skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what Fox news and the modern GOP have done to my country.

Note: I'm an ardent capitalist, not particularly partisan by nature, and probably would be a Republican at this point if my life had the Republican party remained what they were 50 years ago. Nonetheless, I'm often stunned at what we've become thanks to modern GOP-inspired propaganda. What would my dear (and communism-hating, btw) grandparents think of such comments, when it was a dear sibling's help that allowed the family to survive the depression?

Propaganda sucks.
Hunting for jobs in the Austin area or remote this year I got 4 offers, one was from EA, which was 20% less than the top 2 offers, 15% less than the 3rd best offer.

So you get a bit less pay for your trouble too :D

Unless you make your OWN game and it is a big hit, but that is VERY hard right now.
Given the increased hostility between religion due to inflammatory social media posts -- I wonder if things are harsher now, or whether these sentiments were always there and facebook just made it easier for people to say things! Maybe, in a way, it's ok that people have shown what they truly believed in, and so our understanding of people's true belief's has been expedited.
You're also agreeing to abide by the rules set forth of the organization you're playing under. I generally play 10-20 games a day, and a disconnect happens while I'm playing maybe once every couple of months. If you're disconnects are significantly higher than that, you're probably not the target market for on-line blitz chess.
Just think how cool this device could be the hands of pro special effects people who make movies like Fifth Element.

Edit: also, cosplay outfits.. man, I really want to see that thing in the hands of artists!
This project is shady as hell.

I am making better money working at FAANG for relatively ethical work better by hundreds of lawyers and moral force.

I just look down on these people who have no programming skill to get paid higher at top companies.

Resorting to cheap tricks at us.
You can, I replied to the main thread about my two side businesses without going into specifics. Both my businesses were lead generation. I won't give the industries a way, but here's the jist.

I had a system I built for a clients lead generation business. I asked if I could re-purpose the software and in exchange I'd provide the enhancements free as well as discounted development. He agreed. It was a basic system where a lead would come in for a geographical area, that area would have a vendor assigned, and an email would be dispatched. If you do the SEO and marketing right, the leads become pretty passive.

I improved the system in two ways:

1. My client generated monthly invoices. This was a problem since he had to chase people down for money. I setup a credit system where you purchased credits (leads) in advanced. I gave a 20% discount for purchasing 100 credits at a time. I also gave new customers their first 10 credits free. No obligation, no contract, not joking.

2. Email sucks. I integrated twilio and did direct call dispatching with numbers I controlled. I spammed the internet with these numbers. If a customer ever dropped off, I'd just find someone else. Rarely did I need to do that since the leads were so good.

This required a lot of work up front, but in areas where my marketing was dialed in already it just always generated income. This is the kind of stuff fluff articles like this never tell you, the actual specifics.

You could now take this basic model and apply to any industry that requires leads. Bonus if the industry is underserved, not huge, and filled with techno-peasants.
Part of why I like working at smaller companies that focus on serving small-medium sized businesses. At this level you are actually building a piece of software for users rather the C-suite.
Sure. The post could probably be legitimately downvoted. The comments from the author, however, just don’t seem problematic.
> if I'm using a platform I really like then I want to be able to take advantage of some of its best native software and interface bonuses

This is precisely why I built Darch (https://godarch.com). I wanted an immutable OS, but also to take full advantage of my hardware, completely native. Your images show in in grub and you can boot right into them.
> Money and family can be tricky.

Maybe, but on your death bed which one do you think you are going to have the most regrets about?
Only comment about Russia that is based on facts and intelligent assumption I've read lately. This would be much better to discuss than the made up collusion.

That said I don't believe Russia gains anything by changing the status quo. They force trump to not be nice to them, thus slowing the nk peace process. Which ultimately makes China powerful something Putin doesn't want.
The national debt problem is somewhat overblown in popular opinion. Sovereign debt, in a country that pays it in its own currency, is bounded by inflation, not tax receipts. In practice this means that the US can reduce its debt to more manageable levels by permitting mild inflation (something I can see the Fed doing) and instituting greater fiscal responsibility at the federal level (perhaps less likely).

Also, it's important to note that strictly speaking, growing debt doesn't matter as long as the GDP grows by the same amount. Of course, that's not happening, so there is a problem. But as long as there is some leeway for inflation to increase (which there currently is), the debt is ultimately manageable.
When I first started our company I met a "startup" lawyer at a meetup event and after a few meetings hired him. He was fine, but was expensive and didn't know much about high scale tech startups - mostly govt contract startups. So we fired him and hired Cooley.

Cooley had great parties and networking events. When our lead investor came in and asked for multiple preferences (no go) I asked the assigned counsel what they thought and the response was: "Hey this is your first money so it doesn't really matter." At the time this was my first deal, but I had read a TON on this issue and it was clear that this was a hard predatory ask for a deal like ours.

