skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Farming crops doesn’t sound like an entirely bad job, but I’m not sure the pay is great compared to software development.

I’d seriously consider agricultural jobs (farming, ag engineering, agricultural science) in another lifetime if I hadn’t invested so much time in my tech career and weren’t so allergies to grass/pollen outdoor allergens.
Much as this whole situation is pretty scary from Unity - Improbable's TOS aren't much better - https://auth.improbable.io/auth/v1/eula

Section 4.4 says you can't launch any game on their tech without speaking to them first, and you have to get explicit permission to not use Steam, or their "content launcher"
Imagine yourself sat in a big chair aged 110 years old. And you’re thinking to yourself “I’m so glad I did X”.

What is X?

(It’s tough, I’m 44 and I only figured it out last year, but I didn’t do it this way)

Now, how can you do X?

Is it a side hustle? Is it a spare time thing? Does it need millions of dollars? Does it need you to quit your job and change direction completely?

Can you get to X in five years?

If so, what is the single most important thing you need to have completed in 3 years?

To do that one thing, what’s the most important thing you need to have completed by January next year?

And to do that, what’s the single most important thing you need to have completed by March this year.

Now you have a goal - something to achieve by March. Write out 12 tasks to get you there and do one each week between now and then.

If you can’t come up with 12 tasks you can be more ambitious in your March goal. If you can’t fit it all in you need to scale back your March goal.

And then when you hit March, look at your one year target and figure out the next 12 weeks.
I'm working in the industry at one of the largest publishers on AAA title and I have pretty much just positive things to say. Both about the working environment and the projects we work on. I think it's definitely the case that the worst cases are the most publicised and not many people write about the good ones.
How's the battery life? I got the Atom even though it's uglier because I read bad reviews of the Jelly's battery.
This is not my experience working with Chinese scientists in chemistry in my lab. None of the ones I work with want to go back to China and they are very critical of the validity of any science done there.
From the security point of view the most obvious difference to me is that Nitrokey contains a secure element while Secalot doesn't. (Secalot contains a microprocessor with cryptographic acceleration but don't confuse this with a secure element.) Secure elements are secure key stores which protect against extraction of cryptographic keys by malware and by physical attackers.

Also Secalot seems to be a small project while Nitrokey is a (small) company, which might influence quality of security and maintenance too.

Disclaimer: I'm with Nitrokey UG.
::applaud::
yes, it seems likely, even 'certain' but as I understand it also seems not to have been verified using data in this case? I like my certainties verified.
There are some interesting books regarding organisational structure, that also reflect some of what's in the blog post.

Reinventing Organisations by Frederic Laloux is one that especially struck my interest.
Larger company that is trying to keep startup mojo is special kind of hell - mostly due to ugly politics that emerges. You cant manage small group of people the same way as big one and vice versa.

> The restrictiveness of big company jobs is particularly hard on programmers, because the essence of programming is to build new things.

I dont think we should devalue maintenance and maintenance programmers. I know it is popular, especially among those who want to convince programmers to go to startups, but that is exactly what it is.
The overblown and misleading issue of global warming
Do you really need a citation for what the Chinese government is up to with classified military technology? (As if the Chinese government willingly publishes this info)

I would argue that the very raw destructive power that military weaponry has, in particular with regards to nuclear capabilities, has actually reduced the odds of another world war.
Weird to judge contemporary China by the behavior of a Soviet dictator who's been dead for 65 years.
It's not that they value science more than we do but it's the only way to rule the world and it looks like China is aiming for that. What would the U.S be without science/technology? This is a never ending game.
A plan to make artificial meteor showers
The strange normality of life in a breakaway state
One thing about roadtrips - we like to take scenic routes. On scenic routes there are very few gas stations, let alone electric charging points. Even with a gas powered car we still have to plan our fuel-ups.

Another thing is that an hour and a half to charge the car is very long time to cut out of your day when on vacation. If you're with kids, you have to find stuff to do. Every day, since you do drive the scenic route which is much more heavy on battery than highways are.

Eating a meal while charging of course is a thing, yet we usually try to cut that time to minimum compensating with late dinner. Also, eating options near charging stations almost never hit home...

I suppose that if technology won't catch up, electric must change the way people travel. Or it will still be relevant for A-to-B trips or daily commuters only.
Personal opinion but I find conferences and trainings more of a waste of time, and obviously they are more expensive as well.
I see innovation time as a complementary practice to hackathons. I very much agree with the cultural aspects, but hopefully innovation time could have a positive effect on it as well?
Bomber Man introduced 8 and 16 player battle royale in the 1990s. At the end of a match the arena begins shrinking to force players closer together. It also had variable size squad play. I’m surprised Bomber Man is never mentioned as an inspiration for these games.
Anytime there's an acquisition you have to assume that someone, perhaps much of the main talent that made the company what it was wants to cash out and move on. People always blame EA for killing a bunch of companies with previous stellar reputations but I tend to think those companies were probably about to die anyway because key people wanted out.
So now it's based on the caveat that only small business and solo devs should benefit from the good parts of open source and anyone with sufficient scale should have to pay because Foss based startups deserve to exist regardless of their business quality and that business of certain arbitrary scale should then apply morality to their involvement with Foss.

