skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It kinda feels like the effort is directed improperly. If graphics programming and tens of thousands of lines of C++ code is your passion, you probably would be better suited to working your way into some of the major gaming framework's shops.

There's definitely a unicorn quality to a developer who wants to work at the framework level. Unfortunately, there isn't really room for Yet Another Gaming Framework. That said, my personal experience is that it's hard to find people who are passionate about working at that level.

Me personally, if I ever did break into the Gaming Industry it would 100% be at the framework level. Transformation matricies, graphics pipelines, shaders, and all that low level stuff interests me way more and plays well to my strengths.

Making an "Indie Game" that stands out is well beyond my skill set. Grinding my life away for next to no money in a non-stop death march to hit a AAA studio exec's deadlines just seems a way to destroy my marriage and mental health.
Where will the next big idea in healthcare come from? J&J is counting on nurses
Illusion of choice can definitely work -- some of my most memorable choices in games are where I _know_ it's the choice between a bad end or continuing-it works because _I_ had to actively make that choice -- but my problem with Telltale is that it dresses it in a way that makes it _seem_ like they are going to be far more impactful, and they rarely are, and there's often a second event to "correct" the choice (e.g. you saved Person A, here's where they die anyway). It breaks the illusion of choice.

You don't need big branching paths for choice to matter, it mattering in the moment is enough, but Telltale's way of making a big deal of choices makes you realise that _nothing_ ever _actually_ matters. It undermines that in the moment nature; they'd be better off just not making you expect it to come up again.
> I especially don’t get the ide support bit, because Visual Studio Code already does that for regular JS.

The IDE support in VSCode is at least partially driven by type declarations from TS projects, so regular JS is benefiting from TypeScript.
For what it's worth, the placebo effect is such a strong effect, sugar or no, that the immediate reaction of most skeptics is to attribute most things to it. HN is full of skeptics. I feel you've done a fine job defending you position though.

My take on food and mental health is that we are omnivores, and as such we need a wide veriety of foods to be healthy. I have noticed time and again that certain foods smell and taste absolutely heavenly to me one week, and I can't be bothered to eat a spoonful a month later. This is most common for me with high nutrient low calorie foods like salads and soups (though if you pay attention it's there with various sweets as well). All of which makes me very suspicious that it has to do with my body trying to regulate it's nutrient balance.

And god forbid you fall out of normal working parameters for certain nutrients, you can end up in a positive feedback loop. There was a study I saw some years ago linking anorexia and a lack of some common metal (zinc or magnesium I think). Not being hungry means you're not likely to get this metal, means you're not hungry...
I can't read the article, but I wonder if it is just diluted perception of an MBA.

I worked at a company that regularly hired recent MBA graduates, and maybe it was just the school, but I saw little value added to these kids. They got manager type tasks, but showed no skills related to management. Their life experience was so limited that I had to explain it to them that you have to schedule people far ahead of time in order to give them time to schedule their lives, and that you had to schedule them like humans because ... they can't work for 24 straight hours because it would take 5 minutes more to look at the spreadsheet and figure out a more optimal schedule.

Beyond internal stuff, even communicating with customer's took hand holding and teaching basic life lessons.

I often questioned how the candidates I worked with ever got into an MBA program (I'm guessing it was just open). I wouldn't trust some of them to work at a menial job without a great deal of supervision, let alone make decisions for a business / other people.

IMO an MBA just doesn't make sense without significant / proven business life experience for most people.

It really was the FedEx commercial IRL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcoDV0dhWPA

Obviously there are people with MBAs with FAR more skills, but with other folks like I experienced I wonder if it has watered down the market for MBAs.
Ask HN: How do I go about selling an unsolicited service to a business?
I am a solo developer with limited professional resume/experience. I have developed a service specifically for a business for which I am a regular customer; the service I developed is one I now use regularly when I am at the business.

How should I go about submitting my work and soliciting a sale?
I sometimes wonder if I would be any better if you gave me a billion dollars. It seems like effectively unlimited wealth does something to people. I wonder if it's a result of what it does to the people around you. Basically you end up surrounded by sycophants and people saying what you want to hear because they want some of your money, so it's not unlike the ego trip cult leaders and gurus get. You no longer get any balanced social feedback.

