skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is reminding me of two times in my life that I was programming on paper.

The first time I was maybe 10–12 years old. We were visiting my grandparents, who had no computer (and there were no smartphones). They did, however, have a (mechanical) typewriter that had the ability to type in both black and red with a switch. Back then my main hobby was Turbo Pascal, so I used the typewriter to write a Pascal program that I would later type up into the PC and run when we got back home. We spent a week at my grandparents, so I had plenty time to think it through, debug it by hand, and re-type sections that were faulty.

The second time relates to an esoteric programming language I invented called Ziim (https://esolangs.org/wiki/Ziim), and more specifically, the binary addition function you see on that page. It's huge and complicated... and it had a bug, which I knew because I ran it in an interpreter, but I had no idea where the bug was and how to fix it. — Around that time, I had a long bus ride coming up; sitting in a coach for like 6 hours or so. That was a perfect opportunity to debug this. I transferred the Ziim addition function to square-ruled paper using a pencil, and then, on the bus, I executed it by hand, step by step. I found the bug and was able to fix it. It required redoing the entire function layout.

I guess the moral of the story is that restricting your own ability to do things the “easy” way can sometimes lead to well thought out code. Despite, I don't do this regularly at all. I will just as soon write half-arsed snippets and iterate, grab a debugger to step through code, etc. Maybe I should rethink that?
Interesting, is this flagged because it's a bad quality post or because the people of the "AI" religion feel insulted?
Finding a torrent is nontrivial - TPB et al are blocked these days and if you aren't aware that you need to change your DNS then you won't be able to access them.
> I don't really care about the preservation of the human species. I'm going to be dead in the next 40 years or so, why should I care?

If most Homo sapiens had the same attitude, the species would have gone extinct since forever lol.

You can have any personal goal you'd like, but from the evolution perspective, the purpose of any living organism is to survive and to reproduce, hence preserving its own species. That's why.
»> ... "curly braces" ... « Ugh. Braces are "curly" — there are no "square braces" or "round braces." Needlessly redundant and confusion-inducing. Can we please eradicate this circumlocution from programming language?
If you work at a big enough company, that 1% edge case could affect millions of people, so it is definitely worth the brain cycles to consider.
singapore gives generous subsidies to working adults with children who hire live-in helpers/nannies. the government spent a lot of money on subsidizing tertiary education and the last thing they need are adults dropping out of the workforce after earning a diploma or a degree.

many families hire a live-in helper, who is typically a low-income migrant worker from a neighbouring country. due to space constraints only the most privileged can hire two or more. as it is with asian tradition, parents primarily involve themselves in the area of discipline and education, and everything else is left to the nannies. the low-income families who cannot afford a helper or the living space for a helper suffer from a lack of enforcing discipline or providing for a growing child and low-income children often grow up maladjusted to the modern working society.

singapore unfortunately, still suffers from a low replacement rate, so the foreign domestic worker (FDW, as it is known) policy while enough to move the dial away from the danger zone that is south korea, is still not enough to ensure singapore is growing comfortably. however, at this point i don't believe allowing

(the FDW policy is generous and broad-based enough to extend to working adults with elderly, which means that subsidies for domestic help pretty much extend to working adults through a significant part of their working life. families often qualify for significant subsidies taking care of multiple generations through several decades.)
You mentioned boomers. They faced higher interest rates, higher unemployment and higher inflation than people do now.

Sure, it may not be effortless coming of working age now, but it would take a staggering level of ignorance and/or entitlement to argue that it’s harder than it was in the 70s when boomers were coming up.
From my reading of the article they had offers to buy the film which were more than the $30M tax benefit, but they declined them. If they sell the rights they don't have to handle release.
> 1. A regime change would not be existential for Russia, it would be existential for Putin.

Regime change means your enemies controlling who runs your country. It is an existential threat for the whole state, even if it would be better for the populace.

When the USA suspected Russia of influencing their elections, no one said (and rightfully so) "that is only existential for Hillary, not for America, why should we care?".

> 2. You’re not really presenting a lot of evidence there was a by real risk of this actually happening?

The constant talk of the necessity of changing Putin and the EU and US support for Navalnyi make it obvious that NATO powers want regime change in Russia.

Whether they would actually spend resources to actually work for it is not something I could possibly bring evidence for. But several EU countries and the USA have often initiated or supported regime change in smaller countries when they were able to. Quite recently unsuccessfully in Venezuela and Syria. And more saliently, they did so in Ukraine in 2008, helping the Ukrianian people get rid of Yanukovich.

> 3. How does anything you’ve said justify invading Ukraine?

Invading Ukraine prevents it from joining NATO, which it was on a very clear path towards (they had had joint military exercises just one year prior, with NATO troups in Ukraine). The same happened with Georgia, but they Georgia acceeded to the Russian demands more readily.