I asked some of my other friends and they suggested a different lawyer, whom I called and he said "Tell them to eat shit and call me when they call back with a new term sheet." Cooley was immediately fired and we hired the new guy who has tons of experience in our space and has been the absolute best.

Moral of the story is, be informed enough so you can call bullshit, but it's really important to find counsel that 1. you can trust and 2. is experienced in your particular types of deals so that when you are out of your depth you know they will be the best counsel.

At the end of the day you're CEO so the buck stops with you. Your lawyers are counsel not operations, so act accordingly.
I always create separate, single-use email accounts for these purposes. Other email services also allow you to create aliases.
>>these people aren't chasing returns, they think about preserving wealth for the long haul through worst-case scenarios.

Once you make a non-trivial amount of money. Preserving it becomes way more important than adding deltas to it.

Not getting famous, keeping low key and not breeding exponentially also helps.
Government debt denominated in one's own currency is not really a serious issue because governments can print their own currency to pay it off. Yes this can result in inflation, but the inflationary effects are vastly overstated. Most of the inflation happens at the point of spending.

I recommend reading up on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)

http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2014/01/diagrams-dollars-...
I am not surprised, in the general sense that someone has found a security bug in a large and complex piece of software.
This is basically another good example of why your control plane should be only accessible through a vpn/bastion.
Honestly, as someone who has started a 5-6 figure monthly "side-hustle" in an area where there are many other players, and which requires learning new frontend skills, while I'm a crusty UNIX/Linux head, 30 years experience like you, I would say: just do it!

Here is the thing I learned in 2018, in which I also generated >$700K of side income working 10-12 hours a week (mornings, evenings, and weekends): If you know how to learn new tech skills at a reasonable rate, you can learn anything you need to do in a few hours. Obviously this doesn't apply to sophisticated things, but how many of the things you need to do in tech are really that hard? For example, my client needed to update a static website with data stored in Airtable - I spent 2 hours finding some python code that was open source on GitHub that scrapes Airtable every few minutes and puts the data in a JSON file that his static website can now read. 2 hours of effort and I have a client that I billed almost $1000 and he's completely happy with the outcome. His static website is now dynamically updated from Airtable. Not only that, I learned a new skill and I can repeat this for other clients without the effort of learning. Multiply this over several hundred days over several years and you have an amazingly strong side hustle.

Just do it, you can figure out the details as you go...
Good article, thanks! The business seemed to have been built on oDesk workers but now that site it called Upwork. Are there any alternatives to upwork out there?
7 billion people, probably room for at least 2 choices, especially given most other categories of services/products have 10x as many. I’d say the car or luxury brand reference is fitting, since it probably comes down to trade-offs/personal opinions.
he had the skill to be born a man of a certain to certain parents in, i'm assuming here, was a western country in the last 60 years or so. a less skilled person would have been born a farm worker 3000 years ago.
Sword lunges were pretty easy to dodge if you knew how.
The BART gates won't let you out if you don't have enough money on a ticket, so you'd have to jump the gate or add funds at a kiosk (think the same applies for cards, too).
An ascension in -2147483648 turns by Khaos is another thing to note in the table. Did he really wait for 2 billion turns before ascending to overflow that counter?!
Lawsuit Claims Google Board Covered Up Sexual Misconduct
My instinct is to find this horrifying. Is there a good reason for this?

If I have an array of ints, is it contiguous?

Especially with modern computers and how importance data locality is the name "array" is kind of sacred. If you want a fancy weird-non array give THAT the longer, annoying name.
Ask HN: Thought experiment on how to disrupt public education
Ref: https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Los-Angeles-Teachers-Strike-Pushed-Back-To-Monday-504167821.html

Teachers Unions are taking schools hostage. This is literally not unlike asking for a ransom. ‘Work to rule’ and strike threats brewing in Bay Area too.

How can public education be revamped? We have so much technology but nothing has changed in recent times.

(At least in CA. I am not sure about other places)
> As a millennial myself, I would like the need for income taken off the table

In other words, I'd like someone else to pay for taking care of me, my shelter, my food.

> so that I can find a recurring source of meaningful work.

So that I can follow my desires rather than being forced to pay my own way.

As a gen-x'er I just have say, you are not entitled to other people's labor, certainly not so you can avoid labor you don't like. The world just doesn't work that way, taking care of your own needs is necessary work, whether you you find it meaningful or not.

