learn Chinese. The way I put it is that my brain simply could not synchronize with the speech pattern and sentence structures. To be fair, I don't think I made a solid effort.
I am evidently a robot.
There are test kits available that can show you what you have, including tests for fentanyl. It requires a bunch of different reagent tests if you bought a Mystery Powder that you want to ID. But if you were after MDMA, for example, and bought what’s claimed to be MDMA, you can test it with a specific reagent to confirm whether it is that or not, then test it with a fentanyl test strip to show if it’s free of that contaminant.

Dance Safe sets up tents at big festivals to do this kind of testing as a harm reduction service. They (and others) are trying to normalize the step of testing what you have before using it, and I think that’s a wise choice especially with fentanyl in the mix. I’d expect that with decriminalized use of “white powder” drugs, you’d see these kits become more readily available from smoke shops, maybe even pharmacies, instead of being something you have to search for online.
The deleting of half the comments is what's really irritating IMO. Go ahead and lock the thread, ban people if you don't want bounty discussion, but leave the history intact.
Valve uses human translators, not ML. So unless you're talking about your browser's auto-translation feature, you are, in fact, reading human-produced text.
> Dimension Apple trip destinations have become increasingly vague, as the “Road Trip” group chat suggests, part of an overall and troubling vague-ening of the Dimension Apple

This bit was hilarious. It's comfort food in the same vein as the Barbie movie - everyone is polished and no one needs to work.
Programming on the Mac was the second worse experience I'd had - second only to a terminal Lisp system that had no backspace and thus no ability to fix a typing mistake. Both were in fact worse than the punched cards where I first learned to program.

Edit: Mac programming was in 1984; Lisp in 1983; Punched cards in 1980
I live their focus on a healthy working enviroment. You can see, they are dog-fooding.
Well.....given you can't offer your product, it seems like it's playing a massive role in your sales.

Think about this:

* Stripe banned you

* You appeal

* Some support person at Stripe has to make a judgement. They know nothing about you. They go to your website.

* That support person gets a page that reads like a quickly built scam site.

* Support person goes "Yep, looks like the system flagged this correctly".

-----

I see you making excuses why your BE team can't manage the website. Stop.

Why is the BE team managing the website? Why aren't you using squarespace, wix, weblflow, any of the point and click website builders? Why aren't you moving that responsibility to somewhere else? Sales? Founder? Literally anyone but the developers.
>Neat trick getting shot through both palms while holding a gun

If you get shot 57 times, including through your head, you're probably going to drop what you're holding at some point during the experience.
I think the gold standard for this was Visual Basic, especially combined with MS Access. And they didn't touch on File Maker. A lot of those one-person, in-house applications I've come across were wrappers around databases more than anything else. For example, I ported an application that was written on Access and VBA to track counts of organisms in stream beds to the Web for a county government. Frankly, I'm not sure I made their lives better, except for their manager's manager to check a box. And there are a bunch of small applications I've run across for things like property management that are little more than a GUI over a database.
Foxconn Reportedly Paying Huawei Workers More Than iPhone Builders
On the other hand, that's a years salary for many people. Seems like a quite fair payment, and a payout to envy.

Lower, easier to get payouts are arguably better than rare jackpot payouts you have to fight over...
This is a good explanation but thought it might additionally be useful to link to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_e... as an example of creating a secure channel from an insecure one
Shortcuts is one of those rare products that have been acquired and have not only not been ruined, but has improved tremendously for first and third party app integrations.

I was initially turned off by the visual programming style because it was mind-bending. Now I use it a lot because it is mind-bending and flexes my brain while also being highly useful.

If for some reason I don’t want mind-bending, I can hope into Pythonista and get stuff done. Or thanks to the tight integration, integrate it with Shortcuts.
US gives Ukraine industrial-sized 3D printer for repairing trucks, weapons
I think we should just start calling it Xbox xCloud Live Gold Pass Ultimate 365, just to be sure. If Microsoft can't choose, we'll choose for them.
The Apple II Basic prompt brought programming to the people. Around 1984 Byte magazine published an article about a hot language "C" that was used to create special effects in Hollywood. Not long after C was available in the Macintosh Programmers Workshop (MPW) where many started using it. Objective-C was written in C. Most "programming by the people" was Excel macros on both PC and Mac. I agree the Mac didn't bring programming to the people, but it helped.
Yes you need to connect your Stripe account, provide us all the requested information and then we prepare the campaign for you with no cost and then we bring you customers. You have the option to increase 30% to reinvest back another x% to do more marketing and get clients faster

Our tech worked and made 20k sales in 3-4 days for our clients after 7 months of work but now Stripe closed our business for no reason
The entire scope of my comment is about the message - the only one talking about the person is you.

