skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: To quit or not to quit
I have a shitty job that just hired a middle manager to fill an opening that could have gone to me.

There’s no legitimate reason for me to stay at this job, since any room for simple title advancement has now been sealed off. It’s a chop shop, with low to middling talent.

How quickly should I make for the door? I’m deeply considering in not even showing up to work tomorrow, as I just don’t care anymore. Thoughts?
It’s closed source, for starters.
Of gcc, or "a C compiler (with extensions as seen in the wild)"?
Thanks for adding this.
That's why I went with a i7-8700k for my desktop which was at the time the fastest single thread performance (except i7-8086k which was IMO too much money for a tiny bit faster).

It has 6 physical cores (12 virtual) which I think is enough for almost all workloads. No complaints.

They've now been superseded by the i9-9700k and i9-9900k which each have 8 physical cores and are slightly faster per single threads.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

Software is nowhere near making use of all those threads under most circumstances IMO.

Cue all the people saying how they couldn't live without their 32 threads...
Perhaps just start. Not on coding, but on content. Coding facilitates, but a lot of people have already spent a lot of time coding things already. My own 'portfolio' is a wiki, looks neither pretty nor ugly, at least to me, with a heck of a lot of text, about things that interest me. Wiki because of a realisation that chronological order didn't seem to make sense to a body of work that can be added to constantly.
Office 365 is horrible for multi-user editing. When I last experienced it, we’ve lost edits, it’s that bad.

And actually I’ve lost edits with just plain synchronization on an iPad. I was on a plane, I edited a document I had, putting a lot of effort into it, then when my plane landed and the Internet came back, my changes vanished with no history recorded.
Show HN: Netblast – Made a video game and looking for feedback
Thought you might like to check out an indie game my team and I are making called Netblast. Here's some raw gameplay footage to give you an idea of what the game is like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUwB1-KpGYY

Please let me know what you think and if you would be interested in joining our Discord community and hopping into a match sometime:

https://discord.gg/RGu3Avc
Not you specifically but more the thread.

We sell everything to the highest bidder, buy from the cheapest supplier, but then when it's a Chinese company investing it's suddenly a cultural crisis?

If a German company was buying part of Reddit, would it be the same cultural crisis?
Defamation laws in Australia are quite severe, much more so when compared to the US.
That is truly a strange and different life.

You must be very comfortable in crowds, without much concern for the fact that some other person could do something bad to you. Suburbia exists largely because other people disagree. These other people can not relax on a city bus.

Fixing your own sewer is something people do for privacy (strangers again, IN THE HOME), scheduling, and to take pride in doing something with real physical results. It's like cooking your own food, changing the oil in your car, walking your dog, washing your dog, teaching your kids to read, driving, and mowing your lawn. All these things can be paid for, but that takes variety out of life and reduces privacy.

Getting burglarized in Texas is pretty special. Somebody knew he wasn't home, or at least that he wasn't armed.

I shouldn't be walking for groceries. The HCOL/LCOL distinction sorts by family size, being both cause and effect. (you choose a place according to family size, and then the choice you made will influence your family size) I have 11 kids, so try to imagine hauling the groceries for 13 people.

Going by your price, it's $35.75 for us to take the bus.
The neuroscience and mathematics of hallucinatory thought has been progressively studied and elaborated for a while. If you are interested, here is a more approachable introduction to this topic in the Quanta magazine (from 2018) - https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-math-theory-for-why-people-...
An older and more math oriented approach to this same topic exists in this introduction from 2009 - https://plus.maths.org/content/uncoiling-spiral-maths-and-ha...
The underlying theories dont seem to have changed too much from what we have known for some time. But it's nevertheless very fascinating.
Not quite down to the hardware level, but the VPRI STEPS project had that kind of thing in mind, see (PDF): http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2012001_steps.pdf

The focus was on expressive power more than simplicity, though.
Hmmm... Mars' atmosphere is <1% Earth's. So far, everything landing there has needed either retro rockets or (if light enough) elaborate airbags. I don't think a parachute is enough to keep the Tesla intact after "landing".
What do you mean _in_ containers?
You play chess and checkers on the same board but they are different games. The rules are extremely different between the NFL and NCAA.

People discuss the “NBA’s” 24 shot clock vs the NCAA’s more leisurely 35 seconds which among other things has a dramatic difference in how the two different games are played. Which was my original point, when the only people using a set of rules are in one org the names become interchangeable.

If you never compete it’s not clear how seemingly subtle rule changes have dramic impact. This changes not only game strategy but also things like how far people travel over the course of the game. 400m at a full sprint takes real endurance where 100m is mostly about acceleration.

