skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not Hypercard but there is a company still making a Visual Basic 5 clone: https://www.xojo.com

When I was young I found it a great way to get into programming since it's visual with immediate feedback.
How many are left?
Tesla does this with everything about their cars that they don't invent. The biggest example to me was the Panasonic battery cells (and battery production line) that Tesla sold for years as their own innovation.
Maybe robotaxis will be the Spruce Goose.
it’s far more than that - read the wiki. avoiding the ‘rule of dead hands’ is a major consideration. such as imposition of unchangeable rules long after death.
For anyone who is curious to see what kind of abandoned homes are available, this websites aggregates abandoned home databases from municipalities across the country. It's in Japanese, but works pretty well with Chrome auto-translation.

I personally would not recommend buying an abandoned home unless you are really looking for a lot of new worries in your life, but still fun to look at.

https://www.homes.co.jp/akiyabank/
But the thing you are supposedly getting billed for is data transferred to the Internet. If the connection is closed there might be some data that goes out before the reset is received, but not that much. So either this is a bug, or the pricing documention is ... incorrect about what they actually charge you for.
(Go read the comment the developers made when they addressed this very issue upthread, the kids are smarter than you immediately decided)
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> Half the population doesn't get to vote anyways when half the population is under 18. That's how democracy works.

But the entire population gets to be blown up anyways by 2000-pound bombs. That's how mass murder works.
The wild rise of Zillow Gone Wild
WWDC is in June. Lots of us are expecting better LLM integration and SDKs to be released then...
Those replies and that commit message are disheartening to see. Technical disagreements aside, there was no reason to call out/insult KDE devs.
How does that benefit apple tho? They don't have their own data centers?
Ask HN: How do people create those sleek looking demos for startups?
I have been seeing people build product demos or show off their updates via videos - complete with zooming in on the active function and all. How do they make it? Can't find any straight forward tools online for this.
Ex: https://x.com/LeapAI_/status/1781001036481613851
Wow I remember seeing those but never caught that's what they were referencing.
Express definitely has a bigger ecosystem and it's what most people, especially beginners, should use.

But they asked how Express 5 compared to competitors, you brought up Koa, someone suggested that Koa was superseded by async/await + some library in Express, and I pointed out Koa's little native feature that still makes it relevant to the few of us who ever used it.

I don't put a lot of importance on microframework ecosystems because 99% of their library middleware is just trivial wrappers around core libraries like https://github.com/jshttp. I write my own glue code in middleware and Koa's abstraction is just what I expect from server code.
> They probably have the strictest earthquake codes in the world.

They do now, but a lot of these old houses that nobody wants predate them. The big earthquake-resistant building codes came in 1981 and 2000.

Nobody would think anything of buying a house from 1980 in the west, but in Japan I would never do it (a large factor in the death toll of the Noto quake earlier this year was the high level of pre-1981 housing stock in the area).

As newer, safer, houses start filling up the used housing stock I can totally see attitudes slowly changing.
> Not as distinct from basic impulses we can detect in all periods

I disagree. Nazism and Fascism are largely influential today but Caesar isn't.

> My understanding of human psychology does not incline me to think this is a remotely successful strategy.

I cannot vouch for your understanding. I do know Nazism and Fascism must be loudly denounced whenever found. They must not be allowed to fester in the darkness.
I can't take anyone who says "FED" instead of "Fed" seriously on anything about finance and economics.
Non-paywalled: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/the-wild-rise-of-zillow...
In addition to LiveCode, you might also look at other “interactivity authoring” tools like Tumult Hype, Twine, and Roblox Studio, and even the retro https://hcsimulator.com.
You might enjoy this: https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-wrath-of-...
In the Hacker News thread of yesteryear's glow,
A young man's post, set for fortune to sow.
With skills in his grasp and hope in his heart,
He sought a new start, a place to impart.