Same probably applies to power of a more political sort. Are dictators dictators because they're dictators or does placing a human in a dictatorial office turn them into one?
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>preaches about how skilled he is at defusing arguments with his girlfriend

>Presents self as an example of a happy marriage

>”I’ve been married for two years now”

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Ask HN: Would you sell your Chrome extensions to advertisers?
I have a handful of relatively popular extensions (30k-70k weekly users). I get weekly offers from all kinds of shady companies to sell them my extensions, so that they can inject scripts to track them (or worse).

I have been rejecting these offers out of principle. However, these users never donate when my extension asks them to, so I'm wondering why I'm protecting them...

Would you consider selling in my position? If so, what price would make you sell?
If it works, customs officers cannot find actual illegal contents, and criminals walk free through customs.

"Illegal contents", as in what? Unflattering cartoons of the president? A spreadsheet marked "cocaine delivery schedule"? Why is this on the alleged criminal's phone while she's crossing the border? Has she never heard of the internet? No real criminal could be caught by any of this buffoonery. Lots of normal people whom the state would like to harass will be harassed, while wasting a great deal of money, which is the point.
That's ridiculous, YouTube videos are trivial to download.
Or one might believe the world is not black and white, nor even shades of grey, but is, instead, in living glorious technicolor and the truth is a hair more complicated than such discussions would like it to be for the purposes of conveniently lining people up on two sides and trying to decide which one is right and which one is the villain.
can't get a prescriptive easement in California unless the access is "hostile to the true owner." And posting a sign wipes out that hostility, per Civ. Code section 1008:

No use by any person or persons, no matter how long continued, of any land, shall ever ripen into an easement by prescription, if the owner of such property posts at each entrance to the property or at intervals of not more than 200 feet along the boundary a sign reading substantially as follows: “Right to pass by permission, and subject to control, of owner: Section 1008, Civil Code.”
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Searching me for the means to harm people on the plane, bring it down etc is one thing.

Searching everything I've ever said or done online, my personal photos etc etc. is an entirely different proposition.

There are huge problems with this in principle!
Try being a Canadian and going the other way!
> Like every other programming language?

There are languages which do a much better job of reducing or eliminating possible "blast radius" of a bug in a dependent library. Functional/immutable languages such as Elixir come to mind (for example, you can literally reduce the scope of a library to an individual function). This is not one of those languages.
Link to NSF announcement, with extra information: https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=295968&org=NS...

Here's a paper from one of the professors: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14030
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Wow this is some dystopian shit. I had no idea.

If someone has access to your phone they can always find something.

I wonder if there's a technological solution for this other than wiping the phone clear?
I wonder as well if it's not more valuable for somebody who's been in business for at least a few years and has some context to put the lessons into.
The ruling group includes some members of Congress and the executive branch. Current and former presidents and vice-presidents are not screened, nor are cabinet secretaries or members of Congress with security details at US airports. Not sure how the US president is treated when passing through other nations' borders but I'm guessing it is not the same border experience that everyone else goes through.

According to the "Port Courtesy Handbook" it sounds like many foreign dignitaries go through a modified and expedited border check at the US border that the rest of us do not use. "A Port Courtesy or “Courtesy of the Port” provides Foreign Government Officials and their traveling parties expedited processing and clearance upon arrival into the United States. Requests for Port Courtesies are managed by the Office of the Chief of Protocol in coordination with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)." https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/170352.pdf
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Erlang also uses the . to end statements.
Very cool, both the graphics capabilities and the fact that it's Wasm!

Is this project open source?
Why an imperative, procedural language though?
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It's just that a lot of us believe that we should educate people who think privacy has anything to do with whether you have anything to hide.
One of the problems with this is that it is trivial to evade for someone intent on serious wrongdoing. A person who manufactures child porn for money, for example probably won't use their phone to transport it across a border. They'll transfer it over the internet, most likely in a surveillance-resistant manner.

Instead, these kinds of searches catch people who don't know they're doing something illegal, or who the government finds undesirable due to their associations or business activities that are legal in their home jurisdiction. They may also be used to map out networks of contacts.