Well, write the licenses and let's see what traction they get. I'll wager that they will be shot down by pretty much everyone
> Access to good private education takes more money than the majority of Americans have.

I went to a fairly traditional private school (cost: $8k/yr) and absolutely hated it, but still did well. Eventually my hatred turned into a complete mental breakdown, I refused to go anymore, and after a search transferred to a super fancy independent study school (cost: $15k/yr) where I got to meet one-on-one with my teachers, or in small classes of less than 5 students. This school cured my depression in a few months and developed my intellectual and artistic passions over the next couple of years. Several of my friends followed me there in the next year or two, with similar positive effects on their sanity. If only everyone had this opportunity! Alas, Seattle spends only $15k per student in their public schools :-( Here's the data for all 50 states as a whole [1].

> Charter schools often pop up, look sexy, and vary extremely widely. Again some good, a lot of "meh" and some bad.

This is famously true of different public school districts as well. I'm not willing to discount anything that help move us away from the deranged format of traditional schools.

[1] https://education.cu-portland.edu/blog/classroom-resources/p...
Ohai gambiting.

I know we work for the same company and I generally agree that our company is one of the better ones. Which is not to say that there's no shit being flung around.

But our company is not known for being loved by gamers. I wonder if terrible working conditions is somehow related to creating better games. Horrible thought though.
Have you ever looked at Lutris?

https://lutris.net/
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Why should children have equal chances?

Is it a birth right? This is an entirely foreign concept to me.

It’s not that the ‘lower classes’ shouldn’t have children but it is expected that from their weakened position, their progeny will likely have lesser chance to thrive than others and will have to fight harder. It is also better if they have fewer children because they can devote all available resources to fewer children.

I understand that this might seem distasteful to many. But I want to dissect this and absorb it rationally.

How can the statement ‘children should have equal chances’ be supported rationally?
Sure, some things have gotten more expensive while others have gotten cheaper. But the quantitative analysis seems to indicate that in aggregate things are getting cheaper. I'm not sure how listing a handful of personal examples is a good response to a statement grounded in data.
omg, yes and yes! Large companies should assume the fact that they're large and maintenance engineers are my heroes.

These folks are in the hardest spot in large orgs because they perform hidden feats of heroics all the time, yet they're typically only noticed when things go wrong.
Since there is a lot of discussion about alternative solutions to the keyword lookup problem I was wondering, why Tries were not mentioned yet.

Since the current implementation has to do a string compare after the hash, wouldn't a Trie be at least as fast? Am I missing something? Are there other disadvantages?
Donald Knuth Lectures
In case anyone else needs to lookup the term easpouse, I assume it relates to this post: https://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html
There is some beginning work being done to have libhandy wrappers in rust. I have gotten their qemu environment up and running and will be tinkering on rust+gtk apps which I hope has a future in this ecosystem.

But yea by default it appears most stuff is c and gtk right now.
I'm more than happy to answer your questions, at least insofar as you are inquiring about facts:

> How much time do working people need to work every day to earn enough to reproduce themselves?

The Economist article linked above says that adjusted for inflation and taxes, less than one fifth as many people struggle to do so as compared to 40 years ago. Sure, it's valid to say that the percentage of people that experience that struggle (~3-4%) is still a figure that is unacceptably high. But it has been a drastic reduction from what it was four decades earlier (over 15%).

> College education is now expected for many jobs (working people reproducing themselves means the next generation having access to similar jobs).

A strange observation to make, seeing as the non-college educated reproduce at a greater rate than those who do.[1]

> What about healthcare, rent/home prices?

I mention that those are exceptions to the overall trend, but also explain that those are due to well known reasons: a large ageing generation, and an unwillingness to build housing in many growing metro areas. They are not cause by inequality, though good arguments can be made that they exacerbate it.

> Food and clothing prices have declined a lot, but the other prices have risen to a much greater proportion of median income.

Sure, some things like housing have gotten more expensive. But plenty of others have gotten cheaper. In aggregate, costs are going down. That's what the Economist article I linked above explains.

> How many people are now working two or more "part-time" jobs for a total of more than 40 hours a week?

People are spending less time on work on average.[2]

1. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/97facts/edu2birt.htm

2. https://amp.businessinsider.com/images/520f835b6bb3f7730d000...
"by slowing the creation of the new ideas ... top income taxation ..."