The blockchain firm saw his potential so bright,
They lifted him aboard, into innovation's flight.
He coded, he crafted, with fervor untamed,
Software and systems, widely acclaimed.

Years spun their tales, and success did amass,
The firm's worth grew, like verdant spring grass.
Acquisition whispers began to take flight,
His creations at core, a beacon of light.

Now back to the thread where dreams intertwine,
He wonders if fate will once more be kind.
A post, a connection, a future untold,
In Hacker News threads, new stories unfold.

For in this nexus of tech and of mind,
Brilliant beginnings are oftentimes signed.
May another young visionary, in search of a team,
Find in his post, the path to their dream.

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"obsolete" is meaningless.

"proprietary" too, because it is well-documneted.

The subset that is only necessary for vector images, obviously. Nothing beyond a single frame is needed. Since it's a TLV format, renderers can ignore anything they don't need, which includes the interactive and scripting features.
we'll get that fixed up, thanks for the heads up.
yeah I have the worst luck it seems. A lot of people in my situation . The people who rise to the top are not the best at their professions or the most qualified, just chosen. Look at Cathie Wood's track record. Total garbage yet still worth hundreds of millions even if the ppl who buy her funds lose money.
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Sholva!
This lawsuit is ridiculous, it seems to be based on an assumption that either (a) use of social media is a fundamental right or (b) social media is a utility.

From a user's perspective I do get the issue of the feed being trash, but you do already have a choice of what you see. Just don't use Facebook. Or Twitter. Or whatever other platform has an algorithmic feed that you don't like.
twitter imploded? that’s news to me…
Forever as in: as long as they feel like/are capable of keeping their servers running.
I tried the FB ad-free subscription (in EU) only to discover that what I actually wanted was a suggested stuff-free one. I hope this lawsuit can make a point.
AI and the End of the Human Writer
Yes, but any ATM tells the bank that you took out $10. The bank never sees the cash and the cash doesn’t belong to the bank. Substituting goods may or may not be allowed but the bank doesn’t know about it and customers are unlikely to complain to the bank.
Shell scripting is not "known or understood by very few", it's widely understood by a great many people. It's one of the most common programming languages. It is by definition not arcane. It simply can't be with how widespread and popular it is.

The comparison with Sanskrit doesn't make sense, given shell scripting is still in wide use currently.

It's fine to think shell scripting is a bit weird, but it's just absolutely and unambiguous wrong to say it is arcane, especially by the definition.
David Cornelson here. Tons of dev and watch experience looking work in Chicago or Bay Area (open to relocation)

Location: Chicago/IL/USA
Remote: Y
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Technologies: AWS, Azure, C#, .NET Core, Domain-Driven Design, Event Storming, all data storage types
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Email: Connect via LinkedIn please

Looking for a leadership role where a company seeks to modernize legacy architectures.
> Taylor expansions

That’s not what I’m talking about. This is a basic analysis topic:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone%E2%80%93Weierstrass_th...

At least mid 1800s for a proof. 1700s also explored Fourier series.

> stand by my position

And you’re still ignoring the cybernetics, and perceptrons movement I keep referring to which was more than 100 years ago, and informed by Turing.
and growth (/◔ ◡ ◔)/
The professor being named Zuckerberg breifly threw me for a loop.

I hope the Knight Institute wins this, though it is odd to me that the right to interact with a web service using extensions or other software is even being contested. What is the alternative? Nothing is allowed to interoperate without express permission? It runs so counter to the core of personal computing.

E: Oops, his name is "Zuckerman".
Factful is a good name, in general, for a startup. It's a bad one for a company that wants to use AI to 'fact-check' anything. Best of luck, you are the future.
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I disagree... half of the UTF-8 Latin-1 supplement range overlaps with the entire half-width katakana alphabet.
It's not bullying to fight for deserved credit IMO.
Cloudflare analytics or Github Pages Analytics. Nowadays any analytics that is not directly based on the HTTP server is flawed.
(b) is not that crazy to me.
Interest doesn't increase inflation
I'm curious what the FOIA request will yield. Many of these are in private shopping centers or convenience stores, so I'm not sure any particular government body is accountable for them.