Top athletes may have many skills that crossover to different sports, but these are very different games.
Precisely. I can't spend five minutes on Reddit without getting frustrated. This community feel is perfect. I don't know how it's lasted as long, but kudos to the mods here.
From a practical standpoint, most users in the US are accessing US-shored services.
Yes, the app is ridiculous. No, tech companies don't need to become morality police for the world. Perhaps removing scams and malware should remain the bar for policing apps.
Have you looked at their home wifi Amplfi line? https://www.amplifi.com/

It's supposed to be plug-and-play.

I'd probably buy one, but I'm pretty happy with my 2 year old Unifi AC router, after initial setup, I haven't done anything to it - I have it set to update firmware automatically.
It is better in some ways, and worse in some, both largely subjective. It has a different license, is smaller, less battle tested, from different developers, designed with different goals in mind.

It Depends™ on how you judge.
I won’t join any club that would have me as a member.
It's literally the first match if you Google "Google Wifi"

(it's also the first match on Bing and DuckDuckGo)
if you click the ... on the "so and so liked this tweet" and select "dont show me this", it hides that particular "liked" tweet. Do it enough, and it seems to hide them all. At least it worked for me - I only see original tweets and retweets from those i havent turned off. YMMV
Failure to escape mockery is fundamental to the human condition.
Alchemy is certainly possible with today's technology, and has been done:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthesis_of_precious_metals

It's not cost effective, but it is cheaper than space colonization.
because you think the US mindset is not controlling a major number of movies? Have you watched American Sniper?
> Are we to take down any app which violates anyone’s morals? Or just the morals of particular countries? If an app is blasphemous by the standards of say Mormonism or Islam, should we take it down? After everyone is done, how many apps will be left?

Since Apple & Google created a walled garden, any damage the apps can do fall into their responsibility. If they wanted to avoid this responsibility, they should have created an open platform.
WikiLeaks sure does seem like they've got an agenda.
It’s not feasible without a proxy or special browser. When I run out of data on my phone plan, it’s throttled to 100kbps. Many sites load fine, notable HN and google search. But the average news site or company website will fail to load.
I honestly don’t buy that for a minute.

Unity3D is an implementation detail for games that would be closed source anyways.

The games that are the biggest part of mainstream culture today like Fortnite, GTA, CoD, AAA games in general are not open source.

If a creator is interested in open source they won’t use Unity, but since open source is very far from the “default” for games there’s no difference between a game written in Unity and a game written in some in-house engine.

Not one culture defining game interested in being open source has come out on Unity3d because you don’t start an open source project by building on a closed source engine...

And as an aside, Unity3D is not that opaque either, increasingly large parts of it are being opened up and the Unity executable setup is not designed to be particularly opaque to someone trying to access a specific game's assets.
What you’re describing falls under rotational symmetry.

Rotating top side left one is the same as rotating bottom 2 sides right.

But, more generally limiting rotations to 90 degrees slows things down as 90 or 180 degree rotations can be directly computed with the same overhead.
Yep, there's no aws Russian region but plenty in the US.
They probably mean that a large percentage of internet services are hosted on US-based servers. As a regular AWS/Azure customer, the regions in which I tend to see provisioning issues makes this seem right, though I'd love to see some numbers.
A great display of how one can rewrite history with enough power.
I had the money and it was relatively safe, I would jump at the opportunity.

I got my son a telescope last year and we have been watching the moon whenever we get a chance. It is another world.
I consider myself a 1-man agency, if I land a huge client that needs 10 devs, you better believe I'll get the extra devs.
How Do I Recover My Lost Bitcoin Wallet?
I think you misunderstand. The Russians are leaving the networks up, just testing how they function autonomously.

The Egyptians turned everything off.
> TypeScript requires a build step. That might be enough reason for a JavaScript developer to say, “No, thank you.”

In my experience most JS developers have other considerations. Tests are also a build step, so good chance a codebase already has those.
What does a "clean-room implementation" mean?
According to Business Insider's reporting, in addition to setting travel restrictions for dependents (which includes adult women in KSA), the app also allows you to pay parking tickets.
Late stage of stealing.... check out who invented resnet and the Chinese names on NIPS, CVPR,ICCV
Funny you say that about HN, for a lot of us veterans on HN, we argue the exact same thing happened to HN.

HN today has deteriorated, what used to be a liberal and open minded place to explore new ideas, it has become a self promoting (especially if you are YC fam) to a large degree, and heavy policing.

With the rise of cryptocurrency I saw a lot more shill accounts manipulating comments and such.

So many of us have left HN, maybe there's something like HN out there?
I agree that the bankruptcy of Mars One comes as a surprise to no one, but a trip to Mars can be had for a lot less money than they Apollo program cost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Direct

For example is a proposal that would send men to Mars for about 55 billion dollars over ten years. That even includes a return trip.
your privacy.
Careful about that one, though. Unless your views are orthodox for the site, you'd better enjoy walking on eggshells if you want to post there.
One of my favourite "bias-biases" is the one that is now very, very popular: the idea that people's largely accurate perception of some reality is instead a bias that is the cause of that reality (see "stereotype threat" and related), which is as close to a "wet roads cause rain" fallacy, and magical thinking[1] as you can get.