I find that disgusting.
Learning C++ programming on OS 7 put hair on my chest. After that Unix was a walk in the park.
I kind of did that with PowerBooks back in the days.

The hard truth was that used Thinkpads were a better option.

For the same price you could get 3 years old ThinkPads which were more powerful and in better condition than 6 years old PowerBooks.

But I did installed Gentoo on my PowerBooks G3 and G4 (it just took 2 days to compile Firefox). And ironically, this knowledge proved useful in my first job when I repurposed old IBM Power servers with it.
I watched Overwatch tourneys on Twitch for a bit. And I played a little bit of League of Legends so MOBAs aren't entirely foreign to me.

Didn't know about The International - I had to go look it up.

The world is stranger than you might believe.
Oh, thanks for the reply and sorry for the accusation then.

Well, just to reiterate – if you need to hold crypto, and if you're doing self-custody for it (no recommendation for either), don't come up with your own recovery phrase. Use a reputable wallet (again, I won't recommend one here) and make sure you have a backup plan that works, ideally offline and in multiple locations. And to reiterate: Even doing that, people lose their funds all the time. Opsec is hard, doubly so when literal money is at stake.

The human mind is quite bad at true randomness, but very good at coming up with puzzles that it perceives to be unsolvable (but that others can crack trivially).
Quite often even history books are fictional representations of historical figures.
As a part of a balanced diet, yes.

In the quantities we're all taking about, it's hard to say these "breakfasts" are positively contributing though.
Or simply, "self-direction and persistence".
we have 0 disputes, 0 payments and we only make money by collecting application fee from the sales of connected Stripe accounts. We technically don't even carry a risk to Stripe
> The people that want to program will do so no matter what the end-user environment is. Most people just don't want to.

this is something I would expect to hear from an Apple executive, and would hope to never hear from a commenter on hacker news. the whole point here, is we should be fostering environments that make it easy to program should people want to, not assuming the default is "no one wants to program" and making it as difficult as possible, or just making it difficult by laziness (not prioritizing developer experience).

what we DON'T want, is what Apple, Google and Microsoft currently push hard. which is essentially, lets make all personal computing devices black boxes, that cannot be modified, and that the end users dont even own, but rent from their overlords. no thank you.
As a Finnish person who almost fluked Swedish class I wish I would've taken it more seriously. Knowing a language or three at that seems like a big up in life.
Funny enough I’m literally writing an article at this very moment that touches on this subject a bit.

I’m surprised the author mentioned Swift Playgrounds but not Storyboard. Storyboard was promoted as a way to build apps without touching code. It obviously failed, as anyone who has used it could predict, but that was definitely part of the messaging around it.
> Most Rust users should not have to worry about it. It's one of those things that becomes more of a concern if you're writing library code for low level datastructures, or interfacing with C/C++ libraries.

Don’t all Rust users writing async code have to worry about Pin?
Another case where this quote is upheld:
> It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
Obsidian – the private and flexible writing app that adapts to the way you think
It's also worth considering that HyperCard was very effective at allowing users to build or customize useful tools for themselves while writing little to no code. You could write "programs" with HyperTalk, but you could also just pick through the extensive examples HyperCard shipped with and kitbash something, or make searchable databases with little more than a card background with some fields. A small amount of scripting could go a long way, because the surrounding environment and tools did heavy lifting for you.

The HN audience skews toward programming per se as the ultimate expression of power and flexibility with a computer, but HyperCard was accessible and empowering in very different ways from QBASIC or an iPython notebook.
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why does lead generation, a very normal and well understood business, require any of this payments technology? Why are you involving stripe instead of just taking a cut after the fact?
See:

https://github.com/sagesharp/code-of-conduct-template/blob/m...

And from that:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%E2%80%9Cprioritizes%20margi...

Two notable examples:

https://wiki.gnome.org/Foundation/CodeOfConduct

https://www.elastic.co/community/codeofconduct

Probably more but I’m on vacation. Also I’m expecting you to respond saying something like “Those don’t count” anyways
Yes. It’s sold in most grocery stores where I live.
Not really. Only a tiny slice of the historical person’s memories and persona is recorded. There is a lot more entropy to their representation that died when their brain did. Ergo, whatever “perfect” simulacrum is presented will need to infer the gaps and ultimately be fictional.
What an odd statement.