It would cost money for your city to buy its own camera system. These are presumably free, or perhaps even paying private property owners to lease the parking space. They can then turn around and charge municipalities and cities (and car repo companies, etc) for access to the information.

The police, et al, have <rules> about what they can gobble up and save, but there's nothing in the constitution about buying evidence from data brokers.

I'd bet having the comings and goings of everyone from the local WalMart and a few convenience stores at key intersections is very useful for tracking people down. At least one brand advertises the ability to get notifications when a vehicle is seen on any camera.
The only thing I’ve gotten from hacker news is anxiety about not having started my own company and not being a tech genius.
… or, you could do the same with a web app… and OAuth.

But a web app doesn’t get you the hype, VC funding and Galaxy brained Twitter tech bro adoration.
> Going to guess Michigan has restrictive zoning requirements for marijuana businesses that keep it out of the public eye.

It's up to each city/county if they allow any stores at all and their own regulations / licensing.

A recent change a lot of shops seem to be going through is removing the "lobby waiting area" (so 2-3 shop "in private") and just adding more shelves and display cases while building up a huge line. Never liked the farce before (and probably a holdover from when they were medical only) so its a nice change.
I recently designed a take-home. I made sure to pick a real, interesting, problem we faced, and one where there is a very high dynamic range of responses - it can distinguish between good and bad juniors (I know this because I let all my students try it if they want, which also gave me great deal flow of juniors without even needing to spend time on screening the bad ones), and it gives some information even at my level (I didn't arrive at the best possible solution myself, someone came up with a better solution to one subproblem).

I like respecting candidates' time, because I want the strongest candidates to not filter themselves out at the mention of a take-home. That's why I ask them to schedule 4 hours with me where at the start they will get the problem description and at the end they will submit what they have - this way they aren't pressured to put in more time because they know for sure that their competitors didn't - and I get to compare apples to apples.

I also designed the rules to minimize the perverse incentives set by the clock by giving multiple ways to get recognition for partial solutions.

This is the content of the document the candidate gets initially (they only get the actual problem later):

Meta

This is a real task we encountered and solved at Finubit. Out of respect for your time, we limit this task to 4 hours (of wallclock time, to remove the incentive to spend more than that to gain a competitive advantage). It took us much more than four hours to get the perfect solution, so don't worry, we don’t expect a full production-ready solution to 100% of the problem.

We ask that you approach this task as you would the first 4 hours out of as much time as you need to finish the task to a reasonable quality standard. We do want to see a working Proof Of Concept at the end of those 4 hours, like we would ask of any team member picking up a long, open-ended research task. The POC can be very limited in functionality, but functionality that it promises will be held to a standard of quality.

If you encounter ambiguities or mistakes, assume the most reasonable way to resolve them and make a note to check with Product that your understanding was correct. If you disagree with Product about something, make a note to push back against the design decision they made (but in the meantime assume the current spec, unless it's grossly wrong). If there's a subcomponent in your design that you don't know how to implement but believe to be solvable, it's OK to assume the existence of a black box that solves it.

Please take a moment to set an alarm clock. When the clock strikes 4 hours, please send us your code and research notes, and then go over the code and document everything you’d change before you consider the code production-ready and send us the annotated code.

We will be available to answer clarification questions if needed.

Then there is a checklist to reduce loss on technicalities (forgetting to set an alarm or send annotations).