See also: Stereotype Accuracy [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_thinking

[2] http://www.spsp.org/news-center/blog/stereotype-accuracy-res...
Appropriate that you're talking about idiosyncratic domain specific usage of terminology, I'm not sure what you mean by "information theoretic" here. I've always heard it used to refer specifically to the information theory of Claude Shannon.
Or people don't mind THAT much that a Chinese company has a stake in Reddit. It is probably not going to change much, if not increase relationships between the US and China.
> The first example of relatively large-scale citizen journalism online was during the August 1991 coup attempt by eight high-level Soviet officials. There were two days of confrontation between demonstrators and troops, during which all Russian media except Usenet news groups were shut down by the authorities. Usenet, a precursor of today's Internet discussion forums, carried traffic into, out of and within Russia (70 cities) during the days of the coup attempt.

[..]

> "Don't worry, we're OK, though frightened and angry. Moscow is full of tanks and military machines, I hate them. They try to close all mass media, they shutted up CNN an hour ago, Soviet TV transmits opera and old movies. But, thanks Heaven, they don't consider RELCOM mass media or they simply forgot about it. Now we transmit information enough to put us in prison for the rest of our life :-). Hope all will turn out well at long last..." -- Polina Antonova

http://cis471.blogspot.com/2011/01/before-twitter-revolution...

I'm not happy how this is turning out, actually. Though I'm not thinking of just Russia, the situation is too pathetic across the board for anyone to point fingers at anyone. I'm not some kind of old school hacker either, I don't even get advanced math. But just as someone who was fascinated and inspired by "this stuff" since childhood, just by the stuff I saw in .readme files, I think this is true, even I can tell from the sidelines: the precious few ideals that made this all actually worthwhile, maybe noble even, were just quietly dropped by the wayside by too many, and subsequently not even encountered in the first place by even more. And that kinda breaks my heart.
Not derived from the existing code. The reason it’s mentioned is to assert that openrsync is not subject to the original rsync’s GPL.
A hedge fund's mercenary strategy, buy Newspapers, slash jobs, sell buildings.
This "experiment" looks like a way to enforce DNS / caching services / mail services to store their data inside Russia. Which makes it easier for anyone with just a letter from the court to get it.
There's a lot of discussion here, but I don't see the important question being asked:

How (and whether) the removal of this app will help the women in Saudi Arabia:

1)In the short term

2)In the long term

I.e. if the alternative to using the tracking app is not being able to travel (in the realities of that horrible state), then removal will make life of many women worse in the short term.

Calls for bans and removals are the easiest form of moralizing without addressing the actual problem in any way.

The same kind of logic brought us FOSTA/SESTA, which few people here are happy about. Let's not fall into the same trap.
This may be more work than some are willing to do but I took the opposite approach. I browse /r/all almost exclusively but I've got RES filtering any subreddit I don't want to see in my feed again. The list of filters gets long.
I believe at the time there was an optimism that MBS would be a positive for change. Remember the optimism around when he announced the changes to allow women to drive...
Never feel guilty. That’s not why she does it. If you ever feel guilt, pass it on. Make someone else’s life better as a result.
Really off-topic, but this is why I actually miss seeing the upvote score on comments -- without knowing the score, we don't know how popular this opinion is (personally I would love to see a write up on this as well); and since there's no way to see the popularity, we get this chain of people seconding/thirding the statement.
I'm still on half a dozen different forums. A few general chat ones, and a few specific to hobbies/interests.

If anything, the quality of them has gone up since most of the "I just want lulz" people went to reddit. The software is better than ever too, with Discourse and XenForo adding modern web features.

There's also a few "new reddits" like Tildes which are quite good.

No single one of the above replaces reddit as a whole, but combined I find it much more enjoyable than reddit these days.
It's a great talk. I can't remember whether he says it directly in the talk, but the upshot of his argument is that the "major version" part of SemVer is pretty much useless information to library consumers, and suggests that rather than using major versions, libraries should just change their names.
The atmosphere is not thick enough for a soft landing of heavy rovers, but it helps a lot with slowing spacecraft down into an orbit around the planet.
> This is precisely why large concentrations of wealth are harmful to the (free-market) economy.

Large concentrations of wealth are necessary for scaling production, allowing lower costs and increasing standard of living. Moreover, large concentrations of wealth are usually not very concentrated in the first place: the wealth of the wealthy is spread across the economy and the wealth of associations is spread across the world.

> It boggles my mind that people who argue against large governments because their incentives aren't correctly aligned don't see that precisely the same argument applies to private individual/businesses with large amounts of wealth.

