skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Is it just me, or are arcade games making a comeback of sorts?

It's you. The heyday for arcades was in the early 1980s. Every corner drug store had a game or two. Every bowling alley had a room full of games. The local ice cream shop had a few table-top games, as did the local movie theater. They were everywhere. Sometimes we'd decide where to go based on which games were where. Going to a big arcade was a thing too, but today they are the only place left that has these tihngs.

BTW, this whole thing reminds me that I won big at Dave & Busters recently and I need to go back and see if that's reproducible. Big ticket prize seemed easy to get once I played with the right goal in mind.
Where is this located (for GDPR purposes)?
To be clear, these are noise cancelling for your ears AND mic. Most of us have the Jabra 75 (over the ear) pair. It definitely helps on conference calls.
How does key exchange work, and does the server have copies of the keys?
I've noticed how obvious security problems get "discovered" over the years, when people already knew about them. What happens is, someone new finds the bug and makes a big stink about it being exploited. Everyone realizes the bug is a huge problem and then, one by one, every software project with that bug incorporates a fix or mediation. What should have never existed soon becomes another in a line of "standard fixes" that every system afterwards has to account for.

There are things that (in retrospect) should be a standard part of all open source supply chains. Basic code vuln scanning, code signing+verifying, reproducible builds, redundant copies of code, and licenses permitting keeping code around to prevent breaking other code. But they're not standard - yet. So one by one, we have to run into these problems and break things before they're addressed and later become de-facto standards.

I've noticed that this mirrors real life. In real life you can notice that an intersection is dangerous and needs a stop sign. But until a schoolbus full of children is plowed into, nobody lifts a finger. It's the same in technology. You can't just mention the big potential problem; you have to wait for the explosion.

I spent months trying to get websites on the internet to mention that the default options they suggest for ssh-keygen are fundamentally insecure and dangerous, and while all of them acknowledge this is a fact, most of them won't update their guides. Not until someone creates a virus that finds and exposes vulnerable ssh key passwords around the world. Then all of a sudden whatever implicit bias they had against doing the work will disappear, as fear of impending consequences takes over.
"Penny wise and pound foolish."

Which is to say if you're paying a developer $70K+/year (+taxes/benefits), and you're skimping on a $2K one time cost cubicle, even if that loss results in increased turnover ($$$), reduced morale ($$$), or reduced productively ($$$) then that's an irrational decision.

Employers should consider a "1-2%" per-employee per year "morale fund." If you're paying someone $70K/year the least you could manage is $700-1400 to keep them sweet, it is just good business. Better equipment, software to make them more productive, a nicer chair, whatever.

But I've come to realize that managers rarely make decisions for purely rational reasons. The prestige and internal politics often play a larger role than pure costing.
Messages sent on the app are end-to-end encrypted and the key is not known to the server.
The only way anybody can read your messages is if you allow them physical access to your phone.
It’s astonishing to me that new staff as well as new managers became such eager consumers and proponents of open offices just because a few big-IPO companies made it _seem_ avant-garde.

At no time did they consider the effect on personal space and depersonification of this new “paradigm”.

People were hoodwinked into believing this was more social, more cooperative and more egalitarian. No it wasn’t. It was cheaper to seat people and it took freedom away from workers. You now had a multiplicity of eyes upon you. So now even if you don’t have anything productive to do till tomorrow, you have to at least pretend you have something to do now. So instead of thinking about what and how you’ll do things to morrow you waste your time pretending along with everyone else in the corral.

I saw this happen at places which say they “care about workers” and offer a good “work-life balance”. It was such horseshit. If you have to propagandize your beliefs you don’t actually believe them.
I really don't.

RT's value prop has never been "a good score indicates a technically/artistically good film". It's just "how'd the critics we track like the movie?"

If it's over 80%, I can reasonably assume I'll enjoy it. If it's below 30%, I should probably figure out if it fits my particular "critically panned but I'd love it" quirks before shelling out $15 for a theater outing.
Tips to survive the first year of the business
How do you "optimize" for numbers with 8 digits? Sounds intriguing... /s

Edit: comment has been made obsolete due to edit of parent comment
I have had problems sleeping for years, and used 5-HTP in the past. Like many things (e.g melatonin) I found it worked at first but doesn't seem to be anywhere near as effective as it used to be. Do you still find it effective after 4 years of use?
yeah cause we use their service for free
Hi!
An Android version is on the horizon.
Thank you for your feedback.
>I tried Android for a while but it was Samsung’s Android and was not for me, I was frustrated and annoyed after every interaction with my phone.