Even if they fail to conquer Ukraine, they will keep it in a state of frozen conflict that will likely delay any further rapproachment for a decade or two.

Also, none of this makes what Russia did any less monstrous and detrimental to the Ukrianian people (nor to their own soldiers). There is no question whatsoever that it is highly immoral and a condemnable act, and a clear case of breaking international law, a clear act of aggression, the international crime for which most of the nazi leadership was hanged.

I'm just arguing it was a rational calculated decision, not some insane power play motivated by historical revisionism.
Ah yes the good ol' trope of putting house ownership as basic human right, ideally just for me and right after the buy I expect the price to jump to 3x. If you don't have one, you are such a loser, a failure, how can you look at yourself in the mirror?

Completely idiotic approach of cargo-culting previous generations without a pinch of logic. There are highly developed countries (as in overall higher than US, say here in Switzerland) where this mindset is absent long term. Thus most population lives in rent for whole life, nobody is bothered by it, and generally Swiss are among the happiest nations in the world, consistently.

That isn't saying child births here are booming, in contrary, but that has absolutely nothing to do with home ownership and being priced out from owning homes. People simply grok how difficult raising even 2 children well is (as in by far the most difficult project you will ever do, spread over 20-25 years of consistent draining efforts with no guarantee of success even with best effort, while you also need to put some good effort into marriage too), society not really helping that much these days, and decide against it.

Don't blame them, as Bill Burr says there are simply too many people. Rather lets lift whole mankind from poverty and the topic of population explosion will vanish on its own.
The Diminishing Romance of Train Travel
This post goes over how it came to be: https://www.listennotes.com/blog/how-i-accidentally-built-a-...
Here is the code written by André Bensoussan: https://multicians.org/vtoc_man.html
Do you think that every failed A/B test should be not a valid business expense? Only winning tests are valid business expenses?

If an employee is paid for a sick day, PTO, or parental leave, or to attend a team-building event: what have they created with that money? The government must not allow such giveaways from the tax coffers!

All kinds of individual activities are permitted in profit-seeking businesses and not all of them are subject to “in order to deduct this, you have to have omniscient judgment and every individual action must locally optimize your business”.
In the case of my grandmother she was the only one working, so yeah... but still, one income could raise two children.
I got downvoted for a far milder version of what you said. Going to watch this with interest.

I do not think parents can be entirely blamed. We have made having children too difficult for multiple reasons. Yes, you are primarily responsible, but good communities, family friendly work, access to extended family and other things all help.
I appreciate your well intentioned point of view (and that you didn't include smilely faces this time), but I think you need to tone down the sanctimony. There's an irony in how you talk about the misplaced conviction of others while being equally convicted yourself. Rightly or wrongly, you've made broad reaching and grandiose statements about others on their behalf, which if nothing else, is not a compelling strategy for your convincing your debate partners.

I understand that you cannot comprehend working in a cafe. It's not for everyone. But it is for me. And even if we don't agree on that point, the world won't burn down because of it.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to return to my cafe and get some more work done.
Ordinary Men – Elon Musk
Some years ago in my poetry book I wrote a poem about them
(in German)

Auf dem Fjell
Suche ich jeden Tag
Den mächtigen Moschusochsen
Im Fernglas zeigen sich nur Elche
Dann habe ich dich gefunden
Auf einem Foto
Rivers change their natural state constantly. What the guy or group did shouldn't be criminal insomuch as it only takes one storm to cut a new channel. I take issue with government putting the lives of little birds and mounds of dirt over the lives of its citizens and their livelihoods.
Consider the possibility that one diamond goes from the steering tube to the right rear axle mount and the second diamond goes from the steering tube to the left rear axle mount.
Of course not. That’s implied by my agreement with GP’s first paragraph.

Whoever owns private property decides its disposition. Depending on what you mean by “you salvage the car”, either the car was never owned by the insurance (in which case they obviously can’t sell it for any price) or it is owned by them (in which case they still don’t have to sell their private property at all, nor to a $1 over-bidder, and not necessarily to the highest bidder).
I moved to Finland a few years ago, and I by and large agree with this analysis.

I had the interesting experience of moving straight to rural Pohjois-Pohjanmaa first, before moving to one of the big cities for work. It's for that reason that I'm mostly convinced it's cultural as well - most of our friends up there have 2 to 6 kids, despite making quite a bit less than us city slickers.
Yes, and I will consider the Linux Mint XFCE edition at the next fresh install opportunity.
Mutations in same gene allow two different groups to thrive at extreme altitudes
FT dev and I've been woodworking for a while. There are plenty of people singing the very real joys of woodworking, but it's not all roses.