I do not want governments doing the things in the second paragraph.
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Yahoo Auction Japan (https://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/) is still very active as well.
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I haven't read the specifics of the study or refutations, but knowing how court scheduling works, it's likely closer to randomly distributed than not.

Edit: just the scheduling, people. I'm not claiming the effect isn't due to that sort of thing, just that judges can't easily arrange their calendars so that "good" defendants are in the morning and "bad" ones are in the afternoon.
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Messenger is so much better than the default SMS app on my Android device that I can't get rid of it. I don't know if it's just US Cellular crapware, Samsung crapware, or Android core crapware, but the system default is garbage.
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I've seems criticism of the idea that an MBA makes you ready to manage anything, without any particular domain knowledge.

Sort of the same problem as being ready to program anything, without any particular domain knowledge.
Thank you very much for the explanation,
> It seemed (and still seems) like a project that lives and dies with one developer

One major contributor (who may be project lead at Yandex?) and a lot of active contributors: https://github.com/yandex/ClickHouse/graphs/contributors
Too true... a lot of "smart" TVs are already heading in that direction... I'd be happier seeing better AndroidTV support by application vendors, and a refresh for the Shield TV.
I am a Data Scientist w/ a MS in computer Science, but many of my CS classmates never become one despite desire to do so, while several of my MBA friends did so with ease (granted it is Wharton).

I think an MBA is more useful over a master in CS because many MBA's have great stats programs. In most CS programs you'd have to use up precious elective spots to take those. Also, business intelligence is a huge part of many ds roles. And if you really wanted to take that Machine Learning course in CS, just take it as an elective in your MBA.

I'd love to hear what others have to say on the topic
He also said that he himself was overlooked for a job that he was more qualified for, which was given to a woman.

So, basically, he got burned -- or feels he did -- and he wants justice of some sort. Which is not unreasonable per se, but this is not really the way to go about trying to get that.
Come on... 2nd hand phone you can buy from gumtree for cash.
It was by either Isaac Asimov or Stanislav Lem. I'm trying to find it...

EDIT: Also, as I recall it was about how an astronaut might determine whether a planet they are visiting is made of matter or anti-matter prior to trying to land there.
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> But I have never seen anyone actually do this (which is why it didn't occur to me).

I wrote about this in my two earlier comments. This is very old technology. And very commonly used. I think most plugin systems wrap dynamically linked libraries.

This is also an easy way to redefine functions without needing GC. Under the hood, it is implemented in the loader's way: virtual memory pages mapped as read-only and executable (see mmap() or mprotect() for example).
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That can be done without unnecessarily vilifying people and turning it into a beat down.
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The US is obliged by treaty not to do that. The US ratified the UN Convention and Protocol Related to the Status of Refugees which requires that the US not punish people who cross the border without authorization for the purpose of seeking asylum.
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Unfurling URLs
Ask HN: What is a unit test?
I'll admit that I did not take a course (or a course I took didn't cover) unit testing. I'm a little bit "wet-behind-the-ears" on this topic. How do you define unit tests for what you do? How can I learn more about how to write and use them (well)? Was there ever a time when they saved you?
My point was this is very far beyond the typical takedown abuse.

Creating (itself infringing) content on a for-purpose site ticks the "wilful" requirement of the DMCA's defined requirements for perjury.
And how many companies are only know posting blogs about their upgrades to Rails 5+ and how difficult that was?

It's still relevant knowledge.

Sure, degreeless self-taught programmers who know their way around this knowledge exist. I never said they didn't. But when you've got 500 applicants and your resume says you were flipping burgers two years before you got your junior position...I don't have time to interview you.
Hmmm, with a cube 1x1x1 m I get:

35.315 cubic feet or 1.308 cubic yards or 1.000 cubic meters
if pre-mixed concrete*, it is 4696.851 lbs or 2130.000 kgs
if 60 lbs per bag, it is 78.281 bags
if 80 lbs per bag, it is 58.711 bags

The 2130 Kg/mc may be arbitrary, and, to be picky:

60x78.281x0,454= 2132,37444

still the (as well arbitrary) "adding 10% to allow for spillage and slab depth variations" seems like having been forgotten.