"Programming" as a concept is more accessible to people than it's ever been. Some years back I tried to break into React development (I'm an iOS developer, but only with native code and wanted to expand my skills) and I had built a simple app in a language I'd never used before with tooling I'd never used before up and running in a couple of hours. I'm sure my prior experience in software helped some, but I cannot overstate how completely different the tooling was between one and the other.

If you want to build websites, there are more tools and options than ever. Basic HTML editing and markdown files paired with something like Jekyll, hosted on Amazon S3 is basically free, minus the cost of a domain, and is done with simple HTML and text files, with massive community-driven documentation and support. If you want a fancier website, PHP/MySQL are extremely mature, well documented, with probably billions of code samples available and who knows how many libraries. If you want to build apps, Swift playgrounds is excellent, and Swift itself is an extremely flexible and comprehensible language, and Kotlin on Android is quite similar as I understand it. If you want to automate your daily life, Macs have a whole selection of shells, and PHP can work there too. Windows meanwhile has batch files, powershell scripts, and if you're willing to do a little work, bash can be had too.

And more and more and more. 3D printers with GCODE automation, arduino microcontrollers, raspberry pi's to make dumb electronics smart on your own terms. I could come up with examples for the rest of the day if I wanted and probably not repeat myself.

And anytime you run into a problem, you can slam an error message into Google, and pretty reliably find something/someone that can help you, and many of them absolutely will because we all love this stuff and love solving problems and helping each other out.

This notion that Apple has failed to bring programming to the people is fucking bizarre to me. Programming is with the people. A lot of people don't wanna do it, that's fair. A lot of people don't have the skills, or the desire to get them, completely understandable. But to say it's inaccessible is just wrong. It's all out there. Whatever you want to do, there is probably a solution to it if you're willing to put the time in, as has been the case with basically any other skill for all of human history.
True of some things, but not of Fair Use. Automatically generating thumbnails is generally Fair Use, for example.
> Meh, weird accusation from a known bad-faith troll with a history of misrepresenting facts (i.e. lying) to make weird accusations and more sockpuppets on the internet than I have socks.

That's a rather large accusation to throw around. What's the context behind this?
Colombia Reports Cyberattack with Impact Across Latin America
> yet

So...either:

* You're advertising a service on your website that you cannot provide. Shady...but maybe not fraud

* Or, you're planning to compete directly with Stripe

Being blunt, it's extremely hard to understand what you're trying to say to anyone on this thread. Your sentences are broken and you're referring to a ton of things that nobody knows what they mean.

It's nearly impossible to dig yourself out of a hole when nobody can understand what you're telling them.
I have experienced too many other benefits to NixOS (and learned enough Nix to get by along the way) to turn back now.

It now seems like the only way to do Linux sanely to me.

It’s perfect for tinkerers like me due to having more supported packages than any other distro, plus instant rollbacks.

It would be like asking a functional programmer to go back to C. “But… I’d lose all my guarantees, and spend too much time troubleshooting crap that just would never happen in [functional language/NixOS] again… No thanks”

To some things, there’s simply no turning back… and Nix is (slowly but steadily) gaining marketshare and mindshare for this reason.

If the BSD’s want future relevance, they better steal some ideas from Nix quick, and get cracking with declarative immutability and deterministic builds
How is this different from Prolog?
They've added turbo mode recently which keeps most games between 15 and 30 minutes!
Modern Java in Action (the 2nd edition of Java 9 in Action) covers Java 11 and contains a final chapter that talks about "future Java" features -- many of which are now implemented.

It's a great book for Java programmers who want to make the jump to functional-style programming. If that's the transition one is hoping to make, then I would definitely recommend the book.
> The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) is the only major daily newspaper in the metropolitan area of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It is the flagship publication of Cox Enterprises.

Cox Enterprises is ringing extremely loud warning bells. This is the same Cox that is time and again accused of being an internet and TV monopoly and taking advantage of their customers with exploitative, borderline illegal tactics. I don't trust them one bit. I'm willing to bet in a place like Atlanta, with the history it has, there's still a good ol' boys club with deep roots, operating as the Chamber of Commerce or another faceless, buried, quasi-bureaucratic market-capture and -manipulation mechanism. It's such a mundane point to make because of how ubiquitous this pattern is, but bears repeating in this context. It always seems paranoid to point out this possibility until it's proven true. You can see a recent expression of this tendency in the raid on that elderly reporter in Kansas, the one that stressed her out so much she died.

Again, critical reading is imperative here. Especially considering how news media outlets today frequently rely on "access journalism" -- ie, favorable coverage and language in exchange for voluntary participation by police in accessing details about new stories -- we should expect that large outlets (especially ones with captive audiences such as "the only major daily newspaper in the metropolitan area of Atlanta, Georgia"; looks like they monopolized Atlanta's newspaper market, too) play games with rhetoric to maintain legitimacy while peppering in propaganda, in the name of "both sides" and "neutrality", in order to maintain access.