What I've come to loathe about woodworking is the environment. Endless cleaning and running out of space and needing to find better ways to hide tools yet still be able to find them. And then something goes out of alignment and nothing seems to cut square and you ruin an expensive bit of wood.

It's all so permanent. You can't just `rm -rf node_modules`.

I'm telling myself I'll enjoy it more if I build a large insulated shop with storage, dust-collection and air filtration designed-in, but I've just been through a house reno and I'd like to just turn a few things on a lathe I've not seen in two years for all the dust.
For humans, it's called social networks.
democracy died when they allowed politicians to accept bribes from lobbyists.
I loved this talk by GitHub cofounder, Scott Chacon on Git at FOSDEM 2024. If you use Git, you'll benefit from watching this talk.
Not really, many old denominations have persisted for a very long time. Catholic and Orthodox churches, for example.
>Sadly, political affiliation and political belief are not protected classes under US civil rights law so employers can legally discriminate on this basis.

Really? This blows my mind! So a company could say "We're not hiring democrats or republicans" or something openly?
The cost of an IPv6 address is effectively $0. The cost of a static IPv4 address is ~$90 last I checked.

And while network providers can provide dynamic IP addresses, it's pretty trivial for them to provide static addresses and just never bother changing them - it's not like there's a shortage of IPv6 addresses.

So from the perspective of a home internet user, acquiring a static IPv4 address is harder and more-expensive-than-$0.
And yet when you ask people how many children they want you get TFL estimate at 2.1-2.4
Microsoft minions...
Some operator precedences are way more reasonable than others, and those between arithmetic operators are good examples. What we actually need is a partial order of operator precedences: you can have `1 * 2 + 3` or `full_name ?? first_name ++ " " ++ last_name` but not necessarily `1 * 2 & 3` because that combination of operators is uncommon and a parenthesis should be preferred instead of an arbitrary total order.
Going from LXDE to LXQt was such a disappointment to me. LXDE was really good and polished (in my opinion, for the audience it targeted).
> Depends on what you call "successful".

Could you give a reasonably mainstream definition of “successful” that would exclude Windows?
Take a look at would be start up founders and software projects. "I have a great idea, I just need it implemented", "I have a design done, I just need someone to make it work".
Hmm, have never seen much of PL/1.

Control flow aside, the syntax looks surprisingly clean.
> tax cuts for families, subisidies for child birth and care - none of these are contrary to the idea of a free competitive market

Moreover, a free market can benefit from regulation and certain socialist policies (eg. transportation and education).
This is a regional thing. In the UK they're all brackets.

Brackets, square brackets, curly brackets.
"Vader" = "father" is equally made up, considering that the character was not originally anyone's father. It's a fun coincidence, nothing more.
Porkybank: Simple Daily Budgeting
Systemd by Example (2021)
No, the notion that the culture shift at Boeing is an indication of general "western decline" and that such things didn't happen 20-50 years ago, and that we just need to rid ourselves of bad influences (like the person above me getting upset about DEI, despite no link to current issues as Boeing) to become great again.

Incidentally, this is a popular narrative in fascist regimes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palingenesis#Politics_and_hist...
What 3 Words is a mess
> AI/ML tools means senior workers don't need as many interns to do tedious boilerplate work.

That works under the assumption that the demand for development remains the same. But in reality AI changes demand dramatically. We end up still needing everyone because we are aiming higher.
Yep, most of the movies are 1080p h265. I run ffmpeg scripts to auto convert h264 to hevc and generate smaller files.

I do have 4K rips for movies I like and new movies, but by default download 1080p hevc only. I stay away from remuxes
I -think- the anti-democratic thing is making it impossible to enforce the laws of a democratic society. If a democracy decides that strong encryption should be banned, going against that is going against the will of the people.

Of course, we all (technical people) agree that it was the right thing, but ask yourself: If there was a vote on the issue, do you think the majority of people would vote for keeping strong encryption, or do you think they'd ban it? Especially back then.

I personally think they'd ban it. I bet the majority would just go "encryption is for terrorists and bad people, we don't need it", and we'd lose the vote.

Democracy is funny that way.
4. Moving money to the pockets of investors and C-levels (aka greed)
It’s not really a switch but I just simplified my connection to just a single thunderbolt cable on the computer. With that, they all get the same two monitors, keyboard, mouse, and anything plugged into the dock.
Nope, lisp doesn't care about whitespace at all, including line endings. The way lisp is read in is as if there was no whitespace, just objects in lists.