Is this proven anywhere? I don't believe high taxation reduces innovation, in fact perhaps the opposite is true overall.
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It's a false equivalency. Having high prices advertised transparently is not the same as what Unity has done.
True. A lot of governments are working on fixing that... by making cash a lot less liquid.
Totally, but the point of this paper isn't the people who already have $10mm. It's the people who want to get there, and what they're willing to sacrifice to do it. Building a massive business like say, Amazon, takes enormous personal sacrifice and risk. The high incomes that result from it incentivize that sacrifice/risk. They cause the person who currently has relatively little, to risk what they do have to produce something great, something that we all benefit from.

The point of this paper is that there is an amount of risk/sacrifice people will make for $10mm, that is different from what they will make for $100mm, and different still from what they'll make for $1b. By truncating the reward distribution at $10mm, you tell those people to pursue something else instead.

Bezos is actually an excellent example. In his career at DE Shaw, he was almost certainly making very high 6 figures or maybe even 7, or certainly on a career track to be doing so shortly. He threw that away to take a massive personal risk to build Amazon. Would he have done that if you capped his potential reward at $10mm? Or would he have stayed in his comfortable finance job, making a bit less than that?
Flex is about single-dimensional layout, grid is about two-dimensional layout.

Most layout scenarios that are in two dimensions can actually be solved with nested single-dimensional layout. Sometimes it’ll be easier to solve them with a proper two-dimensional layout, and I tend to prefer the markup that Grid lets me have, but I find two-dimensional layout that can’t be solved with nested single-dimensional layout to be uncommon.

Also, most interface problems are actually single-dimensional.

I think Grid will become more popular than it is, but never overtake Flexbox as most people’s go-to for layout, because Flexbox is normally enough, and Grid is too complex. I use it from time to time, and I have taken the trouble to know exactly what it’s capable of, so that I know when I should reach for it rather than Flexbox or something else or giving up, but I normally need to look up various properties when I go to use it. Meanwhile, most of what people want to achieve with Flexbox is just `display: flex;` plus `flex-direction`, `flex`, `align-items` and `justify-content`, and there are few enough knobs that you can essentially brute-force it without trouble—and the Flexbox Inspector makes it even easier, in a way that the Grid Inspector can’t really because Grid is just too powerful.
scenario forgetting to recharge:

damn, black-tea you look like sh*t!!

oh yeah, I had a hard night of it, went out drinking with some old friends didn't get in until 5 this morning. slept 2 hours, have a bit of a migraine.

whoa, that black-tea is a king among men!!
So all someone needs to drive in Sweden is this Taxi Driver license? Then they can just jump in their car and start earning?
> We barely had the resources - sapient or monetary - to sell our own product; trying to sell other people's products upon which ours depended was doomed to fail.

Just to know, this isn't a particularly uncommon problem. I spent quite a few years working in the B2B lead generation space, and there are countless companies built around the value proposition of being a complementary product to another software platforms.

There are quite a few techniques you can use to suss out what software and platforms companies are using internally, in order to better target your prospecting. Or you can skip that step and go straight to purchasing a list of companies that are known users of that platform. There are companies that curate that type of information - similar to BuiltWith[1] or Wappalyzer[2], but include internal-only technology and not just what's visible by crawling their website. Or you can take it even further, and commission a custom program from a B2B lead generation firm which includes a requirement that any leads have self-reported that they use a specific platform and that they have decision making authority over it[3]. There are also a ton of options in between; feel free to reach out if you'd like to chat more (email in profile).

[1] https://builtwith.com/

[2] https://www.wappalyzer.com/

[3] These are a patently different class of lead generation program than what the article references - both in quality and cost. You're looking at $20-$50 per lead vs. $1 per lead. But with a guarantee that they match your targeting and pre-qualification criteria, even if that pre-qualification criteria was as random as "she has confirmed they use Khan Academy internally, and that she's in charge of it, and that <insert your complementary product's niche> is a pain point for them".
Super interesting that Google Chrome trusts that https://xorhash.bitbucket.io link[0] you posted, but Facebook doesn't trust that SSL cert.

Curious if bitbucket.io is serving different SSL certificates based on the web agent?

[0] https://xorhash.bitbucket.io/nh/nethack_rng_tools-0.2.3.tar....
Towards remote working: do you really want to do that?
actually, the article was posted yesterday. He’s writing about his experience in 2015...
warning - not using certified Rayvlon makeup cartridges can mean you will be prematurely aged in the middle of a meeting like bad science fiction/horror genre mashups!
You can install Postfix/Dovecot yourself, it's not super hard.
Their atmosphere can be thought of as 'hot near-vacuum'.
That's why my submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18843584 called it a "Tool Assisted Speedrun on NetHack with RNG Exploitation". :-)

I'm not sure about the exact terminology. Is an ascension by a bot (like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unCQHAbGsAA) also as a TAS?