Understandable. Why didn't you try a Sony compact?
Except that in the open office structure, all the managers permanently book the conference rooms so they have an office.
i use something like curl -T path/to/file https://baxx.dev/io/$BAXX_TOKEN/$(echo | encrypt -k ~/.pass | base32)

which uploads:
/EAAAAAEQJUAYSU5PR3WO7IKOX2ZPM5NSNIALFYJE5MMDJYNMNUZEA===
No I mean on Asus' side.

Like you should have a very specific procedure to put files on the server not let a random computer on the internet do it without an approval process.
Why not do it deterministically then? 600 hashes of MAC addresses suggests that it's a very targeted group of machines, it's the size of a moderately large company, for example.
i found a website
Reading list and exam for "Conflict, Coalition and Strategy", Schelling (1970)
Curious where a cubicle wall would be considered necessary and sufficient isolation, even assuming people cleared to the sufficient level and on the same project. Seems like you'd either say ntk exists or not, so either shared workspace ok, or more robust isolation.
Of course most problem not in performance with react, light analog of React + MobX.
If there's no website, what am I looking at when I follow the link?
I mentioned the open office to my former manager as one of my reasons for leaving (yes, I know some people think it's never a good idea to give exit feedback, but IMHO it depends on the context). I knew my manager was already not a fan of open offices, so I figured I'd give him a bit of ammunition.
I switched jobs from an open, small desk, "collaborative" environment to one that has bigger more private desks. It's much nicer. I have more space, more time to research and watch programming conference videos, less interruptions since most interactions are on our chat program. And the environment has about the same level of collaboration.
It's even worse.

For most people, news is just a social object. Something to talk about with family, co-workers, etc. Whether or not any particular story is true doesn't matter - what matters is that everyone in their circle is aware of the described event (whether they read the same story, or a different one).

Humans are pretty good at fact-checking and critical thinking when getting it wrong means some immediate loss. But most news stories are irrelevant to almost everyone's lives, and those few that are, don't have a direct and immediate impact.
I think a good portion of it would parse as Markdown, but I don't think that was the intent. There's at least 1 header that isn't actually a typical header's content.
There are two different AR-15s: ArmaLite AR-15 which is what the article is about and from which M16 was derived and then modern day Colt AR-15 which is civilian version of M16.
You're absolutely right. In another comment I stated:

> Again, I reiterate that these people aren't leaving because of the open office space concept. Removing all of the walls in the office just happened to also remove any reason to stick it out and try to work through the other problems.

There are definitely other issues involved. If there were not, I imagine an open office with this group would have actually been kind of fun, in a way, as we all get along really well and enjoy each other's company.

But if everyone is stressed due to significant structural reorganizations and process changes already? An open office concept just rubs salt into the wounds, IMHO.
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> Destroying your employees' productivity for a pic.
That same minister is launching a cyber attack on unsecured IoT devices to get the country to strengthen its stuff. He seems far the from the worst guy for the job.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/tel...
Until it is bombarded by fake reviews?
It was "so bad the Germans had trouble getting it to work" is the anecdote I usually hear.

Which is a mixed bag, Nazis small arms were pretty bad, but the Germans have been making pretty good firearms since 1950.
You're not wrong. But for those of us who want facts and insight instead of entertainment and opinions it would be nice for it to be more obvious where to find that.
Show HN: Send real postcards like updating your social media
Ask HN: What to do when your side-project takes off?
Very curious to know how things change when you have hyper growth. How do you deal with priorities? Do you reach out to get seed-funding? Who do you speak to? Do you sell?

I am asking because I read a lot of stories of people getting #1 on HN or PH and suddenly their servers are down because of heavy traffic. What do you do after that? It seems super crazy
Rebooting UUCP to redecentralize the net
I have never accidentally scrolled with either a touchpad or a normal mouse.
>I do enjoy bullpen style arrangements with a team of say 5 to 7 in the same shared space.

The key being team -- you are next to people you are actively collaborating with on a day to day basis.
Preach, brother.
If you want to go on a rant, is it too much to ask that you list examples and how they apply, rather than assume everyone here is as on top of Internet drama like you might be? Your examples might even make it clear why a RT for news would be even more difficult than the one that exists for movies.
Interesting that you consider it bullying if an individual abrasively states different viewpoints from the crowd.

Is it bullying if the crowd uses similar tactics to silence the individual?