(foo bar baz)

(foo
bar baz)

(foo
bar
baz)

All the same thing to lisp
If you're room hopping you're essentially going to have to give up on entering some rooms at all. Some people have the strategy of sitting in a less crowded room and then switching to a stream from a crowded room whenever they feel like, but the success of that kind of depends on the infrastructure.
This is spot on. White collar dev folks whine how life is hard since they can't own their house close to their work, and rest of mankind just chugs along. HN is a massive echo chamber in many topics like Apple and I suspect this is another one.
> My adoptive father shared an apartment with a roommate when I was in elementary school. Here I am, just fine

My wife's mother beat and choked her from childhood. She was regularly told she was worthless and unwanted. Her father abandoned them, and her stepfather would whip her with clothes hangers for imagined infractions.

Many people are in similar situations. The abuse may not always be physical or as extreme as what she endured, but many parents are unfit for parenthood, and their children suffer from the trauma or neglect or religious extremism for the rest of their lives to a greater or lesser degree.

We don't always hear these stories because our social bubbles may comprise people who are more well adjusted, or at least present so. But abuse, infidelity, narcissism and so on are not new, and they aren't as rare as we might feel. And if those kinds of people didn't reproduce, that would be a good thing.
> Rock climbing is the new golf

Meh, you can play golf while being completely out of shape, climbing is much more demanding at least, it's much more diverse than golf and a lot of other sports too
Aahh, my bad. TIL.
i can't believe that shit company is leading the charge on this.
No, as the article describes, musk oxen are native to Alaska, only disappearing in the 1800s.
And that's the most expensive place in the country, no? Most people don't live in the Bay area and if you need daycare, it's presumably because you have a well paying job and it's a tax deduction.
I am watching this with pretty intense interest. I've long been alarmed at the potential for this to happen to any artist who speaks out against a streaming platform.
It's only relatively recently (like since the 00's) that CS has become this sexy field due to sky-high salaries (at least in the USA).

Before then filtering out less motivated people wasn't as much of an issue, as they had little incentive to study CS in the first place.
It’s just a matter of time before the orcas start playing spikeball with it, hopefully the team considered that.
> And there is a significant cost to a host country that is now accommodating a potentially large number of people from faraway places with vastly different cultures. (Some may ignore or deny these costs, but they're real and being felt in many ways e.g. in the US right now.)

You are being down-voted, but I'm curious what are the costs of having _legal, desirable_ immigrants in the US in your opinion? (because I would assume that OP meant specifically that group when writing "this resource can be stolen from other countries, via immigration").
Once again the confusion between "HTML document" and "Web App" bites again. A NYT article does not needs client side state.
Really? That's too bad, I'd post a magnet but I'm not sure if that's allowed here.
Yes, but they believe in eternity, or reincarnation, of something longer than a lifespan. They also often believe in a defined obligation to future generations. Our contemporary culture does not.

> Look at the educational institutions like Oxford for interesting examples of maintaining a culture.

They have changed over the centuries though. The ethos and aims of Oxford are hardly what they were when it got its royal charter in the 13th century. True, it still values scholarship, but it has also changed in a lot of ways.
thank you, good spirit!

It made me click the link and read the article, which I would have explicitly NOT done otherwise.
This. These are the exact same reasons why I like the task of lawn mowing! There is a begin state and a clear finished state. The satisfaction of reaching “finished” cannot be overstated.
Author here. I was pointed to existing software solutions. There are for sure browser extensions. For macOS there is a (free) App [customShortcuts by Houdah](https://www.houdah.com/customShortcuts/), which also is compatible with [KeyClu](https://github.com/Anze/KeyCluCask).

What do you use? What am I missing.
Ohio is used to it with 3M: https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/3m-dupont-defeat....
>The software at that time was just much smaller.

Do go check the code: https://multicians.org/vtoc_man.html

This is both bigger and more complex than most stuff people work on today (which is glorified glue code for bullshit CRUD/REST/etc). It might be smaller than the overall LoC of their project, but it's more than the units they deal with (and this is part of an overal OS code anyway).

This is a whole "manager, to manage file description information. It had to transport the file information between disk and memory, manage a shared memory buffer pool, and manage space on disk for the information."

Dare most current programmers to write such a thing, with the requirements and semantics it has on his version, today, in their language of choice.

Most would be lost at even contemplating that. Much less write it in paper and type it in and have it work.
>In theory, we could write tax law so that it made financial sense for a factory to produce widgets and send them directly into an incinerator

Indeed we could, but unfortunately we already have cryptocurrency.

Agreed on every other aspect of your observation.

Maybe when it's 'an amazing and new Road Runner movie', the waste has a more appealing face?
Maybe the outcome of this syntax experiment is that less is not always more. Maybe in general people prefer more syntactical notations than what Lisps offer out of the box.
You should really look into the limits of radio astronomy, it’s not as easy as you seem to think.
I am curious, what do you perceive as the difference between data transformations and "wrangling raw data into tables"?

Edit: I am also curious why you consider SQL to be inferior for the latter?