Although you are right that the group that tried to do a TAS for NetHack (not sure what's their status) chose the MS-DOS port of 3.4.3 for ease of manipulating the RNG in memory and so getting rid of the "hidden information" part.

Edit: also in a game like NetHack, there is potential for an automated tool to help the player. InterHack (https://taeb.github.io/interhack/) was an interface layer for 3.4.3 that added lots of useful stuff, e.g. automatic price identification or wand id from engraving. Most of that has since been incorporated in vanilla NetHack or at least forks.
No links is the largest red flag, no wonder you’re constantly downvoted.

> If carbohydrates aren’t an essential aspect of metabolism, then can you explain the role of glycolysis as an input to the Krebs cycle?

You know so much about metabolism, tell me how do ketone bodies enter this picture?

I really don’t need your answer, anybody can google for themselves that dietary glucose is not an essential nutrient.
Of course it's not the same, but he's talking about "freely choosing and combining engines". UE was never even an option for indie devs a few years ago.

Besides, Unity clearly stated that Improbable knew about their TOS violation for at least half a year and Unity's reasoning also makes some sense, as Improbable is bundling Unity's SDK in their product. Problem is, that it's too late now because Improbable blew this up from their perspective omitting important information about what was actually going on.
If you want that, try TiddlyWiki[1] -- an actual offline-first system for journaling and notes.

It's a single, self-contained HTML file. You download it, add data, then overwrite the file with a new version which includes changes.

If you want to go fancy, you can install it on a server with Node.js and stuff, but there's not a need to go there.

[1]https://tiddlywiki.com/
> I'm not aware of any strategy for healing a wound that doesn't involve removing the knife first.

When did I advocate for simultaneous slavery and reparations?
UnNetHack and NetHack4 and its forks have autoexploration.

The problem with it is that it's less efficient than exploring on your own.

I usually don't care about that. You learn fast when to autoexplore and when not to, to not miss particular places you value higher than the program. When playing on a tablet, it's tremendously useful and a real time saver.
If you're ever in London, I recommend visiting the Museum of Transport in Covent Garden to understand how London's transit system developed.
Considering that Bezos derives the vast majority of his wealth through capital gains as opposed to income, I'd say yes.
Most of What We Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People
I was about to bring out Linux as a thing that according to your argument just isn't possible with open source.

But you've mentioned it yourself, so you presumably don't see that as a contradiction.

What do you think makes the complexity of Linux achievable with FOSS while the comparable complexity of a AAA engine not?
Thanks heaps mate, I am 100% with you on this one and now in my late 30s I am in the best position (I think) to do it (both from experience and financial positions) and we don't really rely on getting into YC too much but would love to, thus the question...
I hope they have anti-bacterial wipes at the conference. I'd hate for them to be spreading skin conditions, like the thing that happened with the Occulus Rift: https://hothardware.com/news/vr-headsets-public-demos-blamed...
Fibonacci and BigInteger: Secret Under the Hood
Where does this student's failure narrative come from?
Paysafecard Code Generator and Codes List – Exact Hack
Hi.

You wrote "There is a developer who (I think) works for Docker..."

I believe that you are referring to Jessie Frazelle.
Well (a) he's making a joke and (b) it's not that weird to compare two communist, authoritarian regimes.
The problem with DO and other cloud providers is that it might happen that complete IP subnets are blocked by some providers or are on Spamhaus for example. If they have been used for spam once before it's super hard to get them "clean" again.

This is why I am running my own mail servers on my own IP addresses, because of that I don't have such problems, even sending to the big providers you mentioned is no problem.
NASA's aviation close-call database, however, is entirely open to the public. And these reports make for some great reading!

https://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/search/database.html
The interest behind of state-sponsored attacks like these still puzzle me.
Does it still have a "massive number of agencies" compared to the EU and all its member states? I don't think so.
Funny to see early predictions about the .NET ecosystem:

"Perhaps I am wrong, but let me state what I believe about this stuff. ...C# is not really important as it will never
reach the 'mass' of VB..."
Correct me if I am wrong but the funds YC gives you (
150k USD ???) it is a great help - only if we don't have to move - but it sort of defies the point of being in the program, this is why looking for real life stories.
I wonder how it compares to the Lenovo Mirage Solo.

Anyone knows if you can access the device storage directly from Windows via MTP?
This is the same story in Sweden too. For a short period, I was part of the team, and we were being asked to see how we can answer some questions with the information for something around 10k peoples information in Spain and Portugal. The way they just handed us the data and their explanation of why this is not going to bite us back made me sick and I just left right away. But the mentality of how to use these data in the business should be taught to mainstream marketers. Obfuscation of these data to not pinpoint a single person is not something that is as robust as people may think. I can easily find myself in our neighborhood since I know some key points about myself!