Virtually everyone would prefer not "needing income", that's just another way of saying "be rich". Meaningful work is a luxury.
On the other hand, having family take care each other is a more robust and decentralized system than us all being atomized and being cared for by the state.
I still get acne from time to time (I think mostly due to my love for chocolate). However, when I get regular sun exposure, it completely clears up. If you don't get much sun, try it...nothing else worked for me :)
It's a phrase meaning basically "is no comfort".
I doubt it. I'm sure Bungie had reasons for wanting to leave Activision, but Destiny was the project they pitched to Activision, not the other way around, and a lot of the problems I still have with Destiny after all the work they've sunk into it are still inherent in the concept.* I think as the size of teams keeps getting bigger, you keep getting forced to chase the lowest common denominator in the market -- it's a shooter, it's RPG, it's multiplayer, it's open world. A Bungie that was looking to recapture the early days would have to lay off almost everybody and start doing indie games, and I don't see that route earning back the money it must have cost to buy out Activision.

* The shooting is still as good as it was in the Halo days, but the need to constantly grind for gear to progress really kills the way you would acquire new weapons in Halo and learn how to use them in concert. There's so many more weapons in Destiny, but it doesn't feel like you have the same sort of choices you had in Halo.
Pretty sure most of the other blobs also come from China.
He says right in the article: odesk.
I’m pretty sure the developers read Cook and that was the direct inspiration for Myth’s story.
Happy 81th to Prof.Knuth.
Blizzard is not a separate company with just a publishing contract like Bungie did. Blizzard was bought out by Activision and is now Activision-Blizzard and treated as a subsidiary company.

I suppose Blizzard could try to raise enough capital to buy themselves but I think its unlikely
Even if there are millions of people (out of the 7m in Dallas) who are supposedly prospering on Texas' favorable housing/gas/income tax situation, this statistically is not the case in higher tax locations, such as the entire Northeast USA, Chicago, and all of California.

Believe me, I want all of us to be like Texas.
Thanks for the kind words. The ability to improve people's daily lives, as you described, was a big reason a lot of us chose to work there and something we were hoping to see at a larger scale eventually. Today's news came as a shock to most of us.
I would be interested to read a reconciliation between this book and The Gift Of Fear.

Edit: also, CBT doesn't work for everyone. I found it infuriating.
Gather all the best ideas, and run lots of small decentralized experiments. Evaluate and iterate. I don't trust anyone who claims to see the solution as clearly as day.
General advice: treat any “loans” to family or close friends like gifts. Once you hand the money over, imagine it is gone forever.

Then if the loan is paid back, you will be happily surprised. But if it’s not you won’t be bitter about it, and it won’t ruin your relationship.

Corollary: don’t lend your family members an amount of money that would cause you hardship if it’s not paid back. (Obviously extreme circumstances call for careful consideration of the particulars. This is not blanket advice)

YMMV.
Maybe shadowbanned because he's the Mike of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13339723 fame?
I'm in a current situation and I subsidize emergencies for my immediate family whether it's medical, cars breaking down, or something else.

In context though, they did the same for me when I was poorer than all of them and I do it in return now that I am doing well. I also have an open offer to family to help their first month or two of rent in an expensive area if they are looking for a job there, so that they become part of this safety net.
Note it's the "raw" parsing time. If you include the semantic parse-analysis phase, i.e. looking up table names etc, it's a much smaller portion.
While I guess you implied neural networks under ML here’s an example of a classification AutoML based on linear models but may include NN in the future https://github.com/paypal/autosklearn-zeroconf/blob/master/R...
this reminds me of the "cold shoulder" when someone of ill repute came to dine they would be given the cold shoulder, a gristly fatty hunk of bone and maybe some meat, left unheated and tossed to the not quite welcome guest.
> I’m aware there’s a lot of resources and information nowadays about eBPF, but I feel I needed to explain it with my own words.

I guess that's as good a reason as any.
Myth!!!!! I spent so much time posting as "Gothmog" on myth.bungie.org. to me, it is still the quintessential game.
The flip side of this - helping with some stuff that the authors weren’t well versed in and then getting acknowledged for some really trivial work. I’ve liked it but it didn’t deserve any credit.
By the maker of ulisp (http://www.ulisp.com/).
This brings me back.
No, this is new drama as of this evening. Related, for sure, but this is escalating quickly!
How would that even work? The games need to be published by somebody.
Undernet: A CSS and JS front-end framework for building websites – my pet
Hey Max!

Yep, it was the big company stuff that led me to leave EA on both occasions but I worked with many smart, competent people there (Max included) and learned a lot. I heard some horror stories and don't doubt that there was truth to them but I never personally experienced any of the really toxic games industry stuff that you hear about. To be honest I think I'd have just left if I had, there was never a time where finding another job was a major concern.
> Its wholly contemporary to invent bullshit jobs and imagine complexity to keep people at desks en masse

I don't believe that's remotely true. That bullshit jobs exist is certainly true, but it's due to inefficiencies in communication and incentives at larger companies. Bullshit jobs eat into profit, companies don't do it on purpose, it's just harder and harder to weed those people out the bigger you get; the more people you have the easier it is for non-productive people to hide and not have it known.
It's an important development.
Agree. There was a real story going on inside Myth and Myth 2. Both genuine efforts of creativity beyond just the gameplay.
Pretty much the House of Saud strategy, and may be the strategy of every powerful family there is out there.