The same arguments RE power/monopoly/unaccountability that apply to corporations in the market apply to the government much more in every case. Additionally, the government has the authority to coerce everyone into doing what they want to be done. It also has the ability to steal your money and spend it on things that you might somewhat benefit from at the best or are absolutely morally reprehensible at the worst.

And no, the existence of voting does not make any of that less of a problem.
That classification is so dishonest. The anti-vaping ads I see already do their best to pretend the dangers of tobacco and e-cigs are the same without directly saying it (because of course they aren’t).

It’s so crazy how much effort there is behind attempting to smear ecigs as being the same as tobacco. (I don’t use either one)
The reporting is pretty clear that the app isn't used to cross the border and is not intended to be used by women at all.
I think it is worth noting that Saudi Arabia doesn't have any popular ground level support (as far as I can tell).

Yes, money buys influence. But that only goes so far in the face of widespread hostility. The "they took money from XXX" negative argument does really work if everyone hates XXX.
Hail Corporate.....
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is probably a good place to start.

https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/ind...
Server-side filtering of /r/all is a Premium feature - or, at least, it was a Gold feature. I don't see a list of Premium features anywhere.
Feels more like a small-town newspaper writeup.

Could be that an overloaded author, sitting at a Bloomberg desk, was assigned the story ... with no experience in energy, and given nothing to to work with but a couple of local Alaskan newpaper clips. Maybe muttering to himself while he typed.
Google search has gotten worse and DuckDuckGo has simultaneously gotten better! I have (again) been using DDG for the past few weeks and I type "!g" once a day at most. Very exciting if this seeming trend holds.
What exactly do you consider disparate? And how big is the company?
I dabbled in assembly, for a living, at a major software firm. I can still do it after brushing up a bit. And I have no trouble setting up a pg database with web frameworks and writing optimized code.

Web isn't some magical beast- its just rote programming.

Actual business logic is where the categorization starts.
True — I simply added up NASA’s budget in constant dollars through the moon landings for maximum effect, but the Apollo program in isolation would have been less. (Still took an estimated 400,000 personnel to pull it off, though!)

To my untutored eye, your $200bn+ doesn’t sound out of the range of likelihood, plus or minus — you’re basically looking at an ISS with a number of novel capabilities, plenty of redundancies, and assurance that the crew won’t end up dead from hard radiation along or after the trip, so assume at least $150bn in engineering+build and another $10-15bn to get 500 tons or so of spaceship into orbit. Add in Martian lander and rover costs, new personal equipment, any novel work on propulsion, power, radiation, and life support ... what were these guys thinking, anyway?
Same here, there is systematic and institutionalized racism in Hollywood, I'm glad China is making their moves in Hollywood, maybe we will see more Korean and Chinese celebrities appearing in these films.

Interesting since the first Japanese male actor was a sensation amongst white women of the early 1900s silent film era, and thus Asian Americans were erased from mainstream films.

The more I study American history, the Japanese interment camps, the racist treatment of Asian Americans, the genocide against 50+ million Native Americans, Opium war, Boxer rebellion, vietnam war, hiroshima, the more I'm convinced that Nazi's escaped and helped build the Reich that they could've had in a far away new land.
Tencent is part owned by Naspers, originally a local South African media company who by some accounts have played a big part in the Tencent's success
Quote from Reuters
Founded in 1915, Naspers has transformed itself from an apartheid-era newspaper publisher into a 1.5 trillion rand ($127 billion) multinational with private equity-style investments in e-commerce platforms that also include OLX, the biggest classified sites in India and Brazil, and Russia’s Mail.ru.
I also see it supermacist, which in fact is true, USA still rules Japan more or less and have actual military base on Island that belongs to Japan.
A simple guide to Big-O notation
Twitter’s content muring is useless in that it still shows quote Tweets if anyone you mute in your timeline. I have POTUS, Tomi Lahren, and several others blocked and muted, yet they still appear in my timeline because of the infamous “slam dunk quote tweet” phenomenon.

It’s not just hard to filter things out on Twitter; it’s downright impossible.
But this is a noairline not an airline.
"Bounded rationality" is the subject of an earlier movement in economics, Herb Simon won a Nobel for it in 1978.
Yes, of course, if it was safe and affordable lots of people would do it -- but you're not going to get safe and affordable space travel from an early spacefaring startup.
Yet someone got paid and declared mission accomplished. Hilarious unless you were an investor. Maybe the engineers that worked at the company wrote really productive code in a really productive language. And the company offered amenities and benefits that were unlike anything else.
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."

~Desmond Tutu
I'd prefer a return trip to a moon hotel.
As long as everybody is investing their time, money and health as free choice I think it's a good thing and we should support them.

Of course it's a pipe dream. Of course people will dump sh*tloads of money for no results. Of course people will die if they really start doing stuff like this. But is there really a way to achieve such kind of goal without such sacrifices?