Perhaps it depends on whether you agree with the crowd's opinion or not.
The linked video was horrible, so I searched on YT and found an entire channel of some other guy's AP vids (note, only the ones with "AP" in the titles):

https://www.youtube.com/user/MewtwoStruckBack/videos

Some of them show that it's not all timing and tricks, these guys do seem to have good hand-eye coordination needed on a lot of the games:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQWq9ZIYP0o
This is a great initiative, which helps make good libraries even better. I happily contribute and hope to steadily increase my contributions, as I'm getting work done with Clojure.
Rust is not a good C replacement
> Kids should not have them

15 to 18 year olds tend to obtain a lot of things they should not have, not only guns but other things that are illegal for them, like porn and alcohol, and things that are illegal for anyone to possess, like drugs.
Try to browse it with NetSurf!
How do you edit a comment?
Headers in markdown are denoted as # and bullet points as * or - usually.
A Third of the Himalayan Glaciers Will Melt by the End of the Century
Having recently started working in such an office, the reason has (IMHO) nothing to do with actual worker efficiency and everything to do with management's perspective.

The cubicle walls are so short that I can see other's heads while sitting down (and if the person is tall and/or they prefer to raise their chair high, I can see their face) and conversations are often audible from 2 cubes away.

Upper level management wants to reduce costs but also, to remind everyone that they are cogs in the machinery and that they want to basically turn every job they can, into essentially a regimented call-center sort of job, with quantitative stats being collected on all aspects of work performance.

Only the very decent pay and the prospects for promotion out of this part of the company are keeping me around (it's the pay, really).

Loyalty to the company itself: approximately zero.
While the LispMs designers might have originally intended a network-based file system over Chaosnet and a network-based shared terminal configuration, in the end the LispMs each had sufficient local storage for standalone operation, and dedicated displays. (Though using long cables so that the machines could be in a machine room.)

Moon wrote that the Chaosnet routing scheme “is predicated on the assumption that the network geometry is simple, there are few multiple paths, and the length of any path is quite short. This makes more sophisticated schemes unnecessary.”

In the end, the whole network at MIT was effectively a single physical run (I managed the EECS portion) of the old-style thick coax. What a nightmare to manage and debug across a whole campus! (Memories of crawling in ceiling cavities with a TDR...)
One Sorta Simple Step to Vastly Increase Your Privacy Online: VPN
The advantages won't be clear until they do more testing, but it might be possible to be more power efficient that silicon ASICs.
The "# headlines", the "* bullet points" would parse as valid markdown. Which would give the headlines visual style to distinguish them from the other part of the content.
Story (problem)
I'm Dave the developer of Bird. I created Bird because of my aunt (Truus she's 86) She has never been online and doesn't own a smartphone or computer . When I moved to a different country I couldn't come by every week, like I normally did. So I started to send her pictures/updates via postcards. But all apps I tried weren't as easy as updating friends and family that do live on the internet.

Solution
I build an app (without code on Bubble.is) that allows you:

1. Upload a photo from any device
2. Add an address & message (max 240 characters)
3. Send the postcard

Plans
The plan for Bird is to make it so complete as possible but keep the UX as simple as possible. Currently, I'm building an iOS & Android app so Bird is even easier to use on mobile devices.

- Edit the photo you upload
- Multiple photos on a grid
- Mobile Apps
- More options for sizes
- Pre-designed cards

Authentic
Use Bird to send postcards, as easy as you update your social media status. Update your friends and family, be authentic.

️Like paying for a latte
Send a custom postcard for the price of a latte. (€2,79)

️Shipping
Bird ships your postcard wherever you like. Enjoy free worldwide shipping.

Environment
For every ten postcards, we send. We plant a new tree.

Size
The postcards are 4x6" (10x15cm) Let me know if you would like to have more options.
I've worked at a bank where the entire floor was technically one gigantic open floor, but in practice there were dividers, plants, and various other obstacles that created separate corners per team, and blocked most of the sound. Perfectly fine place to work.

> I feel like the reason for open plan isn't about cost, it is about trust i.e. that management wants to oversee/micromanage employees.

That's one of those things I really don't understand. What kind of manager would want to micromanage my work? How would they even do that? And do they really have nothing better to do with their time? It's one of those caricatures I only know from Dilbert.
IMO the optimal arrangement for technical teams is small groups of people in shared offices, say ~4 per office.

What I've noticed is that a handful of people together in a space will typically work out issues like music vs. no music, lights on vs. off, blinds open vs. closed, etc. without a lot of trouble.

But there's a tipping point where it gets much harder. Put 20 people in an open office and suddenly everyone is wearing headphones and nobody is talking (except the people who are ALWAYS talking/yelling to each other) and it sucks.

I think as far back as the late 70s, "Peopleware" cited a bunch of studies that found that small shared offices with flexible policies on letting people move around (so people can self-organize either around their teams or with people they share space well with) was optimal. Sadly few offices seem to have adopted this.
It’s also reasonable to speculate that a sufficiently advanced species might identify the solution to the problem of energy useage as being population control rather than mega-engineering. Instead of trillions, maybe a hallmark of sufficiently advanced species is orders of magnitude fewer of them. Especially if something like immortality is a goal, then reproduction has to be controlled.