In the House of Saud case, its basically 'brother-stab-brother' process to become a king, the children nodes(cousins) in the tree generally get contracts to build airports, roads, or become police commissioner of some city. More powerful cousins get to become foreign ministers and run the economy etc.

Cousins who fork off too far away from the branch, typically settle for pensions and may be get their kid's educations in some foreign university sponsored. But again these sort of cousins eventually are the last generation to receive these draws. Because if you let power slip, its basically over. In things like these, money follows power.

Recently I heard of a similar case here in India. Where family politics had forked off a colleague too far away from the home branch. Or he would be pretty darn rich. Apparently his great grandad was a major feudal lord, his father settled for draws, the more powerful uncles have now pushed most other cousins out. And they and children pretty much keep every thing for themselves.

Once you get to a non-trivial money to give away in inheritance, bringing order to family politics is another big thing to do.

Political families in the Sub continent are another interesting thing. Every decade you see a powerful brother/cousin die. Only one survives. Then the game starts again between his kids :)
Commenting here since I can't t reply to the dead comment.

How many people live in Wichita vs New York or a similarly expensive city? If half the country lives in metro areas then 14.71 is a low median wage
My record was 242 hours without sleep when I was 12, me and my best friend challenged who could last longer, ended up in a draw. Last 3 days were in slow zombie mod, I couldn't walk more than 20 meters without taking a break.
Japan's emperor will step down this year. They need to change their calendar too.
sudo pacman -S glhack
How would that even be statistically quantified?
I've spent quite a few hours with games based on the Irrlicht. Nice to hear it's still being improved. Have you looked at the work the SuperTuxKart devs have done to add shader support?[1] I've played a few round and the new tracks are gorgeous.

[1] https://supertuxkart.net/Antarctica:_Technical_Details
An interesting question, but I don't think it is specific to flat-earthers. Attachment to ideas is a human characteristic - hence the panoply of institutions and disciplines intended to circumvent it in science, journalism, etc. The idea flat earthers are attached to happens to be a particularly silly one, but the attachment itself is nearly universal.
MMT says that printing money has no effect if you give it to certain people. I’ve yet to hear of a real-world example where a major economy doubles or triples their monetary supply with no negative effect, which is what MMT will have you believe (“don’t give it to the banks - give it to poor people in Idaho!”).

If it sounds too good to be true then it is.
Many file formats record creation timestamps, like in image, document, video, audio, executable, archive, and so on. If you create these formats and send the file to others, they would at least know when you created the file. Sometimes they even include timezone info, so they can even know something about your geo location. This applies to network protocols, application communications, database records and so on. Even Git will record your timestamp and timezone info for every commit, and it's very difficult to completely change or remove these info.

You might think it's a trivial thing, but it actually tells a lot about you. If someone can trace your activities through time, it's essentially a detailed profile of you, and they can learn how you live and work. Sometimes it can even be used to de-anonymize you by cross referencing with your "real" online identity.

In general it's impractical for users to fully understand what kinds of meta data were included in each file format or send by each application. EXIF data is often included in image files generated by cameras or image editing software. Your full file path to a source code file may be included in the executable you compiled, and it may leak your personal information. Your operating system may send regular health report to its company. A proxy service may append your real IP address in HTTP headers. Even for some encrypted services, they don't encrypt or sign everything. Like 1Password in the past didn't encrypt the URLs of your saved login sites. TLS 1.2 doesn't sign the cipher suites. TLS 1.3 doesn't encrypt client certificate.

Most of these software and protocols were not designed with privacy as a primary concern. Even they do, there are info that they decided to be okay to leak. However, it should be up to the users to decide whether the design decisions were reasonable for their own use case. Even many of these meta data leak seem like targeted surveillance, it's actually scalable and can be adapted to mass surveillance.
I’ve been playing since 1987 with the IBM PC version called Hack. My friend’s floppy disk got damaged so he couldn’t use a scroll of identify because it crashed the game, but he was still able to finish the game without it. For Hack all you needed to do was find the Amulet of Yendor under a boulder and bring it to the top.

I’ve never ascended on Nethack though despite all my time invested. I’m probably playing it wrong but I don’t care it’s still fun as hell.
You're potentially a bit unfair to militaries here; good standing forces have separation from their governance, their own chains of command, and ideally ways to ignore and report inappropriate orders (especially ones which violate terms of engagement and the rules of war).

Yes individual cases will always overstep those, often due to extreme power dynamics, but those should be taken as lessons to learn from rather than taught as the normal order of things.