(If you're in Israel, and you want to try it for fun, shoot me an email)
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https://www.vipercard.net/

https://twinery.org/

https://www.bitsy.org/

https://jupyter.org/
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> Ethan Zuckerman, a professor at the University of Massachusetts
Given they do allow unfollowing it doesn’t seem ridiculous to also allow users to automate that activity. I don’t know if it’s really a legal right but just as a principle it doesn’t seem absurd on its face.
I like the Principles section. Very measured and practical approach to releasing new stdlib packages. https://go.dev/blog/randv2#principles

The end of the post they mention that an encoding/json/v2 package is in the works: https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/63397
Nope, unless things have changed since I last dealt with it, Open Graph metadata is not considered "http-equiv" so does _not_ get served as an http header, only as a meta tag in the html header... so the HEAD verb won't get them for you.
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FB currently benefits from a law sheilding them from liability for what they host and show on their service. This shield comes with the classification of being a facilitator of communication and sharing of content for your users, which carries certain obligations. Among those is that users be able to filter what they can see, selectively, while using the service. Basically, (b) is true, though in a limited capacity.
I suppose it ultimately comes down to "do you have a right to close your eyes or look away?"

A separate clause, though, provides immunity to software developers who create tools that “filter, screen, allow, or disallow content that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable.

That sounds like it's in support of adblocking and similar practices.
I agree that, with enough distance and with no danger of another Hitler, future historians will be able to see that dark period in human history more dispassionately.

We're not there yet, not when this is still relatively recent history and when we haven't yet dealt with Nazism's offspring.

> Also, both Caesar and Hitler were products of their environment. Normal people responding a certain way to their circumstances.

I don't know about Caesar, but I certainly don't buy this argument for Hitler. The minute he supported the Final Solution or decided to get rid of 80% of Eastern Europe, he crossed the line. There were people at the time of Hitler, even in Germany, who were horrified by Nazism -- not as in "I don't agree with this", but "I cannot believe this is happening". Some were executed for objecting to it. I'm sure more were silently horrified, not brave or reckless enough to openly reject it, but in private repulsed by it. There were people who hid or helped Jews (and I'm not arguing here Jews were the only victims of Nazism, mind you!).

Hitler was a product of his time and upbringing, but he was also an evil man. There are no excuses for the Holocaust or Generalplan Ost or the many evils of Nazism, when we know people from that time were horrified by it. Evil may be banal, as Arendt put it, but it's still evil.
Can't even read the article as its hosted on the same domain with the expired ssl and the host has set strict transport security.
You are nit picking while ignoring their larger point: just because a state has regressive policies doesn’t mean it deserves to be oppressed, controlled, and effectively destroyed.

Israel’s terror is not helping queer people in Gaza, full stop.
I'm the founder of a startup that makes a diagramming software for engineering team called Eraser.

If you want a codified set of rules that you can mechanically apply, I would look at UML and C4. However, I'd argue that the frameworks are overkill for the vast majority of engineering diagram use cases.

For the general scenario where you're just trying to communicate a technical concept clearly without spinning your wheels a lot, here are a few tactical things I'd recommend:

1. Pick the right diagram type for the job. Sequence diagrams are great for API documentation, ERDs are great for database schemas, flow charts are great for user flows, data flows and logical flows.

2. Use icons where possible. A database icon, a S3 bucket icon, a cylinder shape are all a lot more expressive and easier to grok than a rectangle with text inside that says "database".

3. Focus on the nodes, groupings, and connections. That's really all there is to a diagram if you break it down. If you just make a list of nodes, groups, and connections that you want to represent, the diagram will almost just draw itself.

4. If you're looking for a quick way to start jump start a diagram or looking for inspiration, try AI tools to see how far they can get you.
"Zuck" in the context of Facebook triggers the mental autocomplete.
>"People like you, is why Europe passed on global leadership to the USA."

Forget to take your meds?
Stupid question. Ansible is mentioned TWO times in HN hiring thread, it will soon be zero. Isn't this dated tech? Ansible is good at patching servers (have cute names, make sure they are patched). Patching??? But, why not use containers? Aren't we moving away from Ansible/Puppet? I would much rather have AWS/CDK or pythoninfra like this if I was into pet machines.
In Asia we're having issues, the cert expired on the 1st May.