You shouldn't trust that 'allsides' website any more than you should trust anyone else. I certainly don't. You should also note: "As of September 2023, AllSides has low or initial confidence in our Lean left rating for Atlanta Journal-Constitution." This does not support your assertion that this media source is "left-biased". In fact upon further review that website relies exclusively on community reviews to label these websites. It has the same issues that any reporting mechanism of this form has, which makes it even less trustworthy.

ACJ is playing to their crowd just like the rest of them to maintain legitimacy and keep the money flowing. This isn't to say that everything in the news is fake, just that everything in the news is shaped by material forces working behind the scenes which helps to form the narratives that end up in the columns and webpages. Sometimes there's outright lies, sometimes lies by omission. It's as much about what is said as what isn't said. Sometimes even emphasis and rhetoric is enough to shift the narrative enough that certain perspectives are completely memory-holed.
I think it's important to distinguish between content and presentation. Most books don't offer entirely new content, but (at best) give some novel way of presenting old content. Consider a modern retelling of Greek Mythology. The stories weren't the original contribution by the author (but by the Ancient Greeks), but the particular way they tell it may be. So ChatGPT telling people about its "content" is unproblematic if it's just telling people how the story goes, and only potentially problematic if it's effectively quoting from the book or mimicking its presentation. (And we all know that if ChatGPT is good at one thing, it's paraphrase or re-expressing the same ideas in substantially different ways, so even if ChatGPT literally copies a book's presentation/wording, that would probably have happened by accident rather than necessity)

The vast majority of publications (especially those of a explanatory nature) do not contribute original content/information. The exceptions are things like research articles/monographs, historical records, government reports. But copyright infringement doesn't apply here because these things weren't published with a profit motive but precisely to publicize the information as widely as possible. The only problem area I can think of involves books published by commercial publishers which promise 'exclusive peek' into the life of some famous person (think biographies of celebrities or books like Fire and Fury). In that kind of case there is indeed original content, and revealing it in detail will arguably mean less sales for the authors/publishers.
Typically, Berkeley was more brutal. The EECS Undergraduate Handbook (graduation contract) used to say that the prestige of the Berkeley degree increases with distance from the Campanile.
Please expand on that a bit
Scroll-Driven Animations Debugger (DevTools Extension)
> There is a real argument on the other side, though

No there isn’t. The rest of your comment can be safely disregarded thanks to you opening with this.

“We need to build a better tomorrow!,” we will, the people actually trying to within accepted norms. Not SV grifters who’ve destabilized our entire society and ended privacy all for ad revenue.
It’s ok, I prefer to hold on to my 0Days for when I might need them ;)
A bit adjacent to the topic but I'd personally like to see the ratio of points to comments taken into consideration when ranking posts. I.e. higher ratios of points:comments should rank higher, with points:comments < 1 being the start of some kind of exponential down-ranking.
LaTeX for tabletop
It’s practically cured but people are still susceptible to lots of opportunistic infections and have a drastically increased risk of cancer on the medication so it’s really a stopgap.
I'm content with being rich. Most people are content with less than that. Maybe I'm reading the guy wrong, but he doesn't seem happy or content. So why would I do something I don't want to do to achieve something that I don't need.

As for the real value of SpaceX and Tesla. I think there is value there, but probably less than most and I don't buy into "great man theory", so I would probably ascribe the success to the actual engineers and designers that did a majority of the work. He is a good leader for what he is trying to accomplish with those two companies as far as I can tell.
Your suggestion is that the United States military unilaterally seize other countries vessels who have broken no laws?

The British Admiralty of the 17th and 18th century would have absolutely loved you.
Quite likely yes in the context of repetitive daily routine communication.
Environmental activists are active spied on and blackmailed by Governments. Probably not the best use of taxpayer money?

From: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jan/25/activist-dec...

"An environmental activist who was deceived into a two-year intimate relationship by an undercover police officer has been awarded £229,000 in compensation after winning a landmark legal case.

Kennedy was part of a covert police operation that spied on more than 1,000 predominantly leftwing and progressive political groups over more than four decades. Many undercover officers deceived women they were spying on into sexual relationships during their covert deployments."

Environment activists: 'I got death and rape threats’: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-54165868
I would bet a significantly larger percentage of posters here use Apple devices than does the general population. A lot of the population just buys the cheapest thing that claims to do what they want.