It’s certainly easier than capturing a star’s total output!
OP in this case being Brad Frost, one of the more influential members of the web community.
The alive and kicking "Google" Wave?
*relevant details ;)
how does this compare to signal/imessage?
If you allow me to compare my very limited experience with Python (hacking SublimeText plugins) to my rather extended experience writing Java or Ruby (i.e class-based languages that traditionally newline-&-deindent closing parens rather than aggregating them in a trailing tiger tail like in lisps) ...

... I would say writing programs in Clojure leads me to writing 10 to 20 times less code on average.

I recently rewrote 15000 lines of Java (several weeks worth of effort split in several dozen files) down to 500 Clojure lines (in one weekend and one single file).

Anyone else with that kind of experience ? To me this is a tremendous advantage and any argument for code readability is really just argumentation about reading code at a small scale (say one file) that unknowingly makes trade off about reading code at bigger scales (say the readability of a whole project).
The implication that open offices are fine as long as you are using noise-cancelling headphones irks the hell out of me. If a working environment is noisy/distracting to the point that you can't be productive without having to rely on headphones, then there is a fundamental problem with your environment.

People should not HAVE to do buy/use something just to be productive. It's downright disrespectful to expect your workers to just "deal with the noise in a professional manner".
Is the Bay Area pushing people to the breaking point?
You click on the "edit" link above your comment.
Do people who have "talent (and some luck)" deserve a better live than other people?
How Petitions Go Viral
If it still has the latest specs in the small form factor, I for one don't really care how they justify it to the marketing dept.
I don't view 'never engage in behaviors that might potentially lead to addiction' as teaching good habits.

Modeling, teaching and enforcing responsible engagement in activities that might be dangerous is teaching children good habits. Now there are certain activities that are practically impossible to do responsibly, so it's my job to ban those. I don''t see gambling as one of them. Just like I don't see video games as something to ban.
As a side note, EU account numbers include a built-in checksum, so you can detect right away if the account number is correct or not.

[for the pedants/purists: yes, there is a chance that your mistake will just happen to hit the same checksum]
It’s a MD5 hash according to the article. I wonder how long it would take to hash 281,474,976,710,656 MAC addresses into MD5? Well wouldn’t have to do all those, find the vendor id’s for ASUS and “just” hash those.

EDIT: Looks like Kaspersky have published tools to check if your MAC was one of those targeted - https://securelist.com/operation-shadowhammer/89992/ don’t think they have published the whole list. Just a checker app and a webform to check. The checker app _may_ contain the whole list.

Looks like they there updating the list of MACs over time (rules out my initial thought of them targeting an purchase order to get hand full of people who would of gotten machines from that order) as it seems that Kaspersky pulled the list of MACs from about 200 samples.
> I'd say it encourages collaboration moreso.

There's not a ton of research on this. But what's out there[1] suggests that open office spaces actually decrease collaboration.

[1] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.201...
Let's restrict the discussion to the top 10 cryptoassets. All of those would be pretty hard to manipulate in to a price decrease of 50% considering how much money you'd have to spend. So it seems like this concern is really only a function of how volatile or risky the asset is. And as for price manipulation, any exchange doing that is not going to be a top-10 exchange either.
Doing my best to summarize the effects of 5-HTP and its' corresponding pubmed research:

https://nutripeek.com/detail/5-htp
Published in Science as well http://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6433/1333
The Accessibility Cheatsheet (2015)
https://blog.jolla.com/content/uploads/2019/03/battery1-1024...

That contrast is terrible.
I once saw a pdf which listed all the third parties that PayPal shares its information with. It was more than 30 pages.
Given that the future of computing seems to push more and more towards DSP, this seems like it could be an exceedingly powerful technique. Especially if the tech could reach the goal of on-the-fly reprogramming.

I’ve wondered when we will see FPGAs integrated on die with a regular CPU for a similar purpose.
They don't own Wave anymore.[0]

[0] https://incubator.apache.org/projects/wave.html
Huh? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_process_outsourcing_t...
The BPO industry in India was $7-8B annually in FY06 according to the article employing millions of people. Do you have comparative numbers for the so called "CAPTCHA solving industry"?
Watch YouTube in Sync and Chat
Something like 2-3 years ago I've read similar thing with master foo but about git. Does anyone happen to know where I can find it? I've searched for it but failed to find :(
If I google the term "PowerPoint charlatan", I only get one or two relevant results. I'm a fan of this term, is something you've heard used before?